Sentence examples for oppose on from inspiring English sources

Our exam results culture is defined by the vague discussion every year of "raising standards" – a phrase which appears impossible to oppose on reasonable grounds, until one realises that, depending on who is saying it, we could roughly translate it into either "making exam percentages improve" or "making exams tougher, and still expecting the percentages to improve".

It's a dangerous gamble, which British MPs have a responsibility to oppose on Thursday.

They assemble color-coded memos — yellow to support, pink to oppose — on topics like playground equipment and workplace harassment.

Republicans, on the other hand, have for years supported the war and now find themselves uncomfortably aligned with a Democratic president they oppose on almost every other issue.

For example, Mr. McCain, Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Thompson all oppose, on federalist grounds, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

He can be expected to lobby vigorously for the Senate version of the bill, which would exempt religious institutions from paying for services they oppose on religious grounds.

They are flatly opposed on the ground they can give one country a cost advantage over another.

But he also opposed on principle the incarceration of people without trial in Guantánamo and elsewhere.

But the two Romantic revolutionaries were opposed on almost every aesthetic question of the day.

Mr Duncan Smith, opposed "on principle", would never want the country to join.

It was influentially opposed, on the other hand, by the American philosopher Donald Davidson (1917 2003).