"opposition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Putin crowd is said to be haunted in particular by the Ukrainian elections last year, when the Ukrainian president chose a successor who was then defeated soundly by the opposition.
- An attempt made to introduce the subject of the Spanish colonies was defeated by the opposition of Britain.
- The ruling Hungarian Socialist Party was heavily defeated by the opposition conservative Hungarian Civic Union and other conservative parties.
- The series starts in the wake of a general election in which the incumbents have been defeated by the opposition to which Jim Hacker MP belongs.
- She tried to push through a new Constitution that would have given Tamils greater political autonomy, but it was defeated in Parliament by the opposition.
- A bill to authorise it was presented to Parliament in 1793, but was defeated by the combined opposition of the Lancaster Canal and the Duke of Bridgewater.
- March 25 - Stephen Harper's conservative government is defeated on a non-confidence vote by the opposition.
- He promised to resign and fight a new election if his referendum was defeated by the Conservative opposition, which opposes giving equal rights to blacks.
- In the election on 5 September 1914 the government was defeated by the opposition, Andrew Fisher's Australian Labor Party, and the bill was not pursued.
- Kilcormac-Killoughey were defeated by the same opposition in controversial circumstances at the semi-final stages of the championship in 2010.
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