Sentence examples for functional opposition from inspiring English sources

Despite the precarious economy, Italian politics appeared all but bereft of a functional opposition.

Meanwhile, Labour slowly bleeds out, unable to offer anything like a functional opposition, not able even to have a meeting that lasts less than several hours.

Being a functional opposition matters to Labour MPs and to anyone else who hopes not to live in a perpetual Tory state.

If you can stand further argument over the custody of Labour's soul, Antony Barnett's film looks at how the party got itself into its present mess, and ponders how – or if – it can become a functional opposition once more.

But is this enough to resolve the anatomical distinction between the ventral and dorsal routes in the functional opposition between vision-for-perception and vision-for-action?

The Liberals managed to cling to official opposition status despite picking up less than 20percentt of the popular vote (which was actually less than the NDP got isn't our electoral system fun?!), and the province got a semi-functional opposition for the first time in almost half a decade.

The P.R.D. (Partido de la Revolución Democrática) though founded as an outgrowth of the P.R.I., has, in its rare, best moments, provided a functional leftist opposition over the last two decades to the P.R.I. and the right-wing P.A.N.

15 They seem to function in opposition.

There is also the question, of importance to the country as well as to the Labour party, of whether it can become at least semi-functional as an opposition to the Tories in parliament.

If the above model proves correct, then our study provides key functional data that Elg1-RFC functions in PCNA reactions and likely in direct opposition to Ctf18-RFC.

The former are "real" categories, the latter functional ones, and on the basis of this opposition Ellis attacks "naive realists" who claim that most linguistic categories are grounded in the extra-linguistic world.