Sentences with phrase «voice of the opposition»

Additionally, he wants to be sure local elected officials can't bring a strong voice of opposition to this proposal.

Together we formed a strong voice of opposition and it was heard.

A more colorful voice of opposition came Wednesday in a Newsday column from consultant Bill O'Reilly, who would need to register with JCOPE should the proposal be enacted.

«There are always voices of opposition and concern when there is change in NYC,» he says, «but we're feeling pretty good about the positive response we've received to date.»

Still, in many ways the loudest voices of opposition are not representative of the largest group of school - lunch eaters in this country.

Together, the Liberal Democrats must be the real voice of opposition.

For a moment, it looked like Mr. Stringer was shaping up to be the prime Democratic voice of opposition to Mr. de Blasio.

She said the June conference will include a significant voice of opposition to the project, one that state regulators have clearing already heard.

But Coogler and his co-writer, Joe Robert Cole, reinvent this second - string villain, plucked from back issues of the Black Panther comic, into a complex voice of opposition, seductive in his radical reasoning.

Wind Concerns Ontario provides a strong, unified voice of opposition to the unchecked rush to locate over six hundred forty massive industrial wind turbines across the province in the last 5 years without the benefit of full environmental assessment.

2012 Goldman Prize winner Ikal Angelei has been a leading voice of opposition to the Gibe 3 Dam, one of Africa's largest hydropower projects.

The governor added that perpetrators of such mudslinging are out to destroy the Church «so as to silence every perceivable strong voice of opposition.

The major news bulletin «Midday Chronicle» on Hungarian Radio, produced by this same news agency, also displayed a marked pro-government bias: 74 percent of news items covered either the government or Fidesz and the Christian Democrats, further marginalising the voice of the opposition parties.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Farrell's voice of opposition is just one in a debate over the ethics and morality of providing a safe space for heroin usage staffed by medical professionals trained to address overdoses.

«Whether it's intentional or not, when it appears that an organization is attempting to limit citizen action and mute the voices of opposition, it raises questions as to what may be hiding beneath the surface,» Flanagan - Priore wrote in her letter.

The voices of opposition didn't end there, and many were from traditional Tory voters.

«My intervention on behalf of Chief Metuh, is not to shield him from his trial, if found wanting, but rather that as the voice of the opposition in Nigeria, he should not be cowed or silenced, without following due process.

Kashamu, who criticised Fayose for taking on the garb of the «leader or voice of the opposition», noted that the Ekiti State governor was the architect of the leadership crisis rocking the party at both national and South - West levels.

He said, «I am not unmindful of the antics of a governor in the South West who claims to have taken on the toga of the «leader or voice of the opposition».

Those voices of opposition may finally get their wish, at least temporarily.

«The government will continue making the case of Ebacc,» he told listeners, insisting «we must push back the voices of opposition».

Many of the voices of opposition came in the form of pet shop owners and operators.