1.  The administration has been steadily rowing back from its early opposition to his attendance in London.

2.  His early opposition to the war against Iraq was not sustained in public.

3.  Given the early Republican opposition to the accord, the comfortable margin of victory in the final vote was hailed as a major triumph.

4.  He can cite his early opposition to an invasion of Haiti.

5.  Last week Gore acknowledged that he wrestled with the issue, and noted his early opposition to government funding of abortion.

6.  The Clinton administration has already reversed its early opposition to setting up review boards to handle taxpayer complaints against federal tax collectors.

7.  After five weeks of negotiation and early opposition from Pyongyang, Hwang was finally allowed to leave China and is currently in hiding in the Philippines.

8.  But the battle for the health care bill he will sign Wednesday was hard fought nonetheless over early opposition from some Republicans.

9.  Early opposition is being led by Peter Parsons, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.

10.  Meanwhile, the settlement ran into early opposition on Saturday.