Sentence examples for opposing a call from inspiring English sources

The politics of opposing a call to arms from Barack Obama, in the context of domestic terrorist threats, have proved too hard for Labor to consider.

Even the public has turned against farmers, opposing a call by the National Farmers UnionNFUNfor for a cull of badgers which, the NFU says, transmit tuberculosis to cattle.Yet despite this dolorous litany, farmers have been doing fairly well in recent years.

"Inclusive" loses a little punch when you are running with someone who in 1986 opposed a call to release Nelson Mandela after 23 years in prison, and often voted against the economic sanctions that helped crush apartheid.

It was the only country to side with China and Russia in opposing a resolution calling on Myanmar's military rulers to improve their appalling human-rights record.

Photographs of an atrocity may give rise to opposing responses: a call for peace; a cry for revenge; or simply the bemused awareness, continually restocked by photographic information, that terrible things happen.

Russia had opposed a text calling for their immediate release.

He and other backers have long argued that their plan has widespread support, but they have opposed a referendum, calling it a distraction that could complicate efforts to complete the deal.

At the Paris conference on chemical weapons in January, Indian officials opposed an explicit call for export controls, advocating instead a worldwide ban on chemical weapons.

And he criticized Mr. Obama for opposing an amendment that called for designating the Revolutionary Guard in Iran a terrorist organization.

Mr. Hashmi's lawyers, in opposing an anonymous jury, called that argument troubling because the prosecution based its request for "sweeping protective measures" on the views of Mr. Hashmi and his supporters.

Breckinridge opposed such a call, fearing changes would imperil his wealth and power.