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Example sentences for: opposition

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According to one executive we met with, change initiatives that are implemented slowly generally fail because staff have too much time to contemplate the potential negative effects that change might bring and rally opposition that ultimately undermines the effort.
In the '50s they were blacklisted; in the '60s they worked for civil rights and painted an orange Day-Glo peace sign in our front window to publicize their opposition to the Vietnam War.
This fraygrant compared the fight against homophobia to the fights against racism and sexism: "Like those fights, opposition is rooted in bigotry and prejudice and ignorance.
The other category of arguments against NATO expansion concerns the impact on Russia , the object of bitter opposition.
When this word was first used in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, it meant unconcerned, lacking interest, apathetic, uninterested--the very senses it has been struggling to return to in this century, against great opposition.