Sentences with phrase «most of the opposition»

According to Larry Arnhart, «Most of the opposition to Darwinian theory among conservatives is motivated not by a purely intellectual concern for the truth or falsity of the theory, but by a deep fear that Darwinism denies the foundations of traditional morality by denying any appeal to the transcendent norms of God's moral law.»

Amory Lovins has argued in detail that an environmentally desirable energy policy will also employ more persons in more desirable ways and produce as much usable power as we need.35 If we redefine the goal of efficiency as the enhancement of human experience, we are likely to find that most of the oppositions identified by Okun between equality and efficiency will disappear.

Most of the opposition fell apart trying to keep up with Fangio and Kling, who battled for the lead for much of the race around the high - speed Reims circuit.

We used to concede a lot of goals via free kicks pre-Per, not anymore now as he towers above most of the opposition and deals effectively with these balls flying into our area.

Most of the opposition came from the social sciences, where it was visceral and almost universal.

When a player first starts out, it doesn't take very many materials to craft weapons and armor, and most of the opposition creatures are relative pushovers.

Teachers unions, led by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, funded most of the opposition, and the MTA's 110,000 members were a ready - made statewide field organization ready for battle.

The Acadia is also offered with an impressive safety arsenal that includes pedestrian detection with automatic emergency braking, 360 - degree «birds - eye - view» cameras, lane - keeping assist, intelligent high beam LED lamps, and forward collision warning, enabling it to emphatically trump most of the opposition in this domain.

In testing at the weekend we made good progress and most of the opposition were there too so we could judge ourselves against them.

Despite having less power than most of the opposition, its compact size and advanced construction from carbon - fibre and aluminium means it can match rivals for performance.

Even waiting for a month after launch negates most of the opposition a day one release for DLC would cause, so while the developers may wish they could provide the content in a more timely manner, they know more people will be open to purchasing it if it's not immediately available.

Most of the opposition to Keystone XL has nothing to do with our pipeline — it's about groups or individuals who want to end the use of fossil fuels.»

«Originally most of the opposition thought these turbines were just small unimposing things,» Ledet said.

Most of the opposition has been based on fears, not backed up by medical evidence, that wind turbines adversely affect human health.

Not exact matches

«I suspect Weidmann's vocal opposition to most of the ECB decisions in recent years has generated too much opposition in too many other member states for him to get the nod,» he said.

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

Layton was, for most of the last decade, the tireless leader of the New Democratic Party (traditionally Canada's «third» party), and eventually led it during its historical first turn as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons.

In February, Erik Nielsen, global head of CIB research at UniCredit, told CNBC that «Weidmann's vocal opposition to most of the ECB decisions in recent years has generated too much opposition in too many other member states for him to get the nod.»

The federal government has secured opposition support to pass one of the most substantial budget packages since the Coalition took office in 2013, making trade - offs on renewable energy funding and welfare payments to pick up about $ 6 billion in savings.

One of the most prominent features of the set of «The Opposition» is a permanently installed Murder Board, a tackboard reminiscent of «A Beautiful Mind» with nonsense scribbled next to a 2016 electoral map, and images and arrows linking Beyoncé, former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Taylor Swift, and, of course, Hillary Clinton.

Most of the region voiced support for the July 16 referendum convened by the opposition against the assembly, and the EU and the US have suggested they could level sanctions on the Maduro government should the July 30 vote go ahead.

Zuckerberg's complete belief in his product has also given him the strength to persevere with some of the most unpopular changes in the face of huge opposition, even within his own company.

And a Jan. 28 filing from Red Bull gets downright anatomical in its opposition to the Old Ox name: «An «ox» and a «bull» both fall within the same class of «bovine» animals and are virtually indistinguishable to most consumers,» the filing reads.

Opposition to the measure was spearheaded by the group Priorities First Fort Collins, which according to filings, received most of its funding from the Colorado Cable Telecommunications Association.

Perhaps aware of the potential opposition they may encounter in the U.S., most Chinese state - owned enterprises have wisely shied away from buying U.S. assets.

While the crackdown has drawn concern and criticism from Western capitals, rights groups and some domestic opponents of the government, most Turks have shown unity in their opposition to the coup attempt, with regular rallies of solidarity.

A claim by the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten that private insurers held $ 6 billion in excess capital was misleading because most of the excess was held by non-profit funds, analysts said.

