In every state, the Democrats were divided between those who supported the administration and those opposed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

At one extreme were the supporters of former President Van Buren -- New York Democrats opposed to slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

You maneuver yourself around the classroom and enable the children to learn as opposed to telling them."

VOA: special.2011.03.10

Jayhawkers were free-state guerrilla fighters opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

For those opposed to slavery, the platform rejected the idea that slave owners had a constitutional right to take slaves into new territories.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

These areas saw a growing support for a peace party a political party opposed to the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Yet,they had to fight the criticism of those opposed to any new development in jazz.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

War Secretary Stanton and the other members of the cabinet were violently opposed to it.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Those opposed to slavery believed the compromise law on runaway slaves violated the constitution.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Tyler's political beliefs were strongly opposed to those of the northern and western Whigs.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

The designs and images on the surface of a tapestry are woven into the cloth as opposed to being only on the surface of the cloth.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Brown knew that Maryland and western Virginia were full of people opposed to slavery.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

He joined a group opposed to the development of nuclear weapons.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

However,many people are still opposed to Ayn Rand's books and ideas.

VOA: special.2010.06.06