Word Finder - oppose

definition

To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.

example

There is still time to oppose this plan.

synonyms

• buck
• confront
• hinder
• obstruct
• resist
• withstand

definition

To object to.

example

Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.

synonyms

• argue
• contest
• repugn
• speak out
• take issue with

definition

To present or set up in opposition; to pose.

example

They are opposed to any form of hierarchy.

definition

To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

Stahl's chief aim was to oppose materialism.

You see, I don't say that we ought to oppose this and that.

Genoa determined to oppose the concession, and war broke out.

No one to oppose us.

She was accustomed always to oppose anything announced in that timid tone and considered it her duty to do so.

We oppose animal experimentation, based on overwhelming scientific evidence that findings from animal models cannot be reliably extrapolated to humans.

Now, these two luminaries are objects of veneration to the African tribes, and they determined to oppose so sacrilegious an enterprise.

As the Pharisees accumulated the oral tradition which was afterwards codified and elaborated or preserved by fragments, which served some useful purpose, in the Talmud and other Rabbinic writings, the Sadducees acquired concrete regulations to oppose so long as they dared.

In practice individualism is chiefly concerned to oppose the concentration of commercial and industrial enterprise in the hands of the state and the municipality.

I am conscious that we who oppose compulsion have a difficult job to do.

How can the SU Executive oppose sexism or sexual harassment without now being hypocritical?

Many redactional aims are not only theological but also sociological in the sense that the author attempts to oppose one social construction with another.

They failed to oppose the introduction of no-fault divorce, which has devastated the stable married family.

The Quakers were one of the first faith communities to oppose slavery.

Meanwhile he had been sent to Paris in 1867 to oppose the French expedition to Rome, and in 1870, after the occupation of Rome by the Italians, had been appointed lieutenant-royal of the new capital.

We actively oppose state injustice and campaign for the repeal of all repressive legislation.

Thomas was selfish and incompetent, but violent and self-assertive, and for some years was able to pose successfully as a patriot simply because he set himself to oppose every act of the unpopular king.

Owing to the temporary debility of all the adult warriors of Ulster, the seventeen-year-old CuChulain undertakes to oppose Medb's host single-handed.

Undoubtedly there are some people who have made a conscious decision to oppose Christ.

A better way to oppose dictatorship is for people to make revolution against it and every other aspect of capitalism.

We oppose centralisation and consequent diminution of these services.

The British public continues to oppose the euro overwhelmingly.

How do we know that the best way to oppose fascists is to build a united front?

It does not give a fig for the vast majority who oppose an attack on Iraq.

Most countries do n't fluoridate Most European governments oppose fluoridation.

They do however oppose " ribbon developments " and aim to protect the greenbelt (manifesto p.31 ).

Along with the efforts of others Cooper worked to try to establish a new united opposition grouping in parliament to oppose the Unionist government.

We oppose hegemonism and power politics of all forms.

February 2001 Expenses action starts Action to oppose the unagreed imposition of new BBC expenses rules starts on 26 February.

We oppose incinerators - even modern ones can cause serious health hazards.

We will oppose the imposition of any compulsion, which restricts uniquely the liberty of motorcyclists.

The Liberal Party believes that honesty compels one to oppose protectionism in practice as well as in theory.

We would strongly oppose establishing a new quango with or without other public bodies.

There are questions which remain unasked by those who oppose the scheme (CDTS ).

Moreover, US President George W. Bush 's public commitment to Palestinian statehood will make it tough for him to oppose Kurdish independence.

The activists who oppose an autism cure feel that a cure would eliminate their identity.

Bad Science There are many reasons to oppose vivisection.

Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin and the ABPI oppose - and the BMA is guarded and somewhat wishy-washy in its response.

On the 27th of February 1458 the estates of Bohemia unanimously chose Podebrad as king; even the adherents of the Austrian party voted for him, not wishing at that moment to oppose the popular feeling, which demanded the election of a national sovereign.

The Goths having meanwhile reconquered Italy, Belisarius was despatched with utterly inadequate forces to oppose them.

It had made an attempt, though a weak one, to oppose the forward march of the Revolution, but, unlike the Jacobins, had never sent out branches into the provinces.

As the men were evidently determined to oppose any attempt at landing, a musket was discharged between them, in the hope that they would be frightened by the noise, but it produced no effect beyond causing one of them to drop his bundle of spears, of which, however, he immediately repossessed himself, and with his comrade resumed the same menacing attitude.

Verus, originally a man of considerable courage and ability, was sent to oppose the Parthians, but gave himself up to sensual excesses, and the Roman cause in Armenia would have been lost, and the empire itself, perhaps, imperilled, had not Verus had under him able generals, 2 the chief of whom was Avidius Cassius (see Cassius, AvIDius).

The Porte, having induced the Greek government to persuade the insurgents not to oppose the occupation of several strategic posts, despatched a military governor to the island, proclaimed martial law, and issued a firman abrogating many important provisions of the Halepa Pact.

To oppose them the Confederates, limited as they were for means, managed to construct various ironclads, and to improvise a considerable fleet of minor vessels, and, though a fighting navy never assembled under a Confederate flag-officer, the Southern warships found another more damaging and more profitable scope for their activity.

He made an attempt to oppose the agrarian law introduced by Caesar for distributing the lands of Campania, but was overpowered and even personally ill-treated by the mob.

The partnership between Garrison and Lundy was then dissolved by mutual consent, and the former resolved to establish a paper of his own, in which, upon his sole responsibility, he could advocate the doctrine of immediate emancipation and oppose the scheme of African colonization.

On the 10th of June 1904 he addressed a meeting of the Liberal League at the Queen's Hall, London, and sketched, a programme of "sane and practical Imperialism"; but he irritated the Home Rulers by again repudiating a parliament in Dublin, and he perplexed the public generally by his adverse criticism on the popular Anglo-French Agreement, which he was the only English statesman to oppose, on the ground of its handing over Morocco to France.

On the 26th Nelson changed his attitude and authorized Sir William Hamilton, the British minister, to inform the cardinal that he (Nelson) would do nothing to break the armistice; while Captains Bell and Troubridge wrote that they had Nelson's authority to state that the latter would not oppose the embarcation of the Republicans.

He was appointed to command a new "Army of the Shenandoah" to oppose the forces of General Early, and conducted the brilliant and decisive campaign which crushed the Confederate army and finally put an end to the war in Northern Virginia (see American Civil War and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns).