Sentences with phrase «powerful opposition in»

This exclusive arrangement with Amazon has attracted some powerful opposition in the form of Connecticut attorney general, Richard Blumenthal.

Austin said the trigger laws are increasingly popular across the country «in the face of some of the most intense and powerful opposition in America.»

Even if the Trump tax plan advances in the House, it still faces some powerful opposition in the Senate.

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But while such deals have traditionally met little opposition in Washington, the Justice Department has sued to block AT&T's $ 85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner on the grounds that it would create too powerful of a content company.

Second - term Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson, who will also serve as Official Opposition Finance Critic, could be a powerful force in this important role.

I suggested that the very excess of external compression to which we are subjected by the relative contraction of our planet may one day cause us to breach that mysterious wall of growing repulsion which, more often than not, sets the human molecules in opposition to one another, and enter the powerful, still unknown field of our basic affinities.

Some twenty slaves (he continued) have stood firm through all this fiery opposition, and if the persecution somewhat lessens I am told great numbers will join... «52 Events such as these demonstrate how powerful missionaries could become in local society.

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

As such it may be a powerful force in combination, alliance, or opposition to one of the great rival civil religions seeking dominance in the state.

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.

regarding Lacazette his going to make a huge difference in our goal tally, we always needed a player with his ability in and around the box, Laca is a better version of Lukas Podolski, for years now we are always passing the ball around the opposition box for ages with no end result but with Laca with his accurate aim and powerful shots we should do well, that is if he gets enough time on the pitch,

there was nothing much wrong in gibbs performance last night against a team that spent about 12 minutes in total in our half but he is not a powerful defender against top opposition....

With Pogba's flair and Kante's powerful running and defensive screening, United quite simply steamrolled their opposition and they were worthy winners in all four competitions they were involved in.

Tall, powerful, strong in the air, and able to build up a decent head of steam when necessary, he will almost always keep himself on the right side of play and opposition players, looking to shut down attacks by overpowering opponents while staying on his feet.

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.

Unless and until Labour achieves some sort of coherence, it is a peculiarity of this parliament that opposition to a government with a truly precarious majority, arises in the oddest places: powerful individual performers, such as Keir Starmer and Angela Eagle, or dynamic parliamentary committees, such as the Women's Committee, chaired by Maria Miller.

It's a night when we can begin the process that is necessary to heal the divisions in our party, to unite this party, to make this into a truly powerful and united opposition and get us ready once more to win back the trust of the British people.»

The family of the late Sheikh Abdullah al - Ahmar, formerly paramount chief of Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashid, combines traditional authority with a prominent economic role in local business and a political role in parliament and in the opposition.

The ERG has been described as the most powerful opposition force in British politics, organising through a Whatsapp group with «a sense of discipline».

The powerful labor union 1199SEIU on Monday will release a letter stepping up its opposition to a proposed storage plan for liquid petroleum gas in the Finger Lakes region.

In February 2017, the Times described the European Research Group as «the most powerful opposition force in British politics», organising through a Whatsapp group with «a sense of discipline» which puts even the (famously disciplined) SNP «to shame»In February 2017, the Times described the European Research Group as «the most powerful opposition force in British politics», organising through a Whatsapp group with «a sense of discipline» which puts even the (famously disciplined) SNP «to shame»in British politics», organising through a Whatsapp group with «a sense of discipline» which puts even the (famously disciplined) SNP «to shame».

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

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.

And it could arise this time on the Left side of the aisle in opposition to Trump because they may be worried about his potential for demagoguery or worried about mob justice or the federal government just being too powerful in general.

In the end, the placement of casinos is being decided by the state, but a well organized local opposition campaign could have a huge impact on powerful interests.

«I think the most powerful argument for Labour in this election - because of the way the polls are, and the way the opinion polls are and the leadership issue - the most powerful argument for Labour is to say it's important for our democracy that the Government is held to account and needs a strong opposition.»

But it has put him in opposition to several groups that are normally allies of the mayor — including the politically powerful and influential Teamsters and the Working Families Party, which have backed the horse carriage drivers.

«It should be a wake - up call for us all in Labour that it is high time for us to become a much more powerful opposition and high time for us to become a government once more in waiting.»

But the most ambitious proposals Mark - Viverito laid out Thursday have built - in opposition in the powerful leader of the correction officers» union.

Often such late opposition by a powerful interest group is enough to kill or postpone a bill in Albany.

In the annals of the American labor movement, contested unionization campaigns are a common story, often involving downtrodden workers struggling against the concerted opposition of wealthy, powerful, even malign employers.

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.

In the dozen or so major coal or oil states, opposition to climate change action is politically powerful and well organized.

Perhaps the most politically powerful conversion was made by Attorney General Ken Salazar, the most visible Latino elected official in the state, who reversed his long - time opposition to vouchers.

OLYMPIA, Jan. 3. - The state's powerful teachers» union will challenge the charter - schools measure approved by voters last November, perhaps no surprise given the longstanding opposition of the Washington Education Association - but it remains unclear whether state schools superintendent Randy Dorn will join in the lawsuit or file one of his own...

CTA, arguably the most powerful union in California, spent more than $ 2 million during the primary in support of Torlakson and in opposition to Tuck.

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.

Ever since billionaire Eli Broad and a few other powerful figures in the school reform movement announced plans of a massive investment in new charter schools for LA Unified, the district's teachers union has been aggressively mobilizing opposition to it.

Tomorrowland Time Bomb will unleash a powerful shockwave and temporarily freeze your opposition in time.

The conflict of El Quimbo, however, is not only this; it is also a metaphor of the conflict that has been staining Colombia with blood for half a century: flexibility in favour of the powerful, inutility of legal and peaceful forms of opposition, a democracy deaf to the voices of its citizens, the necessity to protect one's own life project.

It included a video installation of Ogoni dancing around pipelines — the lively and powerful contrasted with the inorganic and inert — and the first - ever photographs of the Ogele, secretive performance groups that emerged in the 1980s wearing masks that celebrated opposition to the oil industry.

«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.

Second, as a possible direct consequence of the communication bias, one in five Australians incorrectly think that reducing emissions will cause future incomes to fall below current levels and subscription to this belief is a powerful predictor of opposition to carbon policy [13].

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.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai - ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan...

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.