Are you opposed to a break now and then?
He strongly opposed the League of Nations.
I'm not opposed to technology, I simply enjoy the work.
The mayor, supported by the national guard, opposed this project.
It would just take several hours as opposed to a few minutes.
The forged "Morey letter," in which he was made to appear as opposed to the exclusion of the Chinese, was widely circulated and injured his candidacy in the West.
What makes him memorable in English history is that he opposed the establishment of a special kind of political organization.
But how is intelligence, as opposed to erudition, possible?
They are united on the value of faithknowledge as opposed to "metaphysic."
He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing "abhorrence" of the "Petitioners," and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king.
That principle is Spiritual in- equally opposed to Erastianism and to Papacy, to the civil power dominating the Church, and to the ecclesiastical power dominating the state.
Bonnet resented Lavater's action, but Mendelssohn was bound to reply, though opposed to religious controversy.
Some of the conservatives among the Jews opposed these innovations, but the current of progress was too strong for them.
Secular education has been vigorously opposed by strict churchmen, and efforts have been made to maintain separate schools under church control.
All his acts were opposed, legislation was at a standstill and every effort was made to force Dr Saenz Pena to resign.
He wasn't opposed to having it, but he insisted on sharing it in fair business - and with his wife, more or less.
He wasn't opposed to making decisions, but marriage should be a partnership.
He was no follower of their ideas, indeed often opposed to them; but he derived from Bacon an increasing stimulus towards the investigation of certain great problems of history and philosophy, while Grotius proved valuable in his study of philosophic jurisprudence.
Vico has been generally described as a solitary soul, out of harmony with the spirit of his time and often directly opposed to it.
He represents the art of playing the flute as opposed to the lyre - the one the accompaniment of the worship of Cybele, the other that of the worship of Apollo.
Opposed to them were two other factions, one supporting James G.
In July 1492 and opposed the election of Cardinal Borgia.
He vehemently opposed the persecuting acts now passed - the Corporation Act, the Uniformity Bill, against which he is said to have spoken three hundred times, and the Militia Act.
He now began to be regarded as the chief upholder of Protestantism in the ministry; he lost favour with Charles, and on Sunday, the 9th of September 1673, was dismissed from the chancellorship. Among the reasons for this dismissal is probably the fact that he opposed grants to the king's mistresses.
He opposed the compelling of Protestant Nonconformists to take the oath required of Roman Catholics.
Such in mere outline is the celebrated theory of vortices, which for about twenty years after its promulgation reigned supreme in science, and for much longer time opposed a tenacious resistance to rival doctrines.
These opposed a national resistance to the Macedonians, the fires of which were fanned by the Brahmins, but still the strong arm of the western people prevailed.
But with all these often opposed conditions, we find less variation than might be expected, the main and really important divergence being due to the necessity of transposition, which added a very high pitch to the primarily convenient low one.
The moderate men on both sides opposed this action and strove for peace or an amicable separation, but in vain.
He contested the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Bill, opposed the resumption of specie payments, advocated the payment of the public debt in silver and supported the Bland-Allison Act.
Long term, we will be better off manufacturing our food as opposed to growing it.
The cheeks are a slide from the brows into the valley of the face, opposed and diffused by the cheek bones.
On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the Russian frontier and war began, that is, an event took place opposed to human reason and to human nature.
So it happened that throughout the whole battle the Russians opposed the entire French army launched against our left flank with but half as many men.
What would then have become of the activity of all those who opposed the tendency that then prevailed in the government--an activity that in the opinion of the historians was good and beneficent?
The Roman electors had opposed to.
In the sense of "flowing water," the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to "ebb."
(4) Population municipale agglomre au chef-lieu de la commune, which embraces the urban population as opposed to the rural population.
This system, however, which is opposed by a powerful party, I has at various times undergone modifications.
When businesses and people are made to consider the overall effects of their choices as opposed to only their individual effects, efficient outcomes occur.
But such a war does not fit in under any rule and is directly opposed to a well-known rule of tactics which is accepted as infallible.
His skin was darker, the color of honey as opposed to alabaster, his eyes a rich, dark brown, and his features lacking the delicate, chiseled beauty of Romas's family.
"As opposed to?" she answered as she switched off the light and slipped in beside him.
Mary, who had always been opposed to Josh marrying Lori, was the only one who spoke.
As opposed to what?
Vacherot was a man of high character and adhered strictly to his principles, which were generally opposed to those of the party in power.
They were opposed to James II., though they had benefited by his Declaration of Indulgence, and they were the first to congratulate the Prince of Orange on his arrival in England.
The second party was directly opposed to the first; one extreme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other.
Once established at Palermo, Garibaldi organized an army to liberate Naples and march upon Rome, a plan opposed by the emissaries of Cavour, who desired the immediate annexation of Sicily to the Italian kingdom.
In accordance with his former action on all questions of religious toleration he opposed the shameful Five Mile Act of 1665.
As duke of Chartres he opposed the plans of Maupeou in 1771, and was promptly exiled to his country estate of Villers-Cotterets (Aisne).
With regard to the relations between the Church and the civil power, Calvin was opposed to the Zwinglian theory whereby all ecclesiastical power was handed over to the state.
As opposed to you Westerners, where life is perfect.
In the prolonged discussions regarding the Bill of Indemnity he was instrumental in saving the life of Haselrig, and opposed the clause compelling all officers who had served under Cromwell to refund their salaries, he himself never having had any.
Even, therefore, where people desired the Reformation there were powerful influences opposed to the setting up of church government and to the exercise of church discipline after the manner of the apostolic Church; and one ceases to wonder at the absence of complete Presbyterianism in the countries which were forward to embrace and adopt the Reformation.
He hoped to see further service, but the queen was opposed to this, and he was removed from the navy, and given the honorary post of colonel-general of hussars.
In 1668, however, he supported a bill to appoint commissioners to examine the accounts of the Dutch War, though in the previous year he had opposed it.
The native tribes opposed the Romans, but were conquered after several campaigns; 8 the island became a province under the government of a praetor or propraetor, to whose jurisdiction Corsica was added soon afterwards.
Ashley was himself a large landowner, and, moreover, was opposed to Ormonde, who would have benefited by the importation.
