At least through the 1960s, and to some extent after, many experimental films took an oppositional stance toward mainstream culture.

The Spartacist League took an oppositional stance to Leninism, and was attacked by the Bolsheviks for inconsistency.

When the revolution collapsed, Heine resumed his oppositional stance.

A narrow, sectarian oppositional stance is not the way back to power.

Elchibey's oppositional stance against Iran and his remarks to unify with Iran's Azeri minority alienated relations between the two.

He is also subject to censorship due to his oppositional stance.

These oppositional stances are not, of course, as simple as they seem, nor are their consequences.

Many artists adopted the oppositional stance that persists, in somewhat fossilized form, to this day.

He dropped his oppositional stance just when it became clear that his father would go down.

From this group was formed the Lantmanna Party, which, with Posse as leader, soon adopted an oppositional stance towards the Government.