Sentence examples for hotly opposed from inspiring English sources

Republicans were hotly opposed.

The bill was hotly opposed by conservative religious groups that argued that the law cheapened marriage.

It failed, but Mrs Bandaranaike, once India's greatest ally on the island, hotly opposed the intervention, in the name of the Sinhalese nationalism she had long since embraced.

The Russians have been hotly opposed because it may put them at a military disadvantage and upend the bilateral Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

But she has remained silent on the biggest development issue unfolding in her own backyard, one favored by her big-money donors and real estate interests and hotly opposed by the neighborhood activists who helped propel her to prominence.

Mr Haekkerup is acutely conscious of, and hotly opposed to, that opt-out, but admits that, since the Danes recently voted in a referendum against joining Europe's single currency, the defence opt-out cannot be reversed soon.

A rare Jewish peer in the 1920s, he hotly opposes his son's marriage to a non-Jewish girl.

Also elected was a rather charming young attorney turned stay-at-home mom, KC Becker, who begged voters to see her as an environmentalist, but opposed the hotly contested Compatible Development Ordinance recently adopted by the Council, which seeks to limit the size of new homes and renovations to sub-McMansion sizes.

The trial has been hotly contested, with many residents vocally opposed to the mosquitoes' release.

In a runoff election for village trustee on Feb. 3, the incumbent trustee John L. Mauk, who favors development, defeated George Pappas, who opposed it, in a hotly contested race.

The degree to which the unemployment crisis is structural, as opposed to cyclical, is hotly debated by economists, with progressives like Paul Krugman arguing that structural unemployment is a fake problem "which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions".