Be against
Join and be against are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Join" instead a verb phrase "Be against".
Join
Join verb - To be adjacent to.
Be against and join are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Be against" instead a verb "Join".
Both terms in one sentence
- The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tattoo" has Chakotay's father be against him leaving his tribe and abandoning their ways to join Starfleet.
Source: Fantasy-Forbidding Father - The term has persisted even though the only "right to work" it recognizes is the right to not join the union because it sounds so good that it wins the argument for a great many people simply on the strength of that term alone (who could possibly be against it?)
Source: Artifact Title / Real Life
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