Sentence examples for opposed before from inspiring English sources

The senators who were opposed before did not issue outright rejections of the new scheme, but made clear they do not think the House bill will pass in the Senate.

Grossi was vigorously opposed before this.

Spaniards who might not otherwise have voted turned out in large numbers and voted against a government that they opposed before the bombs went off.

The health care for children mentioned in the ad is an apparent reference to the Child Health Plus insurance program, which Democratic leaders have said Mr. Pataki initially opposed before approving it.

He likened it to the GST, which most parties opposed before the 1998 election but which the Senate accepted the government had a mandate for after Howard was re-elected.

There are just two points to make: Huhne is still keen to justify the fact that the Lib Dems are now defending the immediate spending cuts that they opposed before the election.

Another difficult call came from Lauren, a journalism student at the University of Sheffield, who asked how young people could trust the Lib Dems after tuition fees rises, which the Lib Dems promised to oppose before the election.

Even the University of Pennsylvania, which is opposing before the NLRB its graduate assistants' attempt to unionize, recognizes postdocs as "research support staff" and requires that they receive health insurance (payments for which are not deducted from their pay) as well as sick, vacation, and new-child leave.

Self-described evangelicals a large, varied group—have opposed executions before, often flocking to the side of prisoners who present themselves as having been born again.

Democrats actually like the TAA bill; they only opposed it before because they knew they could use it to sink the whole trade package.

I started looking at our universe as one big yes, as opposed to before, when I saw a lot of nos.