Sentence examples for set in opposition from inspiring English sources

The methods of ethnography and cognitive psychology are frequently set in opposition to each other.

In Dilemmas (1954) Ryle analyzes propositions that appear irreconcilable, as when free will is set in opposition to the fatalistic view that future specific events are inevitable.

Set in opposition to each other by their community (Aubrey is pious, plain and family-centred, while Nadia is hedonistic, disconnected and focused on education), Nadia and Aubrey are unlikely best friends.

It was a kind of architecture they classified as the "decorated shed", a functional box with ornament applied independently of what's going on inside, which they set in opposition to the "duck", where the architecture itself is a sculptural, symbolic object – named in honour of a duck-shaped egg-stand on Long Island.

Mulhall shows that Cavell "sees the practices of ordinary language philosophy as everywhere set in opposition to [End Page 407] the skeptical impulse" (p. 186).

Both are found guilty of "the same, schematic conception of society set in opposition of majority and minority, differing only in endorsing separation of the minority from the majority… or) assimilation to it" (Council of Europe, 2008, p. 18).

It constantly sets in opposition biological and adoptive connections.

O'Dwyer, her 1978 co-author, because in O'Dwyer's view, Garber was dead-set in opposition to Whitehead - and O'Dwyer's view was, obviously, wrong.

An approach that denies modern comforts or raises the price of desired technologies will set in motion opposition that will delegitimize the need for change, and delay change until it is too late or too difficult to implement.

His central argument is that literature plays with the brain through experiences of harmony and dissonance which set in motion oppositions that are fundamental to the neurobiology of mental functioning.

He seemed to want me to vilify Diane (sic) Feinstein in some way and set her in opposition to the gay community....During one of the breaks I told him that I didn't feel good about it...I felt I had been twisted and manipulated".