Sentence examples for basis for the opposition from inspiring English sources

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.

We were told by counsel for the Telephone Company on the oral argument of this appeal that a principal basis for the opposition of the Telephone Company to an order compelling it to give technical aid and assistance is the danger of indiscriminate invasions of privacy.

"We have to determine what is the basis of the 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.

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.

While opponents to the petition have thus far been successful in erecting political roadblocks, we question whether they have developed a solid on-the-merits basis for their opposition.

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.

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.

When some of the engineers' worst-case scenarios become known to the public, they become the basis for opposition to a project and a general, if perhaps mistaken impression of imminent danger.

Non-violent civil disobedience – modelled on the activism of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi – would be the last resort, after mass deliberative meetings that would form the basis for negotiations by the opposition pan-democratic parties that are backing Occupy.But opponents claim the campaign threatens chaos.

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