Sentence examples for function as an opposition from inspiring English sources

The BNP is utterly broken, too, having ceased to function as an opposition party.

"That effectively neuters our ability to function as an opposition," said Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican and the new minority leader.

With neither the rights nor the responsibilities of governing, elected representatives largely function as an opposition to the royally appointed cabinet.

They had a three-hour exchange in Havana, during which Mr. Gutiérrez-Menoyo pressed Mr. Castro to allow Cambio Cubano to function as an opposition party in Cuba.

In the 1996 assembly elections, the SP won 110 seats and functioned as an opposition party under a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP -led coalition government.

But they have never been more important, because for the Labour party to function as an effective opposition to the Tories, it needs to be a well-resourced operation, and that means it needs money.

The report described them as having "a dual function as an Ethiopian armed opposition group and a protector of the Afewerki regime.

In agreement with Jakobson, they claimed that each feature functions as a binary opposition that can be given the value of plus or minus in classifying the phonemes in underlying forms.

But President Chiang Ching-kuo recently announced plans to lift this ban, and the Democratic Progressives, while still technically illegal, were allowed to function as a de facto opposition party in this year's election.

Labour MPs are not going to clap their hands to their foreheads and cry: "We were wrong about Jeremy!" As soon as parliament resumes, with it will return the question of how Labour can function as the opposition when a critical mass of its MPs have resigned from or refused to serve on the frontbench.

The GABP alpha/gamma subunit is thus thought to function as a repressor, acting in opposition to the GABP alpha/beta complex.