Example sentences of "came out against " in BNC.

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1 The first , more than two years ago , considered the feasibility of privatisation and followed reports from the Treasury and the Central Purchasing Unit which came out against wholesale privatisation .
2 When the Catholic archbishop came out against Noriega , and fatwahs against him were read out in church , the church services in the middle class suburbs turned into political demonstrations against the regime .
3 In the campaign 's second half , Mr Major ( apparently without being told to do so by any important surgeon from a teaching hospital ) came out against proportional representation , and Mr Kinnock ( apparently incited by Labour 's teaching hospitals ) as good as came out for it .
4 Later that month , the Archbishop of Tuam delivered a sermon in which he came out against the mining .
5 A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) .
6 While recognizing that opinion was divided on the issue , the Council firmly came out against the re-introduction of any form of corporal punishment as a judicial penalty for any criminal offence .
7 Repealers scored a notable success when Simon , in his annual report of 1868 , came out against any extension of the acts .
8 Diamond came out against such registration on the grounds , inter alia , that it could mislead in circumstances where shares subject to a fixed charge are held in a company which becomes a subsidiary after the charge has been created .
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