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are opposing

  • present progressive
    of oppose.
    oppose
    verb (used with object)
    to act against or provide resistance to; combat.

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The Home Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are opposing the challenge.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Most major airlines and chambers of commerce near the state’s largest airports are opposing the measure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

The two factors "are opposing but roughly comparable," meaning they cancel each other out, the researchers say.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024

However, he added that “in many countries around the world there are opposing moves to maintain homophobia in the church. For homosexual couples living there, the document will be a huge relief.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

Soria complains of the Jesuits and the governor, who are opposing the Dominicans.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson