opposition group

collocation in English

meaningsofoppositionandgroup

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opposition
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌɑː.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
strong ...
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group
noun
uk
/ɡruːp/us
/ɡruːp/
a number of people or things that are put together or considered as ...
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(Definition ofoppositionandgroupfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofopposition group

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Even if members of anoppositiongroupcould be entirely uniform in their beliefs and goals, there are myriad strategic choices to be made by those out of power.
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Thus, when anoppositiongrouplies outside the government interval, its distance from the government is the distance between the group's ideal point and the nearest government group's ideal point.
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At best, it may create anoppositiongroupon the advisory council.
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The leader of theoppositiongroupmade a mess of it when he was leader of the majority.
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The rules at least provide for members from anoppositiongroupto be represented even on very small committees.
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Anoppositiongroupaccused the army of burning most of the shops in the town and called for observers to come in the city.
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As a result of the boycotts, including the mainoppositiongroup, the poll was viewed with skepticism.
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During the 1993 presidential election, he was caught giving information to a politicaloppositiongroupand detained.
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They also believed that the members of the localoppositiongroupwere motivated by religious bias.
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At this time, considerable changes were going on within theoppositiongroup.
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It has been said that a more decentralized authority would be more efficient in keeping peace because the deal must please not only the leadership but also theoppositiongroup.
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Power shifts also occur as opposition groups challenging the existing regime, gain in leadership skills, knowledge and organizational resources.
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Opposition groups have not ceased in criticizing the treaty and calling for its abrogation.
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More sophisticated treatments of crisis management do not simply assume that opposition groups or government are malicious or irrational in their motivations.
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The gains in the human rights arena may be fast disappearing as the government closes on opposition groups.
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Opposition groups charged that these farms were earmarked for government cronies instead of people who really needed land.
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The persecution of minorities and opposition groups since early 1945 had forced thousands to take to the mountains or seek refuge across the frontier.
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Opposition groups and dissident intellectuals "target" the discourse of the existing social or political order and in the process absorb many of its structural features.
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Thus, negotiating governments may be obliged to up the ante by offering additional incentives, perhaps relating to political viability, to the opposition groups.
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