Sentences with phrase «vehement opposition»

The fact is that Thomas, a black of humble origins and an avowed conservative, met with vehement opposition from much of the black....

While Gottfried, an Assembly Democratic Majority member, said he is comfortable with the concept of such a harm - reduction model, state Sen. George Amedore, R - Rotterdam, expressed vehement opposition.

In the meantime, let's look at some of the significant reforms in government ethics that the governor has achieved, despite vehement opposition by the Legislature:

But it was very clear from the very beginning on the part of the actual Congressmen that they weren't going to support it because they had already come out on the floor with such vehement opposition to the bill and pointing out exactly what was wrong with the bill, that it didn't have to be done in a hurry.

The right - leaning Fordham Institute's Mike Petrilli came around to pen this line on his blog after voicing vehement opposition earlier in the week:

Meunier's organisation was founded by some of the most vehement opposition figures, including Egypt's richest man and well - known Coptic Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Tarek Heggy, an oil industry executive, Salah Diab, Halliburton's partner in Egypt, and Usama Ghazali Harb, a politician with roots in the Mubarak regime and a frequent US embassy contact.

But one source doesn't expect the measure will ultimately make the final package because of vehement opposition by the police unions and district attorneys.

Also conveniently forgotten by Tsipras, now the champion of foreign investment and declared enemy of «wasteful spending,» was his party's past vehement opposition to foreign investment and the obstacles put by both government ministers and state bureaucracy to investments such as the gold mining operation in Chalkidiki peninsula, just east of Thessaloniki, and a real estate development project, by far Greece's largest, on the grounds of the former Athens airport.

In a series of moves that White House press secretary Sean Spicer described as an «energy revolution,» Mr. Trump invited TransCanada to submit a new application for the $ 8 - billion (U.S.) Keystone XL project that was rejected by the Obama administration in 2015, as well as giving his blessing to the Dakota Access pipeline that has attracted vehement opposition in North Dakota.

Closely following the teachings of B.R. Ambedkar, the 20th Century symbol of Dalit power and protest, the Dalit asserted their separateness from other Hindus and demonstrated vehement opposition to classical Brahmanic Hinduism.12 However, it may be stated that Dalit movement in India is not yet homogenous and does represent diverse policies and means of liberation.

Though the tax, which Cuomo wants to extend as is, is a progressive's dream, he faces stiff opposition from the right, with state Senate Majority Republicans maintaining vehement opposition to the tax.

For at least three decades, officials have debated adding a track on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, with often vehement opposition from some residents over train noise, disruption during construction and the acquisition of homes and businesses.

However, despite one veiled death threat that I'm rather proud of, my columns were getting over 85,000 hits each time I wrote, so it showed how vehement the opposition to HST was.

Despite vehement opposition from the solar industry lobby, the bill sailed through both chambers of Connecticut's legislature, passing the state Senate by a vote of 29 - 3 before passing the House 100 - 45 in the same week.

Some brokerage executives hope that in the face of such vehement opposition, the Department of Labor will back off.

Although he agreed with his conservative economic policies, Cuban voiced vehement opposition to his conservative social stances and Trump personally.

Nonetheless, there are still a lot of positive feats achieved under the watch of the president who has faced the most vehement opposition, coupled with strikes, demonstrations and protests in the history of the country.

The proposed changes have met with vehement opposition from within the industry.

It needs explaining because it's a concept that is not widely understood and initially meets with vehement opposition from both librarians and the reading public.

Thus it is no surprise that pluralists readily desert their pluralism in their vehement opposition to certain kinds of classical and conservative theology.

Looking at that little girl's picture, I think like a lot of mothers would have felt strongly compelled to respond to his harmful, sexist words with vehement opposition, and it would not be because they liked him.

The Labour council offered «vehement opposition.»

While both the current and previous Romanian governments do not seem to mind their country being ripped off, the Romanian public has expressed its vehement opposition to the project.

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced his vehement opposition to the agreement.

The proposal, however, has been met with vehement opposition, with the Democratic - lead Assembly on board, but the Republican - led Senate vehemently against the idea.

Given the vehement opposition to the Park Point Pilot in New Paltz, one might have assumed that applying for a Pilot therein would be, well, pointless.

Despite a passionate speech from Johnson and others expressing their vehement opposition to the project, many on the board viewed the development as an inevitability, and wanted to give conditions for it instead of issuing a blanket «no.»

Davis isn't alone in his vehement opposition to increasing pay.

The 1985 and 1992 California math frameworks were indeed crowning achievements of progressive math reformers, but as new textbooks and programs began trickling into schools, a coalition of parents and mathematicians arose in vehement opposition.

Almost every head teacher of a state secondary school in Surrey has signed a letter to the prime minister expressing their «vehement opposition» to plans for more grammar schools in England.

Members of the Walter L. Cohen alumni association have focused their vehement opposition to any merger of their alma mater with the new Booker T. Washington High School, and have said the Cohen campus should be renovated with the name retained.

Hatley and Dauphiné, it seems, have more than that 2010 paper — and their vehement opposition to TNR — in common: both of them seems perfectly willing to disown their work when it seems advantageous to do so.

One obvious problem is the vehement opposition and likely obstruction of the climate alarmists.

Our vehement opposition to taxes, and greedy desire for another ten bucks in our tax rebate makes us elect irresponsible fools who will not only deny funding for our safety, but deny that problems even exist.

Our vehement opposition to taxes also prevents us from being the greatest country in the world.

Despite vehement opposition to the permit from residents...

As opposed to the launch of the Lightning Network, where the product was lauded as a solution that would address many frustrations around bitcoin and subsequently has, the emergence of the forked bitcoin Cash has had vehement opposition from the start.

«Representatives of the Indigenous, Greek, Jewish, Chinese, Arab, Armenian and Korean communities have expressed their «vehement opposition» to changes that have been mooted to sections of the Racial Discrimination Act which prohibit public conduct that is reasonably likely to «offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate» a person or groups because of their skin colour or national or ethnic origin.

Nonpartisan groups representing nearly every part of the health care industry expressed their vehement opposition, including insurance companies, doctors, patients, hospitals, and other patient - provider groups including America's Health Insurance Plans, ACOG, American Medical Association, the President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and the American Heart Association.