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Instead he’s using his power to silence people who are calling for solutions that he opposes. – The House speaker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are closely following relevant developments, china firmly opposes the United States’ generalization of the concept of national security, abuse of state power, and unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies. – Mao Ning	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The public value of being able to see the human interactions in frustration, in warmth, in all of those things far outweighs the risk that people will play to the cameras. I mean, we have that during debate one way or the other, i think some of the old guard in Congress opposes this because they want to continue to maintain the fiction that when four or five people are on the floor spending millions of dollars, that that is actually the action of the whole legislative body when the reality is far different. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Secretary Austin's been very clear that he opposes the repeal of that vaccine mandate, and the president actually concurs with the secretary that we need to continue to believe that all Americans, including those in the armed forces, should be vaccinated and boosted for COVID 19. – John Kirby on Monday	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is not the first time that the head of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has ignored the facts and spoken irresponsibly about China, the U.S. side has constantly constructed a smear campaign against China's normal and reasonable outer space endeavors, and China firmly opposes such irresponsible remarks. – Zhao Lijian	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The United States strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This decision, and what Alito has to say about marriage equality, is a clear call to anyone who opposes marriage equality, who opposes LGBTQ + equality, that they have a friend on Supreme Court. More than one friend. And that they should be happy or they should be willing to come after marriage equality. – Jim Obergefell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is a typical hegemonic action. China strongly deplores and firmly opposes it, china urges the United States to immediately correct its mistakes, revoke the relevant sanctions and stop suppressing Chinese enterprises and smearing China. – Zhao Lijian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The previously scheduled event has been called off, herschel Walker is a strong friend of Israel and the Jewish community and opposes hatred and bigotry of all forms. Despite the fact that the apparent intent behind the graphic was to condemn government vaccine mandates, the symbol used is very offensive and does not reflect the values of Herschel Walker or Herschel Walker campaign. – Mallory Blount	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get a choice to resign,” Milley said, referring to the 13 American service members who died during the evacuation from Kabul in late August when an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest. “They can't resign so I'm not going to resign. There's no way.” MOST READ House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro fields questions about the politics of the federal debt in front of the House Rules Committee. Democrats back off debt fight to stop shutdown Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit ‘As adults, we failed’: New Jersey’s school bus driver shortage grows ‘dire’ Progressives dig in as Pelosi tries to save key vote – Mark Milley	added by MoWali 2 years ago
We strongly urge United States and United States allies to stop pouring dirty water on China on cybersecurity issues, china firmly opposes and cracks down on cyberattacks of any kind, let alone encourages, supports or indulges them. – Zhao Lijian	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box. – Rob Manfred	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Why is he making baseball political anyway? Because of his terrible record. Viewership way down. Ticket prices way up. major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box. – Rob Manfred	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Numerous universities and colleges have issued public statements supporting, and in some cases mandating, a criticalrace theory approach to the curriculum, usually usingcode words such as 'antiracism' or ‘equity,’ the proposed U. Nebraska Regents Resolution stands apart in that it gives an honest account of the downside of CRT in practice, which too often results in a narrowing of campus viewpoints.The resolution does not ‘ban’ CRT from the curriculum, to the contrary, it opposes‘imposition’ of CRT, and in so doing seeks to foster an open campus intellectual environment. – Bill Richardson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Once they know how strongly Amazon opposes them, and how much resources Amazon is willing to spend to defeat a union, then their fear sets in. – Tom Kochan	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and the Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views, major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box. – Rob Manfred	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
On one hand, he is claiming that postal voting could delegitimize the election while openly admitting that he opposes funding the post office to suppress the vote, it's a move from the populist playbook : blame someone else for the thing you yourself are doing. – Nic Cheeseman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The company shares the nation's deep remorse for the shameful institution of slavery and racial discrimination that has occurred in the country, cSX opposes any form of discrimination and is committed to raising awareness regarding racial disparities. – Cindy Schild	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies, iBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values. – Arvind Krishna	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If any Senate Republican opposes issuing subpoenas to the four witnesses and documents we've requested they would make it absolutely clear they are participating in a cover up in one of the most sacred duties we have in this Congress, in this Senate, and that is to keep a president in check. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 4 years ago
You have to convince 195 countries, and so if just one opposes, there is no agreement. – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Bolton was scheduled to talk mainly about including the Asian allies in efforts to monitor and pressure Iran, something Russia opposes. – Timothy Heath	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The United States firmly opposes coercion and intimidation by any claimant to assert its territorial or maritime claims, china should cease its bullying behavior and refrain from engaging in this type of provocative and destabilizing activity. – The State Department	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I want to make it clear that Labour opposes the idea of passing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill without an agreed deal ... and Labour will vote against a second reading on that basis. – Keir Starmer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

Instead he’s using his power to silence people who are calling for solutions that he opposes.

