Sentence examples for opposite sort from inspiring English sources

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Ms Zille might now reflect that she was making the opposite sort of bet when she threw her party's lot in with Dr Ramphele.

Never mind that military doctrine and the Geneva Conventions forbid holding prisoners in a combat zone, and require that they be sped to the rear; you had to make the opposite sort of journey to get to Abu Ghraib.

A portrait that declines to name its subject becomes complicit, if inadvertently, in the cult of celebrity that has fuelled an insatiable appetite for the opposite sort of photograph: to grant only the famous their names demotes the rest to representative instances of their occupations, their ethnicities, their plights.

Perhaps Duncker wishes to avoid the pitfalls of what one historical novelist has called gadzookery -- the stumbling about of characters uttering quaint tidbits in a painted environment -- but in doing so she has fallen into a pitfall of the opposite sort: a character who sounds like a refugee from the sitcom next door.

Now, however, there might be an opposite sort of political gap: The U.K. has been booming (except for the City financial district) while most of Europe is in….

But I'm a midwesterner--often the exact opposite sort of person--and I have to confess that I greeted Sam's comments with skepticism.

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Opposite sorts appreciated his talents, including both Gordon Brown, to whom Martin was Press Secretary hen he was Chancellor, and his last boss, the present Prime Minister David Cameron.

After all, how could it represent them when they seemingly wanted the opposite sorts of things?

"Judson felt very clearly about deconstructing and challenging ideas of movement design with a sort of opposite kind of movement design, a radical repositioning of what movement is permissible.

Mr. Welburn's personality is quite the opposite, the sort of executive often called classy and no more likely to wear a silver leather outfit than a Carmen Miranda stack-of-bananas hat.

Maybe she's the opposite — full, sort of rounded — and if I had any sense I'd make an effort to fill out a bit so as not to have a figure like a broomstick.

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