Sentence examples for opposing on from inspiring English sources

This is the Shiite-Sunni "clash of civilizations" opposing on the one hand a "Shiite crescent" led by Tehran and supported by Maliki's Iraq, Assad's Syria, the Hezbollah and the Shiite populations on the Arab side of the Gulf.

The Victorian parliament narrowly voted down a similar bill, with the Liberal MP Louise Staley opposing on feminist grounds the idea of someone needing only to sign a statutory declaration that they were male, female or something else to change their birth certificate.

A thought: voters should not take out their justified anger and frustration with government by opposing, on principle, the legitimate, but limited, proposals that are being put before them, anachronistic as Question 1 may be.

Trump rattles off his differences from Clinton, opposing "on-demand" abortion and repeal of the Hyde Amendment while advocating to defund Planned Parenthood (they do "very good work for millions of women," Trump said in March, still getting used to the Republican line).

Both employ continuous control of damper forces as opposed to on-off control.

They are flatly opposed on the ground they can give one country a cost advantage over another.

But he also opposed on principle the incarceration of people without trial in Guantánamo and elsewhere.

But the two Romantic revolutionaries were opposed on almost every aesthetic question of the day.

Mr Duncan Smith, opposed "on principle", would never want the country to join.

It was influentially opposed, on the other hand, by the American philosopher Donald Davidson (1917 2003).

But the fact is we are opposed on almost every issue".