While there is no indication that the central authorities consciously opposed the increase of governmental personnel, the number of government employees certainly grew very slowly.
Consciously opposed to "state socialists of the German type", he supported "radical unity" with his appeal to the Liberals for "a fusion of advanced forces".
The band were very consciously opposed to the machismo of rock'n'roll – Johnny Marr styled his hair into a beehive at one point – even as they borrowed from rock history.
Although Olivier was only a few years younger than Gielgud, he seemed to represent a new generation, consciously opposing the old-fashioned style of "singing" verse — more melody than meaning — with a direct and even dangerous power that frequently put critics in mind of beasts of prey.
With this understanding, unconscious neuro-muscular control is believed to encourage natural movements, as opposed to consciously controlled, often tense and awkward movements.
Along with his self-image, his politics were consciously generational, from the moment he opposed President George Bush as a cold warrior ill-equipped to midwife a globalizing economy.
There's also something exciting about watching the two of them dance together at the end, as Beyoncé – the more natural mover, let's be honest – performs Gaga's self-consciously rigid, hand-based choreography as opposed to her usual sultry, bottom-focused set of moves.
In the present ERP study, the primary goal was to capitalise on the high temporal resolution provided by scalp EEG recording to gain insight into the timing of activations of error-related processes in these non-overlapping brain structures when errors were consciously detected by healthy adult participants, as opposed to similar response errors that remained undetected.
Persuading the court to take its first look at the scope of the right to bear arms in almost 70 years is the culmination of a meticulous litigation strategy that was consciously modeled on the civil rights era and strenuously opposed by the gun lobby.
Operating within this basic framework of morality, Suárez developed a theory of natural law that has attracted much attention despite his consciously attempting to position himself midway between two radically opposed views about natural law.
(As opposed to, say, Richard Nixon or John Edwards, who consciously lied through their teeth until, and even after, they got caught).
