Sentence examples for oppositional relationship from inspiring English sources

Williams sometimes spoke or wrote about his oppositional relationship to Cambridge, where he arrived as a lecturer in 1961, and where he spent the rest of his working life.

Or it may reflect necessary adjustments to the concept of nature on the mental landscape: a breakdown in the oppositional relationship between nature and culture that has led to catastrophic consequences.

They argue for a "synergistic, rather than oppositional relationship between realist and randomised evaluation" and that "it is possible to benefit from the insights provided by realist evaluation without relinquishing the RCT as the best means of examining intervention causality".

Those social problems are characterized in the oppositional relationship that has formed between athletic and academic achievement, and the high aspirations and expectations that African-American student athletes hold concerning professional sports.

This White House wants an oppositional relationship to the press, which the president has labeled "the enemy of the American people".

That's the tragedy of the oppositional relationship between [them]." When you break down the mission of public education, Romer said, the key is to establish the standards to reach for, provide the curriculum and resources to get you there, and support, train and recruit good teachers.

But it shares with the author's previous books one technique in particular: Erskine puts her characters into intensely uncomfortable circumstances, ones bound to create oppositional relationships.

The same kind of tensions caused by oppositional relationships and dualities are what drive her work: masculine versus feminine, city versus nature; love and desire, mind and body, fur and gold.

The argument goes that while immigrants tend to form a non-oppositional relationship with the dominant culture, native peoples or ethnic groups tend to form oppositional relationships with the dominant culture (Ogbu & Simons, 1998).

These included semantic qualifier as described by Bordage [ 10] in which the content of an observation is given an abstract form along oppositional relationships.

This latter metaphoric linguistic expression, for example, implies the common conceptual metaphor of medicine as war, and similar to the pronominal talk implies oppositional relationships between trainees and trainers.