Sentences with phrase «strong public opposition»

The main reason why GM technology is facing such strong public opposition in the UK is that no GM foods currently on the market offer any visible benefits to consumers.

The size of their achievement is immense for South Africa: Today, any attempt to revive a nuclear deal in South Africa would certainly face strong public opposition and legal precedent thanks to Lekalakala and McDaid's work.

The TPP sparked strong public opposition in all 12 countries.

Britain could find itself being dragged into a proxy war in Syria, despite strong public opposition.

After strong public opposition to the plan when it was announced in October, Dr. Lauby in a December 4 email claimed «My discussion with the board was to limit the adoptions in Cumberland county not ban the adoptions.

In 2002, the local government responded to strong public opposition by passing an island - wide moratorium that required Intex to stop any activities related to large - scale mining.

«We decided to conduct these activities on the occasion of the world food day celebration because we want to generate a strong public opposition against golden rice which we believe is a poison disguised as food,» said Diego Dela Cruz, chairman of the advocacy committee of MASIPAG.

They confirmed that following the collapse of the pilot cull last year, many farmers lost confidence in the government's ability to deliver a legal culling programme against strong public opposition and decided to take the law into their own hands and illegally gas badgers on their farms.

Owing to strong public opposition, fracking is banned or strictly regulated in most of Europe.