Sentence examples for we could oppose from inspiring English sources

"We could oppose frontier expansion," says Daniel Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Centre, an American think-tank, "and in opposing it remove ourselves from the discussion".The paving of a highway that links Cuiabá, in the soya-growing state of Mato Grosso, to Santarém, an Amazonian port in Pará, is a test case for co-operation.

"We are keeping a close eye on this, and we could oppose [developments] if we saw they were not being done right, but there is no doubt that opening up for mining in Greenland still could have a very positive impact".

They asked why we didn't worry about burning people instead of of flag...& it was no longer clear that one could oppose the burning of our country's flag without necessarily sanctioning human incineration.

Who but a Scrooge could oppose them?

Who could oppose reuniting Cuban families?

Who could oppose hiring more veterans as cops, firefighters and national-parks workers?

Surely only a monster could oppose policies designed to protect children from abuse?

The owners could oppose that, preferring to litigate each and every case brought by the tenants.

Under the rules for approval, no more than 25percentt of the countries could oppose the bid.

For my generation, the very idea that anyone could oppose interracial marriage seems all but unthinkable.

Who could oppose that?For these reasons, the government hopes to focus voters' attention on the issue.