Sentence examples for supported opening from inspiring English sources

Then as now, he supported opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, a talismanic issue among conservationists.

Why had he joined a party that limited a woman's right to an abortion and supported opening up the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling?

She ruled that he no longer needed the protection of confidentiality and noted that Mr. Skakel and his lawyer supported opening the case.

Mr Knowles has firmly supported opening the NPR-A, and greens believe he made a deal with Mr Babbitt and President Clinton that they would support drilling to help keep him in office.

The resolution said that the league supported "opening channels of communication with the Syrian opposition and providing all forms of political and financial support to it," although it did not specify what that support would be, nor did it recognize the Syrian National Council, an umbrella opposition group, as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.

It's kind of ironic, gay scouts come in and saying, 'We want you to change how you've done this for 100 years.' " A national poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University said that 55 percent of voters supported opening up scouting to gay men and lesbians, to 33 percent opposed.

"They didn't support opening the country to trade".

Meanwhile, the A.D.A. does not support opening new dental schools or otherwise increasing the number of dentists.

The Environmentals are the least likely to support opening up more US lands for oil drilling.

"Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote," she said.

She supports opening the Atlantic Ocean for drilling, and has fought efforts to regulate hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on federal land.