As one scholar put it, his dissent transformed "the phrase 'clear and present danger' from an apology for repression into a commitment to oppose authority."

Speakers may resist culturally dominant language and oppose cultural authority by maintaining their own varieties of speech.

The last time I knew him he was a rebellious sixteen-year-old who would oppose authority in every form.

His only opposition was the UPC, which continued to oppose central authority even after independence.

Several senators, including Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, are sponsoring an amendment to oppose greater federal authority.

A black identity allows the individual to oppose white authority; to assert the image of Babylon.

Anybody who opposes authority and property is sweet in my heart.

Portugal opposed Castilian authority on the islands and continued the exploration of Guinea, with significant commercial benefits.

It opposed ritualism, formal worship, clerical vestments, and clerical authority.

The rebels continue to oppose Indonesian authority.