Sentence examples for as oppositions from inspiring English sources

In local government, the Tories failed to capitalise, as oppositions usually do, on the mid-term swing against the government.

Soon he will have to take decisions without the liberating urgency of emergency, and with an opposition no longer trapped, as oppositions often are in crises, between seeming irrelevant and seeming indecently opportunistic.

Acknowledgments Reprints Related items Paradise lostFeb 20th 2003 Brazil: A time to talk, and a time to doFeb 20th 2003Lula won the election, as oppositions usually do, by criticising the then government for incompetence and inaction and by promising drastic policy changes to bring about rapid improvements.

Iain Martin of the Telegraph Media Group says that he, and other commentators of the centre-right, probably have some influence in the Cameron shadow cabinet because they are, as oppositions usually are, in the stage of looking for new ideas, and looking to find them from commentators among others.

Labour went immediately on the attack – as oppositions are meant to do (after all Labour had its scandals in office, as David Cameron pointed out at PMQs) – and the media will not let go a juicy and mysterious story with plenty of mileage left in it.

Once they are not a minority, they are powerful; they are intimidating, they are the 'them.' It is an inherent flaw within our society that we see things that are different to us as oppositions.

Ghost Milk is documentary writing as opposition, literature as resistance.

Early on as opposition leader he faced down others.

Now, as opposition leader, he is sounding remarkably unThatcherite.

But negligence is not the same as opposition.

He changed his mind as opposition became nearly unanimous.