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Example sentences for: opposing

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Woolsey led nine other House Democrats, all women, who tried to present Helms with a letter in favor of an international treaty opposing discrimination against women.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott called Attorney General Janet Reno "Stonewall Reno" for 1) opposing immunity for Buddhist nuns whose testimony might implicate Democratic officials, and 2) refusing to appoint an independent counsel.
While opposing a big tax cut, he stipulated, "If I became concerned that the surplus is going to be employed for increased spending programs, [then] I would be strongly in favor of tax cuts now.
Back in 1987, Newt Gingrich and other Republicans were among 245 House members who wrote a letter to Attorney General Ed Meese specifically opposing a federal takeover of four unions including the Laborers, and protesting the use of federal racketeering laws against the unions.
In practice, a) errors of opposing signs in different sections will tend to cancel out around the mean error, and b) the mean error will tend towards zero when the optimum threshold is chosen by the user to give the best subjective segmentation overall (i.e.