Sentence examples for opposed for example from inspiring English sources

As opposed, for example, to the Italians.

(And the ensemble was huge: twenty-four women, as opposed, for example, to American Ballet Theatre's eighteen).

Mr. Dreifach said that online gambling sites got 90percentt of their payments through credit cards (as opposed, for example, to customers who wired money to online casinos).

It sloganises about "mutual recognition" but has never opposed, for example, the settlements in the Occupied Territories, the use of torture on Palestinian detainees or house demolitions.

After nearly a decade of reform the NPC was becoming more assertive, and opposed, for example, controversial plans to build the Yangtze river's Three Gorges Dam.

The group opposed, for example, well-intentioned early efforts by lawmakers that would have required federal agencies to upgrade computer security using very specific technologies obtained through strict government procurement guidelines.

In Congress, Mr. Lee had a reputation as a social conservative, opposing, for example, a recent measure signed into law that allowed gays to serve openly in the military.

In Shelby v. Holder (the voting rights case), the Chief Justice claimed a precedent of "equal sovereignty" of the states, written nowhere in the Constitution [and, recall, these are supposed to be the strict constructionists and originalists who oppose, for example, the right to privacy because it is an "emanation"], and invented by him in a prior case.

Research has shown the complexity of sex chromosome evolution, as both supporting (for example, Musters et al., 2006; Baines et al., 2008) and opposing (for example, Betancourt et al., 2002; Thornton et al., 2006; Mank et al., 2010) evidence for faster evolution of the X-chromosome has been found (reviewed for Drosophila by Presgraves, 2008; Singh et al., 2009).

While there are reasonable justifications for the use of HSV as opposed to, for example, RGB, there is no a priori justification for use of an additive colour model as opposed to a subtractive model.

A year 9 history module on the first world war includes identification of "the groups who opposed conscription (for example trade unionists, Irish Catholics) and the grounds for their objections".