Sentence examples for opposition thing from inspiring English sources

He then did the usual opposition thing of tweeting some rebuttals to Obama's lines, at one point dinging the president for not calling ISIS "radical Islamic terrorists," a common conservative critique.

"For the opposition, things are harder," Aristobulo Isturiz, the education minister and a close aide of the president, said in an interview.

Rowntree has had full charge of all aspects of the forward operation under Lancaster, but while the England pack have had their days in the sun under his tutelage – there have been memorable performances against all three southern hemisphere superpowers as well as the full range of Six Nations opposition – things have been going pear-shaped for a while now.

"In all the opposition, one thing you're not hearing is, 'The boy is crying wolf,"' Mr. Mead said.

Bilateralism is more the opposition's thing, indeed it was critical of the government's successful bid for a UN Security Council seat.

He's excellent at spotting opposition weaknesses, things he can exploit".

Chalmers acknowledged that would require cultural change and a step back from "reflexive opposition to things".

Setting aside the chronic weakness of his conservative opposition, two things are working in his favor.

It follows that niceties such as legal process and a real opposition are things that Russia can well do without.

But Zaia's rise in politics has included episodes that reveal his opposition to things deemed "too foreign" for Italy.

12.13pm BST Osborne says the Tories made unworkable promises when they were in opposition, on things like tuition fees.