Sentences with phrase «unanimous opposition from»

Democratic leaders expect unanimous opposition from their own members.

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

Not exact matches

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

Despite initial opposition from Ulster's Jim Maloney, the vote was announced as unanimous.

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

U.S. opposition, joined by that of other balking countries, dooms any U.N. treaty, which would require unanimous approval from all members of the conference in which it is introduced.

The bill, authored by Best Friends Animal Society and supported by Alley Cat Allies and the Humane Society of the United States, made it through the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee with unanimous approval last week — despite opposition from, among others, Audubon Florida (which was trying to make the most of the Smithsonian / U.

In the landmark case of Hunter v Southam, [1984] 2 SCR 145 Justice Brian Dickson, writing for a unanimous court, said this about the different paths of Canadian and American history, at p. 6 (QL): «The American courts have had the advantage of a number of specific prerequisites articulated in the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as a history of colonial opposition to certain Crown investigatory practices from which to draw out the nature of the interests protected by that Amendment and the kinds of conduct it proscribes.