Sentence examples for opposed membership from inspiring English sources

Mr Farage criticised Labour's stance on the issue of a referendum, pointing out that the party had once opposed membership of the common market.

The leaders of Poland's two main populist parties, who vehemently opposed membership, accepted the legitimacy of the vote, but warned that adapting to the European Union would be difficult and costly for many.

For many years it opposed membership of Nato, characterising the security alliance as one with a "first-strike" nuclear policy.

They want the Americans to leave Okinawa altogether.Meanwhile, three-fifths of LDP parliamentarians oppose membership of the TPP.

Even now, they will not be allowed to oppose membership of the EU until after his negotiation is complete.

Short-term gains would be smaller, at 3.3 percent, and noncompetitive industries stand to suffer, leading some Russian experts to oppose membership.

He opposes membership because of requirements to abolish the death penalty and to ease curbs on the use of the Kurdish language by the country's ethnic Kurds.

Throughout the day, Mr. Cameron's aides telephoned Conservative members who oppose membership in the union, the so-called Euroskeptics, warning that the party would look unkindly on any signs of disloyalty.

That is partly because few Turks believe the Union will ever admit their country, and hence two-thirds now oppose membership, but also because Ankara has been so economically successful in the last decade that it has much less need to join the bloc.

The prime minister will announce that the government endorses the deal and will campaign for the UK to stay in the EU – but this lets off the leash those members of the cabinet who oppose membership and will now be free to campaign for a no vote.

After a decade of NATO expansion into the former Communist bloc, a resurgent Russia is now vigorously opposing membership for Georgia and Ukraine, and pressing those already in the alliance with threats should Poland and the Czech Republic cooperate with the United States on missile defense.