Sentence examples for opposed to engaging from inspiring English sources

Mr. Weill, the statement said, had "only reluctantly agreed to serve and was adamantly opposed to engaging in a public debate over his qualifications to do so".

Given the sensitivity of the matter - Israel and the US are strongly opposed to engaging Hamas - these individuals would not thank me for quoting them.

In the Gulf, it is all too easy to succumb to the temptation of catering to the population's excessive tendency to consume as opposed to engaging in innovative entrepreneurship with an exportable added value.

Mr. Lehane said, "My unsolicited counsel to the Republicans would be that they ought to spend more of their time lobbying the president for price relief for the people of this state as opposed to engaging in political partisan posturing".

Expert designers, for example, as opposed to engaging in "brainstorming" sessions often divert their energy towards identifying frames that might link the potential known variables and unknown variables in the generic equation: WHAT + HOW = VALUE.

There is convincing evidence from cycle ergometry models demonstrating significant decrements in repeated sprint ability when athletes recover passively between work bouts, as opposed to engaging in a light "active" recovery [22, 23].

For those seeking specifics — as opposed to those engaging in enmities — the internet is a truly Rowlingesquely magic thing.

But Hayek somehow knows with great certainty that when governments, as opposed to individuals, engage in a similar process of innovation and discovery, they will fail.

Mr. Fast's fiction was always didactic to a degree, opposed to modernism, engaged in social struggle and insistent on taking sides and teaching lessons of life's moral significance, and he liked it that way.

This is especially true between Setsuko and Darius, and neither Mr. Lang nor Ms. Pai manages to make their intercourse (social as well as sexual) seem as if actual people, as opposed to symbols, are engaging in it.

Like reading about bad behavior (as opposed to encountering or engaging in it), a large part of the pleasure of negotiating the words and motives of an unreliable fictional narrator derives precisely from the relatively consequence-free nature of the encounter.