An oppugnant state mired in legislation and bureaucracy stifles creativity and entrepreneurship among its people.

After Thomas More was convicted, he asserted that the indictment on which he was charged was based on an Act of Parliament which was oppugnant to the laws of God and of His holy church.

Thus the controversies dividing the followers of Jesus were typical of the dissolution and decadence affecting any nation or age; that is to say, they were merely verbal disputes arising from the assignment to words of secret and esoteric meanings removed from their common-sense connotations, oppugnant to reason and tolerated only by futile sophistry.