violent opposition

collocation in English

meaningsofviolentandopposition

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violent
adjective
uk
/ˈvaɪə.lənt/us
/ˈvaɪə.lənt/
using force to hurt ...
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opposition
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌɑː.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
strong ...
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(Definition ofviolentandoppositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Throughout the period under review there were numerous reports of peaceful and occasionallyviolentoppositionto building these mills.
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The photograph of the individual attached to the case file functions to displace the root cause ofviolentoppositionby focusing on an individual case history.
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Violentoppositionfrom the neighbours not unnaturally met any proposal for any given site.
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But that prospect excited the mostviolentopposition, and we never went further.
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Under these circumstancesviolentoppositionwould be out of place.
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It could not be expected that such a change could even be proposed without raising strong emotions, and evenviolentopposition.
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He will not get these taxes without the most bitter andviolentopposition.
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Would there not be the mostviolentoppositionto the desecration of the beautiful countryside?
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The trade union movement, despite entrenched and oftenviolentopposition, was to prove no exception.
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I did not say that there wasviolentoppositionto the project.
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You will have the great business advertising firms in this country rising up in very serious andviolentoppositionto it.
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To what can we attribute the very strong, evenviolentoppositionto this proposal?
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I do not think there has been anyviolentoppositionthis afternoon.
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In the first 24 hours a quarter of a million men were landed, in the teeth of fortified andviolentopposition.
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They went fromviolentoppositionto ecstatic surrender.
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In regard to agriculture there wasviolentoppositionto contour control.
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In the case of disease there wasviolentoppositionby all the natives concerned to measures for the suppression or reduction of venereal disease.
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Any suggestion of a change of system will meet with the mostviolentoppositionfrom every councillor in the land.
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To-day there isviolentoppositionbecause there is to be inspection.
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