Sentence examples for opposed official from inspiring English sources

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George Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, declared he had now changed his mind on the issue and opposed official Church of England policy, which insists on the absolute sanctity of life.

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A civil-society movement in Morocco is opposing official bans on eating in public during Ramadan.

Downing Street said the ruling was justified as ministers who were campaigning to leave were opposing official government policy.

Addictively readable and richly detailed, the book recounts "the story of Paris from the point of view of... marginal and subversive elements in the city," those "insurrectionists, vagabonds, immigrants, sexual outsiders, criminals... whose experiences contradict and oppose official history".

He was against military actions against some of the colony's foreign neighbors, opposing official intervention in a French Acadian dispute in the 1640s, and also spoke against attacking the New Netherland during the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652 1654).

But the Turkish government continues to dispute that genocide took place and has poured millions into lobbying efforts to oppose official U.S. recognition, including bipartisan resolutions in Congress aimed at labeling the killings as genocide.

But the Saudi leader is also concerned about playing into the hands of American hardliners who might use the case to call for leadership change in Libya, a step that Saudi Arabia would oppose, officials said.

Asked why the United States was opposed, the official said: "We have not explored what the balance of benefits on this issue would be.

It is interesting that, as opposed to official records, researchers generally find that immigrants are more law abiding than natives (see, for example, Junger-Tas 1997; Butcher and Piehl 1998).

The vast majority of patient questionnaires were filled out by the individual psychotherapist and included information about gender, chronological age (as opposed to official prison statistics that uses age categories only), ethnicity, prisoner category, and details about the services provided.

In occasional low-intensity disputes with local officials, Mr. Powell took to praising reconstruction efforts led by citizens, as opposed to officials.

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