Sentence examples for basis for opposition from inspiring English sources

In the writings of the Italian Renaissance philosophers, the 15th and 16th century humanists John Colet, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and Thomas More, the 17th century Cambridge Platonists, and German idealists, especially Hegel, Plotinus' thought was the (sometimes unacknowledged) basis for opposition to the competing and increasingly influential tradition of scientific philosophy.

Indeed, there is no religious basis for opposition to abortion, as Muslims understand "ensoulment," and hence full humanness, not to occur until a hundred and twenty days after conception.

In either case, implementation research can provide evidence to either back or refute the basis for opposition or support.

Islamic scholars note that there is no religious basis for opposition to polio immunisation and suggest that the primary reason for failure of eradication is the presence of conflict [ 17].

This stylized opposition to "creationism," rather than to the traditions of Cuvier and Buffon that can be demonstrated to have formed the basis for scientific opposition to transformism, presented Darwin's evolution in opposition to the thesis of a direct supernatural action of an intelligent deity who created each individual species exactly in its present condition.

Pew Center surveys this year show that people most often cite their religious beliefs as a basis for their opposition.

When I wrote a year ago about the fate of Caitlin Halligan's appeals court nomination, I tried to puzzle out the basis for the opposition.

"There's just no sound basis for their opposition, just as there was never any scientific basis to believe GM plants should be viewed any differently from any other," One dissenter was Charles Benbrook, formerly of Washington State University but now a private consultant.

At the core of this reassessment, wrote Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, on the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times on Thursday, is religion: "Pew Center surveys this year show that people most often cite their religious beliefs as a basis for their opposition".

Not only have administration lawyers opposed defense efforts to secure Jawad's freedom, but they are using, as the primary basis for their opposition, the fruits of the confession that was obtained through torture and has already been deemed inadmissible — without merit, of no value.

On the left, grassroots groups like Moveon.org, which today came out against Obama's proposed resolution, are citing the failure to rescind the 2001 resolution as the basis for their current opposition.