Sentence examples for historical opposition from inspiring English sources
Brontë's novel is rooted in the Yorkshire soil and is partly about the historical opposition of two houses.
Even so, there is a huge cultural and historical opposition to the routine arming of the police.
Rivalries among the various factions, including a bitter historical opposition between Mr. Maliki and Mr. Sadr, remain barely below the surface.
But it's strange to hear political conservatives asking for it, particularly given their historical opposition to many of the FCC rules.
She locates some of this antipathy in the historical opposition of museums and prisons in the imaginations of governments and the ruling class.
If William Clay Ford feels uneasy about Ford's role in our current environmental problems, he and his fellow executives should abandon their historical opposition to such policies.
These polarities may designate aesthetic or critical oppositions (classic versus romantic, classic versus avant-garde), or they may indicate historical oppositions (in the following, the first term of each pair is considered to embody the aesthetic characteristics of Classicism: Renaissance versus Gothic, High Renaissance versus Mannerist, and Poussinist versus Rubenist).
It joins two neighborhoods that have been in historic opposition: Greenwich Village, the historical heart of bohemia, and Midtown, a center of global capitalism and corporate culture.
There's obviously nothing compromising about attacking a policy with which your party has a historical philosophical opposition.
These northern transformations were part of the region's historical heritage of opposition to the official (and hypocritical) trade monopoly proclaimed by the central government in Mexico City.
Otto Friedrich von Gierke, (born Jan . 11 , 1841Stettin, Prussia died Oct. 10, 1921, Berlin), legal philosopher who was a leader of the Germanist school of historical jurisprudence in opposition to the Romanist theoreticians of German law (e.g., Friedrich Karl von Savigny).
