Some who had opposed the treaty now agreed with the Washington Star newspaper that "the Filipinos must be taught to obey."

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Many Republicans supported the proposal, even though the Republican Party opposed the spread of slavery into the western territories.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Their government has no right to injure them by financial experiments that are opposed to the policies of other nations."

VOA: special.2010.06.24

No future president would be safe, they said, if opposed by a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The loosely organized group of activists opposed the health care plan as too much government involvement in the economy.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Most western and southern congressmen opposed the tariff bill, because it would mean higher prices to the people of their states.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Lincoln had said he opposed the decision, because it did not permit Negroes to enjoy the rights of citizenship.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

In every state, the Democrats were divided between those who supported the administration and those opposed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

At one extreme were the supporters of former President Van Buren -- New York Democrats opposed to slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

A survey last April by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that fifty-four percent of Americans opposed gay marriage.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Many senators opposed it. They said taking control of the Dominican Republic would cost too much money.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Jayhawkers were free-state guerrilla fighters opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Party leaders believed their candidates would have a better chance of winning if they opposed the policy.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

For those opposed to slavery, the platform rejected the idea that slave owners had a constitutional right to take slaves into new territories.

VOA: special.2009.07.09