Capitalist opposition to socialism is not only a matter of theory.

The ancient dream of Russia to possess Constantinople has been countered by the new German dream of a hegemony over the near East based upon the through route from Berlin via Vienna and Constantinople to Bagdad; and this political opposition has been of late years the determining factor in the relationship of the two Powers.

The bill passed the Lords by a majority of nearly three to one; in the House of Commons, where the opposition was much feebler, by one infinitely larger; and, by a somewhat remarkable coincidence, it received the royal assent on the same day on which Lord Grenville announced to his brother peers that his administration was at an end.

His persistent opposition to the freedom of the Press was as great an error as his persecution of the Catholics; and his insatiable love of power, grasping all the great offices of State, was a serious offence in the eyes of a jealous master, the present emperor, whom he did not take sufficient pains to conciliate.

The story of that unhappy love affairthe devoted pair, the opposition of the maiden's father, and the separation of the lovershas become an oft-told but ever attractive romance.

The opposition between the king and Parliament was daily growing fiercer.

The captivity of William de Aubenie, the best officer among the confederated barons, was an irreparable loss to their cause; and no regular opposition was thenceforth made to the progress of the royal arms.

If you will not oppose at the expence of losing your place, your opposition will not be honest, you will feel no serious grievance; and the present opposition is only a contest to get what others have.

The opposition in trade has been the means of very materially reducing the cost of supplies and living.

Unprepared, without a leader, and surprised, opposition would have been madness.

The opposition to this plan was twofold: firstly, the theological influence that sought to place the deaconess (Sister Catherine) in the position of house-midwife; and, secondly, the younger part of the profession, many of whom were anxious for the post of professor in the School for Midwives, which never would have been suffered to fall into the hands of Sister Catherine.

Firm opposition was a thing that Adeline's wilfulness could never stand.

In England, for many generations, and in the United States, down to the decision of the last Presidential election, a constitutional opposition was as much a political institution, and as completely a part of the machinery of government, as the administration itself.

"Purvis," said Silent, for he knew that the opposition centred in the figure of the venomous little gun fighter; "if you seen a mad dog that was runnin' straight at you, would you be kep' from shootin' it because a pretty girl hollered out an' asked you not to?" Their eyes shifted rapidly from one to another, seeking a way out, and finding none.

A more dramatic opposition than the one which ensued between the Heracliteans and the Eleatics can scarcely be imaginedboth schools claiming a monopoly of reason and truth, both distrusting the senses, and each charging the other with illusion.

The opposition of the agents is the harmony of gesture.

She had the worldly foresight to know that opposition was food and fuel to a secret attachment, and abstained from giving grounds for the belief that so much as a suspicion lurked in her mind.

Münster's opposition, however, was only the beginning.

Their opposition was to him a bitter pill.

This plan, however, did not meet with the approval of President Wilson, and his open opposition to it became an obstacle which prevented its consideration in the form in which it was proposed.

The Opposition can always be the Simon-pure reformers.

In a larger sense all opposition to a Government measure is a rebellion.

He charged the Republicans with intent to abolish slavery in the States; said their opposition to the Dred Scott decision was a desire for negro equality and amalgamation; and prescribed his dogma of popular sovereignty as a panacea for all the ills growing out of the slavery agitation.

Then, sir, I have got to understand that patriotism means bread and cheese, and that opposition is every man for himself.

The opposition of the Colonies to taxation without their own consent was a pure outburst of that spirit of liberty which was born in German forests, and in England grew into Magna Charta, and ripened into the English Revolution.