contrapusieran
-they/you compared
Imperfect subjunctiveellos/ellas/ustedesconjugation ofcontraponer.

contraponer

La segunda lectura nos recuerda que sería un grave error si los fieles, llevados por el entusiasmo hacia un predicador, lo contrapusieran a otro.
The Second Reading reminds us that it would be a grave error if the faithful, swept up by enthusiasm for one preacher, were to conflict with another.
Aparte de Finlandia, no existían parlamentos nacionales en el imperio a los que se contrapusieran los soviets: el nuevo gobierno provisional era una institución auto-designada, no electa, que perdió muchos apoyos precisamente por postergar sistemáticamente la convocatoria de la Asamblea Constituyente.
Apart from Finland, there were no existing national parliaments in the empire against which the soviets could be counterposed–the new Provisional Government was a self-appointed, unelected institution that lost much of its support precisely for constantly delaying the convocation of a Constituent Assembly.
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