(a.) Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.
Example Sentences:
(1) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
(2) His accent is equally indeterminate - part Teeside where he grew up, part Hollywood where he mainly lives, plus a hint of antipodean which he must have caught from Russell Crowe.
(3) Australia and New Zealand have perhaps even stronger emotional and cultural links to Britain, but as the economies of Asia have risen, the antipodean nations have found themselves on the doorstep of the greatest manufacturing region on earth.
(4) Three cases of antipodean squint are reported without known etiology factor.
(5) Parallel features exist among diseases in Antipodean hosts when compared with those in other tropical and temperate regions.
(6) How this charismatic-if-potentially-stinky Antipodean reached rural England is anyone’s guess.
(7) The calamitous British-conceived campaign is seen as the birthplace of the core Antipodean values of endurance, heroism, sacrifice, humour and – above all – “mateship” or camaraderie.
(8) Antipodeans trade matey banter; purposeful Germans with trekking poles overtake on the straights; the French, beautifully turned out, shrug indifferently; fat tattooed Brits huff and puff on the inclines.
(9) The 78-year-old has spent a lifetime building the world's most powerful media group, transforming a single antipodean newspaper into an empire that transcends national boundaries.
(10) As if the regular distance wasn’t enough already, New Zealand’s World Cup qualifying play-off against Mexico on November 13 in Mexico City added an extra element of ‘antipodean traveller’ to the match.
(11) Henning Mankell, Lionel Shriver, Hanif Kureishi and the antipodean writers CK Stead, Thomas Keneally and Anna Funder are other globally renowned signatories.
(12) News Corp, which Murdoch built from a single antipodean newspaper , is home to the biggest-selling stable of newspapers in the English-speaking world, the Fox TV network and Fox News in the US, film studio 20th Century Fox which was responsible for the year's biggest hit Avatar , publishing house Harper Collins and satellite TV companies in Asia, Italy and Australia.
(13) In her 27-year political career, she has gained a reputation for being forthright – an antipodean Margaret Thatcher.
(14) It's the middle of the hot Antipodean summer, but when Stephen Elop comes into the room of journalists he's wearing his suit jacket.
(15) Apparently these cruises are very popular with Aussies – the other three boats were also Antipodean-heavy – who tend to weld them on to larger backpacking odysseys across Europe.
(16) A military debacle of epic proportions and a byword for poor planning and arrogant, incompetent top brass that would blight Churchill’s career for years, Gallipoli has become a cornerstone of Australian and New Zealand national pride, the birthplace of the core Antipodean values of pluck, endurance, heroism, sacrifice, dark humour and – above all – “mateship”.
(17) "The arrival of Flat White and the Antipodeans really was very important," Jeffrey Young of Allegra says.
(18) Foran, who joined Walmart from the antipodean retailer Woolworths in 2011, has been working in retail for 35 years, having started his career as a teenage shelf stacker.
(19) "I like to always ask if someone is from New Zealand if they have a vaguely Antipodean accent, since if they're Australian they won't be offended, but if they actually are a Kiwi they'll be mightily impressed that for once someone hasn't assumed they are Australian.
(20) Using established actors (look out for some of Cave's Harry Potter co-stars) as well as her 14-year-old sister Bebe, these Antipodean antics are dry and poignant – Aunt Jocelyn never got over the death of her cat in 1978, while Mama Pru is a recovering gambling addict.
Opposed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Oppose
Example Sentences:
(1) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(2) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(3) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(4) 3) The magnitude of K+ release is the ratio of two opposing mechanisms, a passive efflux and an active reuptake.
(5) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(6) Each axon had a characteristic head position which was maximally excitatory to it, and a diametrically opposed head position which was minimally excitatory.3.
(7) As opposed to the other tests for LPD, awareness of the usefulness of the biopsy has increased as we have learned more about CL physiology.
(8) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(9) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(10) It is contended that the latter is the main factor in its production as opposed to the more common external rotation variety.
(11) Loyalists are opposed to any restrictions and have blocked roads and rioted over the issue.
(12) But today, Americans increasingly no longer shy away from saying they oppose mosques on the grounds that Muslims are a threat or different.
(13) In contrast, large territories may reflect widespread motor-unit actions, advantageous in force development where fine movement control is less important, as in biting in the intercuspal position or opposing gravity.
(14) Burns has a successful track record of opposing fees.
(15) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
(16) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
(17) As opposed to nifedipine charybdotoxin shows no effect if added 18 h after the initiation of the activation process.
(18) RR spectra of fatty acyl-CoA and its complexes are consistent with the previous hypothesis that visible spectral shifts observed during formation of acetoacetyl-CoA and crotonyl-CoA complexes of fatty acyl-CoA dehydrogenase result from charge-transfer interactions in which the ground state is essentially nonbonding as opposed to interactions in which complete electron transfer occurs to form FAD semiquinone.
(19) The remarks are the most direct official response on the issue, although the government has previously said that it "resolutely opposes" hacking and criticised "baseless" claims.
(20) A lawyer advising one of the newspaper groups opposing the deal said: "All the regulator has to prove is that there is a potential for a reduction in plurality in the UK.