vocal opponent

collocation in English

meaningsofvocalandopponent

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vocal
adjective
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/ˈvəʊ.kəl/us
/ˈvoʊ.kəl/
relating to or produced by the voice, either in singing ...
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opponent
noun[C]
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/əˈpəʊ.nənt/us
/əˈpoʊ.nənt/
a person who disagrees with something and speaks against it or tries to ...
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(Definition ofvocalandopponentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Lakatos was a strong anti-communist and avocalopponentof the student rebellions of the 1960s.
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Like other members of the party, she was avocalopponentof official bilingualism.
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Asper now promotes the rights of both children and educators on an international level, and has been avocalopponentof child labour practices.
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These developments turned him into avocalopponentof the dictatorship.
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At the same time he was avocalopponentof that war on the political scene.
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Siddon was also a strongvocalopponentto the board's decision to tear down a historic auditorium and gymnasium in the local high school.
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The company has been avocalopponentof ionizing and ozone-producing air cleaning technologies.
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He openly admitted that he did not like the format and was avocalopponentof it.
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And he became avocalopponentof legalized gambling.
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She was avocalopponentof the draft and supported spending increases for education, health care and other social services, and reductions in military spending.
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King has been avocalopponentof illegal immigration.
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Sonnenberg was also avocalopponentof new rules on oil and gas drilling passed by the legislature.
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Ducharme was avocalopponentof euthanasia.
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This is a surprising stipulation coming from such vocal opponents of optimality theory.
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