It held up past inconsistencies and stumbles by Mr. Romney, including calling Russia the country's "No. 1 geopolitical foe" and opposing support for the Libyan insurgency before its ultimate success.
Your Task: Write a letter to the editor of The Times either supporting or opposing funding for space projects like the Mars Curiosity rover.
As evidenced by their showing in this year's Scottish elections - there are four Tory constituency MSPs, and 13 provided by the list system they originally opposed - support for the Tories in Scotland is at much the same level as in Iain Duncan Smith's days.
A poll by the German institute Emnid found that about 7 in 10 Germans opposed financial support for Greece.
As Spaniards increasingly opposed his support for the war in Iraq, he often branded his opponents as anti-Spanish or unpatriotic, which many found infuriating.
After the Irish Volunteers split (September 1914), he became a leader of the more extreme nationalist section, which opposed any support for Great Britain in World War I.
He was charged with opposing Pakistani support for the American-led war in Afghanistan.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — In a rare public appearance on Friday, Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, urged Arabs and Muslims to stay focused on opposing Israel despite bitter disagreements over the Syrian war, and declared that his Shiite followers would not bend in the face of rising anti-Shiite sentiment among those who oppose his support for the Syrian government.
The Tories want us to forget that they supported every penny of our spending until the end of 2008 – only then to revert to type by opposing our support for the economy when it was needed most, in the heat of the financial crisis.
Our national passenger rail system is continually threatened with bankruptcy budgets by politicians who ignore their constituents and oppose federal support for Amtrak.
Conservatives tend to oppose government support for the arts, not because it doesn't help the economy, but for political reasons because many artists tend to be nonconventional and often politically liberal (although by no means always) and perhaps disproportionately gay.
