Sentence examples for that oppositions from inspiring English sources

It is often said that oppositions don't win elections, it is governments that lose them.

Miliband's strategists will remind the leader that oppositions don't win elections – governments invariably lose them.

Shorten and Labor bravely took on the conventional wisdom in Australian politics that oppositions should only run small target campaigns.

Even with closer polls, the old saying that "oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them" would point to a Tory victory.

Somewhat contentiously, the line from Yeats appears stripped from its political content — the evocation of the Easter Rising, an Irish upheaval against British rule — and is used to epitomize the idea that oppositions can be creative.

As in the very different circumstances of Bradford West, where George Galloway stunned the political class, the lack of enthusiasm for Labour is such that it cannot assume that it will automatically pick up anti-government voters in the way that oppositions always used to.

Dragas appears to have presumed that opposition would be fleeting.

And he made sure that opposition was crushed.

But that opposition seems to have lost some momentum this summer.

Ms. Axelson said that opposition to horse farms is rare.

It is that opposition that Mr. Oats hopes will make his quixotic cause a reality.