The phrase "qualified opposition" can be used in written English, particularly in discussions about politics or policy.
Example: The senator expressed a qualified opposition to the proposed legislation, citing concerns about its potential impact on small businesses but also acknowledging the need for reform in the industry.
The Guardian's very own Jonathan Wilson writes in: "Before we panic too much, it's worth considering that of the World Cup qualified teams facing non-qualified opposition tonight, only Nigeria have won (v DR Congo) (while Slovenia lead, v Qatar) Greece, Slovakia, Ghana, Honduras all lost.
Alun Cairns qualifies his opposition to gas drilling in the Vale - he is not against it elsewhere.
In The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences, he qualifies his opposition to transpersonal subjects by allowing them to be considered as logical rather than real subjects.
For example, what qualifies as "opposition media" nowadays?
Only Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, has a kind word for the E.P.A., and that is qualified by his opposition to proposed regulation of carbon dioxide and other gases that contribute to global warming.
In picking Republicans like Mr. McHugh for top jobs, the Obama administration says it is assembling a coalition government that welcomes qualified members of the opposition.
(DJN VII.1 2) Still, his comments are qualified even here, in opposition to Hobbes, and they do not amount to an anthropological claim about the exclusive selfishness of all human beings which is not needed for the argument.
Asked in one of many interviews this week whether he supported the "opposition" in Russia, Zimin replied that if "opposition qualifies as activity that does not have the government's blessing, then, yes, I do".
Wayne Rooney did well in qualifying against modest opposition, but that shouldn't guarantee him a place in the starting XI and nor should his reputation.
It is premature and…insufficient to qualify it, by opposition to negativity, as positive.
