Sentence examples for opposed than from inspiring English sources

But he also frequently bragged of being far less opposed than previous editors to including foreign words.

"We have two communities that are equally opposed to it, and there is no way to measure whether one is more opposed than the other," he said.

The diplomat then pointedly said that Switzerland had been even more opposed than the French president, Jacques Chirac, to the American-led invasion of Iraq.

It feels dull and familiar by now to point out that these two candidates — and the parties that have nominated them — have ideas about taxes and the social-safety net that are more starkly opposed than at any time since the Presidential election of 1980, when the top marginal-income-tax rate was seventy per cent, and Ronald Reagan proposed to cut it dramatically.

The decision was met with more joy for those in favor and greater frustration for those opposed than the day Vermont announced it would permit same-sex civil unions, because of what is legally termed 'portability.' Vermont civil unions are recognized only in Vermont, as a separate but unequal parallel to marriage.

A disaggregation of the European countries has revealed that patents with a German priority have a higher or similar likelihood of being opposed than patents from the other countries, with the exceptions of The Netherlands and Denmark.

Radical economics, including feminist economics, is better characterized by what it opposes than by what it advocates.

The Truth About Bias and the News" (Basic Books, $25), argues that conservatives are better organized at calling attention to celebrity activists they oppose than liberals are.

Opposition has hardened too, up at 41% from 36.1% one year ago, meaning more people oppose than support the controversial technology for the first time.

As Tariq Ramadan notes of the Islamist movements in his book, "Islam and the Arab Awakening," "They are much more successful in opposing than in developing credible proposals for the future.

True, there are plenty of secular people with ideals, but they are less organised; or, if they are organised, they tend to know better what they oppose than what they stand for.