Sentence examples for become opposition from inspiring English sources

And for a statesmanlike Ed Miliband, who like Thatcher had not been the favourite to become Opposition leader, a chance to clasp the mantle of "this unique and towering figure" who believed that believed that "ideology mattered.

Several videos posted online now refer to a food crisis, and some confirm that bakeries there have become opposition outposts, with long, loud lines snaking around corners as armed rebels keep order, telling customers that they are only paying what is needed to cover bakery expenses.

Liz Kendall has already thrown her hat into the ring to become opposition leader while Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Tristram Hunt are all seen as potential candidates.

Anti-war activists also learned from the lessons of Vietnam that opposition to a war — such as the 2003 Iraq War — should not become opposition to the troops themselves.

So Berlusconi now becomes a kind of Grillo figure (because Grillo is also barred from running for office), and Berlusconi will become opposition along with the Movement Five Star.

"Australian politics is becoming increasingly vitriolic, as I think maybe American politics is too, and especially since Tony Abbott became opposition leader," Rod Tiffen, a media expert and emeritus professor of political science at the University of Sydney, said in an interview.

But that died when Tony Abbott became opposition leader in December 2009.

Credlin became Abbott's chief of staff in 2009, after he became opposition leader.

Then two of his patients became opposition leaders and the Party started harassing my dad.

As Cameron became opposition leader and then, almost immediately, prime minister-in-waiting, expectations rose further.

Following the Conservative defeat in the 1964 election, Boyle became opposition spokesman on home affairs and then on education.