The word "oppositions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a group or groups that are opposed to someone or something. For example: "The mayor's proposed policy met with fierce oppositions from several vocal groups."
Designating God as the Oppositeness of such opposites can take us from the distinctions and oppositions with which we are familiar to the One who is responsible for there being such oppositions.
Yet God's oppositeness is "without oppositeness" since God's distinctiveness is unlimited and beyond familiar oppositions.
I've struggled also with reducing every response to a set of binary oppositions.
I have taken part in many a pub discussion about the perennial question of whether governments lose elections or oppositions win them, or a mixture of both.
As in the very different circumstances of Bradford West, where George Galloway stunned the political class, the lack of enthusiasm for Labour is such that it cannot assume that it will automatically pick up anti-government voters in the way that oppositions always used to.
Whether they boost or damage incumbents or oppositions depends on where the blame falls and who seems to offer a better prospectus for recovery.
Soon he will have to take decisions without the liberating urgency of emergency, and with an opposition no longer trapped, as oppositions often are in crises, between seeming irrelevant and seeming indecently opportunistic.
But, on closer inspection, all the talk about politics being convulsed by the crunch, and of the revival of stark ideological conflict, seems a little overblown.In my beginning is my endThis is a standard manoeuvre for modern oppositions: sound furious, scaremonger about an impending apocalypse, but offer reassurance by pinching many of the other party's ideas.
But its day-to-day practice is often dirtier: oppositions must be denigrated, promises and compromises made, voters persuaded to trust you with decisions that will affect every aspect of their lives.
And along with the discipline, he and his acolytes need to adopt New Labour's conviction that oppositions must win elections, rather than waiting for governments to lose them.Before 1997 Labour had a poisonous reputation of its own to dispel; it managed to do so while, with a few symbolic pledges, conveying a sense of how a Labour government would differ from the Tory one.
Successful oppositions do not just wait for governments to collapse.
