Sentence examples for description of opposition from inspiring English sources

He also delighted in description of opposition leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as a "flawed figure".

The Iranian Embassy in Lebanon reported that Hossam Khosh Newes, an Iranian development official working in Lebanon, was killed by "armed terrorist groups" — a phrase used by Syria and its allies as a blanket description of opposition forces — in an attack on his car on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria after he had come from Damascus.

Syrian state media accused terrorists, its typical description of opposition fighters, of kidnapping the nuns from St . Thecla Conventand using them as hostages after they stormed Maaloula.

Syrian state television, using its standard description of the opposition, accused "armed terrorist gangs of firing randomly on houses in Homs in order to undermine the Annan plan".

David S. Reynolds's otherwise engaging review of Elliott J. Gorn's new biography of the labor leader Mother Jones (March 25) bothered me in one instance -- his description of her opposition to woman suffrage as a "reactionary stance".

The feared doyen of Judaic scholars in the US is Professor Jacob Neusner, an abrasive curmudgeon who, to borrow football manager Sir Alex Ferguson's description of an opposition player, could start a fight in an empty room.

Last Friday, on the first day the new rules were enforced, news agency reporters said their descriptions of an opposition rally called to protest the press restrictions were censored.

In more modern Islamic teachings, which can be found in Arab textbooks and mainstream newspaper articles, the Koran's description of the Jews' opposition to Muhammad takes on monumental importance.

Benjamin's concern with delineating an immediate and metaphysical experience of spirit is valuable in providing a thematic description of a conceptual opposition working throughout his thought.

Had no one told him that a significant element of the job description of leader of the opposition is to, well, to oppose?

The fact is that as a result of the way these societies have developed and because Islamism of various descriptions became the focal point of opposition to oppression, the removal of the dictatorship is only the beginning not the end of the challenge.