Sentence examples for return to opposition from inspiring English sources

He also lectured his party to keep its internal disagreements private or face a return to opposition.

If it doesn't, a return to opposition would be punishment for a term of wasted opportunities and political incompetence.

When governments lose hope of re-election, ministers position themselves for the leadership contest that inevitably follows the return to opposition.

Accepting the 1921 centralist constitution, however, he entered the government in 1925 but returned to opposition in 1927.

He retained his seat in the November 2007 election and campaigned for party leader when Prime Minister John Winston Howard lost his seat and the Liberals were returned to opposition.

He returned to opposition, before leading the party to a majority in the 1874 election.

Serving from 1917 in the backbenches, he entered the cabinet of Thomas Bavin in 1929 as Secretary for Mines and Minister for Forests until he returned to opposition in 1930.

As its spokesmen merrily admitted, the Brotherhood's abrupt return to beleaguered opposition put them "back in our comfort zone".

Now they and their backers are reeling under a wave of popular indignation at such perfidy and of enthusiasm for a return to armed opposition to Israel.Egypt is a typical example.

As France's political elite prepare to return to work, opposition leaders have called for a much broader parliamentary inquiry into the government and the health service's handling of the crisis, to establish how a developed country could have suffered such unexpected losses.

Wednesday's announcement seemingly brings to an end the almost constant rumours that he was set for a return to the opposition front bench.