Sentence examples for opposition of two from inspiring English sources

The Senna-Prost rivalry was also about an opposition of two different philosophies of life, the spiritual and the cerebral.

Brontë's novel is rooted in the Yorkshire soil and is partly about the historical opposition of two houses.

Given these antecedents – and the opposition of two US allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia – scepticism that any deal could be done with Iran was, perhaps, inevitable.

For years hence there were no executions because of legal challenges and the opposition of two governors, Hugh L. Carey and Mario M. Cuomo.

The Greek verb has two voices, active and mediopassive (reflexive and passive), which are expressed (leaving aside the aorist passive) by the opposition of two series of personal endings, for each mood (with participle and infinitive) of each tense stem.

It is in Korney Chukovsky's remarkable book Malenkiye deti (1925) or Ot dvukh do pyati (Eng. trans., From Two to Five, 1963), however, that the opposition of two familiar forces, entertainment and instruction, can be sensed most clearly.

The resolute opposition of one, Jeffrey M. Lacker, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, is unlikely to make a difference.

But the public opposition of three Democrats on the Senate banking committee, the first step in the confirmation process, surprised the White House and forced a calculation that this was a battle the administration could not afford to fight.

Even though Spain's Prime Minister, for example, was one of the willing, the opposition of ninety per cent of his voting public meant that he was confined to contributing a hospital ship and humanitarian help, rather than combat troops, to the war effort.

As is more often the case than not in Syria lately, we do not know exactly what; the pictures and the provenance of the accounts are hard to verify, but there are estimates from the Syrian opposition of fifty or seventy-seven or a hundred dead, and images of a small child's corpse.

Justice Fernando Franco proposed the motion to declare Baja California's law unconstitutional but the opposition of four judges sank the measure.