The phrase "act of opposition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific action taken to resist or challenge something, such as a decision, policy, or authority.
Example: "The protest was an act of opposition against the new law that many citizens found unjust."
Alternatives: "gesture of defiance" or "act of resistance".
Their defence team has argued that the women's performance was an act of opposition against Putin and that the prosecution was politically motivated.
In Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite, a book about the rise and fall of Ceauşescu, Edward Behr quotes a former Securitate official: "Imagine a huge apparatus spreading rumors, fear, and terror, an atmosphere in which common people feel that if they try and do the most insignificant thing identified as an act of opposition... they will disappear.
In Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite, a book about the rise and fall of Ceauşescu, Edward Behr quotes a former Securitate official: "Imagine a huge apparatus spreading rumors, fear, and terror, an atmosphere in which common people feel that if they try and do the most insignificant thing identified as an act of opposition… they will disappear.
This statement, which was signed by organizations of great importance such as the NAACP and the National Urban League, seemed to lend credence to Mr. Duncan's claim that opting out of standardized tests is an act of opposition to the civil rights movement.
"The fall of the Libyan regime is a victory for the Arab world," said Samir Nashar, an opposition figure who took part in earlier acts of opposition to Mr. Assad.
In fact there had been heated discussion in the propaganda committee about how far to incite the French into acts of opposition to the Germans.
So I cannot predict what will happen, when it'll happen but I know, it's a gut feeling - and you can see it through the progression of uprisings and acts of opposition to China - that a big revolution is surely overdue".
But Israeli leaders have been reluctant to act because of opposition from settlers and their political backers.
The 1929 UFA convention saw vocal criticisms of Brownlee's failure to adopt the old age pension and his decision to withdraw the Debt Adjustment Act in the face of opposition from banks.
No to global warming repairs; no to real reform of Wall Street; no, in fact, to any act of creative opposition.
European Union officials played down the significance of the guidelines, which apply only to deals between Israel and the union itself, not its 28 member countries, saying they were simply an act of longstanding opposition to Israeli activities in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem.
