Sentence examples for In perpetual opposition from inspiring English sources

And, after a life spent in perpetual opposition, it was not clear how well he would govern.

During decades of persecution under dictatorial regimes, groups like the Muslim Brotherhood enjoyed the luxury of being in perpetual opposition.

He had served briefly as Russia's deputy prime minister in the late 1990s, but thereafter had been in perpetual opposition.

The Lib Dems, in government, are making executive decisions, and whereas in perpetual opposition a party can make noises that seem to please most of the people much of the time, in office that is not always possible.

Evans and the people he worked with were major contributors to a supercharged new conception of what journalism could be: at once powerful and devoted to the powerless, literary and intellectual, glamorous and dutiful, quasi-governmental in its status but in perpetual opposition to government.

The Lib Dems' standing orders in the upper house were written for what insiders call "perpetual opposition" – which is what they do best.

In Rangoon that night, thousands of supporters swarmed the ramshackle headquarters of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, a building that is a cross between a storefront and a garage, wallpapered in yellowed news clippings and littered with the megaphones, speakers, and other flotsam of perpetual opposition.

But this does not mean it is condemned to perpetual opposition.

After 11 years as president and another 11 as perpetual opposition candidate, Mr Ortega's time is surely up.

These forces are in constant opposition.

His enemies, both in the Syrian opposition and in foreign chanceries, have been in perpetual disarray, never able to gather critical force.