Predicate: oppose

Frames file for 'oppose' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet class amalgamate-22.2. No other members in same class. Comparison to 'back' and 'support'.

Roleset id: oppose.01 , oppose, object to, vncls: 22.2

Roles:

        Arg0: opposer
        Arg1: thing opposed to

Example: nice simple transitive

        MCA strongly opposed the Drabinsky group's move.

        Arg0 : MCA
        ArgM-MNR : strongly
        Rel : opposed
        Arg1 : the Drabinsky group 's move

Example: as opposed to

        Mark Schoeppner, portfolio manager at Pittsburgh-based Quaker
        Capital Management, says that in reaction to nervousness about
        debt-laden buy-out transactions, analysts and investors now appear
        to be ``valuing stock based on future earnings as *trace* opposed
        to the amount of debt the company can support.''

        Arg0 : *trace*
        Rel : opposed
        Arg1 : to the amount of debt the company can support