Sentence examples for commercial opposing from inspiring English sources

[C2.] MTV Refuses Antiwar Commercial MTV has refused to accept a commercial opposing a war in Iraq, citing a policy against advocacy spots.

"I don't think it's going to solve any of the problems," said Dr. Ron Carroll, an oncologist who appeared in a commercial opposing a government health system and said doctors could find other ways to rein in costs.

MTV has refused to accept a commercial opposing a war in Iraq, citing a policy against advocacy spots that it says protects the channel from having to run ads from any cash-rich interest group whose cause may be loathsome.

One reason Handgun Control sought Mr. Sheen is that his brother Joseph Estevez did the voice-over for a commercial opposing gun control produced by a gun industry group, said Joseph Sudbay, the group's political director.

Last month, a commercial opposing the reform measures that was filmed at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Caldwell drew the ire of reform supporters, who maintain politics and public schools should not coincide.

A commercial opposed to the stadium is sponsored by a group of West Side neighborhood organizations and politicians led by Cablevision, owner of Madison Square Garden, which views the project as a competitor.

In 2003, shortly after Martin Sheen, then playing a Democratic president on "The West Wing," starred in television commercials opposing the Iraq war, Mr. Thompson made two such spots supporting it.

The onslaught of television commercials opposing health care legislation has prompted a liberal advocacy group and two labor unions to begin a $1.7 million advertising campaign in favor of the overhaul.

He said that Republicans would never spend millions on government-run health care, only on television commercials opposing it.

Judge Alito's conversations about religion took place as People for the American Way, the well-financed liberal advocacy group, said it would begin running television commercials this weekend opposing his confirmation.

Participants in the WHI had an opportunity to opt in or out of any collaborations involving commercial entities because some women may prefer not to participate in research involving commercial (as opposed to non-profit) entities.