Example sentences of "spoke out against " in BNC.

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1 The Archbishop of Canterbury , a graduate of the John Wayne memorial diplomatic academy , spoke out against the emergence in Britain of a ‘ Pharisee ’ society of self-interest and intolerance .
2 He then spoke out against the legislation , from the backbenches , when it was introduced in the Commons .
3 Some leaders spoke out against the new trend ; in a paper on preaching delivered at a Free Church Council meeting the quixotic Joseph Parker defended congregational applause during a sermon because it encouraged the preacher and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through the listeners .
4 With various motives — from the fear that the worst excesses of Thatcherism were making the existing social order less stable , to the belief that God was on the side of oppressed people seeking justice — its leaders spoke out against particularly inhumane State policies .
5 Several spoke out against the harshly self-righteous tone of the original motion .
6 After the debate , a number of bishops hastened to assure the mass media that they would not knowingly employ gay clergy , although one or two spoke out against homophobia .
7 He knew this as did other ‘ leading lights ’ who spoke out against the regime such as Liu Binyan and Wang Ruowang .
8 There was no outright attack on the civil rights gained so far , but Nixon , mindful of the white " backlash " in 1968 , spoke out against some of the more unpopular results of greater racial equality , such as the bussing of school-children .
9 There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago .
10 Not many spoke out against sending the Taskforce — and I also admired him for taking over the Liberal Party in very difficult circumstances .
11 In 1621 he spoke out against the patentee , Sir Giles Mompesson [ q.v. ] , and the popish threat to the Palatinate ; and in 1629 delivered a notable attack on the influence of the king 's Arminian advisers .
12 It was not until late May , when the violence threatened to get out of hand , that government ministers spoke out against it .
13 Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles .
14 Delegates called on the Council of Ministers to " pay attention to enhancing people 's confidence in the new regime " and to promoting economic development , and spoke out against price rises and " random , state-private economic exploitation " .
15 Hundreds of people spoke out against Anchor International 's scheme to bring ten floodlit pitches to Clairville Common , Middlesbrough , last year .
16 After he spoke out against the letter , Lynch was ordered to take a year 's sabbatical in Rome — even though by this time his ministry was receiving worldwide media coverage .
17 A day after his wife , Hillary , spoke out against profiteering by vaccine makers , Mr Clinton said the industry 's profits were rising four times faster than those of an average major company .
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