Sentence examples for straight opposition from inspiring English sources

It's also a posture that has been resoundingly rejected by the Republican Party, which ran successfully on straight opposition to the president's agenda.

But the gay-straight opposition is only about 130 years old.

Immediately after that defeat the Democratic party leader, former prime minister Matteo Renzi, announced that it should go straight into opposition, even though it had come second in the election (behind Five Star and ahead of the League).

Hunt drew criticism for his style of returning the football; upon receiving the ball, he would run straight at opposition players rather than attempting to evade them.

Baltimore has won three straight, outscoring the opposition by 31-16.

In some cases, the shareholder proposal failed to achieve majority support in the face of "straight" or "soft" opposition.

For the fourth straight day today, opposition demonstrators are rallying outside the presidential palace.

Fearing defeat in a straight fight, the opposition called on voters to mark the "no vote" box on ballot papers.

They did so right from the start, flying out, direct, fast and determined: going straight for the opposition, bombing forward.

I'm now deep enough into the Statement to say "I've always believed we should be straight" and the opposition will be too befuddled to laugh me to scorn.

Mr Posh Spice was on for a few minutes, did that thing he does of taking the ball off the defenders in his own penalty box, and beautifully pinging fabulous long passes... straight to the opposition.