Sentence examples for opposite party from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

These days, senators who hang out with their peers from the opposite party are both extremely scarce and slightly suspect.

Control of the Senate machinery is the power to frustrate the policies of a president of the opposite party.

If it weren't so appalling, it would be fascinating to compare the behavior of Republican and Democratic congressional legislators when confronted by an Administration of the opposite party.

There isn't a free election system, independent court system, opposite party structure or all the other mechanisms that keep a regime honest.

Well, as Josh Barro writes, it's nothing earth-shattering: he's likable, he works with people from the opposite party and he governs well.

Of these districts, 27, or nearly one third, elected a member of the opposite party to the House, going against its presidential lean.

Convention speakers from the opposite party are common trophies, and have been sought more aggressively in recent years as the parties try to highlight their broad appeal.

As I've written before, with regard to criminal-justice reform, if the "opposite" party signs on to your programme, there's your proof of concept.