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Example sentences for "directly opposed"

  • Now, however, the Modern Age develops in a direction which is directly opposed to the requirements of the aesthetic form of life.

  • And as it is of the nature of these to transcend the ends and aims of the individuals, to arouse other feelings and stimulate to other efforts, so their demands may be directly opposed to those of individual self-preservation.

  • The gospel is directly opposed to this spirit.

  • This injunction, it is apprehended, is directly opposed to resisting the oppression of enemies by force.

  • Wherefore the greatest sin must needs be directly opposed to the greatest virtue, as being furthest removed from it in the same genus.

  • On the contrary, To wish to do evil is directly opposed to moral virtue; and yet it is not opposed to anything that can be without moral virtue.

  • I answer that, Violence is directly opposed to the voluntary, as likewise to the natural.

  • Again, schism is, seemingly, directly opposed to the Holy Ghost by Whom the Church is united together.

  • Now the sin of presumption is contrary to the sin of despair, which is directly opposed to hope.

  • For hatred is directly opposed to charity.

  • Hatred, whether of dislike or of enmity, is from its nature a mortal sin, since it is directly opposed to the virtue of charity, which is the life of the soul.

  • For this kind of scandal directly intends the spiritual ruin of a neighbor, and so is directly opposed to a special good of another person and to the special charitable act of fraternal correction.

  • In some cases the writers express opinions directly opposed to that for which they are quoted; in others they incline to views irreconcilable with it; and in others they suspend judgment.

  • More especially the omission of all reference to the Davidic descent of Christ would be directly opposed to the fundamental principle of this Gospel, which, addressing itself to the Jews, laid special stress on His Messianic claims.

  • His statement moreover is directly opposed to the concurrent testimony of the four or five preceding centuries, which, without a dissentient voice, declare that Ignatius suffered at Rome.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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