Sentence examples for oppose lawmakers from inspiring English sources

"We oppose lawmakers limiting options for survivors and defining what justice 'should' look like," the Clery Center said (emphasis theirs).

Both the Club for Growth and FreedomWorks are known for getting involved in Republican primary elections to oppose lawmakers that they deem insufficiently conservative.

Beyond the sniping of opposing lawmakers, this legislative crisis has reached deeper into the layers of Washington, perhaps even more than the protracted debate over health care did.

College anti-rape advocates have joined a pro-gun control group to oppose National Rifle Association-backed lawmakers who say allowing students to carry firearms on college campuses will deter sexual assaults.

The proposal was strongly opposed by lawmakers from coastal states and was handily defeated.

But that proposal is opposed by lawmakers in the Assembly from districts where voters have already approved borrowing with the expectation the state would reimburse them faster.

A 2011 Congressional bill that would have banned physical abuse and the withholding of food at such schools died in committee after it was opposed by lawmakers reluctant to impose new federal standards on a matter often regulated by states.

The amendment -- which was fiercely opposed by lawmakers from Florida and Texas, where a house of any value can be exempted -- would place a $125,000 limit on the value of a home that could be shielded.

The compact, scheduled to expire with the fiscal year on Sept. 30, is strongly opposed by lawmakers from the Midwest, who view it as a cartel intended to keep milk from their states' dairies out of New England.

But it has been opposed by lawmakers who say it gives Fifa too much power, as well as those who are against alcohol sales in stadiums on health and safety grounds.

Many southern and western lawmakers oppose that approach.