Sentences with phrase «of stiff resistance»

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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.

The agreement still faces stiff regulatory scrutiny from the Trump administration, which has thrown up resistance to at least one other megadeal — ATT's proposed acquisition of Time Warner.

«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.

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.

The U.S. auto proposal is a central plank of Trump's America First strategy to boost U.S. manufacturing, but it faces stiff resistance from the auto industry, which worries it will make North American carmakers less competitive and costlier.

However, the deal is likely to face stiff regulatory scrutiny from the Trump administration, which has been resistance to AT&T's proposed acquisition of Time Warner.

The legislation probably will face stiff resistance in the Senate but it provides a road map of sorts for the policies the president plans to put in place as he appoints new regulators.

But whereas the constructive information circulation justifies the uptick in LTC, worth chart evaluation signifies the cryptocurrency is nearing stiff resistance zone of $ 230 - $ 240.

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.

And since almost everyone you ask will say it's not all OK, then why put up such stiff resistance for 1 thing in a book that has lots of other (unquestionably) good things to guide human behavior?

The commission has held educational workshops in dioceses around the world, but has faced such stiff resistance to some of its proposals at the Vatican that its most prominent member, Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins, resigned in frustration in March.

Using a small serrated knife, remove a 1» strip of peel from lemon (some white pith is okay); it should be stiff enough to provide some resistance when bent.

Using a small serrated knife, remove a 1» strip of peel from the orange (some white pith is okay); it should be stiff enough to provide some resistance when bent.

Using a small knife, remove a 1» piece of peel from lemon; it should be stiff enough to provide some resistance (a little white pith is okay).

Armed with 20 years of research (and with a little help from popular media), cities have recently begun mounting stiff resistance against demanding teams.

The measure, multiple versions of which have been proposed and introduced in the Legislature over the last several years, has been met with stiff resistance by social conservatives and the Catholic Church as well as advocates for the disabled.

Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe put up little resistance as Percoco defense lawyer Barry Bohrer laid out a litany of stiffed creditors — from mortgage lenders on million - dollar houses to HVAC and kitchen contractors to tutors, nurseries and a succession of his own lawyers who got bad checks and then had to sue and garnish his wages.

A statement, on Monday, from Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole said the insurgents met stiff resistance from troops who killed six of the insurgents and neutralised 7 suicide bombers in the encounter.

Republicans working on their own version of an Obamacare repeal and replace bill in the U.S. Senate are debating whether to tax employer health plans, a move that would generate stiff resistance from companies.

The bill, which would lift the current cap of 200 charter schools to 460, has met stiff resistance in the Democrat - controlled Assembly and from the teachers unions.

The African Union has decided to allow Morocco back into the fold after a 33 - year absence, despite stiff resistance from some member states over the status of Western Sahara.

The LPG operators had pulled out of the Cylinder Re-circulation Model policy (CRM) Implementation Committee as a result of what it described as «stiff resistance by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to its opposition to the classification of LPG filling plants in the country into high and low risk facilities.»

Jones acknowledged the «stiff resistance» to the plan, particularly in the state Senate, and the adverse impact of President Donald Trump's tax law but is still supportive.

Proposed repeal of oil - industry tax breaks White House budget documents re-emphasize Obama's proposals to end billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks — plans that face stiff resistance on Capitol Hill from oil - state Democrats and most Republicans.

But his request for Congress to approve $ 10 million for research on several aspects of violence prevention — including a look at the effects of video games and media images — could face stiff resistance among advocates of gun ownership.

Cheng's group previously developed short protein chains that twist into a helical spiral, giving them a stiff, rodlike structure that can punch holes through bacterial membranes — a method of killing to which bacteria have little ability to develop resistance.

Schoenfeld et al. (2015) explored the EMG amplitude of the proximal (upper) and distal (lower) regions of the medial and lateral hamstrings during the stiff - legged deadlift and the lying leg curl exercises in resistance - trained males.

For the film version, Brian Donlevy (one of the stiffest of Hollywood stars) is the assassin, a doctor working in the resistance who is forced to hide out with a Czech family when his getaway driver (Lionel Stander) is arrested and he is forced to find his own escape.

Yet, even with new forms of resistance ushered in by technological innovation, the stiff - gestured ideology of neoliberalism has arched towards a state of «human exceptionalism» where all of humanity is now supposed to feel free to exploit at will the relations between nature and society any way that it chooses, as long as profits can be squeezed out.

Normally I'd remove a fuse and test the two connections with a multimeter set to measure Ohms / resistance, but removing this is a non-trivial task - not only is the bolt holding it in place incredibly stiff, it's also holding the wiring together and I don't like the risk of re-assembling the wiring incorrectly or losing one of the many small parts like washers held with this bolt.

Of course, the GT4 is a stiffer - sprung car than the standard models, which gives it even tauter body control and roll resistance, but in proper Porsche Motorsport tradition is also rides a bumpy road surface with abundant damping quality.

Resistance to understeer has been improved thanks to a lighter, stiffer hollow front anti-roll bar and along with the rest of the changes Ford says this has resulted in a car with 10 per cent more grip than before.

He pushed the door against the resistance of a stiff hinge and swiveled slowly on the worn vinyl seat and planted both feet flat on the road.

The HP TouchPad might be able to offer stiff resistance with its WebOS interface and the next wave of Samsung Galaxy Tabs are on their way.

It doesn't help that I accidentally completed a dungeon out of order, something designed for above my level, and after chewing through a boss that I wasn't supposed to fight yet (it did, admittedly, put up stiff resistance), the rest of the game's opposition was pitiful.

John Updike took up the same cause 25 years later: «In the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, the scorn was simple gallery politics; but resistance to Wyeth remains curiously stiff in an art world that has no trouble making room for Photorealists like Richard Estes and Philip Pearlstein and graduates of commercial art like Wayne Thibauld, Andy Warhol, and for that matter, Edward Hopper.»

But preservationists, neighbors of the Presidio and people resentful of Mr. Fisher's wealth and conservative politics offered stiff, often vitriolic resistance to the project.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

On the upside, the 61.8 % Fib retracement level with the last swing high of $ 416 and a low of $ 361 will offer stiff resistance as the price attempts to correct higher.

The price is encountering stiff resistance at the 61.8 % Fib retracement level with the last swing high at $ 7,472 and a low of $ 6,450.

Notwithstanding, the cryptocurrency is likely to breakout of it and rally to about $ 5000 levels, where it should face stiff resistance as it's a major psychological barrier.

The cryptocurrency showed stiff resistance at $ 9,000 and experts said the probability of a pullback above that level is more likely in the short term given the current scenario.

Currently, LTC is trading at $ 205 on GDAX, having witnessed the bull exhaustion near the stiff resistance zone of $ 230 - $ 240 earlier this week.