Sentence examples for opposed important from inspiring English sources

Although the House of Lords was not replaced with an elected chamber, the Parliament acts significantly diminished its power, and future governments threatened the Lords with extinction if they opposed important government legislation.

Many leading Democrats are convinced that Republicans have made a strategic decision to oppose important Democratic initiatives as a way to set up the 2010 midterm elections.

I hope those "breakaway" Democrats learned that sharing power with people who oppose important policy reforms that benefit the 99% of New Yorkers doesn't work.

As they have done in the past, and as I have described in my ebooks, Stealing America's Future (2014) and Friends in High Places (2016), and on the Republic Report and Huffington Post blogs,  the for-profit college industry has clearly spent heavily to try to convince others, especially lobbyists for non-profit and public colleges, to oppose important common sense regulations.

You could, of course, argue that the decision to focus on interesting stories, as opposed to important, or pleasing, or humorous ones is itself an editorial decision.

Brazil is not a signer of the section of the Kyoto Protocol that promises reduced carbon emissions and has also opposed some important aspects of the "clean development mechanism" in the convention.

Mr. Cuomo included that language in the bill, removing any excuse for opposing this important legislation.

Resistance, in this case, opposes every important, stable, axiomatic thought; it is the prelude to creativity, hope and freedom, for it is the task of architecture to produce a hypothesis of order, not to portray the chaos that surrounds us (Masiero 2002); it should aspire again to a permanency that will last through the chronicle of events to become a place of reference (Gregotti 2004).

He occasionally gains headlines by dangling the threat of opposing an important Trump nominee in the closely divided Senate.

Liberals, socialists, and communists remained bitterly opposed to Hitler; important segments of business, the army, and the churches were to varying degrees suspicious of the measures he might take.

Beckoning, we might say, to the lived experience of faith (as opposed to the important, though limited, cognitive experience of reason), these prooftexts themselves stand as testaments to both the centrality and phenomenological uniqueness of 'knowing by tradition' (or, revelation) in Saadya's world-view.