Sentence examples for opposition held from inspiring English sources

The opposition held counter-demonstrations.

The fact that an unwieldy opposition held together this long is itself a rare achievement.

The government and opposition held talks on Wednesday to try to defuse the tensions.

A Smithsonian museum for contemporary art was authorized by Congress in 1938, but opposition held up the project.

But the police commander there, long sympathetic to the opposition, held a secret vote with his men.

This is why it has been bombing and shelling civilians, denying them access to UN-ordered cross-border assistance and blocking vaccination efforts in opposition held areas.

Voting will not be held in opposition-held areas of the country, many of which are under daily bombardment from government forces.

Those terms, particularly lifting the siege of opposition-held territories, would give the rebels a reprieve, if not a military advantage.

Opposition-held parts of Aleppo, meanwhile, have received only sporadic humanitarian shipments, with food stocks reported by aid groups to be all but exhausted.

For more than three months, Aleppo's opposition-held neighborhoods and surrounding suburbs have been terrorized nearly daily by the barrel bombs.

Aid should be delivered in coordination with rights-respecting elements of the rudimentary civilian governance structures that have been created in opposition-held areas of Syria.