Sentence examples for long-held opposition from inspiring English sources

Earlier this year, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz). reversed his long-held opposition to offshore drilling.

It puts pressure on her Government to reconsider its long-held opposition to oil production cuts.

Many others argued that abandoning the party's long-held opposition to nuclear power would risk alienating core voters.

Benedict stressed demographics as he repeated, in a strong multifront attack, the Vatican's long-held opposition to abortion.

The law takes advantage of a recent Justice Department ruling that reversed the federal government's long-held opposition to many forms of online gambling.

The office was criticized for sheltering genocide suspects in refugee camps and dropped its long-held opposition to forced repatriation when Rwandans were returned from Tanzania.

Forcing Johnson to resign or swallow his long-held principled opposition to Heathrow expansion could prove damaging to Cameron and Osborne.

But the announcement added weight to a long-held suspicion among the political opposition that the intelligence agency engaged in illegal campaigning for Ms. Park.

But Mr. Kreiss said that, after months of studying Breitbart, he concluded that it was seen "less as a proscribed set of policies" than as a way to declare opposition to the long-held bipartisan consensus that favors trade and immigration.

The conflict has since escalated, tapping into long-held grievances over marginalisation in this opposition bastion blighted by poor infrastructure.

Yet with many of the opposition leaders in jail or under house arrest, and with long-held ideological and political differences among them, the opposition appears badly weakened.