Adjective modifier

• binary: However, binary oppositions occasionally masquerade the complexity of certain phenomena.

Converse of object

• crush: What Microsoft is up to is not especially enriching itself, but gleefully crushing the opposition.

• provoke: The idea of hundreds of lorries and trains traveling the length of Scotland provoked strong opposition.

• suppress: Vortigern then went on to suppress the opposition, as the conflict with Ambrosius at Wallop in 437 shows.

• encounter: Efforts to promote the Honduran tobacco industry as a royal monopoly proved less effective and encountered stiff local opposition.

• overcome: It was a case of irresistible force overcoming all opposition.

Adjective modifier

• stiff: Elaine aims to break back into the Harrier's national league team where she will face stiffer opposition.

• fierce: Each tightening of the law has met fierce opposition.

• Iraqi: A more active use of the Iraqi opposition was suggested for propaganda work in the occupied villages.

• widespread: These concerns in turn have a bearing on the widespread evangelical opposition to his personal views on homosexuality.

• outright: In the later context, the reference is to those outside the band where only outright opposition could not be tolerated.

Modifies a noun

• spokesman: He was until recently a member of the council's shadow cabinet and opposition spokesman on social services.

• party: The stance of an opposition party should not depend on the prominence its leader is given on the national stage.

• politician: A good fairy story As the General Election approaches opposition politicians are talking about regulatory excesses.

• bench: Over the next few years he held various positions on the opposition front bench.

• leader: The message was delivered to more than a dozen Iraqi opposition leaders who visited the White House complex to discuss the situation.

Noun used with modifier

• islamist: The secularist government endorses the ban, while the Islamist opposition sees it as an infringement of women's rights.

• centre-left: After 1988, these tended to align to the centre-left opposition party the PRD.

• backbench: Blair's current backbench opposition is no uprising of virgins, but just the continuation of behavior seen throughout the preceding years.