Sentences with phrase «lot of opposition»

It is tough and you will face lots of opposition.

«The question for me always was, after Prop One passed, is it better to have a full - blown casino in Saratoga Springs or 30 minutes down the road, and my community expressed an awful lot of opposition for a variety of reasons,» Yepsen said.

Friday's press conference by state Sen. John DeFrancisco and Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli drew lots of opposition.

Booker and Elizabeth encounter lots of opposition throughout the game and this is where she becomes more than the focal point of an escort mission.

Whenever it tries to start service in a new market, Uber faces lots of opposition — sometimes from local politicians, but usually from local taxi drivers who don't want the unlicensed freelancers cutting in on their business.

Unfortunately, this means that you will probably face a lot of opposition and second - guessing from others in the industry when you launch your startup.

«The Obama Administration is already studying whether to lift the restrictions on oil exports, but this is something that is likely to face a lot of opposition in Congress from both Democrats and Republicans, who worry that lifting the restrictions could cause gasoline prices to rise,» said Herman Wang, senior editor of oil news at Platts.

You may say that Albertan's were fully aware of Ms Notleys position before the Alberta election but voted her in anyway so there must be a lot of opposition to pipelines in Alberta.

There's a lot of opposition to the orthodoxy of political correctness based on many good, scientifically - valid counter-facts.

b) Whilst there was a lot of opposition to WW2, the only time it made its way into the major newspapers and newscasts of the time, was upon the arrest, or conviction of somebody opposed to the war effort;

There would be lots of opposition to the idea, all of which revolves around the idea that a business method or practice that generated money decades ago, should still be able to generate money the same way, even if the entire industry has suffered what the Black Knight called «only a scratch».

Ospina was shaky on a lot of opposition set - pieces, and had an opponent got their head on the ball a lot more question marks would have been raised.

Plus of course he's also familiar with a lot of the opposition.

Was there a lot of opposition when this idea was first proposed?

«I know they've had a lot of opposition, but I think they've come up with a fantastic plan,» Hans Kaper said.

I admire people in the US who adopt vegetarian diets, both because it usually goes against prevailing habits and they may face a lot of opposition, and because they would have to learn new ways of cooking and eating from how they grew up, a very difficult thing to do.

In fact, I faced a lot of opposition when I struggled with breastfeeding in the first 2 weeks of my daughter's life.

I hear a lot of opposition propaganda that says that companies are packing out and leaving Ghana and going to Cote D'Ivoire and several times I've asked, give me one single company that has packed and left and nobody is able to?

Rachit Buch Law student, Middlesex The politics of HS2 Just over a year ago, local Conservative MPs were seeking re-election on a platform of opposition to «Labour's» high - speed rail (HS2) route and promising that Conservatives in government would end the scheme that had already attracted a lot of opposition.

While there is some truth in both of these stereotypes, these days a lot of opposition research happens online.

And there is a lot of opposition from the special interests that designed the system.»

So he used the fact that he was acing on the «dying wishes» of JFK and his bullying technique often referred to as the Johnson treatment as well as his allies in both the Senate and the House to pass the legislation despite the fact that it had a lot of opposition from southern Senators who were representing the ideas of their people - there was still a lot of racism around at the time.

«He has repeatedly said he will run for re-election and I don't see a lot of opposition in this party to supporting him.»

So you expect a lot of oppositions because somebody is after what they have stolen when someone who was much younger than him did not have the political zeal to face it.

The legislation will likely face a lot of opposition in the Democratic Assembly, but Cuomo has a way of getting what he wants, noted Majority Leader Ron Canestrari.

I think it will be met with a lot of opposition,» Sen. Chris Dodd told reporters in the Capitol Tuesday.

«He cost the city three years it can't get back on a project that already faces a lot of opposition, «said one city official.

«When it started, there was a lot of opposition,» he recalled.

«There's a lot of opposition to the tax cap,» Cuomo said.

In vitro fertilization was shocking when it first came along, and there was a lot of opposition to it.

«I heard a lot of opposition from the students present and less - than - direct answers to many of their questions,» said Anne MacLachlan, a senior researcher at Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education and the final speaker in the 90 - minute dialogue.

«None of us are politicians, but we are all aware of the fact that there would be a lot of opposition from Republicans to building up a big bureaucracy,» says Ron Haskins, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and co-chair of the commission.

The Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act has already met with a lot of opposition from university groups and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Oh yes, it disrupts the flow of money to some established industries based on coal and oil, so we can expect a lot of opposition to its use.

This phrase is a code for; «we have a lot of opposition to this idea and we are afraid to make people too uncomfortable and release an onslaught of political and social opposition.»

-- «Lots of the opposition to DeVos centered around school choice — but the U.S. Secretary of Education is not an influential position for school choice policy,» said Nora Gordon, a Georgetown University professor and education expert.

When this breed was introduced to the Kennel Club, this name faced a lot of opposition from Skye terrier breeders.

Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz's work caused a lot of opposition and uproar because of the unvarnished depiction and thematization of sexual power and exploitation, abuse of political power, racism, and institutionalized faith.

It wasn't easy; there was a lot of opposition.

Holdren says: Just the increase in torrential downpours and the flooding associated with that is so conspicuous, so damaging, that I think anybody that did want to roll back the sensible things we're doing would find there was a lot of opposition to it.

Just the increase in torrential downpours and the flooding associated with that is so conspicuous, so damaging, that I think anybody that did want to roll back the sensible things we're doing would find there was a lot of opposition to it.»

«There's a lot of opposition around the world, there's a lot of indifference around the world.

Understandably there is a lot of opposition to the Global Warming Act and Prop 23 is proving surprisingly popular in a state that practically invented the Green movement.

Again, I think a lot of the opposition to wind power, especially in local communities comes from a feeling that things are out of their control, that they don't have all the facts, and people don't react well to that, but as I said before, the wind farms that have had the easiest development, and the best relationship with their neighbours are the ones where the developers have really spoken to and worked with local people right from the start.