Sentences with phrase «powerful opposition from»

New York lawmakers have introduced bills to open up the process at least a dozen times in the last 25 years, but the measures have faced powerful opposition from the state's district attorneys.

As for Kinder Morgan, they'll face powerful opposition from the municipalities of the Lower Mainland before they're allowed to transform Port Moody into Port McMurray.

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The main opposition group — known as the Syrian National Council — told the NY Times that they've «recently received more powerful anti-tank missiles from Turkey, with the financial support of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.»

What appear to be the most powerful congestion - battling weapons?road tolls?face stiff opposition from drivers and politicians.

The powerful opposition rebalancing would necessarily unleash — from groups the Chinese press had dubbed «vested interests» as early as 2007 — always made it unlikely that Beijing would implement significant reforms before 2012.

But he then drew opposition from some of the Democratic Party's most powerful members, particularly Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who held up his nomination for months.

For decades, Hartshorne and Weiss have tenaciously clung to their definite convictions that metaphysics is the main business of philosophy, despite almost overwhelming opposition from the powerful camps of American logical positivism, linguistic analysis, and their allies.

In proclaiming the defense of the poor, however, it received great opposition from the powerful of this world.

The 26 - year - old was outstanding in Arsenal's 2 - 0 win over Liverpool, most of his best moments coming from powerful runs from deep into the opposition half, and the performance drew comparisons between Diaby and Man City's Yaya Toure.

He does have a tendency to lose concentration at critical moments, especially when looking at his disciplinary record over the years, but Rooney mustn't be allowed to make his powerful runs into perilous territory unaccompanied and Cattermole will be essential in not only helping things flow from the back but also stepping in and breaking up any fruitful play from the opposition on the day.

Working with our partners around the world, we help to bring in, strengthen and defend legislation in the face of opposition from some of the most powerful companies in the world.

A powerful alderman has dropped his opposition to a bump in entrance fees at the Adler Planetarium in light of the museum's decision to exempt Chicago children from the increase.

It recommends that the chairs of powerful Holyrood committees such as finance should come from opposition parties to give stronger checks and balances.

Real - time opposition research is most powerful when it's embedded within a narrative about the opposing candidate — basically, when it reinforces what you've been saying about the other guy all along, a message that derives from the opposition research that's gathered using these online tools and otherwise.

Unless reconciliation is effected, Ganduje is expected to meet stiff opposition in his re-election bid from the powerful Kwankwasiyya movement both at the APC primaries and in the general election.

The northern MP has strong union support, but could face opposition from Labour's still - powerful Blairite faction.

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.

However, the government will face strong opposition from Brazil's powerful landowning lobby.

When it's «The Adjustment Bureau,» an adaptation of the hard - to - describe Philip K. Dick short story about a politician (Damon) whose love for a ballet dancer (Emily Blunt) faces stiff opposition from a mysterious and powerful group known as — you guessed it — the Adjustment Bureau.

The legislation faced stiff opposition from the state's powerful teachers unions, and while linking teacher pay with student performance remains a key goal of the Obama administration, there remained enough uncertainty around the proposal to cause its demise, again.

Ripp's bills, in fact, face stiff opposition from the 3,000 - member Wisconsin State Reading Association, a powerful professional organization of teachers, reading specialists, administrators, reading professors and parents.

The request faced staunch opposition from the statewide teachers union, a powerful player in Sacramento, and a lack of support from the state Department of Education.

Opposition from superintendents, school boards and teachers» unions is a very powerful thing in what is — with the exception of Gov. Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, who are Republicans — a one - party state when it comes to officials who are elected statewide.

Offering many tactical strategies straight from the series, key attacks from the TV show have been recreated, such as the powerful «Starbooster» diving attack to smash into opposition units, and many more.

«We have a very powerful opposition that, at least in my country, spends billions on trying to keep from office people such as yourselves and elect troglodytes and other deniers of the obvious science,» he said in reference to U.S conservatives.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plan to replace fossil fuels with ethanol and other low - carbon fuels through a «clean fuel standard» — expected to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 30 million tonnes a year by 2030 — faces mounting opposition, especially from a powerful lobby south of the border.

My opinion on the matter differs from yours, based on the powerful opposition he faced from the Ethyl Corporation.

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.