Sentence examples for be opposed in the from inspiring English sources

Rental housing is also an evil to be opposed, in the view of many civic leaders and politicians.

The draft law seems likely to pass the lower house, or National Assembly, but will be opposed in the upper house, or Sénat.

But Mikey Weinstein, a former US Air Force captain who set up the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), argues with passion that both things are undesirable for the same reason, and both need to be opposed in the same spirit.

Mr. Waihee, who defeated Representative Cecil Heftel and five other candidates in the primary election Saturday, will be opposed in the November election by D. G. Anderson, a wealthy businessman and former managing director of Honolulu, who won the Republican nomination against token opposition.

But he was opposed in the primary by the state treasurer, Richard Mourdock, and lost big.

Joseph P. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate, is opposed in the election by Clark Abt, a Republican.

We got it through the House, but it was opposed in the Senate.

Nixon received his party's presidential nomination in 1960 and was opposed in the general election by Democrat John F. Kennedy.

That, combined with strong regulation in the firearm industry are both things that are opposed in the current political climate.

The winner will face the incumbent, Gov. Jon S. Corzine, who is opposed in the Democratic primary by three little-known candidates: Roger Bacon, Carl A. Bergmanson and Jeff Boss.

Senator Helms, Republican of North Carolina, was opposed in the election by Harvey Gantt, the black former mayor of Charlotte, N.C.