Sentences with phrase «unanimous opposition»

Democratic leaders expect unanimous opposition from their own members.

Writing in this week's NLJ, Hogan Lovells» partner Nicholas Heaton questions the wisdom of hikes in court fees: «If the government has its way, in the face of virtually unanimous opposition during the consultation process, some commercial court litigants will have to pay fees six times as high as current fees — not all commercial court litigants are Russian oligarchs.»

Virgin Australia chairman Elizabeth Bryan says the airline decided not to privatise after unanimous opposition from its major shareholders.

Fifty thousand gathered in Porto Alegre in February at the Second World Social Forum to voice unanimous opposition to economic globalisation and to call for alternative models of world governance and finance.

There was also unanimous opposition to the suggestion that spanking should be criminalized.

The newly modified plan by House Speaker John Boehner however, faced a veto threat by the White House and unanimous opposition among Senate Democrats.

There was near unanimous opposition to the Act from local law enforcement leaders.

At a White House meeting yesterday with House and Senate leaders, Obama noted that polls showed the Democratic Congress's popularity rising with the passage of the stimulus bill, despite Republicans» near - unanimous opposition because of the package's heavy spending programs.

When Library leaders delivered this message to the public in a series of 22 community meetings during the first half of 2000, the public and the elected officials who represent them expressed almost unanimous opposition.

The bill was scuttled for this year when it failed to win a majority in the Senate against unanimous opposition from Republicans.

Republicans can afford to lose no more than 22 votes from their members and still pass the bill in the face of unanimous opposition from Democrats.

(CNN)- Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh used an analogy about rape Friday to blast this week's decision by the Senate's Democratic majority to change the chamber's filibuster rules despite the unanimous opposition of minority Republicans.