set in opposition
Example Sentences
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Mr Brilliant says Harrods’ managers were set in opposition to each other and then expected to keep a watchful eye on their rivals.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024
History tells us that Elizabeth and Mary were cousins set in opposition by their clashing religions, their royal parentage and their mutual desire to rule Britannia.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2011
A force of equal quality is to be divided and the two parts to be set in opposition to each other.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)
"And yet these results you venture to set in opposition to a simple, profound, imperative cry of Nature!"
From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
They were set in opposition to their neighbours without receiving the support of the power that so placed them.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
