Sentence examples for opposed elements from inspiring English sources

His balancing of ostensibly opposed elements starts with his appearance.

The former executives said that Andersen accountants opposed elements of the final deal and warned Enron that if no gas was delivered in 2000, they might force the company to restate its 1999 earnings.

We want to understand how it is that in Picasso's hands, representation and abstraction, Apollonian calm and Dionysian fever, become not freestanding possibilities but the constantly opposed elements in a single personality.

Such Republicans formed coalitions with moderate Democrats to push back populists on the right and left who opposed elements of the spending bill with enough fervour to flirt with closing down the government.

During a brief, personable onstage conversation he said that what appealed to him about conventional classical forms was the notion of bringing opposed elements like crisis and catharsis into alignment.

But while public opinion has changed in favor of gay rights over the past two decades, those attitudes are often not reflected in public policy, because the views of lawmakers, polls suggest, lag behind the public, and not just among social conservatives who have long opposed elements of the gay rights agenda on moral grounds.

Mr. Prentice's best work depends on the balance of opposing elements.

All marriages, she says, "are mixed marriages", and one of her favourite narrative ploys is to put two opposing elements – usually a prissily fastidious man and a scatty, demonstrative woman – together and chart the reaction as minutely as a chemist.

That debate notwithstanding, the administration's decision -- along with objections today by Canadian officials, who also oppose elements of the report -- could prevent the G-8 from endorsing the proposals.

Dick Costolo, chief executive at Twitter, responding to inquiries on Twitter, suggested that although the company had been among those in the industry to oppose elements of the bill, it would not follow in Wikipedia's footsteps.

A strong case can be made for viewing such keys as more abstract representations of Porphyrian trees where brackets serve as "branches" of the "tree" and the binary oppositions are supplanted by a multitude of opposing elements in the system.