Sentence examples for profound opposition from inspiring English sources
A draft-day riot in the northern Indiana town of Hartford City, in strongly Democratic Blackford County, revealed profound opposition to the war and prompted authorities to send 500 troops from Indianapolis to quell disorder.
The New Left's profound opposition to American power, and the convergence of reactionary Islamists and unquestioning leftists was reflected in the million-strong London protest against the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
But along with the struggle for social justice and national liberation, the right to resist tyranny and occupation, and profound opposition to racism and imperial power, that is part of the real legacy of Nelson Mandela.
With Secretary of State John Kerry planning his fifth visit here in three months to revive peace talks, the Israeli divide was on stark display last week, as several right-wing ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government professed their profound opposition to a Palestinian state and promised to prevent one.
After 1945 the idea of Europe came to signify a profound opposition to war, as in the phrase Nie Wieder, 'never again war'.
But Colin Hart, campaign director for the Coalition for Marriage, said that 148 peers had "chosen to register their profound opposition to the gay marriage bill".
From the 1920s white European settlers in the Rhodesias had sought some form of amalgamation to counter the overwhelming numerical superiority of black Africans, but this had been blocked by a British Colonial Office that was sensitive to profound African opposition.
Dr. Gottlieb had planned to ultimately force tobacco companies to cut nicotine to nonaddictive levels, and said in interviews that he believed he had the authority as F.D.A. commissioner to issue such a policy, despite profound cigarette-industry opposition to cutting the ingredient that makes smokers crave their next smoke.
That amendment now reads like a profound articulation of opposition to present-day government surveillance -- a declaration of principle that balks at the lockstep of perpetual war mentality and rote surrender of precious civil liberties.
President Bashar al-Assad's latest confident suggestion that he might run for president in 2014 and the profound divisions inside the opposition camp suggest it is not likely to be resolved any time soon.
