Sentences with phrase «of meeting resistance»

Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting resistance from the powers that be with the unassailable powers of love and service.

Not exact matches

Heitkamp has generally advocated for working with the president and his administration when possible and, in a meeting last spring, called the anti-Trump «Resistance» movement «a waste of my time.»

Consequently, plans to build new coal - fired power stations will meet a mountain of resistance everywhere.

Amazon was looking for a larger share of e-book revenues, but was met with resistance from Hachette.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

A bill which would end tax - free online shopping moves on to the House of Representatives, where it is likely to be met with resistance from anti-tax Republicans.

«The short answer is, yes, it is going to be hard to find offsets, and many proposals will meet stiff resistance from interest groups, but we don't know the exact level of difficulty,» Gardner told Business Insider.

But she has met resistance from the Republican Party, which, as part of the House's tax overhaul plan unveiled on Thursday morning, proposed a much more modest expansion of the credit than that Ivanka has been pushing for.

A government plan to push for an upper limit of 5,000 euros to cash payments was met with fierce resistance two years ago, including by the country's own central bank.

He had demanded 100 % fulfilment of production targets that could not be met, and he and his colleagues in the Kremlin misinterpreted the resultant dissent, resistance and breakdowns as evidence of counter-revolutionary conduct.

However the CPP boosters will encounter stiff resistance from the meeting's host, Alberta finance minister Ted Morton, as well as a number of prominent pension experts.

Because if someone letting their voice be heard is met with resistance, the likelihood of them stepping out again is greatly diminished.

Analyzes the strategic advantages of Apple Pay, MCX, and phone - only apps and where these three technologies will meet resistance.

Mr. Stamos, who plans to leave Facebook by August, had advocated more disclosure around Russian interference of the platform and some restructuring to better address the issues, but was met with resistance by colleagues, said the current and former employees.

You may remember that Sprint and T - Mobile considered a deal back in 2014 that would have resulted in Sprint buying out T - Mobile, but those talks ended when the prospect of a merger met with strong resistance from regulators.

The strengthening trend of the US #Dollar met resistance just above the 92.00 level, during the New York session.

Even when suggesting this methodology of determining the truth, I am still often met with great resistance and a response that «There is no need to conduct any research because I already know the truth».

The next major target for Litecoin price is that of $ 138 - $ 142, following which it would easily cross the $ 150 mark before meeting a major resistance.

IOTA's growth has been one of the fastest and one which has come with seemingly no barriers so far - the currency may even grow to $ 2 - $ 2.2 before it meets with a line of resistance.

Failed to address homophobia through Safe Schools Task Force: In 2003, then Education Minister Christy Clark convened a «Safe Schools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resistance.

But the United States» objective of removing NAFTA chapter 19, a dispute resolution clause that allows countries to appeal anti-dumping duties, will be met by significant resistance from both Canada and Mexico.

However, these audits were met with resistance when Zhou Xuedong, PBoC director of business management, proposed an «observation period» to suggest new regulatory rules that would maintain financial stability and protect the interest of investors.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

In the USCC offices, in programs such as the Campaign for Human Development, and in the widespread networks of social activism, questions such as those we have raised meet with predictable resistance.

Movements of change provoke resistance, which must be met with greater resolve.

Their campaign met fierce resistance and anger at the time but it prompted a landmark ruling by the Assembly the following year in favour of proposal.

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

There are many reasons why the use of psychological models in biblical scholarship has met with resistance in some quarters.

Wayland and the other reformers saw the church as a principal source of the conservative resistance they met in their efforts to open higher education to intellectually capable students.

America is a Christian nation — and while the First Amendment affords all people the right to believe as they will, efforts to change the religious fiber of our nation to conform to the rantings of a bloodthirsty pedophile (specifically: Mohammed) should be met with the most ferocious resistance.

In effect, the bundespraesident was saying that a moderation of the victors» resistance to revenge had to be met by the resistance of the defeated to claims of innocence.

It was not in a Roman Catholic country, but in Protestant England and Scotland and in the Protestant Netherlands that the resistance to the domination of the Church by the Crown in this age of absolute monarchies first met with some degree of enduring success.

He knew that the meeting was little more than a communist propaganda ploy, but he also sensed that the threat of a nuclear holocaust was so grave he had to take a stand for disarmament, despite resistance from the Reagan administration and steel - tipped invectives from the Religious Right.

Republicans need at least 60 votes in the Senate to pass an appropriations bill, and Democrats have made it clear that any budget that includes a «poison pill» like defunding Planned Parenthood or paying for the wall will be met with a lot of resistance.

We left for Berlin - Spandau and the first postwar meeting of the resistance Brotherhood Council (Brüderrat), which had inspired the anti-Nazi church leaders.

Such sensitive openness to the otherness within oneself is not easily achieved, and the incursion of «shadow» images in dreams and fantasy is typically met with an initial (and sometimes permanent) resistance.

On a Potluck Hangout we had last night, «I Think I'm An Atheist»... we've made this one public so that you can watch it... a couple of our participants said that they were about 16 years old when they really began asking questions and were met with resistance.

Very early in His ministry Jesus had come to terms with the resistance and hardness of heart with which His preaching was met.

He records of Praxeas, an exponent of Patripassianism, «Meeting there with that determined resistance which honourably distinguishes the primitive Roman Church in its dealings with heresy, he (Praxeas) retired into Africa, and there, as founding no sect, he was soon forgotten.»

Voices, both lay and clerical, were raised in behalf of Indians and Negroes and met with resistance from Europeans who profited by the enslavement of non-Europeans.

In trying to give the different meanings of sein, Wesen, Wesenheit, Wesenhaftkeit, Substanz, Essenz, not to speak of translating terms like Nichts, Nichtsein, Nichtigkeit, and Ungrund, I met repeatedly with the adamant resistance of the English language.

And if this meets with any resistance at all, which of course it does, then every son that is born to the Hebrews shall be cast into the Nile (1:22).

Of course, this religion meets resistance.

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BARS will assist CSIRO to deliver on its commitment to increase food production in cropping and livestock systems, improve drought tolerance and disease resistance, and improve nutritional values to meet the challenges of the future.

Simply removing sodium from foods and / or beverages will likely be met with consumer resistance,» says Darren Seifer, food and beverage industry analyst at NPD and author of the sodium report.

Moore also said that his tour to promote the positive message of «Golden Rice» has been met with «heavy resistance from anti-capitalist activists, 20 of which have been joined forces to oppose our Indian leg of our tour».

Cook until potatoes are tender and a knife inserted in center of a potato meets no resistance, 25 to 30 minutes.