Sentence examples for opposed at the from inspiring English sources

But mergers, discussed under the last Labour government but opposed at the time by the Tories, remain unlikely.

"In terms of healing the country, he did a hell of a job," Mr. Obey says, "including the pardon of Richard Nixon, which I opposed at the time.

David Winnick, 79, Labour MP, Walsall North "It would be hypocritical if those of us who were opposed at the time to what occurred – the mass unemployment, the poverty – were to remain silent when the House debates her life.

It is precisely the financial millstone that opponents warned about when Germany gave up its treasured mark, a move that a majority of people here, in contrast to their political leaders, opposed at the time.

Meanwhile, at least four more European Union members — none of them using the euro — have expressed reservations about the agreement, which only Britain definitively opposed at the summit meeting.

In cautioning against the "surge" label, Mr. Reid clearly wanted to avoid associating the Obama strategy in Afghanistan with the Bush strategy in Iraq, a strategy that both he and the president opposed at the time.

At issue was whether he had violated the separation of church & state by telling Catholic voters whom to oppose at the polls.

He called on Brexit backers to "get even" through peaceful protests and oppose at the ballot box anyone who sought to overturn the process.

Let's see you acknowledge a man [sic] whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours".

Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours".

The launch prompted South Korea and the United States to announce that they would explore the feasibility of deploying an advanced missile defense system in South Korea, which China and Russia both oppose, "at the earliest possible date".