"opponent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Worth was an avid opponent of North Carolina's secession from the Union.
- "The most avid Congressional opponents of the provision could not have asked for more," he said.
- Okumura was an avid opponent of the unions he refused to shelter or aid strikers following the evictions.
- Though a representative of the great landowners himself, and an avid opponent of the bourgeois influence of Sigbrit, Gøye and Christian II seemed to maintain loyalty towards one another.
- He was also widely known to be an avid opponent of President Obasanjo's attempts in 2006 to engineer a way that would enable himself and state governors to serve more than two consecutive terms.
- He was an avid opponent of Nazism and in 1936 he wrote the poem "Du må ikke sove" ("Dare not to sleep!"
- It was all but ordained when the Senate confirmed an avid opponent of women's reproductive rights, Samuel Alito, to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
- "We're losing," complained Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, a Republican Presidential candidate, who is an avid opponent of gun control.
- Hobhouse was an avid opponent of the First World War and protested vigorously against it.
- Despite their party's plan for cutting taxes by $245 billion over seven years, Republicans in the poll were among the most avid opponents of them.
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