Sentence examples for opposed general from inspiring English sources

Elements of the Navy as well as President Reagan's defense secretary, Caspar W. Weinberger, opposed General Jones's ideas, contending that the system long in place was satisfactory.

Opposition lawyers, who have opposed General Musharraf's eight years of military rule on constitutional grounds, and all the main opposition parties are supporting the legal challenges.

Among the lawyers arrested was the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Aitzaz Ahsan, who has opposed General Musharraf in legal arguments before the Supreme Court.

After a court ruling upholding the constitutional ban, mobs directed by supporters of the general's Guatemalan Republican Front party rampaged through the streets of Guatemala City, attacking journalists and judges who opposed General Ríos Montt's candidacy.

On the Palestinian side, by contrast, a survey conducted by An Najah university in Nablus found that 87percentt of Palestinians surveyed were in favor of continuing terror attacks, 87.5percentt were in favor of "liberating all of Palestine" and 64.5 percent opposed General Zinni's mission.

Outspoken and political, García Márquez was among the leftwing intellectuals of Latin America who bitterly opposed General Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator, and unswervingly supported Fidel Castro in Cuba, which put the writer at odds with a number of political and literary figures in the US.

When he was asked late in life what he had done to oppose General Franco, he didn't hesitate to reply: "Free and radical things".

"How can the nation trust him?" Opposition parties have repeatedly said they will oppose General Musharraf's running for president while still in uniform.

Fans may think the Knicks are going nowhere, analysts may disparage their roster, opposing general managers may thank the heavens the Knicks are not theirs to fix, but James L. Dolan loves his team.

In an attack that fit none of the earlier categories, a provincial leader of a political party that opposes General Musharraf's role, the Pakistan People's Party of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister, was shot dead.

The myths we embrace in order to fight a war are unchanged from when David Hume wrote about them in 1740: the enemy is cruel and perfidious while we are equitable; the opposing general is a sorcerer who takes pleasure in death while the treachery of our generals we call policy; our cruelty we justify as an evil inseparable from war.