Sentences with phrase «forces of opposition»

But the forces of opposition are strong in the Statehouse.

The major Caucasian characters in the film are almost all forces of opposition: Tim Roth plays bigoted governor George Wallace as a weak man raging pitifully against progress, while Dylan Baker brings a perfect squareness to J. Edgar Hoover, assigned by Johnson to spy on and possibly discredit King.

How soon the forces of opposition gathered against him it is difficult to say.

Urging his people to remain calm and not be intimidated by any force of the opposition, Husain said, «no amount of intimidation would scuttle the party's victory».

Afterburner Climax pits one sole fighter pilot against an entire air force of opposition.

Planned Parenthood supporters have been an overwhelming force of opposition, making 350,000 phone calls to members of Congress and holding more than 2,700 events across the country.

Not exact matches

For example, drone strikes are similar to Special Forces in their direct targeting ability in remote locations, but are less likely to create domestic opposition to the use of force because they don't put U.S. lives directly at risk.

If they don't want to force a firm to shut down, the vocal opposition of smaller LPs doesn't count for a lot.

Conflict diamonds are defined as those which originate from areas under the control of forces in opposition to elected and internationally - recognised governments.

Ireland was on the verge of a snap election on Monday after the opposition party propping up the minority government said the deputy prime minister's refusal to quit would force the country to the polls next month.

Hamstrung by rivalries and weakened by the «scorched earth» bombardment, the handful of eastern Ghouta rebel groups were steadily defeated and forced to accept safe passage to opposition - held territory at the Turkish border.

The message is sure to resonate with corners of the Liberal caucus, particularly those from Quebec, who have been pressed by constituents about their party's opposition to forcing companies like Netflix to collect and remit federal sales tax.

He has consolidated control of the country's institutions, enjoys military support, and has effectively divided and demoralized the opposition, leaving it with no capacity to force regime change.»

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

Another member of the Canadian Armed Forces has died of an apparent suicide, the seventh such death in the last two months, while Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair called on the prime minister to take «urgent action» and address the «crisis.»

Amongst those taken aback by the speed and dismissiveness of Renault's reply was Pierre Gattaz, the president of France's largest employer federation (Medef), who professed himself «shocked» by the swiftness of the board's action, and «uneasy» that the proposal that had been «forced through» in the face of shareholder opposition.

He didn't get it, largely due to opposition from congressional Republicans, so he is now being forced to resort to unilateral repudiation of debt.

The opposition leader spearheading weeks of protest in Armenia is warning the government not to deploy troops and says the country's political crisis can't be solved by force.

Except for the absence of gleeful Assassination Arts and Crafts, the situations mirror each other to a remarkable degree, and the administration has little reason to fear anything from the right except for their boisterous opposition and the possibility that the more spiteful among them might sing «na, na, na, na, hey, hey, goodbye» as Marine One carries the former President Obama to Andrews Air Force Base.

In fact, as Elizabeth O'Bagy wrote in the Wall Street Journal, «Moderate opposition groups make up the majority of actual fighting forces,» but they won't be there for long without help.

It's part of an ongoing civil war between forces local to the President and those loyal to an opposition group led by former Vice-President Riek Machar.

When the Nazis force the population of Warsaw into a ghetto the Jews rebelled and fought back against overwhelming opposition but they didn't give up.

From the liberal standpoint, the essential thing is that the new issue provokes opposition from the forces of reaction, who may then be conquered in a public and dramatic fashion by the political mobilization of liberal forces.

Here one finds no concession either to the romance of the heroic atomic self or to the historiography of vast impersonal forces, or to the putative opposition between them.

From the idea of Pakistan to its realization the way seemed difficult, but the justice of the claim was based on such strong grounds that when the British left India they were forced, despite the opposition from all Hindu parties and their own unwillingness, to accede to the demand for Pakistan, which became a reality on the fourteenth of August, 1367 (A.D. 1947).

Before the election, many evangelical leaders predicted that opposition to Obama over his support for abortion rights, his personal endorsement of same - sex marriage and his vision of government as a force for good would trump reservations evangelicals had about Romney's past social liberalism and his Mormon faith.

