Salasser advised her mother: "Cugel will do as he likes in any case; why oppose his wishes?

The local authority opposed her wishes.

"Isn't that inconsistent with your statement that from the first he opposed your wishes regarding the Caine?"

Clearly, he thought that a soldier, even an ex-soldier, had no business opposing his government's wishes.

Once again, there was no prospect of a Giffard opposing the queen's wishes.

Your constancy has overcome me,' she said; 'I can no longer oppose your wishes.

Catherine endeavoured to persuade her, as she was herself persuaded, that her father and mother would never oppose their son's wishes.

You have both thwarted and flouted me, not once but many times; he has constantly opposed my wishes.

I just could not assemble the will to oppose her expressed wishes.

No one can oppose his wishes.