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Sentences ending with oppose

I have influence, Fred, to help or oppose. [12]
Therefore he must act with the utmost caution, and in a manner which his antagonists could not oppose. [10]

Short sentences using oppose

Why did he oppose it? [7]

More example sentences with the word oppose in them

In both cases you oppose the dangerous extremes. [7]
The matter will work so well this time that even they who now oppose will come in next time. [7]
In short, those who had apparently done their utmost to oppose democracy at home were most insistent that we should embark upon a war for democracy across the seas. [9]
The danger in which Heinz stood of being drawn into the monastery made him deeply anxious, and he had already ventured several times to oppose his design. [10]
I defy contradiction when I declare that the Judge can find no one to oppose him on that proposition. [7]
She did not venture to oppose her father, but did not hesitate to express her opinion of the marquis to her excellenza, and her aunt, though she had favored the Frenchman's suit, allowed it. [10]
The bad effect upon the November election, and especially the giving the State government to those who will oppose the war in every possible way, are too much to risk if it can be avoided. [7]
By nature and tradition we are inclined to deplore and oppose any tendency toward the stratification of class antagonisms--the result of industrial discontent--into political groups. [9]
There was nothing to oppose their mass, nothing but a few weak battalions of British soldiers scattered about India, a force not worth speaking of. [5]
At any other time it would scarcely have been possible to oppose the decree of the Government and guard their imperilled friend, but in these dark days the rulers must deal with them. [10]
Yes, he is, though I've got to oppose him. [9]
It is because the strength has been given me to oppose you in the name of humanity, and this in spite of the fact that her love for you to-day is greater than it has ever been before. [9]
The voice of the reader moved in pleasant yet vibrant modulations: "The King was now come to a time when his enemies wickedly began to plot against him secretly and to oppose him in his purposes; which, in his own mind, were beneficent and magnanimous. [11]
Then where is the place to oppose it? [7]
In later days the nobles made use of the Ephori as a power, which, springing immediately from their own body, they could oppose to the kingly authority. [10]
I say, then, that, as I understand the Massachusetts provision, I am against its adoption in Illinois, or in any other place where I have a right to oppose it. [7]
She was aware that he returned the feeling, and had left no means untried to incite Wolff Eysvogel's parents to oppose his betrothal. [10]
He of all that company had the courage to oppose his Lordship! [9]
I will neither support nor oppose the resolution presented; I will content myself with pointing the way to a greater national self-respect. [11]
There is no suitable place to oppose it. [7]
We believe that some who oppose, or fear, or denounce our movement are themselves caught in various eddies that set back against the truth. [3]
Her father and she had parted kindly, and he made no attempt to oppose her. [10]
If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support me. [7]
Even now it seemed inconceivable to him that she could oppose his will. [10]
Stand in the road and oppose the hillsmen. [11]
I stepped back quickly, closed the panel, and went softly to the door and into the hall, determined to bring her out against Doltaire, trusting to Gabord not to oppose me. [11]
There is no place in the country to oppose this evil overspreading the continent, which you say yourself is coming. [7]
Yet her vehement outburst of wrath had startled him also, and a doubt arose in his mind as to what matrimonial life might be with a companion who, in spite of her youth, ventured to oppose elderly, dignified men so irritably and sharply. [10]
Paula would not oppose such an enterprise; his excited imagination pictured her indeed as a second Zenobia by his side, ready for any great achievement, fit to aid him and to rule. [10]
And those who oppose democracy inherently dread its workings. [9]
The discredited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of glory and grandeur. [2]
Our Senator also objects that those who oppose him in this matter do not entirely agree with one another. [7]
It was of no use to oppose her while her mind was in an excited state. [6]
I know of no man in the State of Illinois who ought to know so well about how much villainy it takes to oppose a decision of the Supreme Court as our honorable friend Stephen A. Douglas. [7]
Both parties, however, like parties elsewhere, propose and oppose measures and movements, and accept or reject policies, simply to get office or keep office. [4]
He did not know his way, but woe betide those who ventured to oppose him. [10]
Skilled labour banded itself into unions, employers organized to oppose them, and the result was a class conflict never contemplated by the founders of the Republic, repugnant to democracy which by its very nature depends for its existence on the elimination of classes. [9]
We also oppose it as an evil so far as it seeks to spread itself. [7]
He had look in his face that boded ill to any that might oppose him. [9]
As long as I live I will oppose it. [9]
It is not, however, upon sentimental grounds that we oppose this extension of the exaggerated dogma of equality. [4]
Let him take his own course--as it would profit nothing to oppose him--make things worse, in fact. [5]
His feeling and his judgment, therefore, ever led him to oppose both extremes of opinion on the subject. [7]
In vain did his fierce little cocked hat oppose its course. [4]
At any rate, he was not a man to oppose, and in his previous life had given no hint that he might become a trouble maker. [9]
The harbor watchmen hastened to array themselves indignantly to oppose the chariot, as it rolled noisily along the street, and the huge dog that destroyed the peace of the night with its baying; but as soon as they recognized Titianus they respectfully made way. [10]
It was the first time I had dared oppose him on this subject. [9]
She had been far too guilty and oppressed to oppose her, yet indignation concerning the sharp words which Els had uttered about the knight, and her intention of forbidding him the house, perhaps forever, had stimulated her like strong acid wine. [10]
On principle, and faith, opposed to both war and oppression, they can only practically oppose oppression by war. [7]
There are names enough on the petition, I think, to justify the members from our county in going for it; but if the members from Morgan oppose it, which they say they will, the chance will be bad. [7]
We oppose the Dred Scott decision in a certain way, upon which I ought perhaps to address you a few words. [7]
It is a doubtful policy to oppose the freest speech in those of our own number who are trying to show us where they honestly believe our weakness lies. [6]
You see, I don't say that we ought to oppose this and that. [2]
Dreadful as the countess imagined it would be should Prince Andrew die in her daughter's arms during the journey--as, judging by what the doctor said, it seemed might easily happen--she could not oppose Natasha. [2]
Hear what the council of our old men has sent me to declare to you:--The Massageta; have become too weak to oppose the Persians, not through their own fault, but through the heavy visitation of our god, the sun. [10]
Do you not constantly argue that this is not the right place to oppose it? [7]
I should be compelled to admit that he represented something unique in that assembly if he had the courage to get up and oppose House Bill 709. [9]
Whoever continued to cling to the Spaniards and oppose the cause of liberty, would forfeit his share of the inheritance. [10]
However loudly outward circumstances might oppose this, he now felt, with a certainty which surprised him, that this work was not his own. [10]
The chief priest can do much, but he will not oppose the man who made himself my father's ally. [10]
When, in a businesslike tone, he announced his sovereign's will, she interrupted him with the remark that she knew all this, and had determined to oppose her own resolve to his Majesty's wishes. [10]
They oppose me at every step, they vote against their own interests. [9]
How beautifully and aptly he could speak of her own art, and induce her to oppose to his clever remarks her own modest opinion! [10]
And those in America and the Entente nations who continue to oppose it will do so at their peril. [9]
She was accustomed always to oppose anything announced in that timid tone and considered it her duty to do so. [2]
More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose this movement. [7]

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