This is why some elements of the old left once opposed such a measure, after all.

Anti-slavery elements opposed that position and fought for the exclusion of slavery from any territory absorbed by the U.S.

Religious elements oppose the use of Adab in an all-Muslim society.

Sanaa radio said the north would negotiate only with elements of the YSP opposed to secession.

Meanwhile, rightist elements (in control of the army) opposed the new government.

Public sentiment in the US was divided as Whigs and anti-slavery elements opposed the war.

Some elements of Whiggery opposed this new thinking, and were uncomfortable with the commercial nature of classical liberalism.

Conservative elements in Spain have opposed this subject especially the Catholic Church.

He states that only the mean and unimaginative element of society would oppose the rise of Socialism.

Anti-war elements, on the other hand, strongly opposed the idea.