Sentence examples for opposite parties from inspiring English sources

SCORECARD -- This spot tries to address two competitors, from opposite parties, in one televised swoop.

The fight is more bitter than many contests between candidates of opposite parties.

Most real debates, by House standards, are divided equally between opponents and supporters of a measure, usually from opposite parties.

In the past, the regions and the central government, usually from opposite parties, could blame one another for whatever fiscal issues arose.

Yet one was dominant, the other submissive, one was a drunk, the other sober, and they even sometimes voted for opposite parties in elections.

A philosopher, no less than a statesman, may be eclectic not on principle but because he perceives the intrinsic merit of doctrines that happen to have been advanced by opposite parties.

"Presidential candidates occasionally seem to recant their onetime political opposition to a recent president of the opposite party," said the presidential historian Michael Beschloss.

My colleague cites him as a model for a more reasonable brand of Republicanism, one that accepts that government has a job to do and that compromises must be struck with the opposition: "he's likable, he works with people from the opposite party and he governs well".

"She destabilizes the opposite party," Ms. Broussal said.

Get leaders to make nicey-nicey with the opposite party.

Asked which candidate was best able to work with the opposite party, 49 percent chose Mr. Brown and 27 percent Ms. Warren.