And it was very easy for them to do that without opposition, because in the beginning most of the debts that were owed to the palace itself — both in fees for services the palace provided, or the temple provided (the temple was part of the palace economy), or for land rent by sharecroppers, or for the provision of water and agricultural services to the land.

NameCheap became one of the internet's most notable registrars after their opposition to SOPA / PIPA last year.

The Liberals claimed 17 B.C. seats in 2015 — nearly all of them in the Metro Vancouver region, which has been the seat of some of the most vociferous opposition to the TransMountain project.

Meunier's organisation was founded by some of the most vehement opposition figures, including Egypt's richest man and well - known Coptic Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Tarek Heggy, an oil industry executive, Salah Diab, Halliburton's partner in Egypt, and Usama Ghazali Harb, a politician with roots in the Mubarak regime and a frequent US embassy contact.

But he then drew opposition from some of the Democratic Party's most powerful members, particularly Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who held up his nomination for months.

In the face of this opposition, Gensler made a concerted effort to show liberal Democrats that he wasn't a typical Rubinite and, unlike most of Bill Clinton's economic team, would publicly acknowledge the deregulatory missteps of the late 1990s that contributed to the 2008 crash.

Most analysts feel they must choose between two approaches customarily thought to be in opposition: «value» and «growth,»... We view that as fuzzy thinking... Growth is always a component of value [and] the very term «value investing» is redundant.

The Steele dossier, Nunes alleges, «formed an essential part of the Carter Page application,» and he goes on to suggest that the application omitted several key facts about the dossier that undermine its credibility: most notably that the dossier was partially funded by the Democratic National Committee and that Steele himself has expressed his opposition to Donald Trump becoming president.

The Wildrose Opposition represents most of rural Alberta, and a large number of our caucus members are farmers and ranchers.

Perhaps the most convincing argument I have heard this week in response to Kenney's opposition to Bill 24 came in the form of a comment on Facebook:

A quick read of the list of individuals below could easily lead most Albertans to determine some of the most thankless jobs in our province indeed belong to leaders of provincial opposition parties.

But as details of the deal began to leak out, opinion polls in most of the participating countries tracked growing public opposition.

As members of the Opposition it is our civic moral obligation to every taxpayer in Alberta to question the government on their policies and actions to ensure that Albertans get the most from their representation.

The NDP have put forward the most comprehensive plan to fight Climate Change that Alberta has ever seen, something that the Progressive Conservatives were unable to do in the final decade of their 44 years in government and the Wildrose Party has been unable to do in its four years as official opposition.

While most municipalities see the benefits of 5G, carriers may face opposition in dense areas where residents and businesses take the stance of «not in my backyard.»

For example, Prodromou complains that neither the U.S. administration nor USCIRF (an independent agency) has issued a statement about the kidnapping in Syria last month, most likely by Islamists in the opposition, of two Orthodox bishops.

Even the most eccentric reconstruction of presumably primitive myths can provide the avant garde with a place to stand in opposition to Christianity and Western culture, which are, at the same time, declared to be both thoroughly discredited and powerfully holding humanity in thrall.

One Baptist friend says it augurs ill for the Evangelicals and Catholics Together project if, in fact, there is a dramatic increase in five - point Calvinism, since most of the evangelical opposition to that initiative has come from Calvinists.

A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.

He reserves his most ferocious verbal assaults for «zealots» like Nellie Gray; he attacks Phyllis Schlafly («Why anyone paid any attention to this lady is one of the mysteries of the 80s»); he turns on Carl Anderson, who perhaps more than any other single figure in the Reagan Administration was responsible for the success of Koop's confirmation process, and berates him unmercifully for his opposition to the condom solution for AIDS.

The first is the website [http://www.usordinariate.org/] of the new US Ordinariate, the Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter, a name which splendidly makes very clear a basic characteristic of most Anglican converts these days: their loyalty to the Magisterium (undoubtedly one reason for the firm opposition of most of our hierarchy to the idea ofan independent Anglican Catholic jurisdiction 20 years ago).

Over 60 years ago when it was still extraordinary for women to work out of the home in this country the mainline was making the theological case for women in ordained ministry against the overwhelming opposition of most Christians throughout history.

This opposition has been most overtly urged on political but often on intellectual grounds, and Schleiermacher's defense of Christian faith against its «cultured despisers» is a procedure that has again and again proved necessary.3