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  • He was quickly labeled as being "oppositionally defiant."

    Christal Watts: My Family's Own 'Race to Nowhere' Christal Watts 2010

  • He was quickly labeled as being "oppositionally defiant."

    Christal Watts: My Family's Own 'Race to Nowhere' Christal Watts 2010

  • And yet, we can still ascertain that, more often than not, by the 1960s, the art that stands oppositionally against the powers that would deprive populations of individual civil liberties is designated to be the art of the Left--despite that some of that art, like the ideologies they disseminate, is later regarded to lead to dead ends or more social controls.

    G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

  • And yet, we can still ascertain that, more often than not, by the 1960s, the art that stands oppositionally against the powers that would deprive populations of individual civil liberties is designated to be the art of the Left--despite that some of that art, like the ideologies they disseminate, is later regarded to lead to dead ends or more social controls.

    G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

  • I hope that this is not unlike Christensen's point that to write oppositionally

    Notes on 'Byron and Romantic Occidentalism' 2008

  • But the Cal Poly proposal is by no means the ONLY option with which it should be presented oppositionally to "cancer."

    Treating Cancer with Landscape Architecture 2008

  • Canadians have a tendency to practice a far more subtle form of racism than that which is practiced by our American cousins but there is no doubt that not only do we define ourselves oppositionally to the US the excuse we use to claim status as an equal society but that we have largely constructed the Canadian identity by default to be white.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Renee 2009

  • The shock was that the same prediction could apply to life from such oppositionally tangental angles of approach confirmed for me a situation that caused some hefty cognitive dissonance.

    A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis) 2007

  • Canadians have a tendency to practice a far more subtle form of racism than that which is practiced by our American cousins but there is no doubt that not only do we define ourselves oppositionally to the US the excuse we use to claim status as an equal society but that we have largely constructed the Canadian identity by default to be white.

    Shoppers Drug Mart Keeps Black Products Under Lock And Key Renee 2009

  • Chrisitanity oppositionally, is the reestablishment of the connection lost by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

    The Rebuttal of the Absurd Belief that Christianity is a Religion 2008

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