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Opposing in sentence

397 examples of Opposing in a sentence

Here's another good article, about a new campaign opposing privatization of transit, without any contact information for the campaign.
Yet, tuning out opposing viewpoints doesn't make them go away, because millions of people agree with them.
DM: So I've collected these conversations and many others for my podcast "Conversations with People Who Hate Me." (Laughter) Before I started this project, I thought that the real way to bring about change was to shut down opposing viewpoints through epically worded video essays and comments and posts, but I soon learned those were only cheered on by the people who already agreed with me.
The opposing council always fight it and oppose it.
When a limb is amputated, the surgeon connects these opposing muscles within the residuum to create an AMI.
Tendon pulleys were created and attached to Jim's tibia bone to reconnect the opposing muscles.
And when you get together to play baseball, immediately you're with two opposing teams, one playing offense, one playing defense, somebody's trying to move deeper into the field.
Well, I think it's a combination of two features of our intellectual culture that like to think they're opposing each other but in fact they share a common set of assumptions.
In the very short run, you can sometimes fool yourself into thinking that there's fundamentally opposing goals, but in the long run, ultimately, we're learning in field after field that this is simply not true.
These are not opposing qualities.
This is about doing decision making in a way that you can actually combine even opposing ideas to reconfigure them in new combinations to produce a solution that is new and useful.
This idea was actually based on Aristotle's ontology, which classified all things known to man in a set of opposing categories, like the ones you see behind me.
They've used it between members of the police and members of community, and they've used it between people of opposing political ideologies.
For that, we need at least one opposing beat with a different sound, which can be the unstressed off beat or the accented back beat.
Here is a basic two beat rhythm with a main beat and an opposing off beat.
Ask yourself why so many people are drawn to the policies of the opposing political candidate.
But that's just the electrons in your body pushing back against the electrons in the seat, opposing the force of gravity.
For someone raised in that kind of environment, it's especially painful to see the difficulty the opposing parties have in putting themselves in the other side's shoes even for a moment.
I couldn't explain to her why someone tried to rip off her mother's hijab when they were grocery shopping, or why a player on an opposing team called her a terrorist and told her to go back where she came from.
The outcome of the battle between these two opposing forces determines how the end of the universe will play out.
And so we do our work in direct challenge to the political climate in our country right now, and we do it knowing that it is difficult, challenging work to hold and support people in opposing backgrounds in conversation.
And just as importantly, it helped me realize that my love for Aaron and my grief for Aaron, and my love for Matthew, are not opposing forces.
In every flowing liquid or gas there are two opposing forces: inertia and viscosity.
During a battle, dozens of these ships would float around the arena, crewed by gladiators dressed as the opposing sides of the recreated battle.
This is perhaps best exemplified in Hamlet’s most famous declaration of angst: "To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them."
Organizations like HIAS, where I work, and other humanitarian and faith-based organizations, make it easy for you to take a stand when there's a law that's worth opposing or a law that's worth supporting or a policy that needs oversight.
They're gray not because they're unsure, but because they believe that the moral dilemma faces two valid, opposing arguments.
And in Japanese shogi, captured pieces could be used by the opposing player.
Camma steps between the opposing sides to stop them from fighting— they must honor her authority.
The cracks are too small to get your toes into so the only way to climb is using your fingertips in the cracks, and using opposing pressure and forcing yourself up.
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