Sentences with phrase «of opposition from»

There's a tiny home community in Bend too, called Tongue and Groove, but from what I understand there was a lot of opposition from neighbors.

They are now a well - established local business, but when the Doyles first opened their Assist -2-Sell franchise in 2001, they faced a solid block of opposition from other brokers and Realtors.

But unlike large regional malls that tend to be located in major urban areas, outlet centers don't normally inspire the same kind of opposition from local residents, according to James Schutter, senior managing director with Newmark Knight Frank Retail, a retail real estate services firm.

Despite strong support, the bill has never been brought to the floor of either chamber for a vote because of opposition from key members who support the banks.

In spite of opposition from regulators and governments around the world, NEO may become a new solution for initial coin offerings and time will be the gauge.

Cryptocurrency faced tremendous winds of opposition from banks and financial institutions since the very onset.

The alternative process proposed by MK and Feldman were «not only unnecessary, but are cumbersome ad counterproductive,» especially in the event of opposition from a privilege holder.

The recent round of court fee increases was in the face of opposition from virtually every respondent and these increases will need to be done by secondary legislation as they will increase the fees to more than the administrative costs they have to cover.

If they become law, which is likely given the lack of opposition from any of the main parties, the justice system will look very different in the coming years.

Ms. Barnett was also part of a team of firm attorneys who helped religious organizations secure a special permit for the continued operation of a soup kitchen and food pantry in southern Connecticut to help the poor, in spite of opposition from the local municipality.

By far the most damaging suggestion made in the teeth of opposition from the overwhelming majority of those consulted is the decision that most unfair dismissal cases should be heard by judge alone.

With a history of high - profile failures and years of opposition from Prime Minister Theresa May, the SFO has only recently started to pick itself up, reporting modest growth and 12 new criminal investigations taking place (according to the SFO's annual report for 2016).

Law Society legal aid manager, Richard Miller, says: «Given the strength of opposition from legal aid practitioners, we are pleased that the LSC has acknowledged many of the problems posed by BVT and will now give careful consideration to the issues before any further steps to implement it are taken.»

What began as a few local ripples of resistance to coal - fired power plants is quickly evolving into a national tidal wave of opposition from environmental, health, farm, and community organizations as well as leading climate scientists and state governments.

In the teeth of opposition from the immensely powerful fossil fuels industry and its many allies, the IPCC would issue what was arguably the most important policy advice any body has ever given, calling for nothing less than a wholesale restructuring of the world's economies and ways of living.

Wi - Fi is facing a lot of opposition from parents and teachers in Ontario.

And, last month, after floating the idea of forcing cap - and - trade legislation through Congress as part of the budget, the White House quickly backed down in the face of opposition from Senate Democrats, especially those from the hard - hit Midwest.

His order led to an upswell of opposition from citizens and environmental groups.

So there's plenty of opposition from those who argue that coal is best left in the ground.

Pervious decisions obviously kept that door open, but the specifics are vague — largely because of opposition from Bolivia and benign neglect from Brazil.

Early representatives of this breed were known as Bull Terriers or Round Heads but those names didn't stick because of opposition from Bull Terrier and Bulldog fanciers.

«The (Trudeau) government actually promised to get rid of that but then backed down in the face of opposition from the business community.

Check out my AFC Blog on African - American support of charter schools, in the face of opposition from the NAACP.

«Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's nomination of a charter school executive to the state Board of Education has met with a brushfire of opposition from a teachers union.

Thanks to private - sector unions, Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo won the Democratic primary for governor in spite of opposition from NEA and AFT affiliates.

In 2005, Ms. Moskowitz, then a city councilwoman, ran for Manhattan borough president and lost — in part because of opposition from the teachers» union, the United Federation of Teachers, which was enraged by a series of hearings she held in the City Council that were critical of work rules embedded in the union's contract.

The governor also expressed support for the bill last year, but it failed in the face of opposition from the State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Democrat.

In light of the opposition from Labor, the fate of Gonski 2.0 came down to the supportive cross-benchers: The Nick Xenophon Team, Pauline Hanson's One Nation, Derryn Hinch, Lucy Gichuhi and Jacqui Lambie.

It was rejected by the school board on a 5 - 2 vote in 2011, mostly because of opposition from the teachers union.

However, despite ministers» assurances, Nick Brook, the deputy general secretary of the NAHT union, said it was still «hugely disappointing» that the government had decided to press on with the tests in the face of opposition from school leaders.

As children head back to class this week, another school will be opening its doors for the autumn term as an academy — in spite of opposition from parents and the community.

Just as importantly, the administration weakened a tool that reform - minded governors and legislators used successfully to initiate reforms in spite of opposition from education traditionalists on the state level.

Despite an outpouring of opposition from parents, teachers, and others across the state, Senator Bob Corker has indicated he will support Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.

However, facing a great deal of opposition from parents, the Boston Public Schools later announced that they will not implement the changes.

Notable recently were the Gates Foundation's call for a two - year moratorium on tying results from assessments aligned to the Common Core to consequences for teachers or students; Florida's legislation to eliminate consequences for schools that receive low grades on the state's pioneering A-F school grading system; the teetering of the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment consortium (down from 24 to 15 members, and with its contract with Pearson to deliver the assessments in limbo because of a lawsuit that alleges bid - rigging); and the groundswell of opposition from parents, teachers, and political groups to the content of the Common Core.

Any challenge to this status quo encounters a buzz saw of opposition from parents and teachers who like small classes.

Anakin and Ahsoka travel to the planet Teth, where they face plenty of opposition from droids.

Her performance as the widowed Graham has been widely praised for its nuance as her character deals with the fallout from her 1971 decision for The Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers in the face of opposition from President Richard Nixon's administration.

Carlito and his new partners encounter plenty of opposition from various sources - including a slick criminal named Hollywood Nicky (Sean Combs) and a pair of corrupt cops (Giancarlo Esposito and Tony Cucci).

In California, where lawmakers passed an ambitious law aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions in 2006, regulators have had the authority to require dairies to cut methane, but have not followed through because of opposition from the industry.

In the nineteenth - century United States, for example, those who profited from canals, barges, stagecoaches, and the pony express resisted the construction of railroads; in England, electric street lighting spread slowly, partly because of opposition from local governments with heavy investments in gas lighting.

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.

That announcement garnered letters of opposition from various European academies, the Third World Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishesScienceInsider), and the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies.

«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.

In an effort to put behind them decades of opposition from animal rights campaigners, dozens of organizations involved in animal research released a concordat on openness today aimed at helping the public better understand the conditions of animals in laboratories and their importance for medical and biological science.

But it has yet to do so and, in general, adoption of fishing regulations proposed in the Commission's scientific working groups has moved at a glacial pace in the face of opposition from the powerful fishing industry.

Because of opposition from some Katonah residents, Larry and his family lived in a house on the Weil estate rather than in town.

2013 Hoosen Coovadia is recognized for his lifelong devotion to children's health and for defending, in the face of opposition from his government, the use of sound science in the development of policies addressing the treatment and prevention of HIV / AIDS.

Answers in Genesis has had a hard time finding a site, having lost an earlier zoning battle because of opposition from scientists and secular humanists.

2013: Hoosen Coovadia — Dr. Coovadia was recognized for his lifelong devotion to children's health and for defending, in the face of opposition from the South African government, the use of sound science in the development of policies addressing the treatment and prevention of HIV / AIDS.