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Example sentences for: opposite

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If anything, such a regulation is likely to have the opposite effect.
The Place d’Armes is enclosed on three sides by modern buildings, including the huge Post Office tower, while opposite Notre-Dame stands the venerable Bank of Montréal (1847).
Scalia, notes the Times , went on to claim that the decision does not abrogate all "genuine but innocuous differences in the ways men and women routinely interact with members of the same sex and of the opposite sex," and all the papers give his example: a football coach slapping a player's rear on the way to the field would be lawful, while the same gesture directed at the coach's (female or male) secretary might not be.
Isn't that the opposite of focus?
This result indicates that the inhibitory activity of CAP is restricted to one side of the cells, thus demonstrating that actin dynamics can be independently modified at opposite poles of an epithelium.