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
The word social, then, includes the economic, political, moral, religious, etc., and must not be thought of as something set in opposition to, for instance, the industrial or the political.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)
The prophets also set in opposition to their own traditional ritual religion a doctrine of righteousness, by which religion was made ethical.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
"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)
