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But he was also a leading opponent of natural theology.

He was a leading opponent of any compromise with republicans.

He was emerging as a leading opponent to the current leadership in 2009.

Leading opponents of the trade, however, also adopted a different tone.

Indeed, some of the bill's leading opponents have already conceded the battle.

Welch has been a leading opponent of the pipeline in the House.

On Wednesday she attacked all three of her leading opponents in one breath.

He is one of the country's leading opponents of gun control.

The Governor has 66 times as much money on hand as his leading opponent.

Likely to be the leading opponent of the treaty.

He was a leading opponent of prohibition in the 1920s.

Mr. West, a former prosecutor, is the leading opponent of the bill.

Hamas is the leading opponent of the peace efforts.

In Britain, he was a leading opponent of slavery.

Except one day he looked up and realized his mother was one of the video's leading opponents.

But Nelson is a leading opponent of electoral reform.

Leading opponents of the plant were not second-guessing themselves.

He was the leading opponent of slavery and the slave trade in New York.

The casino's leading opponents are less concerned with elegance than decadence.

This is not inconsistent with his position as the leading opponent of the development or Darwinian theories.

The local community board has been among the leading opponents of the way in which Cityspire was developed.

Lieberman is one of the Senate's leading opponents of violence in video games and on television.

(Even his leading opponent voted for him, and said so.)

In addition, Wallis debated leading opponents of health-care reform on national television.

She was again re-elected in the 2003 election, defeating her leading opponent by over one thousand votes.

But a chief opponent of the measure said there would be a court battle anyway.

Not surprisingly, the chief opponents of the idea are the controllers themselves.

The bill's chief opponents said they still had a chance of sustaining a veto in the House.

His chief opponent at the moment appears to be Bill Clinton.

"I heard your chief opponent in the November election was here yesterday.

In some states, candidates hold a large debate with all comers, then another between just the chief opponents.

It would rid him of his chief opponent in Council, but that was unimportant.

Britain is Europe's chief opponent of monetary union and closer integration.

And Alt, for that matter, is one of his chief opponents."

President Wilson is the chief opponent of their national enfranchisement".

Their chief opponents were the Communists, who had become the largest party in Parliament.

Maule at last had come to grips with his chief opponent.

They had their hour of conquest-but it was their chief opponent, Athens, who survived.

His chief opponents were the Stoics and their belief that reality could be comprehended with certainty.

Mr. Fox could have done lasting damage if he had muscled his party's chief opponent out of the race.

His chief opponent, minister Willie Wilson, also ran as a write-in candidate.

Catulus became alienated from Marius and would later become one of his chief opponents.

Her chief opponent was a passionate man named Mainwaring, known for his rudeness.

But until it embraced the medium, Modernism, with its interest in the primitive and unspoiled, was photography's chief opponent.

LDC is my chief opponent on this subject.

Their monstrous chief opponent had withdrawn, to do so needing the help of the remnant of his own human army.

Her chief opponent, Kenneth Fisher, is a bright lawyer and talented campaigner.

Mr. Gorbachev's Prime Minister is the chief opponent of the 500-day plan.

Her chief opponent, the Islamic Democratic Alliance, won 105 seats, with up to 50 more going to its partners.

The job has little long-range significance and Mr. Gorbachev's chief opponent will not touch it.