Sentence examples for support opposite from inspiring English sources

Saudi Arabia and Iran are rivals in the Middle East, and they support opposite sides in the Syrian conflict.

But on the other side of the ledger are areas where the interests of the two countries collide.A quarter-century of bad bloodAmerica and Iran support opposite sides in the stand-off in Lebanon.

Like so many statistical measures from Iraq, the ones in the new report are likely to be used to support opposite positions on how much the United States should continue spending and how long it should stay in the country, said Ryan Alexander, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense in Washington.

The next year, Havana and Moscow supported opposite sides in an attempted coup in Angola, in which the Marxist government, Cuba's ally, prevailed.

This investigation analyzes laminated plates with two simply supported opposite edges and two free edges subjected to transverse loads.

The other two parallel simply supported opposite edges of the plate are loaded by a linearly distributed in-plane load which is equivalent to the pure in-plane bending.

Her answer, supporting "opposite marriage," earned her both cheers and boos from the crowd and likely cost her the Miss USA crown.

A few proponents of the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, held signs with images and text that supported opposite-sex marriage.

While economists, including Gregory Mankiw of Harvard, can be found valiantly trying to defend this practice (though Professor Mankiw sometimes seems to support the opposite view), probably most others, including myself and my fellow Economix blogger Bruce Bartlett, take the opposite view.

"However in the this case, it appears to support the opposite".

Many spoke from personal experience of loved ones dying – to support  diametrically opposite positions.