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The phrase "active in opposition to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or a group that is actively resisting or opposing something, such as a policy, idea, or movement.
Example: "The organization has been active in opposition to the new legislation that they believe will harm the environment."
Alternatives: "actively resisting" or "in active defiance of".
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But Jordan was the country most active in opposition to a strong U.N. resolution.
After graduating in 1966, he took a law degree at Columbia University, New York, where he was active in opposition to the Vietnam war.
Your Nov. 12 editorial "Honor Killings" commended Jordan's royal family and Jordanian activists for campaigning against crimes committed in the name of family honor, but also asserted that Jordan was "the country most active in opposition to a strong U.N. resolution" on the issue that failed to achieve a consensus.
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The example of Mormons for E.R.A. serves as a warning of what group members might face should they take a more active role in opposition to the church's own political efforts and a more pointed view against its prophetic declarations.
Such rearrangements could open and close the active site in opposition to the actin-binding cleft, helping explain the opposing affinities of myosin for actin and nucleotide.
One of the most active militias in opposition to the Islamic State is the Badr Brigade, a force formed in Iran and reportedly still overseen by its intelligence services.
This resonated with Ms. Martindell, who became politically active in the 1960's in opposition to the Vietnam War.
"Having a cell tower adjacent to an active recreation area is blatantly in opposition to what the North Glendale Vision Plan has stated," said Commissioner Stephanie Landgren at the June hearing.
Throughout her life Joyce took a keen interest in progressive politics, working in the 1948 campaign for Henry Wallace, later as an active member of the Teachers Unionn and in opposition to the war in Viet Nam.
Although MLL proteins were not present in the REST immuno-complex, we tested for the presence of the H3K4me3 mark because it is associated with active or 'poised' promoters in ESCs in opposition to H3K27me3 (Bernstein et al., 2006) or REST (Ballas et al., 2005).
And there is no evidence "that any active pagan religion survived anywhere in the island, in opposition to Christianity, throughout the Middle Ages, let alone longer".
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