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Contrary to inclination, once more faces pressure to suppress article on Government (7,3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

against the grain

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'contrary to inclination once more faces pressure to suppress article on government' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'contrary to inclination once more faces pressure to suppress article on government' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'contrary' could be 'against' and 'against' is present in the answer.
'article' could be 'the' (the 'definite article' part of speech) and 'the' is present in the answer.
'government' could be 'g' and 'g' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'rain' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for against the grain that I've seen before include "Thus saw deal" , "Out of character" , "Following the difficult route" , "Unnatural" , "Joiners sometimes saw this" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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