1.   A major hurdle had been surmounted when Mayor Rudolph Giuliani agreed to set aside his longstanding opposition.

2.   But Mexico did not budge from its longstanding opposition to cutting tariffs on American wines.

3.   Despite my longstanding opposition to the corporate income tax, it nevertheless makes no sense as economic policy to tilt a stimulus bill so heavily in favor of business.

4.   Dole himself has abandoned his longstanding opposition to supply-side economics in favor of his huge, unpaid-for, budget-busting tax-reduction plan.

5.   Earlier Tuesday, Barak appeared to have dropped his longstanding opposition to interim agreements with the Palestinians.

6.   For example, Alabama Republican Senator Richard Shelby last week dropped his longstanding opposition to a plan to publicly rate vehicles according to their rollover risk.

7.   Given the circumstances of the killing of Gillespie, Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president, Saturday reversed his longstanding opposition to the death penalty.

8.   His endorsement of abortion rights, a reversal of his longstanding opposition, was attacked as insincere.

9.   In a related issue, the council has lifted its longstanding opposition to related legislation that helps shield free-lance screen writers and musicians from paying local business taxes.

10.   In the neighborhood of South Boston, Buchanan received a warm welcome, in part because of his longstanding opposition to court-ordered school busing and affirmative action.