oppositionist

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Recent Examples of oppositionist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist umbrella group of oppositionist forces with ideological and organizational roots in al-Qaeda. Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024 Within Russia, the oppositionists’ challenges are far greater. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024 Russian oppositionists in exile face nearly insurmountable challenges. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024 Already, these fears have led Ukrainian oppositionist democrats, European intellectuals, and prominent Western analysts to call on the EU to put the integration process on hold. Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011 Characteristically, Navalny tried to buck up his fellow oppositionists. The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024 However, several prisoners from his ward have previously been treated for tuberculosis, the oppositionist said. Fox News, 7 Apr. 2021 Trump canceled Obama’s Title 50 program that armed Syrian oppositionists in July 2017. Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oppositionist
Noun
  • What's New On Friday 170 House Republicans joined Democrats to approve an emergency funding bill just hours before a partial government shutdown was due to go into effect, despite President-elect Donald Trump's threat to oust any rebels.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Over the years, there have also been news reports of Syrian rebels being treated in Israeli hospitals.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The country is now largely under the control of an insurgent group named Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Initially a religious movement focused on promoting Yemen's Zaidi Shiite Muslim community, Ansar Allah grew into a powerful insurgent group that captured large swathes of northern territory, including Sanaa, between late 2014 and early 2015.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • As one of his first acts upon taking office, President Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft resisters.
    Vogue, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Perhaps a tad too neatly, the Dahl siblings are accompanied by outliers to serve as witnesses, resisters and accelerants.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.
    Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.
    Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Granted, such dialogue would be much harder with MAGA or leftist crazies, racists, anarchists, misogynists or white supremacists.
    Mike Mcgrew, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Their dilemmas evoke our disregard of the vacancy in Antifa anarchists and our encouragement of gender dysphoria.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • In this light, an advocate for peaceful democratic change, who kept vigil in Tiananmen Square to protect students from oncoming tanks, had been similar to violent revolutionaries.
    Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
  • As a portrait of young revolutionaries, Say Nothing crackles with the thrill and romance of committing one’s life to an armed cause.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The two who came closest to challenging him—the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin—are now dead.
    Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
  • While Musk was on his honeymoon, Botha and other mutineers met with PayPal’s lead investors to make their case.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024

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