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The opposing council always fight it and oppose it.
And at times they have worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center to oppose the building of new prisons and to work for reforms that will make the justice system more efficient and more humane.
Russia awakened me to the lemonade notion that oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
So in my view, if we consider ourselves liberal or left-wing, human rights-loving or feminist, we must oppose these movements and support their grassroots opponents.
But what if right at the moment of puncture you could pull that tip back, actually oppose the forward acceleration?
It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy.
But if I oppose gravity, here we go ... Oops! (Laughter) One more.
Not voting is voting, for everything that you may detest and oppose.
When it comes to women's equality, the two need not oppose one another.
Let's oppose the power of evil systems at home and abroad, and let's focus on the positive.
A common tactic that people who oppose climate action use is to completely ignore risk and focus only on uncertainty.
Those who oppose the war ought to realize that if a war happens, it cannot be the right strategy, either pragmatically, or spiritually, or morally, to say after the war, "Well, let's let it all run itself out, and play out however it wants to play out, because we opposed the war in the first place."
People who don't have neighbors of a different race are about twice as likely to oppose interracial marriage as people who do.
Emotions and logic do not oppose each other.
At least when they use TV shows to sell products they are more discreet, selling whatever agenda here is quite obvious, and without clear thinking some may feel wrong to oppose it, but some of us know better.
1930's comedy mystery about "The Crooked Circle" a band of hooded crooks who set about plotting the murder of some one who swore to oppose them.
In part two, Albert Patterson refuses to oppose the leader of the Mob, the intelligent Rhett Tanner.
Hopefully no one will oppose this comment by spewing the word HOMAGE around.
It seems to me, that the movie has actually been written by a 14 year old boy, who thinks that drinking is cool, women are designed to please men and all that oppose that view are geeks.
The joke is usually on themselves as oppose to passing the joke onto another.
Not your typical guy film, it is in a way a coming of age comedy with two old men as oppose to two young teenagers in their prime.
The Movie Freddy's dead the final nightmare is just as horrific and disturbing as every other Nightmare on Elm Street , yes it has Comedy essence about it , so has all the other films, but how can anyone possibly say that you wouldn't find Freddy Krueger scary , if you were to come across this man in your dreams you wouldn't find him even more scary with a comic essence about him because his comedy shows that he doesn't care at all about killing you that he finds it extremely funny, and Freddy also plays comic mind games with them, which in its own way is very disturbing , by using his comic ways i think that makes the horror movies Nightmare on elm street what they are today, The writers are extremely clever making Krueger comic and scary as oppose to Jason Vorhees , who doesn't say anything and hasn't got the wit to truly frighten his victims, This Movie is about as good as Freddy's wit gets and i would recommend it to anyone with a sense of humour and by the way " Don't Fall Asleep!".
The screenplay omits two short passages that are important to the plot: (1) Cassius' avowal in the first act, after his attempt to persuade Brutus to oppose Caesar, that if their positions were reversed and he, Cassius, stood as well with Caesar as Brutus does, and Brutus made a comparable appeal to him, he would certainly not listen.
I find it hard to believe that any Muslim living in Canada would oppose the United Nations intervening in a society were music at a wedding is a crime.
But, as in many of these film's story arcs, Karloff's scientists would proclaim that in order to achieve breakthroughs in science, sacrifice had to be made, most of the time those volunteers perhaps would've survived while under his care if those who oppose this new, "dangerous" science hadn't of interfered.
Cardinal Mazarin doesn't hesitate to turn those who oppose him into angels.
The system treated her badly, and I personally oppose the death penalty in all cases; and yet it's hard to imagine how anyone in her position could generate less sympathy than Wuornos does.
But I suppose those that oppose this new series also didn't appreciate "Kiss Me Kate" as it wasn't the original Shakespeare, or the miniseries "Pride and Prejudice" because new aspects to old stories had been added.
True, not all members of the thinking minority attend the dissenters’ marches, yet many more of them silently oppose the regime.
Some commentators, ranging from the liberal Polish ex-dissident Adam Michnik to ultra-conservative US Senator Jesse Helms, oppose prosecuting Pinochet on the ground that, unless such dictators are allowed to retire with their impunity intact, it will be impossible to persuade them to relinquish power.
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