Sentence examples for way of opposing from inspiring English sources

This is its way of opposing plans by America to try to strike a deal with Russia to loosen the limits on missile defences in the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty.

More than that, the countercuisinists took up the idea, implicit in the work of Claiborne, Beard and Child, that good cooking could be a mode of protest, a way of opposing the hegemony of the bland, processed, standardized American diet.

It appears some establishment voices have picked up on a way of opposing the idea of the monthly citizen dividend of about $1,000 per month, known as universal basic income (UBI), in a way that successfully leaves some progressively minded people afraid.

By 2011, three North Carolina church pastors and at least one in Virginia quit signing marriage licenses as a way of opposing state bans on same-sex marriages they felt violated their conscience.

At that point, the argument that no one should be forced to pay for insurance that supports contraception coverage was just another way of opposing the Affordable Care Act, she said.

During her GOP primary campaign, in which Whitman took increasingly right-wing positions in order to attract hardcore GOP voters, she refused to take a position on the ratio law, which CNA considered a not-too-subtle way of opposing it.

The Pyrrhonians advanced a series of tropes, or ways of opposing various kinds of knowledge claims, in order to bring about epochē (suspension of judgment).

Idealism has long been out of favour in contemporary philosophy, but those who doubt the independence dimension of realism have sought more sophisticated ways of opposing it.

Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, thwarted several times in his attempts to get Kagan to say whether she would recommend that the Supreme Court hear specific cases, said he was giving up – and wondered aloud whether there was any way short of opposing her confirmation to get a straight answer.

But in the airport conversation, Heschel gently found a way to dispose of opposing social roles — the protesting rabbi scorning racism, the put-upon woman threatened by difference — and establish the beginnings of an understanding.

On defense it was impossible to gain through his position, and he had a way of jamming opposing lines and making holes so that his secondary could break through and stop the ball carrier".