Sentences with phrase «despite vehement opposition»

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.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.