Sentence examples for term opposition from inspiring English sources

I use the term "opposition party" pointedly if reluctantly.

What we're trying to do is do something we've never done before – to be a one term opposition party," he said.

The Damascus government's attempts to blame "foreign terrorists" and al-Qaeda for the country's difficulties harks back to its long term opposition to militant Sunni ideology.

Another Sam, Sam Rayburn, probably had it right in his long term opposition to televising Congressional hearings.

In doing so--in cajoling conservative Democrats to vote against their long term opposition to such legislation--Johnson effectively began the slow re-sorting of the two parties.

"The police are preventing us from demonstrating peacefully against Nkurunziza's third term," opposition leader Chauvineau Mugwengezo, honorary president of the Union for Peace and Democracy Party (UPD), told the BBC.

Initially, a first-term opposition senator will serve as acting president but only for two days.

Mr Byrne, who will set out Labour's strategy to ensure it is a "one-term opposition," said: "We did make mistakes – we should call a spade a spade..

Just as governments expect to take losses mid-term, opposition parties should expect to make progress, and, London aside, Labour has made none.

When I became leader of the Labour party four years ago, I challenged us to defy precedent by being just a one-term opposition.

In 1997, when he was hoping to challenge the law-and-order Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Ferrer abandoned his long-term opposition to the death penalty.