-- isn't that exactly what the Liberal community is trying to force down the throats of the opposition?

I can not say the book is great literature, but it is a good read, and it provides a powerful feel for the day - by - day pressures exerted by a regime bent upon extinguishing any independent force of possible opposition, and especially any force appealing to an authority transcending the state.

Consider again the case of the United States Catholic bishops, this time in their official opposition to the use of armed force to eject Iraq from Kuwait after Saddam Hussein's army had aggressively annexed that country in 1990.

This struggle brings about personal suffering, in the giving up of luxuries for oneself for the common good and in facing the determined opposition of the organized forces of social injustice, often consciously or unconsciously backed by the religious establishments.

In fact, their greatest strength derived directly from their opposition to the use of physical force at all.

The opposition of his enemies broke out here with renewed force, the temple priesthood joining with them to destroy him after his prophetic demonstration in the «cleansing» of the temple.

It is important to point out that the belief was used in the early church as a way of affirming Jesus» full humanity; «born of a virgin» in the Apostles» Creed has the force of «really born of a woman,» in opposition to heretics who denied that Jesus was truly human.

Such solidarity in opposition to the forces of unbelief is aptly called cobelligerency, and such cobelligerency is the more solid as it is more firmly grounded in the Bible, the creeds, and our confession and worship of Jesus Christ as Lord.

I will briefly list: the option for the poor, 2,000 years of welfare services, schooling, hospitals and charitable works, and all these often against the vengeful opposition of secular forces.

The opposition of Zoroastrian Persia in the early Christian centuries had prevented Christianity from penetrating in force into Central Asia.

For an ellipse, an apparent distortion of the putatively more natural and ideal circle, implies that inertial mass, as it lies in opposition to force, must be attributed to the planets, and that more generally the motions of the planets require dynamic, as opposed to merely geometric or kinematic, analysis3 Here indeed may lie the kernel of a Kuhnian paradigm shift.

As a result, Prof. Cole makes Yoder's pacifism appear to be constituted by individual pacifists in enclaves of the similarly minded, rather than the presence of a global community of followers of Jesus opposed to the use of force on behalf of, or in opposition to, particular nations precisely because it is transnational.

We can point to the polish democratic opposition which led to the advent of the Solidarity movement, to the discourse generated by the «Second Left» in France in the mid-1970's and afterward, to thinking of the originally West German «Greens,» to the forces that have led the transformation from authoritarian regimes to fragile democracies in Latin America, to the complex network of organizations behind the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe.

Considered Cuba's largest and most influential institution outside the government, the Catholic Church today acts as both a force for reforms and a mediator between the government and opposition groups, including some of the island's boldest dissidents.

Pro-family activist Peter LaBarbera warns that a $ 65 million endowment given to several groups that promote the h0m0 lifestyle will be used in their efforts to «crimin - 0, alize» Christian opposition to their agenda.The Pride Foundation of Seattle Lambda Legal Defense and Education Network, the National Gay and Les Task Force, and Parents and Friends of Les and Gays (PFLAG).

Because of violent opposition from his neighbors, he was forced to find a new home, and the group settled at Oneida, New York.

Maduro vows the assembly will strip opposition politicians of their constitutional immunity from prosecution, while members of congress say they will only be removed by force.

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

Hence they want to reduce the political force of what they see as short - sighted opposition.

In such societies political submission to the divine king is often equated with entry into the realm of cosmic order, and political opposition is equated with alliance with the demonic forces of cosmic chaos.

We support and ARM the «opposition forces in Syria» which include al Qaeda and other radical elements, the looting and destructiion and killing of Christians occurred.

As such it may be a powerful force in combination, alliance, or opposition to one of the great rival civil religions seeking dominance in the state.

Puritanism was one of the most effective forces in colonial America in «mobilizing the general mood» and effectively organizing both ideas and actions in opposition to Crown and Parliament.21 Puritanism had consistently pointed to, preached, and attempted to live out the central values and beliefs that gave coherence and meaning to Puritan society.

The alliance between the Church and the opposition movement forced the government to try to woo the Church and as a result eased some of the restrictions on the Church.