Sentence examples for it is in opposition from inspiring English sources

But a party defines itself by its words, especially when it is in opposition and they become its only weapon.

Now it is in opposition again, a role that sits more easily with its historical self-image as a bulwark against oppression.

But the left did badly even where it is in opposition (France and Italy) or in coalition with the mainstream right (Germany, the Netherlands and Austria).

What matters is that it is in opposition to a conventional industry which prioritises shareholder return above creativity and is inclined to shut out both producers and designers from the profits or the fame.

Early indications were that Labour was also polling strongly in Swansea, where it is in opposition but is the largest party.

Effectively, then, Butler recognizes that insofar as queer theory aims to undermine the "illusion" of stable identities while arguing against the viability of a politics based upon identity categories, it is in opposition to intersex and transsexual activism both of which are centered upon identities (i.e., intersex identity and transsexual identity).

The Conservative party did not consider Duncan Smith fit to be its leader in 2003, when it was in opposition and had no power.

Despite criticising Labor for not modelling its policy-in-progress, the Coalition can't point to any modelling of its own policy because it has never done any – not when it was in opposition, nor when it was in government.

In some ways, it is already behaving as if it were in opposition.

He led the provincial Progressive Conservative party for almost five years while it was in opposition.

In government as it was in opposition, true control is vested in the same clique that ran Labour's election campaign.