– The House speaker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are closely following relevant developments, china firmly opposes the United States’ generalization of the concept of national security, abuse of state power, and unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies.

– Mao Ning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The public value of being able to see the human interactions in frustration, in warmth, in all of those things far outweighs the risk that people will play to the cameras. I mean, we have that during debate one way or the other, i think some of the old guard in Congress opposes this because they want to continue to maintain the fiction that when four or five people are on the floor spending millions of dollars, that that is actually the action of the whole legislative body when the reality is far different.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Secretary Austin's been very clear that he opposes the repeal of that vaccine mandate, and the president actually concurs with the secretary that we need to continue to believe that all Americans, including those in the armed forces, should be vaccinated and boosted for COVID 19.

– John Kirby on Monday

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is not the first time that the head of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has ignored the facts and spoken irresponsibly about China, the U.S. side has constantly constructed a smear campaign against China's normal and reasonable outer space endeavors, and China firmly opposes such irresponsible remarks.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The United States strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This decision, and what Alito has to say about marriage equality, is a clear call to anyone who opposes marriage equality, who opposes LGBTQ + equality, that they have a friend on Supreme Court. More than one friend. And that they should be happy or they should be willing to come after marriage equality.

– Jim Obergefell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a typical hegemonic action. China strongly deplores and firmly opposes it, china urges the United States to immediately correct its mistakes, revoke the relevant sanctions and stop suppressing Chinese enterprises and smearing China.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The previously scheduled event has been called off, herschel Walker is a strong friend of Israel and the Jewish community and opposes hatred and bigotry of all forms. Despite the fact that the apparent intent behind the graphic was to condemn government vaccine mandates, the symbol used is very offensive and does not reflect the values of Herschel Walker or Herschel Walker campaign.

– Mallory Blount

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get a choice to resign,” Milley said, referring to the 13 American service members who died during the evacuation from Kabul in late August when an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest. “They can't resign so I'm not going to resign. There's no way.” MOST READ House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro fields questions about the politics of the federal debt in front of the House Rules Committee. Democrats back off debt fight to stop shutdown Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit ‘As adults, we failed’: New Jersey’s school bus driver shortage grows ‘dire’ Progressives dig in as Pelosi tries to save key vote

– Mark Milley

added by MoWali
2 years ago

We strongly urge United States and United States allies to stop pouring dirty water on China on cybersecurity issues, china firmly opposes and cracks down on cyberattacks of any kind, let alone encourages, supports or indulges them.

– Zhao Lijian

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.

– Rob Manfred

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Why is he making baseball political anyway? Because of his terrible record. Viewership way down. Ticket prices way up. major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.

– Rob Manfred

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Numerous universities and colleges have issued public statements supporting, and in some cases mandating, a criticalrace theory approach to the curriculum, usually usingcode words such as 'antiracism' or ‘equity,’ the proposed U. Nebraska Regents Resolution stands apart in that it gives an honest account of the downside of CRT in practice, which too often results in a narrowing of campus viewpoints.The resolution does not ‘ban’ CRT from the curriculum, to the contrary, it opposes‘imposition’ of CRT, and in so doing seeks to foster an open campus intellectual environment.

– Bill Richardson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Once they know how strongly Amazon opposes them, and how much resources Amazon is willing to spend to defeat a union, then their fear sets in.

– Tom Kochan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and the Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views, major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.

– Rob Manfred

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

On one hand, he is claiming that postal voting could delegitimize the election while openly admitting that he opposes funding the post office to suppress the vote, it's a move from the populist playbook : blame someone else for the thing you yourself are doing.

– Nic Cheeseman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The company shares the nation's deep remorse for the shameful institution of slavery and racial discrimination that has occurred in the country, cSX opposes any form of discrimination and is committed to raising awareness regarding racial disparities.

– Cindy Schild

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies, iBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values.

– Arvind Krishna

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If any Senate Republican opposes issuing subpoenas to the four witnesses and documents we've requested they would make it absolutely clear they are participating in a cover up in one of the most sacred duties we have in this Congress, in this Senate, and that is to keep a president in check.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You have to convince 195 countries, and so if just one opposes, there is no agreement.

– Chilean President Sebastian Pinera

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Bolton was scheduled to talk mainly about including the Asian allies in efforts to monitor and pressure Iran, something Russia opposes.

– Timothy Heath

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The United States firmly opposes coercion and intimidation by any claimant to assert its territorial or maritime claims, china should cease its bullying behavior and refrain from engaging in this type of provocative and destabilizing activity.

– The State Department

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I want to make it clear that Labour opposes the idea of passing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill without an agreed deal ... and Labour will vote against a second reading on that basis.

– Keir Starmer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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