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Example sentences for: oppose

How can you use “oppose” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

An article argues that liberals should oppose the National Endowment for the Arts on the grounds that art does not need federal subsidies.
"It is being less threatening toward Europe and Japan, which oppose these products."
(A special place in hell should be reserved for perpetual Republican presidential candidate Lamar Alexander, who as education secretary during the Bush administration promoted national standards only to oppose them when they were put forth by a Democratic White House.)
The GOP is in a tough spot: The LAT cites a recent Gallup poll which says that while 64% of Americans oppose impeachment, 68% of "self-identified Republicans" want their Congressmen to vote for it.
A familiar example: reasoning that in terms of job duties the sex or gender of the person who passes peanuts on an airplane is unimportant, editors of the Handbook of Nonsexist Language propose flight attendant rather than steward/stewardess and oppose gratuitous regendering of job titles ( female flight attendant ). (A court case notes a male purser and a female stewardess with identical job descriptions, but different salary scales.)