Sentences with phrase «local opposition against»

As local opposition against the highly controversial Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada continues to grow, pipeline construction passed another legal hurdle after the federal Court of Appeal ruled against the government of British Colombia's latest legal challenge.

Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 - 2013,» was published online today and will appear in the October print issue of the American Sociological Review.

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However, if it gets final approval it won't be built for at least a decade and faces opposition from local residents who could see their homes compulsorily acquired for the development against their wishes.

I was studying the role of public participation in resource project decision - making in New Zealand, and came across a local group organized as Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) which had become the front of opposition to the Trans - Tasman mining proposal.

Although strong tonic for the local fans, the flurries of touchdowns, the long runs and the passing averages that read like election returns are usually made against opposition as fierce as paper tigers.

Following the Swansea game, Everton and Spurs provide the opposition with the game at Wembley against Spurs on February 10th being one of the biggest games of the season and massive for both clubs with Arsenal three points behind their local rivals in the Premier League and desperately needing to take all three points.

Not only are the Blues up against Championship opposition, but they're facing a local derby, with just six miles separating these two sides.

We have already seen the return of high profile and on - going local opposition to road building most recently at the site of the Bexhill Hastings Link Road, the site of a national rally against road building on 13 July.

Last week, Executive Director Charlie King pushed back hard against local Democratic elected officials who signed an open letter to the governor, questioning his progressive credentials and calling on him to end his opposition to extending the millionaire's tax.

Local road pricing schemes received even less support in the survey, with 51 per cent of people claiming they were against the idea, with the north east of England showing the highest level of opposition at 72 per cent.

County and town opposition has been so strong that the county joined Rockland's five towns, a number of villages and the Nyack School District to form the Municipal Consortium, a coalition arguing against the plant on behalf of local governing bodies.

Leah Barrett, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence said opposition to the SAFE Act is influenced by the gun industry lobby, and said the acts of protest from local officials do not surprise her.

Sen. Jack Martins (R - Mineola) said he was part of local opposition a decade ago against creating a third line in Nassau County, which he felt would increase noise and traffic in neighborhoods.

12:24 - Nick Raynsford (Lab, unmistakeably creepy) asks about a primary school being closed against local opposition, so it can become a free school.

By Sean Ryan The battle contractors are waging against Milwaukee's preference for local bidders has sparked nationwide opposition to similar laws across the country.

ALBANY — New York's top two Democrats joined forces Monday to rally opposition against the GOP's tax reform plan — especially the elimination of a deduction for state and local taxes.

By Sean Ryan Local opposition and arguments against the need for a Beloit bypass killed the project years ago, but it finally was buried Friday when federal planners canceled environmental studies.

But local leaders find it tough to weigh sparse evidence on health threats against public opposition

Many federal lawmakers, as well as state and local officials, have already expressed strong opposition to some of the cuts, and even new EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, long an EPA foe, has suggested that he will push back against parts of the preliminary White House plan.

Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

After receiving support from Michael Gove and Boris Johnson against local opposition, the school attracted only 60 pupils since it opened in 2012.

The Education Bill, which was initially set to introduce the government's plans for the every school in England to be converted in an academy, has faced strong opposition from Education professionals, parents and local government, with a large number of Conservative Councillors speaking out against the proposals.

She says the school has not faced direct local opposition, although some people there might be against the idea of free schools.

Within days, the council made a humiliating U-turn after it came up against huge local opposition.

In both cases, the local Boards of Education voted against the charter school proposals and testified in opposition to the charter schools before the State Board of Education and the General Assembly's Education Committee.

To acknowledge concerns related to marginalization and institutional bias associated with transgender students; state the association's opposition to legislation and policies that discriminate against transgender students; and to provide recommendations for federal, state, and local policymakers and school leaders on how to better support transgender students in the K - 12 education system.

While local school superintendents seem to be sitting out the fight against Gov. Nathan Deal's proposed constitutional amendment for an Opportunity School District, more school boards are declaring their opposition, including Cherokee County last week and Clayton on Tuesday.

You might remember the «left» opposition using a hypothetical resident of Georgetown as an argument against I - 732, saying that I - 732 would not do enough about the local pollution suffered by Georgetown residents.

It is probable that the political opposition is using this as something to hold against the government, but it's also undeniable that the clearing of woods in Argentina is a no - man's - land area where local governments and companies do as they please.

Andrea Marietti and Nicola Tarantini expand on this, by saying: «The new system of opposition against trademark applications is working extremely well, and it should be seen as an essential and vital remedy to the long - standing backlog of the local Court of Justice and Tribunals.

When I hear of local bar associations in the U.S. taking legal action against the providers of reputable online legal services on the ground of their unauthorized practice of law, or when I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawyers.