| 词汇 | example_english_opponent |
| 释义 | Examples of opponentThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. To make such decisions would require agents to be fully informed about their opponents, the environment, and the issues at stake. The government had no opponents, whether within their own party or on the opposite benches, who could block the march of legislation. In their search for the source of disagreement, the opponents move in the direction of foundations. The (perhaps rather obvious) point to make about all the divisions of the 1620s is that both sides were seeking to silence their opponents. In the case of criminal justice, several stinging defeats for opponents of civil rights galvanized a powerful elite countermovement. How does one assess a case where the emperor acts by seeking to restrain the military or pacify domestic opponents? Looking back at these arguments forty years later, the opponents to the militarisation project were absolutely correct. Advocates attacked opponents where it hurt most, questioning and challenging their key argument and standing it on its head. Generally, the opponents were to be found in the larger urban areas, but by no means all urban politicos were opponents. According to context the term superstition might designate controversial beliefs, the practice of confessional opponents or the beliefs of the ignorant masses. His diplomatic approach throws the problems back to the opponents' side. A productive next step also might identify other critical behaviours that are influenced by people's status as supporters or opponents of those in power. Rationalist explanations of civil conflict have emphasized the co-ordination problems faced by would-be opponents of stable governance. Both sought to expose the reality, as they saw it, of their opponent's politics. The role of honest broker in negotiations between loquacious opponents, however, was not to the ambassador's liking. While pro-aristocratic attitudes became identified with the royalist party, their liberal opponents became ever more criticial of aristocratic liberalism. A game is not played only once, but repeatedly with changing opponents. The canvass allows parties to identify their supporters, their opponents, and also undecided voters, who might be swayed in an election. In the game of chess, for example, the objective is to place the opponent's king in checkmate. The discussion of freedom is no less full of gaps and problems, and the tendency to ungenerous caricature of opponents again proves irresistible. Their opponents hailed the importance of civil liberties throughout the life cycle. When a government is engaged in corrupt practices that violate national laws, the introduction of e-participation threatens to publicize their misdeeds and strengthen their opponents. Initial opponent's moves do not carry pointers, but we call them pointing moves also for uniformity. Eventually, the opponents had to capitulate in all three countries, but the manner in which this happened was not the same. The committee then responded to moral criticism and adopted it in order to disarm policy opponents. In embracing freedom and autonomy as the basis of human dignity, such thinkers are as modern as their liberal opponents. Investigators can safely assume that players' efforts to influence their opponents are pointless. In contrast to the fights over the main square, one did not want to make the opponents disappear from the electoral results. Winning electoral fights signified the occupation of a more distinguished public place (the main square of the constituency) than one's opponents. Many accuse their theological opponents of kufr even if they disagree only in minor points. The book has the standard classical kalam objective of proving - the religious creed of the author and refuting the views of opponents. I do not expect that these brief considerations will convince any of my philosophical opponents, of course; and they aren't meant to. In some cases, the opponents include the employer. Physicians may strike for patient welfare reasons and yet be successfully portrayed by their opponents as seeking only increased physician benefits. About comprises an agreed number of hits on an opponent's body within a given time. In response, their opponents pushed the demand for toleration to new limits. In fact, careful control of the issuing of tickets simply excluded opponents. The opponents of a legislative approach to alleviating social problems, then, could be found on all sides of the political spectrum. By doing so, opponents are forced onto the back foot. Such concentrated opponents should tend to be weakened by crisis. The choice paradigm unravels, of course, to the extent that opponents can make the fetus matter. Each time, opponents successfully pointed to recent progress in the states and asked for more time. His call for "honest" taxes operated on the premise that his opponents would flinch before the prospect of a divisive debate about transparent taxes. The transition process in all three countries was marked by a sharp escalation in the conflicts between regimes and their opponents. The opponents of the project emphasized that their campaign was not 'political', namely, that the issue they promoted transcended party politics. Perhaps they felt more intimidated by the opponents until the king empowered them to speak their minds. The opponents warned that the project meant the end of the beach as a popular site of recreation for common people. The second, greater uncertainty for a senator seeking election and reelection came from potential opponents for the seat within their own party. Business