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If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.

R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.88, Penguin Books India
If someone should ask, how should an Opposition function? the best answer would be, in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about