(1) "But, given the work that was done on behalf of the secretary of state to analyse the effect of the immigration of non-European Economic Area partners and dependent children on the benefits system, the level of income needed to minimise dependence on the state for families where non-EEA partners enter the UK, and what I regard as a rational conclusion on the link between better income and greater chances of integration, my conclusion is that the secretary of state's judgment cannot be impugned.
(2) Montanto’s lawyer James Todd deployed a wide variety of arguments in his client’s defense, including impugning past informants and witnesses.
(3) So these facts need to be impugned, and that's where David Allen Green and his "myth-busting" legal expertise comes into play.
(4) But the Justice Department attorney Ron Wiltsie, who impugned Xenakis’s credentials in tenacious cross-examination, said Dhiab had committed “five assaults since April 2014”.
(5) Poll gives Brexit campaign lead of three percentage points Read more Other leading members of the leave campaign have more directly impugned the prime minister’s character, painting him as untrustworthy and damaged as a leader.
(6) Despite having sacked the police superintendent , Garry McCarthy, on Monday and ordered the formation of a taskforce into police accountability, questions continue to swirl about what Emanuel knew, and when he knew it – questions that at best raise doubts about his grip over his own city and at worst threaten to impugn his integrity.
(7) This is contrary to an assumption I made in estimating that there are about 8 SS dizygotic pairs to every 7 OS pairs (thus impugning Weinberg's differential rule).
(8) Last month he was involved in a highly publicised spat with Mark Carney , impugning the Bank of England governor’s impartiality in the Brexit debate.
(9) "Clive Palmer would simply be a national laughing stock if his comments didn't impugn the integrity of the AEC," senator Xenophon said.
(10) One does not impugn the integrity of Malcolm Fewtrell or the Buckinghamshire CID.
(11) There is no thought of impugning the basic honesty of the reporting physician in this statement, but rather of raising the fair question of whether the "slipped disc" (or whatever the etiological diagnosis) is all that happened to produce the symptoms, and whether its removal (or whatever) is all that occurred in accomplishing clinical cure improvement.
(12) The prime minister, Peter O’Neill, and the high commissioner, Charles Lepani, have rebuked the opposition for impugning the dignity of PNG.
(13) Ever since the rise of the satire boom in the 1960s, the establishment has had to put up with having its values derided, its cherished myths debunked and its bona fides impugned.
(14) "Clearly Mr Mitchell is denying using certain words, effectively now impugning the integrity of the police officers," he told Sky News.
(15) The then defence secretary, Michael Fallon, blamed the lawyers involved and branded their actions a shameful attempt to use the legal system to attack and falsely impugn the armed forces.
(16) He stood by him after Lewandowski was charged with assaulting a female reporter, and even piled on when he tried to impugn that woman’s character.
(17) You’d be better off joking about his gigantic dumbo ears or his mole instead of impugning the very idea of human kindness.
(18) But aides insist he will not “impugn terrible motives” for such changes, preferring to welcome a convert and merely point out that the policy reversal would have been more useful while Congress was still voting on authorising the trade negotiations.
(19) Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon told reporters “basically, the president tried to both guilt people and then impugn their integrity” while Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota tweeted bitterly on Friday morning: “Now President Obama wants to talk?” But, all of Obama’s efforts proved for naught after Pelosi took the floor and spoke out against the deal.
(20) He added of his rival’s campaign: “They have a long record they’ve earned in South Carolina of engaging in this kind of trickery and impugning the integrity of whoever their opponent is to distract the attention.
Oppose
Definition:
(n.) To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
(n.) To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically.
(n.) To resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand; as, to oppose the king in battle; to oppose a bill in Congress.
(n.) To compete with; to strive against; as, to oppose a rival for a prize.
(v. i.) To be set opposite.
(v. i.) To act adversely or in opposition; -- with against or to; as, a servant opposed against the act.
(v. i.) To make objection or opposition in controversy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(2) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(3) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(4) 3) The magnitude of K+ release is the ratio of two opposing mechanisms, a passive efflux and an active reuptake.
(5) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(6) Each axon had a characteristic head position which was maximally excitatory to it, and a diametrically opposed head position which was minimally excitatory.3.
(7) As opposed to the other tests for LPD, awareness of the usefulness of the biopsy has increased as we have learned more about CL physiology.
(8) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(9) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(10) It is contended that the latter is the main factor in its production as opposed to the more common external rotation variety.
(11) Loyalists are opposed to any restrictions and have blocked roads and rioted over the issue.
(12) But today, Americans increasingly no longer shy away from saying they oppose mosques on the grounds that Muslims are a threat or different.
(13) In contrast, large territories may reflect widespread motor-unit actions, advantageous in force development where fine movement control is less important, as in biting in the intercuspal position or opposing gravity.
(14) Burns has a successful track record of opposing fees.
(15) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
(16) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
(17) As opposed to nifedipine charybdotoxin shows no effect if added 18 h after the initiation of the activation process.
(18) RR spectra of fatty acyl-CoA and its complexes are consistent with the previous hypothesis that visible spectral shifts observed during formation of acetoacetyl-CoA and crotonyl-CoA complexes of fatty acyl-CoA dehydrogenase result from charge-transfer interactions in which the ground state is essentially nonbonding as opposed to interactions in which complete electron transfer occurs to form FAD semiquinone.
(19) The remarks are the most direct official response on the issue, although the government has previously said that it "resolutely opposes" hacking and criticised "baseless" claims.
(20) A lawyer advising one of the newspaper groups opposing the deal said: "All the regulator has to prove is that there is a potential for a reduction in plurality in the UK.