He opposes a navy now--he will oppose it for ever.
To such utterances of malice and confident hatred he opposes the conviction which had again filled his soul, that even in the midst of real peril and the shock of battle Jehovah is his "shield.
It is not unfrequently that we hear Socialists appealing to this or that plank of their party platform as proof sufficient that their organization favors or opposes a certain policy.
The Osseous changes after a while, but it is a long while, and by the time he does, the rest of the world has marched on to something new which he opposes in its turn.
To such conceptions Nicolai opposesgenuine science, the fundamental law of the increase in living beings,[53] and the law that there is a natural limit to growth.
Mill and Alexander Bain our author opposes the two following objections:--1st, How does it explain the generalization?
Ancient Persia opposes to Zeus, to Jupiter, to Varuna, her Ormazd or Ahura Mazda.
If it opposes them, it is spurious and not genuine.
But he shows himself a more loyal follower of the Kalam by frankly adopting the atomic theory, whereas Saadia opposes it (p.
Real demonstration cannot be controverted; and there is nothing in the Bible which opposeswhat the reason unequivocally demands.
But this opinion need cause one no difficulty as there is nothing in the Bible which opposes the unequivocal demands of the reason.
He cites and opposes a solution frequently given in the middle ages of the problem of evil.
Especially do we find this to be the case in Crescas who opposes Aristotle on philosophic grounds.
The Mutakallimun he opposes as being followers of the "Naturalists," who disagree with the philosophers as well as the Bible.
Like his master he opposes those who make God's command and prohibition the sole creators of good and evil respectively, as on the other hand he refuses to agree with the view that God is bound by necessity to do the good.
To the vital instinct he opposes the instinct of knowledge; but the former is not the good principle, any more than the latter is the bad principle.
It opposes their union with all its force, never tiring of driving between them a chimerical wedge upon which resound the hammer-blows of hope.
To each objection offered by reason, sentiment opposes an immediately valid excuse; for, as M.
As the property which opposes the flow of electric current in an electrical circuit is called resistance, so the property which opposes the flow of magnetic lines of force in a magnetic circuit is called reluctance.
Every conception of God that separates him from matter, and opposes to him a sum of forces that are not of a divine nature, leads to amphitheism (or ditheism) and on to polytheism.
The guiding thread of philosophical problems is that the intellect is an instrument of action which has developed itself in the course of centuries in order to triumph over the difficulties that matter opposes to life.
The devil on all occasions hinders our progress, and opposes our endeavors on every side.
He who loves the creature more than the Creator, and things transitory more than those which are eternal, offers surely the highest possible affront to his Maker, and opposes the great design of the Christian religion.
But everything is sin, that opposes our obedience to the will of God.
He that in all things seeks not the glory of God, and endeavors to promote it, does not act like a creature of God, but directly opposes his Maker, and all his designs, seeing he made all things for his own glory.
Then he says that the Chancellor is a great mortgagee in Ireland, and on account of his own personal interests he resolutely opposes all the plans relating to the transfer of property which by any possibility can affect the mortgagees.
Most Christians hold that birds are of aquatic origin, hence, like fish, can be eaten on fast days, although the Church opposes this opinion, and is slowly overcoming it.
The bishop opposes a neighboring viscount, just as the viscount will oppose his other neighbor, a baron.
Hector comes against Ajax, but that hero alone opposes multitudes and rallies the Greeks.
Diomed opposes this, and Nestor seconds him, praising his wisdom and resolution.
To this assertion Socrates opposes the doctrine of the permanence of the forces of Nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opposes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
