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n. (plural of oppositionist English)
Usage examples of "oppositionists".
Jordanian intelligence went so far as to inform Iraqi oppositionists that their safety was no longer guaranteed if they continued to work against Saddam from Amman.
Stalinist police state, our ability to contact potential oppositionists inside Iraq and encourage them to work against the government would be much more limited.
If, as the Iraqi oppositionists all maintain, their desire is simply to help free their own people, they should have no problem playing whatever role circumstances dictate for them.
But for reasons of secrecy, Iraq had not taken any steps to contact Kuwaiti oppositionists before the invasion, so that after the fact, Baghdad could not find any Kuwaiti leader willing to serve as a quisling.
Iraqi oppositionists into battle to face chemical warfare barrages is a recipe for disaster.
Afghan Approach would have us do, as part of a ground invasion, Iraqi oppositionists could help in a wide range of activities.
Iraqi oppositionists, particularly the former military officers and regime officials of some of the external opposition groups, could be critical in these efforts.
At the most basic level, the oppositionists might serve as guides and interpreters.
Lake and Christopher both saw the operation as a second Bay of Pigs waiting to happen--an inadequate force of oppositionists was about to try to start a revolution and was counting on U.