Sentences with phrase «faced powerful opposition»

New York lawmakers have introduced bills to open up the process at least a dozen times in the last 25 years, but the measures have faced powerful opposition from the state's district attorneys.

Even if the Trump tax plan advances in the House, it still faces some powerful opposition in the Senate.

As for Kinder Morgan, they'll face powerful opposition from the municipalities of the Lower Mainland before they're allowed to transform Port Moody into Port McMurray.

Not exact matches

Working with our partners around the world, we help to bring in, strengthen and defend legislation in the face of opposition from some of the most powerful companies in the world.

The northern MP has strong union support, but could face opposition from Labour's still - powerful Blairite faction.

But it has yet to do so and, in general, adoption of fishing regulations proposed in the Commission's scientific working groups has moved at a glacial pace in the face of opposition from the powerful fishing industry.

However, the government will face strong opposition from Brazil's powerful landowning lobby.

When it's «The Adjustment Bureau,» an adaptation of the hard - to - describe Philip K. Dick short story about a politician (Damon) whose love for a ballet dancer (Emily Blunt) faces stiff opposition from a mysterious and powerful group known as — you guessed it — the Adjustment Bureau.

The legislation faced stiff opposition from the state's powerful teachers unions, and while linking teacher pay with student performance remains a key goal of the Obama administration, there remained enough uncertainty around the proposal to cause its demise, again.

Austin said the trigger laws are increasingly popular across the country «in the face of some of the most intense and powerful opposition in America.»

Ripp's bills, in fact, face stiff opposition from the 3,000 - member Wisconsin State Reading Association, a powerful professional organization of teachers, reading specialists, administrators, reading professors and parents.

The request faced staunch opposition from the statewide teachers union, a powerful player in Sacramento, and a lack of support from the state Department of Education.

This approach can also pose some problems with traditional RPG gameplay — RPGs are all about gradually become more powerful and facing more powerful opposition and that's difficult to do well if you have some players who have played every episode and other players who have only played one.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plan to replace fossil fuels with ethanol and other low - carbon fuels through a «clean fuel standard» — expected to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 30 million tonnes a year by 2030 — faces mounting opposition, especially from a powerful lobby south of the border.

My opinion on the matter differs from yours, based on the powerful opposition he faced from the Ethyl Corporation.

We understand the stresses for defendants to a fraud action and can guide them and represent their interests robustly, even in the face of powerful opposition.

We're facing a powerful and well - funded opposition who have proven they will do almost anything to restrict access to abortion and affordable birth control.