Sentences with phrase «despite vehement»

Despite vehement opposition to the permit from residents...

Despite vehement opposition from the solar industry lobby, the bill sailed through both chambers of Connecticut's legislature, passing the state Senate by a vote of 29 - 3 before passing the House 100 - 45 in the same week.

In Tennessee, one of StudentsFirst's goals is to provide a political firewall of support for legislators who have continued to back a controversial 2010 law that tied teachers» and administrators» evaluations to gains in student achievement, despite vehement criticism from some quarters.

In response, Julie Woestehoff, PAA co-founder and executive director of Chicago's Parents United for Responsible Education, countered, «Mayor Emanuel and his hand - picked Board of Education have just closed or turned around 17 schools despite vehement protests of parents who were already deeply committed to their children's schools.

The same goes for The Village: despite the vehement response of many critics, the film isn't quite as bad as they made it out to be.

Documents reviewed by the Daily News show that despite vehement denials from his staff, de Blasio's Brooklyn - bound R train was indeed held in the station for him at the end of his press conference Tuesday.

Cuomo clearly enjoyed reliving his big gay marriage victory of two years ago — especially on the heels of a not - so - successful (despite his vehement claims to the contrary) end of session, in which he sustained losses on a number of key agenda items, including the Women's Equality Act, and campaign finance and ethics reform.

The background to the new bill echoes the same clash of interests and climate of scandal that made New York's first cadaver law controversial in 1854, when medical professionals won despite vehement protests from representatives of working - class and immigrant New Yorkers.

With ten games remaining for the season to draw to a close and for his time with Sunderland to expire, the fundamental question in the minds of Liverpool fans is whether or not Borini has a future at Anfield beyond the summer, despite his vehement performances this season which has Sunderland fans holding him in the highest regard — as a paragon, if you will.

However, referee Pavel Královec adjudged the trip to have taken place inside the box, despite the vehement protests from the Monaco players.

Documents obtained this weekend through the access to information reveal that these arguments were being made despite the vehement objections of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the agency that enforces tariff regulations.

Not exact matches

Even the Isaiah of the Exile, despite his vision of a worldwide salvation, was a vehement nationalist when he thought of that salvation's medium; even he had proclaimed to his people that the world's kings and queens should «bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet.»

Despite years of vehement public opposition to the field and feed test of Golden Rice in the past decade — a genetically engineered rice promoted for commercialization in Asia, the Department of Agriculture — Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), PhilRice has filed renewed application this year toopen field test the genetically modified crop in the municipality of San Mateo in Isabela and Muñoz in Nueva Ecija.

Despite a passionate speech from Johnson and others expressing their vehement opposition to the project, many on the board viewed the development as an inevitability, and wanted to give conditions for it instead of issuing a blanket «no.»

Despite this, the backlash was pretty vehement.

However, despite one veiled death threat that I'm rather proud of, my columns were getting over 85,000 hits each time I wrote, so it showed how vehement the opposition to HST was.

JP Morgan reveals they are looking for a «Technical Project Execution Manager --(Blockchain) Distributed Ledger Technology» despite a very recent vehement attack on Bitcoin, which originated the very blockchain technology the financial services giant seeks to adopt.