oppose
verb (used with object)
to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
had been opposing
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past perfect progressiveof oppose.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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They had been opposing plans to build the Gangtuo dam and hydropower plant, which would displace several villages and submerge ancient monasteries with sacred relics.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
If there had been opposing traffic, Frank would have become part of a real-life game of Pong, volleying from one bumper to another.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2020
Thus neatly did Turkey's boss, laconic General Cemal Gursel, purge the 14 men who had been opposing his plans to restore democracy to Turkey.
From Time Magazine Archive
The commandos facing Buller were driven off; and the right, which had been opposing French and Pole-Carew so feebly that neither of them suffered a single casualty, fell away.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
The Roumanians that had been opposing him fell back northward to the Danube forts.
From America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell
