Sentence examples for when opposed to from inspiring English sources

My Red Sox malaise, if anything, stems from the opposite problem: the growth of a national brand so strong that its particulars are only compelling when opposed to those of an even more dominant and pervasive one.

They have an absolute Parliament, and though they have a strong Executive, it is, when opposed to the people, or even when in advance of the people, paralysed by a total absence of friends.

On October 28, however, thunderstorms increased over the center, and Sandy's upper-level circulation was better defined when opposed to 24 hours previous.

Wisden noted that Trott "batted uncommonly well — much better than in 1890" but that when bowling he "did a good many brilliant things against the weaker teams, but he was nearly always expensive and very rarely successful when opposed to batsmen of high class".

In 1893, he wrote: I thus learnt my first great lesson in the inquiry into these obscure fields of knowledge, never to accept the disbelief of great men or their accusations of imposture or of imbecility, as of any weight when opposed to the repeated observation of facts by other men, admittedly sane and honest.

When demonstrators opposed to abortion were arrested in 1986, Mr. Dillon turned the cases over to a special prosecutor instead of having his office handle them.

And in 1997, when Californians opposed to affirmative action wanted a suitable image for Proposition 209, they chose a picture of King at the 1963 March on Washington.

Since late last spring, when fighters opposed to President Bashar al-Assad began pushing government security forces out of parts of northern Syria, one military compound north of Aleppo has been a stubborn holdout: the air base at Minakh.

They also close the redemption loop and will allow better tracking of deals because Groupon knows exactly how many deals are redeemed and when (as opposed to just knowing how many vouchers have been sold).

Worth even more is the value of a source that can be counted on to produce when needed, as opposed to when the sun is shining; that's worth 0.7 cents to 2 cents, he calculated.

By contrast, neither lactococci expressing AgI/II nor S. mutans discriminated between variants I to III when aggregated, as opposed to when adhered, by the gp-340 size variants [ 25].