(n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sorkin described himself as "this side of being a Luddite", and said he had been on Facebook while he making the film, but had since given up his account.
(2) Where do you stand on the DAB sceptics – are they Luddites or realists?
(3) 7.51am BST "Get a grip" One imagines that using the term "get a grip" in a GCSE essay about pioneering industrialists cracking down on Luddites would be unlikely to win the writer bonus marks.
(4) When I meet people who have a mobile phone as basic as mine, they'll indulge in a bit of mock-Luddite banter ("Got this in a pound shop … No extra features but the date and time, and they don't work").
(5) No flexibility … We were the same as the Luddites."
(6) But technology is changing, and even this Luddite bench has noticed.
(7) She binned her Blackberry, gave away her laptop and closed down her Twitter account with the words "I am now a neo-luddite.
(8) What infuriates him most is the luddite smear, when in fact Aslef is protesting against outdated technology.
(9) In the studio, it soon became apparent that his newfound feel for slick pop and rhythm machines was greatly at odds with the Luddite Peppers’ spontaneous attitude (he dismayed them, too, with the comment that the Gang’s seminal first two albums were “bought by a few lunatics”).
(10) These are not Luddites or fogeys, they are not enemies of business or of the new, but they share simple shock at the thoughtlessness with which change on this scale is happening.
(11) Catherine Deneuve and 30 young actors and directors signed a petition against what they called the government's Luddite approach and "missed opportunity".
(12) There’s some wilfully Luddite posturing happening here – it’s digital detox as status symbol, like vinyl records or vintage bikes – but there’s truth too.
(13) She was anxious not to appear either a luddite or an over-anxious parent.
(14) "iPads are here, apps are here: there's no way of being a Luddite any more!
(15) At one point more British soldiers were being deployed to deal with the Luddites who smashed the new machinery than to fight Napoleon.
(16) Most of the families at the co-op, on the other hand, were Mennonites, Luddites or allergic to peanuts.
(17) Now I'm starting to sound like a real Luddite, but taking a minute to think about the consequences before diving in seems like a pretty good idea in general.
(18) Shout too much from the sidelines, or even take direct industrial action, and you can be quickly sidelined and branded as militant luddites, stuck in the past and lacking the slick reforming zeal in which all governments like to clothe themselves.
(19) People thought I was a bit of a luddite, but people buy the magazine because they can't get it for free."
(20) I'll leave the final word to Phillip Stott, who not unreasonably wonders "how the neophyte neo-luddite (91 min) will watch the tape with no telly…" Please join my colleague Scott Murray for the Spain v Germany final on Sunday.
Oppose
Definition:
(n.) To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
(n.) To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically.
(n.) To resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand; as, to oppose the king in battle; to oppose a bill in Congress.
(n.) To compete with; to strive against; as, to oppose a rival for a prize.
(v. i.) To be set opposite.
(v. i.) To act adversely or in opposition; -- with against or to; as, a servant opposed against the act.
(v. i.) To make objection or opposition in controversy.
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.