Sentence examples for if he opposed from inspiring English sources

Finally, I asked if he opposed Egypt's acceptance of the roughly one and a half billion dollars of annual aid from the United States.

This presented him with a dilemma: if he supported it, he would look like an American puppet, but if he opposed it, America might bypass the UN, invalidating Russia's biggest remaining claim to being a global power.

If he opposed the death penalty, as he did on principle, he had to build more prisons, which he hated; and though he rejected abortion, as a Catholic must, he could not make that view the law of the land.

When asked in the interview if he opposed gay adoptions even if the alternative was that the child remain in an orphanage, Mr. McCain — who, with his wife, Cindy, has an adopted daughter — said that he wanted to encourage adoption and make the process easier, but that adoptive parents should be mixed-sex, traditional couples.

The resolution placed Hanna in a difficult position: if he supported it, he proclaimed he would not run for president; if he opposed it, he risked Roosevelt's wrath.

If Hanna supported the resolution, he made it clear he would not be a candidate; if he opposed it, he risked Roosevelt's wrath.

The move poses an acute dilemma for David Cameron, who wants to make Labour's temporary tax cuts permanent but will look as though he is defending the rich if he opposes higher taxes for top earners.

And third, with a general election in the offing and his personal ratings still pitiful, Miliband knows that if he opposes the government he risks a barrage from Fleet Street for being the Hampstead wimp who left hostages like Alan Henning to their fate.

It follows a move by Labour to force a vote on the issue, which could see Mr Cameron defeated if he opposes it.

"If he opposes it, he looks like Richard Nixon during Watergate," Smoller said.

"Senator Nelson has not said he will vote for cloture even if he opposes the health care reform bill," his spokesman, Jake Thompson, wrote in an email to the Huffington Post.