Sentence examples for thoughtful opposition from inspiring English sources

This was a difficult mental balancing act, but it was also important, because what Iraqis and democracy needed most was a thoughtful opposition that could hold the Bush Administration to its own promises.

Bush, as is his way, ignored staunch, diverse and thoughtful opposition.

Instead, up-and-coming Republicans are hard at work preparing to lead from a place of thoughtful opposition.

During the Clinton years, Democrats gleefully won over Wall Street money -- traditionally a Republican entitlement -- as the Rubin-Summers cabal trampled thoughtful opposition and engineered the 1999 and 2000 laws that loosened regulation of financial services and gave the green light to unchecked derivatives trading.

So, sources told The Huffington Post, leaders have been pushing the caucus to be a little more thoughtful in their opposition to Democrats -- especially over something like a tax-break for the middle class in an election year -- and to consider how it plays politically.

But if bipartisanship means listening to the thoughtful criticism of the opposition and trying to find common ground, Mr. Bush has a chance to display it now in the Senate.

The more engaged we are, the more we'll be in a position to make sure that — that we are encouraging the most moderate, thoughtful elements of the opposition that are committed to inclusion, observance of human rights and working cooperatively with us over the long term.

Developing new values such as responsibility facilitated the emergence of the property of thoughtful action, constructed in opposition to impulsivity, a behavior that our participants strongly associated with traditional machismo(s).

Thoughtful, I thought.

America today desperately needs a serious, thoughtful, credible 21st-century "conservative" opposition to President Obama, and we don't have that, even though the voices are out there.

In respect to the Syrian opposition, Ghazzawi has been thoughtful, nuanced, writing about her love of Syria and her desire for a simultaneously free and peaceful Syria.