Pompey solved the problem of Rome's grain supply with his usual efficiency, but the nobles kept up their opposition.
Opposition from nobles, local administrators, aristocratic landlords, magistrates, clergy, and even Enlightenment intellectuals, who feared Joseph's new authoritarianism, undermined the reforms.
This failure to exploit the victory to his nobles' satisfaction provoked growing opposition to Władysław's regime after 1411, further fuelled by the granting of Podolia, disputed between Poland and Lithuania, to Vytautas, and by the king's two-year absence in Lithuania.
His measures aroused vigorous opposition from the nobles and wealthy bourgeoisie and even from the mass of the population.
From the beginning of his career (at the Riksdag, or Parliament, of 1660), Gyllenstierna advocated a strong royal authority and opposition to the nobles of the Riksråd (Council of the Realm).
Apart from the opposition between the noble-minded Spartacus, a poor slave, and the vile, high-placed Crassus — he is said to have been the richest man of ancient Rome — there are the corresponding traits of their ladies.
Apart from the opposition between the noble-minded Spartacus, a poor slave, and the vile, high-placed Crassus he is said to have been the richest man of ancient Rome there are the corresponding traits of their ladies.
Prior to the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1959, social classes among the Tibetans could be defined in terms of opposition: cleric versus lay, noble versus peasant, merchant versus labourer, agriculturalist versus nomad, and trader versus townsman.
