"opponent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Also, many Bork opponents concede his intelligence and competence and will thus have to contest the nomination on philosophical grounds.
- And a White House official acknowledged that attacking Bork opponents could cause that problem.
- In his testimony Mr. Burger denounced what he called "a campaign of disinformation" by some Bork opponents.
- Indeed, Scalia, he contends, "has become precisely what the Bork opponents thought Bork would be."
- In the view of Bork opponents, these lawmakers might fear the political consequences of supporting the judge.
- "I don't know him," said Senator Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican who was an important Bork opponent.
- Distortions aside, the politicization of the confirmation process by Bork opponents was spurred by the highly political nature of the nomination itself.
- While Mr. D'Amato's public neutrality on the Bork nomination pleased some Bork opponents, it angered others.
- But Bork opponents reject suggestions that concerns about overly politicizing the confirmation process make it somehow inappropriate to oppose this nomination on ideological grounds.
- But the Bork opponents are taking no chances.
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