Word Finder - opposes

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.

Temperature, then, is the fundamental limit which nature opposes to the indefinite extension of any one species.

Uranus opposes the progressed MC mid year and progressed ascendant is exactly opposite natal mercury.

But, like ourselves, Luxemburg opposes any suppression of criticism, even bourgeois criticism.

By then, Aileen's case had been taken up by a lawyer who opposes capital punishment.

It opposes the Docetism which had its roots in oriental dualism.

Without it, the ancient and imposing edifice opposes to the shock of revolution nothing but the dead weight of its loose parts.

Every efficient and wise government has at last the support of public opinion, whenever it opposes class egoism and class abuses.

A hospice which opposes euthanasia advertises for a medical director.

I am not someone who implacably opposes all immigration.

It is resistant, indeed hostile, to any form of literalism, including political literalism, and opposes any crude demand for optimism.

Opposes the conventional notion that Hardy is a pessimistic thinker.

The FARC vehemently opposes Plan Colombia for obvious reasons.

His opponent, Sen. John Kerry, does not support same-sex marriage, but he opposes the constitutional amendment and supports same-sex civil unions.

Mr Holden opposes a takeover - he wants to break up LCR.

Malaysia strongly opposes unilateral US military action against Iraq.

Cuba defends principles and not vested interests; therefore, although its supporters may feel upset, it emphatically opposes this war.

Russia opposes the new plan, and has threatened a veto at the UN Security Council.

Sue has a slightly zany, self-effacing, bubbly personality, which opposes her meticulous, time-consuming love for something bright and beautiful.

It is quite conceivable that every species tends to produce varieties of a limited number and kind, and that the effect of natural selection is to favour the development of some of these, while it opposes the development of others along their predetermined lines of modification.

Make a dramatic statement and take advantage of the truly funky curtain design by opting for a color palette that completely opposes the existing color scheme of your bathroom.

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry strongly opposes the practice of oral piercings.

Insulin also promotes cellular production of lipids and glycogen and opposes the action of glucagons, which increases the formation of glucose by cells.

The American Dental Association opposes oral (tongue, lip, or cheek) piercing, and the American Academy of Dermatology is against all forms of body piercing except ear lobe piercing.

Discourages Individuality-Because students are encouraged to think outside the box and think critically, the idea of uniforms directly opposes this theory.

This doctrine or hypothesis he usually speaks of as "the ideal system" or "the theory of ideas"; and to it he opposes his own analysis of the act of perception.

Mill apparently is not content with the confusion between " law " and " agency " or " force," but opposes the one to the other.

This tendency can be resisted by giving a twist to the torsion head and so applying to the movable coil through the spring a restoring torque, which opposes the torque due to the dynamic action of the currents.

Laurence Gomme, in The Governance of London (1907), opposes the view that the city was for a time left deserted (a view which, it may be remarked, is a comparatively modern one, probably originating with Dr Guest).

It thus stands in sharp contrast to the anthropology of Kant, which opposes human development conceived as the gradual manifestation of a growing faculty of rational free will to the operations of physical nature.

The Pauline doctrine of " grace " has been perverted to lasciviousness, as by the heretics whom Polycarp opposes Polyc. vii.), and this doctrine is taught for " hire " (vv.

The contradiction can only be suppressed if the ego itself opposes to itself the non-ego, places it as an Anstoss or plane on which its own activity breaks and from which it is reflected.

It is like " immanent philosophy," in opposing experience to the transcendent; but it also opposes experience to the transcendental, or a priori.

It opposes " pure experience " to " pure reason," while it agrees with Kant's limitation of knowledge to experience.

It is an advance on this when Heraclitus 2 opposes to the eyes and ears which are bad witnesses " for such as understand not their language " a common something which we would do well to follow; or again when in the incommensurability of the diagonal and side of a square the Pythagoreans stumbled upon what was clearly neither thing nor image of sense, but yet was endowed with meaning, and henceforth were increasingly at home with symbol and formula.

The result of this pressure if unopposed is to cause this stratum to spread itself over the surface of the solid as a drop of water is observed to do when placed on a clean horizontal glass plate, and this even when gravity opposes the action, as when the drop is placed on the under surface of the plate.