Sentence examples for been opposed on from inspiring English sources
Big subsidies for wind power promoted on one side of Whitehall by the Department of Energy and Climate Change have been opposed on the other side of it by the Treasury who think fracking could supply Britain with large quantities of cheap shale gas.
The sharpest disagreement came over the food stamp waiver, which had been opposed on ideological terms by Mr. Turner's allies.
Some veterans' groups have pressured legislators to adopt laws or a constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration, but such legislation has been opposed on the grounds that it would infringe on the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression.
That represents a net "affordable" gain of just 11% of the new housing across the entire project area in a major transformation that's also been opposed on economic, cultural, architectural and environmental grounds.
McGeer left the company and started a new one, not only because he was opposed, on principle, to making war machines but because, for someone eager to devise civilian uses, the economics didn't add up.
But the two Romantic revolutionaries were opposed on almost every aesthetic question of the day.
They are opposed on their harrowing mission by the evil Sauron and his Black Riders.
Others are opposed on principle to what they see as unacceptable tampering with nature.
It is hard to find anyone in Congress who is opposed on principle to healing the mentally ill.
I'm opposed on principle to ID cards, but happy to listen to a practical argument in their favour.
