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Both men opposed the war in Vietnam.
The consensus indicates that we are opposed to the proposed idea.
Lincoln was opposed to slavery.
Mariko's parents are strongly opposed to her marrying an American.
A great many people were opposed to gene therapy in terms of ethics.
The Catholic Church is opposed to divorce.
My parents are opposed to my sister marrying a foreigner.
I am quite opposed to the plan.
I'm opposed to any type of war.
More than half the residents are opposed to the plan.
Most Japanese opposed a tax increase.
He opposed the plan.
He was opposed to monopolies.
They opposed Darwin's theory of evolution.
Her new novel is really interesting as opposed to her last one.
Everyone opposed it, but they got married all the same.
Every one opposed it, but Mary and John got married all the same.
I don't understand why she is opposed to my opinion.
He's opposed to racial discrimination.
They opposed any further spread of slavery.
Movie subtitles
Our organizations are opposed to your policy, Mr. Garston.
I'm not opposed to him mingling.
The stars are neither in favor nor opposed. But it is written, they shall obey he who dares.
And, if you must know. my father's very much opposed to it.
They knew that my father had opposed the strike. and now it was they who opposed him.
No, you see, my family were opposed to my coming to Berlin.
Mr. Dietrichson opposed it.
Take from them now the sense of reckoning, lest the opposed numbers pluck their hearts from them.
As soon as my plans are opposed!
Except that I hope I didn't give you the impression that I was opposed to a man and a woman falling in love.
Beware of entrance to a quarrel but, being in, bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Every new thought was opposed every new invention was denounced but the men of unborrowed vision went ahead.
The old chiefs were opposed to him.
Consider it. I'm sure there must be some of them opposed to war.
I'm opposed to it.
That what you're doing is wrong and opposed to the best interests of society?
Kane urged his country's entry into one war opposed participation in another.
They knew that my father had opposed the strike, and now it was they who opposed him.
Opposed?
I'm positively and irrevocably opposed to calling in Sherlock Holmes.
A man who rises from his chair and digs his heels sternly into the carpet is violently opposed to something, and the Admiral being quite distressed by the criticisms of the Press would be most apt to resent my intrusion.
Mr. Dietrichson opposed it. He said he'd think it over.
The stars of the dress are only opposed to.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, and thou opposed, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last.
Well, I'm opposed to this unseemly haste.
I couldn't sell him at first. Mr. Dietrichson opposed it.
Besides, the folks in my town are opposed to that sort of nasty writing.
That was why our master opposed the general's demand for more men to fight his war and the increase of taxes on rice.
Any opposed?
I'm opposed!
Mr. Bill Moran, 50 shares, opposed.
Mrs. Arnold Weatherby, 100 shares, opposed.
Mr. John Deery, 200 shares, opposed.
News and current affairs
Preaching nationalism, its managers will believe in their universal competence, as opposed to KGB-style professionalism and corporatism.
Serbia is even more strongly opposed.
Likewise, other elements of Turkey's secular establishment, including the President and the military leadership, either opposed or were lukewarm, at best, to the idea of war in Iraq.
This is critically important for inspiring confidence in Asian countries, which might be persuaded to favor domestic, as opposed to external, sources of demand.
Obama, who opposed the Iraq war, should not be blamed for current circumstances there.
When he rightly opposed America's war against Iraq, the pride of standing up to the world's only superpower was palpable.
But if central bankers think that today's inflation is simply the product of short-term resource scarcities as opposed to lax monetary policy, they are mistaken.
And even as the Fund opposed them, prominent economists - among them Paul Krugman - endorsed their use.
Yet the funding of new coal-fired power plants in both countries has been widely opposed by well-meaning Westerners and governments.
It is now clear to all that Blair is fundamentally opposed to the idea of a more politically integrated Europe.
In short, Blair is as opposed to the European project as all his predecessors.
He leads a party that is increasingly opposed to any European project apart from trade.
Besides, many people opposed killing the street dogs.
And a minority government would be unable to pass any controversial legislation that the Scottish Nationalists opposed.
Wariness of another Middle East war has also underpinned Obama's unwillingness to go beyond a one-time punitive strike on Syria - with some in Congress opposed to even that.
As a result, after only a year in power, the military - backed by the same secular, liberal young people who had opposed it in 2011 - drove President Mohamed Morsi out of power.
Although the most popular politician of the uprising against Milosevic was Vojislav Kostunica, who replaced him as president, it was Djindjic who skillfully coordinated the volatile coalition that opposed the regime.
And it matters to countries that are firmly opposed to nuclear power, as many of them have neighbors with nuclear-power plants.
More importantly, their way will ultimately achieve the type of dignity that people really want, as opposed to the unending wars of terror to rebuild the caliphate that Bin Laden promised.
This vital vote was robbed of unanimity (Lebanon also opposed it).
The truth is that American Jews largely opposed the Iraq war.
Economists, as opposed to those who make their living gambling on stocks, make no claim to being able to predict when the day of reckoning will come, much less identifying the event that will bring down the house of cards.