Sentence examples for opposed checking from inspiring English sources

Law enforcement chiefs in the Phoenix area have generally opposed checking immigration status with the notable exception of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, home to Phoenix.

Before November, Republicans opposed checking the deluge of anonymous campaign contributions due to narrow self-interest.

They passed out literature accusing him of being soft on gun rights by favoring a three-day waiting period for background checks at weekend gun shows as part of last year's juvenile justice legislation even though the National Rifle Association, which opposes checks that take so long, has endorsed him.

As opposed to checking boxes for compliance, true risk-management requires a generalized system — you don't want an outlier case to result in disaster.

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Finally, it may be that the law must set far higher barriers to cross before it becomes OK to read the content of an employee's email, as opposed to simply checking where it is going.

As founder Joe Fernandez tells me, this helps turn Klout into more of a discovery platform, as opposed to just checking your own (or another's) score.

The school shootings in Newtown, Conn., only furthered the resolve for a senator who once vehemently opposed background checks as meaningless symbolism.

These are people who convert their intellectual capital into to options as opposed to checks.

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark)., who opposed the background check legislation and is up for reelection in 2014, is not one of the two senators, the source said.

Recent rounds of polling for other senators who opposed the background checks bill have suggested similarly that the vote has come back to bite them, especially in states where a majority of voters have said they support background checks.