"expand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Barnburners opposed expanding the public debt, and the power of the large corporations; they generally came to oppose the extension of History of slavery in the United States.
- The Bush Administration adamantly opposed expanding the timber agreement to include temperate forests.
- It said that the poll had found that "a solid majority of Americans oppose expanding the Federal Government's regulation of cigarettes."
- The United States' view of the group's effort remains uncertain, leading some diplomats to worry that Washington may actually oppose expanding the Security Council because it would dilute American power.
- At a time when France, Germany and others were rapidly expanding their empires, he opposed expanding the British Empire.
- Several commenters opposed expanding the definition of the term "blackout period" to encompass periods of three business days or less.
- But Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, who heads the Labor Committee, opposed expanding the program before the experimental version had begun.
- Most Virginia officials oppose expanding the Lorton complex, which is on open land but is increasingly being ringed by houses, apartments and commercial development.
- He also met Joschka Fischer, the foreign minister of Germany, the ally most outspoken in opposing expanding the war to Iraq.
- However, Israel's defense minister, Amir Peretz, who leads the left-leaning Labor Party, opposed expanding the military operations, and his position carried the day.
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