Sentences with phrase «vocal opponents from»

Beaten up by well - organized and vocal opponents from Kingston and Woodstock on its plans to build a bottling plant in the Town of Ulster and rejected for millions in state subsidies, Niagara pulled the plug two weeks ago.

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The finance minister's call for tax feedback unleashes vocal pushback from incensed lobbyists and political opponents

«Some of the large retailers who are big importers have been some of the most vocal opponents,» Rosenberg said, noting they haven't been the only ones who have come out against the proposal, but also pointing to support the plan has from companies such as Boeing, General Electric, and Johnson and Johnson.

As usual there was enormous attacks from all sides and the most vocal opponents were the employees of Blockstream.

When a movement against slavery was first introduced in Europe and then America, some of the most vocal opponents to this movement came from Christians.

Erickson has since become vocal opponent of net - pen fish farming in Washington State, and she has rallied to stop oyster farmers from using pesticides.

The most ardent and vocal opponent of the «cry it out» method, Dr. William Sears, has just come out with «The Baby Sleep Book,» written with one of his two pediatrician sons, Dr. Robert Sears, in which they urge parents to rescue their infants from crying jags.

Over the past year, Reed has been one of the Labour leader's most vocal opponents in Westminster, having resigned from the shadow frontbench almost immediately after he was first elected in 2015.

He has been a vocal opponent of LGBT rights who blocked equal - marriage legislation and sought to remove LGBT victims from the country's listed hate crimes laws.

Because he's Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr., that's why — the Democrat state senator from the Bronx who's been a vocal opponent of LGBT progress in New York since at least 1994, when he tried to keep the Gay Games from his city.

Because he's Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr., that's why — the Democrat state senator from the Bronx who's been a vocal opponent of LGBT progress... Read

Unlike in previous conflicts, academics in Syria were targeted from the beginning because they are vocal opponents of repression, Goodman says.

Your father was from Calcutta and was a vocal opponent of British rule in India.

«My office continues to hear from constituents saying that someone is parked outside their house or they are knocking on the door,» Senator James Lankford (R — OK), one of the survey's most vocal opponents, told census officials last week at a hearing on the bureau's plans for the 2020 decennial census that also touched on ACS.

This has included issuing guidance that effectively stops Office for Civil Rights investigators from looking at three years of past complaints to prove that a district or other school operators has engaged in systematic overspending of Black, Latino, and Native children, as well as the hiring of Hans Bader, a vocal opponent of school discipline reform.

Traditional licensed taxi drivers in major cities have been the most vocal opponents of expanded operating rights for the ride - sharing companies, and now they could benefit from new technology that will put them on more even competitive footing.

Hansen's Been Vocal Opponent of Cap and Trade Hansen has made such statements before: Back in May he said he hoped the Waxman - Markey bill failed because of concerns that the only people to really benefit from such a scheme are financiers acting as middlemen and that a «much more effective approach» was needed — such as a fee - and - dividend approach — which is essential a carbon tax on producers, with the money being given back to the public.