1.   Tax policy would be ruled by stubborn one-third minorities, many among them cruising for policy payoffs to drop their opposition.

2.   However, as the week long conference progressed, all opposition was dropped in preference to being outvoted.

3.   Although Russia dropped its opposition this week, letting the Security Council impose an embargo for one year, it is now late for this to have much effect.

4.   America has much to gain from the establishment of the international court, and it will be best positioned to benefit if Washington drops its unwarranted opposition.

5.   Assuming that the FTC does drop its opposition, the merger would create a company second in size only to Exxon Mobil.

6.   Attorney Jacobs said his group would drop their opposition if Beal agrees to move to an existing industrial park.

7.   A number of privacy advocates dropped their opposition to the Intel system once the company agreed to let users decide whether to activate it.

8.   A Japanese official today told Japanese reporters it had dropped its opposition to gold sales.

9.   Abortion rights groups had lobbied the Senate Republicans for months to support the clinic access bill and were jubilant after they dropped their opposition in June.

10.   After the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, even such holdouts as the isolationist Republican Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio dropped their opposition to the Marshall Plan.