Sentence examples for if it opposed from inspiring English sources

There was a group that believed Labor would smash its fiscal credibility if it opposed the new government's spending reduction measures.

Having supported Mr Aso's first supplementary budget, it might look irresponsible if it opposed Mr Aso's new emergency measures.

Ms Harman's argument that Labour would be seen as "the party of welfare" if it opposed the measure was "the wrong test," Mr Burnham said, and was symptomatic of New Labour's "timidity" and obsession with presentation.

Even if it opposes Mr. Hariri, Hezbollah may have difficulty in finding an alternative, given his support within Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community, one of the country's largest.

Some think the party will do itself more harm than good if it opposes voting rights for a mostly black city.

Mr. Bush came into office with support in the military, but he is now said to be steeling himself to stand up to it if it opposes going to war with Iraq.

The paper quotes from her Twitter account, where she feeds that she was making a statement against "groupthink," the "unwritten rule" that "i will not express my true opinion if it opposes those i love and fear".

Britain opposed communist encroachment into southern Africa, but knew it would become an international pariah if it publicly opposed general consensus at the UN, which roundly condemned colonialism in all forms and supported communist-backed insurgencies across the region, regarding them as racial liberation movements.

But most in the LDP know that the public would treat their party with even greater disdain if it now opposed a tax it was the first to promote.

Turkish and Saudi policy on Syria has hitherto been full of threats and bombast, but it is dangerously mercurial and some form of military action cannot be ruled out, even if it is opposed by the US or Russia.

Under the old rules, MPs are presented with a motion that the incumbent Speaker should resume the Chair; if it is opposed, they march through the lobbies.