Sentences with phrase «facing intense opposition»

The ruling was overturned on appeal in April after facing intense opposition from the state's teachers unions, including the California Teachers Association.

And finally, it faces intense opposition from all sides — an opposition that may drive members into a fortress mentality.

When the 2 - degree limit was agreed to at a 2010 conference in Cancún, Mexico, it faced intense opposition from the low - lying island nations and poor countries at greatest risk from rising sea levels and extremes of weather.

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In a scathing assessment of the former prime minister, George Bush's last ambassador to London blamed Brown for presiding over a «post-Blair rudderlessness» which prompted senior Labour figures to complain of their despair to the embassy... The diplomatic cables confirm that Barack Obama's allies were irritated by Brown's intense manner: he interrupted a Thanksgiving call to the current president's ambassador to lobby for a Tobin tax on financial transactions in the face of US opposition.»

The rule has faced intense political and legal opposition from Republican lawmakers, farmers and energy companies.

The company later backed down in the face of intense public opposition.

Faced with intense and widespread opposition, Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker last week withdrew his plan to place the Philadelphia school system under private management, canceling what would have been the largest such privatization experiment in the country.

Faced with intense opposition from teachers, Sacramento City Unified announced Wednesday it would not join other California districts in reapplying for a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

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.»

Shouldn't you and your fellow environmental activists be demanding a courageous display of Presidential leadership on climate change issues — leadership displayed in the face of what could prove to be intense opposition from an aroused public, once a truly effective GHG reduction plan is established?

Plans to ship coal 1,500 miles by rail to five planned new ports in the Pacific Northwest and Canada face intense environmental opposition.