Sentence examples for opposing it for from inspiring English sources

Interestingly, offshore drilling, which both Obama and McCain have come to favor in recent months after opposing it for years, is not so popular in Alaska.

Another battle emerged in 2010, when, after opposing it for many years, Mrs. Kirchner endorsed the gay-marriage law that made Argentina the first country in Latin America with marriage equality.

Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was said to be advocating a selective draft for various sinister and totalitarian reasons of his own; Senator Burton K. Wheeler, said to be opposing it for equally discretiable reasons.

Texas (1976), which reinstated the death penalty in the United States, he remained suspicious of capital punishment, opposing it for convicted rapists and for those under age 18 at the time their crimes were committed.

A bare majority said yes when asked "If a person wanted to make a speech in your community favoring government ownership of all the railroads and big industries, should he be allowed to speak, or not?" and sixty per cent wanted to deny free speech to irreligious speakers, with sixty-eight per cent opposing it for "an admitted Communist".

Separately, a small group of civic leaders signed a letter, released Tuesday, that chided the Broad effort — without opposing it — for being developed in private.

The Obama administration on Wednesday sought to bolster support for its plan to overhaul student lending, attacking banks that oppose it for enjoying "a free ride from taxpayers for too long".

People might despise abortion and oppose it for themselves.

Most people assume that it encourages drug use, and many officials oppose it for that reason.

"I think that's why so many parents oppose it for their children".

But politicians on the other side of the Sound oppose it for environmental and financial reasons.