Sentence examples for opposed to selection from inspiring English sources

He said: "We're not opposed to selection in principle.

We're opposed to selection where it deprives local children of school choice".

He is generally opposed to selection and says the grammars in his area are run down and in a poor state.

Plaid Also opposed to selection and – in line with the Greens  and the SNP – it is also an  anti-austerity party that would insist on increased public spending in areas such as education if it was part  of a coalition.

The daughter of a teacher mother and opera singer father, Creasy spent her early years in Manchester before the family moved to Colchester, where she attended a girls' grammar school (having failed the 11-plus and only been given a second chance because the family moved south, she is opposed to selection).

On the issue of balance, readers complained that when reporting on a new 11+ exam for Buckinghamshire, the paper failed to talk to any groups opposed to selection in the county and, as a consequence, presented a partial and unbalanced picture of the new exam.

He was an early participant in developing a gene-centered view of evolution, and he was a resounding defender of Darwinian natural selection, as opposed to group selection theories current at the time.

According to Peters, defining public issues such as PI as "policy problems" helps to "explicate the relationships between problems and instrument choice" [ 15], and may thus lead to a "conscious selection of instruments, as opposed to their selection merely on the basis of custom, familiarity and institutional inertia" [ 15].

It is important to note that the final model was built based on apriori selection of covariates according to the conceptual model as opposed to covariate selection based upon bivariate statistics.

These data point to alterations in frontal and striatal regions of the dopaminergic and noradrenergic pathways that exist past acute withdrawal and may be associated with difficulties in regulating emotions, stress, and problems selecting goal-directed adaptive responses as opposed to the selection of habitual maladaptive responses such as alcohol consumption.

Rapid evolutionary changes often arise in response to new forms of selection caused (directly or indirectly) by human action – termed 'anthropogenic selection', as opposed to natural selection (Palumbi 2001; Stockwell et al. 2003).