Sentences with phrase «intense opposition»

The coalition has insisted the reforms are necessary, but have been forced to contend with intense opposition from health workers and their representatives.

He's called for raising the top capital gains rate on some wealthy couples and consolidating education tax breaks, although some of those ideas have already faced intense opposition.

He will also look at the broader issue of scientific consensus and why it generates such intense opposition.

Such bans have prompted intense opposition in many areas of the country.

In the face of intense opposition from the governor and members of the state legislature, he defended scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical School who were conducting important research that used tissue from aborted fetuses.

Despite intense opposition from nearly every local elected official and a total lack of public input on the new design, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state Department of Transportation are moving forward with plans to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge without transit.

In March, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) introduced a new fee regime with a 5 % issue fee for money claims, capped at # 10,000, sparking intense opposition from the legal profession.

Reflecting on his own intense opposition to Nazism, Russell sought its grounds.

But it does not involve consolidating local governments, a topic that has aroused intense opposition.

New York State voters decisively rejected a question on the ballot as to whether a constitutional convention should be held, a proposal that stirred intense opposition among various interest groups.

The «free trade» pact between the U.S. and 11 other nations has garnered intense opposition, particularly from labor unions.

Illustrating that bind, according to one legislative source, is a Conservative Party poll released last month that found intense opposition to the tax, especially in communities of color.

The project remains stalled amid intense opposition and a state Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the construction permit.

The company initially sought to build the school near Gold Lake in Boulder County, but it ran into intense opposition from environmentalists.

We have faced intense opposition ever since.

Intense opposition also exists in parts of the Northeast, including Maine, New York and Vermont.

Despite the hard work of a large group of interests who have found a common vision for carbon pricing in Washington, I 1631 is certain to generate intense opposition from the fossil fuel industry and their allies.

After years of intense opposition from teachers unions, the State Board of Education reversed course and voted Wednesday to eliminate a requirement that state standardized test scores be used in teacher evaluations.

A government notice published on Friday confirmed Mugabe has approved the Interception of Communications Act, despite intense opposition from press freedom campaigners, media groups and others.

The FDA has approved a genetically modified salmon, but the approval took decades and has been met with intense opposition from environmental and food - safety groups.

One reason for anarchism and republicanism's continual revival despite such intense opposition is the enduring power of their respective visions of freedom.

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

In the wake of intense opposition from the town and Orient residents, the authority eventually dropped that project, which was to be financed largely with federal stimulus funds.

Despite intense opposition to Thiel in corners of the tech world, Larry Gerston, professor emeritus of political science at San Jose State University tells Inc.: «I don't believe their numbers will be sufficient to remove him from any positions of responsibility.»

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

After the intense opposition from various farmers and consumers groups, including the uprooting of the clandestine field trial in Camarines Sur, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) postponed the commercialization, citing the failure of Golden Rice to produce better yields.

The GM rice has been field - tested in the Philippines back in 2011 in five separate locations in Luzon, despite the intense opposition from various farmers and consumers organizations.

The Labour leader is set to press on with his bold attempt at reforming the relationship between his party and the unions, despite intense opposition from those gathered at the TUC's annual conference in Bournemouth.

MacKay said it was intended to counter «intense opposition» by the Senate's mainline Democratic caucus and its supporters in the progressive Working Families Party, «as this was the first time that the IDC would include minority senators.»

Plants genetically modified to produce biodegradable insecticides such as Bt are one way to solve these problems, but this approach does not work for all pests and there is intense opposition to GM crops in many countries.

For example, Washington State, among other states, still has no charter school law — mostly because of intense opposition from the teacher unions and other interests vested in the status quo.

After months of intense opposition to his plan for overhauling the way New York City funds its schools, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has agreed to retool a piece of his proposal that, in part, sought to put more veteran teachers in schools that serve the most disadvantaged students.

Each of these bills were met with intense opposition from the education establishment as it fought bitterly to preserve its monopoly status and to evade accountability for its performance.

Bonilla said she faced «intense opposition» from CTA, which made it its No. 1 bill to kill this year.

During the debate in the U.S. Senate over the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, much of the focus centered on partisan political differences and intense opposition from special interest groups.

I was influenced by the intense opposition of the Buy - and - Holders to allocation shifts into trying to avoid frequent changes.

Despite winning a competition to be installed on the site, it was met with intense opposition, with the Charing Cross Hotel referring to the design as an «eyesore»: it was finally scrapped due to insufficient funding.

After weeks of intense opposition, Kinder Morgan announced it was halting all non-essential work on its Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion on Sunday.

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?

The Environmental Protection Agency's anti-coal aero - pollution rules, intense opposition to the Keystone pipeline, and looming restrictions on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas are already further impairing electricity and other energy availability and reliability.

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.

The Sugar Association, the trade group for producers of sugar cane and sugar beets invokes science as the reason for its intense opposition: «We are concerned that the ruling sets a dangerous precedent that is not grounded in science, and could actually deter us from our shared goal of a healthier America.»