Wiktionary
n. 1 A recognized political party that is present in Parliament or some other legislative party and does not control the floor (usually due to being in the minority). 2 An unrecognized political party in a one-party state. 3 Actions by one political group against another political group, either by using governmental power or by popular actions such as protests. 4 A more general case of disagreement in politics.
Usage examples of "political opposition".
In fact she must have moved even further to the left, crossing the delicate line between legitimate political opposition and criminal involvement.
This is calculated to disturb certain atevi conservative religious beliefs which are in stark contrast and political opposition to the aiji, who is not a believer in any philosophy, most particularly to throw certain provinces into religious upheaval and certain philosophical leaders into disrepute and disregard.
President Grushavoy had his own collection of ministers, some of them competent, the others selected for their political capital, or merely to deny them to the political opposition.
Sean's estimation was based on the way the Communists had squeezed the life out of the political opposition in the Russian Zone of Germany.
The likely winner was obvious because the departed politician had been wonderfully effective stifling political opposition.
As was the case in other parts of the Moslem World (and for that matter in Eastern Europe under communist rule), traditional and religious institutions emerged as important centers of political opposition, especially for the majority of poor and uneducated Algerians.
For the first time there was a true political opposition movement in the country, and the fact of the matter was that the Soviet Army had all the guns.
You and I will then be in political opposition, and perhaps quite sharp opposition.
The act attempted, Jefferson said, `to crush all political opposition by making criticism of Federalist officials or policies a crime'.
In your haste to disperse your political opposition by using a mobile nuclear weapons platform, did you bother to consider the size of Unit-0045's warhull and treads, as compared with the size of Jefferson's streets?
Hell's Hammers, an elite squad created from the armour units of the Old Republic, is used by President Palpatine to crush his political opposition.