Sentences with phrase «very public opposition»

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Denton's optimism about this recent investment stands in direct opposition to his previous, and very public, aversion to taking on outside money.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

And the signs so far in Brazil are very positive — a public inquiry will be held, legislation to ban live export is to be drafted, vets and vet students are being educated and beginning to speak out against the trade, and the meat processing union has publicly announced its opposition to live export.

«People will take a very dim of an opposition party which stands in the way of an inquiry because they don't want their dirty washing done in public,» the PM shouts.

This is one of those rare political memoirs, self - deprecating and amusing, which are very readable, revealing much about the author's private and public lives and offering shrewd observations about opposition politics and the pressures of ministerial life.

You have stigmatised and criminalised every single leading member of the opposition PDP, including our leader President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, over the last three years and you have sought to paint us as reprobates and evil souls that are not fit to hold public office and that have destroyed the very foundation of our country.

«This is very welcome news and shows that opposition is growing to the government's raid on public sector pensions, and their assault on jobs, pay and public services.

Chief policy adviser to David Cameron Oliver Letwin - once referred to as the Gandalf of the leader's circle - is known to believe that opposition parties can not change public opinion other than in one or two areas if they push very hard and in a very single - minded way.

Oliver Letwin may well believe «that opposition parties can not change public opinion other than in one or two areas if they push very hard and in a very single - minded way».

«Health officials in both Mississippi and West Virginia report that overwhelming majorities of the public support their policies and that opposition comes from a very small number of the population.

A public sympathetic to school choice could be so troubled by Democratic opposition that it comes to view Democratic and Republicans in a very different light when it comes to handling education.

With opposition mounting in both liberal and conservative circles, support for Common Core slipped significantly among the public at large, casting doubt on its very viability.

Now a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center details how right - wing extremists are using Core opposition are using conspiracy theories and misinformation to undermine the very notion of public education.

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Teachers - union members were even more blunt in their opposition: «Let's be very clear and dispel any notion that the school board majority, representing more than $ 15 million in political donations from the charter lobby, is here in the best interest of our public schools,» charged United Teachers Los Angeles secretary Arlene Inouye.

This transition was accomplished with minimal disruption and very little opposition from the general public simply because better alternatives quickly became available as a result of the tighter efficiency standards.