representatives frequently called for "delay" and "slow movement" - the classic pleas of opponents who know they are on the political defensive. At issue here is whether constitutional arguments represented a real constraint or, instead, a legitimating device used by opponents. However, the presentation and substantiation of one's own position and the attack of the opponent's view are not independent from one another. The risk lies in the choice of the alliance as much as in the choice of the opponents. Such a scenario does justice neither to scientism nor its opponents. Subsequent news reports also found that some political groups were using entries to discredit opponents in smear campaigns. While the opponent's thesis is not strictly wrong, it is wholly misguided in what it emphasizes. Similarly, we need not correct the errors of our opponents when this will harm our side, even when they consult us for advice. First, the decreasing gap in relative power between the opponents created permissive conditions for the outbreak of war. The whigs might have been opponents, but at least they were not traitors and renegades. Fears of a military mutiny were not limited to the duke's opponents. Rather, he focuses on the regime's tactics for suppressing its opponents. Thus, the conflict will continue to simmer until the opponents of the regime can regroup for the next round. Above all, he wanted to use the vigilantes to intimidate his opponents. Second, the inconsistencies and weaknesses of their opponents will be highlighted. Ironically, 'federal' is preferred by supporters of more integration while their opponents prefer 'ever closer union', which, literally, would eventually mean a centralised, unitary state. In other countries reform opponents were more powerful and forced the pension reformers to negotiate with them, and to make concessions. While many problems were of its own devising, others (including food shortages) were determined by its powerful domestic and international opponents. Frequently one political group cleared all its opponents from the square before electing the returning officers. A second explanation is the institutional structure of the judiciary, which shapes the political and/or legal strategies of policy opponents. Advocates and opponents of a warlike crisis response seek, respectively, to "inflate" and "deflate" the genre underpinning the discourse (see, for instance, p. 29). The consequence was that there was one more "nay" vote cast during the latter roll-call, implying a gain for direct election opponents. The application of such slanderous language to political opponents denied their status as human beings and presented their "evilness" as a fact of nature. Professional relations between the supporters and the opponents of the fusion claims were in the later episode characterized by competition rather than cooperation. Metaphysicians rarely knock out their opponents, but must settle for winning a decision on points. In order to readily demonstrate as well as evaluate the effectiveness of maneuver learning, in this case study, we will use dummy players as opponents. The opponents act on the assumption that a perfectly clear statement (including its grounds and consequences) cannot be controversial. Finally, participants often "uncover" and explain the origin of the mistake of their opponents. In any case, only part of the disagreement was mentioned explicitly by the opponents. Unlike opponents in a struggle for survival, the main properties of bacteria are their invisibility, ubiquity, hostility, nonhuman character, and vast numbers. He was also one of the speakers in the mass assembly organized by the opponents of project. The opponents of the new system had the option of refusing to acquiesce en masse. The search for secret opponents led the police into actions often oppressive and seldom effective. Their actions antagonized their opponents and embarrassed their potential friends, thereby setting back rather than advancing their cause. Rather than speak of works as a necessary result of justification, the opponents of antinomianism began speaking of works as a condition of justification. By this argument - favoured by opponents of the 1857 bill - there was no law of divorce, merely a large number of legal anomalies. Secondly, and related to this, opponents of the silent majority are seen as being a small, but fairly influential and vociferous elite. Governments interested in publicity and propaganda have published much under the impulse of the urge to justify themselves and vilify their opponents. At this time they operated largely within the mercantilist premises of their opponents. The pessimistic and puritanical classical economists, with the pessimistic and puritanical romantic opponents of industrialisation, were wrong. At the time opponents of the regime's stance in foreign affairs argued they were profligate and in large part avoidable. Access to archives that reveal more about one side of a debate does not mean that we also better understand its opponents. In doing so, they however let their opponents dictate their research agenda, instead of setting an agenda for themselves. The goal is to defeat opponents and win the game. In each case, opponents of the reforms that had been supported by the preceding administrations staffed the succeeding administrations. The gunfighter is interested only in predicting his opponent's actions. The shared virtues praised in these political opponents were incorruptibility and an inflexible determination to advance the public good. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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