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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Brian Ferneyhough
Other
Musical
Ruling
Musics
Composers
About
Both
Merely
Powers
Came
Opposition
Western
Accumulate
Depended
Canon
Subversion
Whom
Livelihood
Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.
Brian Sandoval
Good
Law
Disagree
Those
Must
Leaders
Like
Executives
Making
Making Decisions
Opposition
Expect
Decisions
Them
Enforcing
Engage
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
Bryant H. McGill
Conversation
Must
Silent
Winds
Wings
Shall
He
Without
Opposition
Them
Shoulder
Who
Agreed
You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.
Carlo Ancelotti
Hope
God
Best
Day
You
Game
Experience
Way
Tell
Tells
Best Way
Drill
Beat
Particular
Go
Hear
Opposition
Times
Them
Then
Persuade
Stand
Your
Many
Works
Sleep
If Donald Trump takes the nation backwards, we can lead as a state and move forward. It is up to us to stand in opposition to anything that would take Colorado backwards.
Cary Kennedy
Backwards
Nation
State
Would
Colorado
Take
Lead
Takes
Opposition
Trump
Up
Donald
Donald Trump
Move
Move Forward
Anything
Us
Stand
Forward
I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.
Chang Chen-yue
Politics
Party
Feel
Towards
Opposition
Forever
Any
Warmth
It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.
Charles Kennedy
Job
Tough
Increasingly
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
Our
Well
Democrats
Opposition
Effective
When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.
Chellie Pingree
People
Overcome
Big
Forcing
Too
Negotiate
Costs
Proposed
Maine
Idea
Drug Companies
Opposition
Senate
Plan
Lower
Companies
Many
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Companies
Prescription
You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.
Chris Coleman
You
Three
Before
Football
Opposition
Lot
Times
Them
Planning
Certainly
Play
Four
Watch
We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.
Chris Matthews
Government
Supported
Operations
Opposition
Against
Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.
Dan Abrams
Words
Party
Become
Own
Significant
More
He
Taken
New
New Level
Coverage
His
Opposition
Trump
Much
Viewing
Media
Media Coverage
Now
Level
Consequently
I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
Dan Shechtman
World
Leader
Society
Laureate
About
Nobel
Most
Chemical
Idol
Scientists
Opposition
Subject
Lectures
American
Famous
Ridicule
Basics
I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Made
Long
Party
Own
About
My Own
More
Had
Part
Within
Scoop
Opposition
Jackson
Candidate
While
Bones
After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.
Darryl Pinckney
Black
Fears
Press
Evolved
Kind
Reconstruction
Propaganda
Had
Arm
Because
Opposition
Friends
Being
After
Former
Newspapers
Even
Slaves
If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.
David A. Bednar
Father
Would
Would-Be
Purposes
Primary
Were
Opposition
Frustrated
Plan
Then
People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
David Bohm
Change
People
Pool
Constant
Rather
Primarily
Development
Participating
Longer
Said
Nor
Opposition
Common
Interacting
Which
Capable
Meaning
All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.
David Farr
Funny
God
Dark
Comedy
Laughter
Think
Recognise
Unnerving
Tells
Through
Towers
Because
Opposition
Very
Truths
Mean
Us
Things
Two
Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.
Donald Tusk
Today
Political
Important
Presidential
Most
Instrument
Opposition
Hands
Veto
The Most Important
I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.
Dorothea Dix
Me
Sets
Enough
Shall
Feet
Well
Well Enough
Always
Opposition
Get
Alabama
Kentucky
Tonic
Need
My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
Douglas Alexander
Government
Disagree
Too
Approach
Say
Something
General
Opposition
Getting
Where
Them
Should
Right
Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
Earl Blumenauer
Future
Congress
Everybody
Our
Security
About
Clear
Ally
Clear Message
Message
Concerned
Terror
Israel
Opposition
Friend
Loud
Close
Close Friend
Same
Send
Wants
United
Floor
Deeply
I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play.
Earl Weaver
Good
You
Man
Bat
Side
Right Side
Out
Pretty
Pretty Good
Give
Could
Nevertheless
Know
Well
Ball
Opposition
Hit
Handled
Often
Used
Play
Right
Played
The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.
Edmund White
Gay
Struggle
Marriage
Long
Year
State
Gay Marriage
Despite
Religious
Religious Right
Could
Had
Long Struggle
Clearly
Culmination
Opposition
Labeled
Intense
After
Which
Right
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Edward Levi
Wisdom
Time
Memory
Law
Sometimes
Passion
Values
Action
Carries
Responsive
Wrong
Instrument
Practical
Opposition
May
Which
Forward
Received
I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
God
Blessing
Will
Back
Never
Go
Opposition
Eternal
Sworn
Slavery
When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Work
Overcome
Father
Live
Else
Must
Some
Something
Something Else
Rather
Could
Firmly
Felt
Without
Said
Real
Opposition
Real Work
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