Sentence examples for in opposition to the rest from inspiring English sources

Staten Island has defined itself in opposition to the rest of the city.

In opposition to the rest of his party, for instance, and to please his chief adviser, Benjamin Disraeli, he supported a bill for removing Jewish political disabilities.

Israel, says Yair Lapid, Israel's finance minister, is approaching the same "tipping point" where South Africa found itself in opposition to the rest of the world in the dying days of apartheid.

The Obama administration made conflicting statements about the Honduras coup, and then – in opposition to the rest of the hemisphere – did everything it could to make sure that the coup succeeded.

The Bush administration, under the president's emergency plan for AIDS relief, will not yet buy generic AIDS drugs, a stance that has put it in opposition to the rest of the world.

"They were, of course, the correct rules," he continues, "but they had set me in opposition to the rest of the world, where my right was everyone else's wrong, and where my wrong was everyone else's right, and where I would be helpless in ever being able to distinguish for myself which one was which".

The administration's refusal to recognize the results of the Venezuelan elections in April of this year, despite the lack of doubt about the results and in stark opposition to the rest of the region, displayed an aggressiveness that Washington hadn't shown since it aided the 2002 Venezuelan coup.

His lumpen physicality stands in opposition to the studied loveliness of the rest of the film; he is more than unpleasant to look at; he is a repudiation of looking itself.

After the dam was completed in 2003, local opposition to the rest of the project erupted.

Opinion was running 86 percent in opposition to the restrictive dining room policy, with 10 percent in favor and the rest undecided.

The rest of his 32 years in Parliament were spent as a member of the minority Whig party in opposition to the governing Tories.