oponer
oponer resistencia
put up + resistance
put up + a fight
As it was me who did the washing-up I didn't put up too much resistence.
Americans are such suckers, being taken over by foreigners and their children and won't even put up a fight.
oponerse
oppose
set against
buck
A respondent is a candidate for a degree who, in an academic disputation, defends or opposes a thesis proposed by the praeses (q.v.); also called the defendant.
Classes of children can sometimes prove to be stubbornly set against having anything to do with book introductions, and it is better then to engage them in other activities rather than be doggedly determined to have one's own way and to go on in the face of their antagonism.
While some prostate cancers may be as meek as a lamb, others can buck like a bull.
oponerse a [Pasado y Participio Presente: (UK) combatted/combated (USA) y (UK) combatting/combating (USA)]
be averse to
combat
contravene
resist
be set against
be contrary to
be hostile to
stand up to
argue against
go + head-to-head with
be negatively disposed to
object to
stand in + opposition to
run up against
line up against
Some respondents were not averse to describing IT merely as another bandwagon.
The faithful adherents of the ideology of the finding catalog were determined to combat the unwelcome intrusion of Panizzi's scheme before the Royal Commission.
Any mis-spellings, poor grammar and verbose phrasing and any other features that contravene good abstracting practice must be eliminated.
Abstracts are, it must be noted, covered by copyright provisions, and an author may resist direct copying of his abstract.
The difficulty for teachers is that they cannot just duck away when children, individually or corporately, are set against what is being asked of them.
This is a rather unexpected conclusion, and is of course contrary to most of what has been stated in this text; it is also contrary to the experience of large numbers of librarians, who have found that controlled vocabularies are helpful in practice.
Although he recognized the need for some forms of synthesis, Bliss was hostile to the idea of complete analysis and synthesis put forward by Ranganathan.
In their role as mediator between the scholar and the information system, academic librarians should stand up to, and challenge the censorship and suppression that takes place during academic controversy.
Some teachers argue against book clubs, claiming that they bring together only a certain kind of avid reader, the literary equivalent of the religiously effete and over-pious.
We went head-to-head with those that wanted a uniform look for the whole library Website! = Nos enfrentamos a aquellos que querían un aspecto uniforme en el diseño de todo el sitio web de la biblioteca.
The 2 remaining teachers - the resisters - were negatively disposed to the innovations and failed to implement them.
In one library, the director objected to the category heading 'Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender' = En una biblioteca, el director se opuso a que se utilizase la categoría "Gay, Lesbiana, Bisexual y Transexual".
Ideologies stand in opposition to scientific claims for truth.
Some of the information from the EEC Government in Brussels is provided off the record, which sometimes runs up against the UK Government's wall of secrecy.
The author examines claims by Microsoft's Bill Gates that networked computers have no future, and looks at the opposition lining up against him.
oponerse a la autoridad
fight + authority
Your righteous indignation I can understand, and even sympathise, but getting stroppy and fighting authority will only exacerbate the situation.
persona que se opone a Algo
opponent
'Punch' satirised the opponents more cruelly: 'Here is an institution doomed to scare the furious devotees of laissez faire'.
