Sentence examples for a large opposition from inspiring English sources

The measures came days before a new legislature with a large opposition minority is due to be sworn in.

Just this month, Mr. Chávez has faced two assassination plots, a coup plot, a general strike and a large opposition march.

The mobilisation of such a large opposition to a policy that ministers thought would pass under the radar, and the strength of the response, shocked David Cameron's government.

In another sign of the impasse, the leader of a large opposition coalition all but rebuffed an invitation by Russia, one of Syria's closest allies, to discuss solutions to the crisis.

Charges of me-tooism didn't surface again until the 1990's, when another popular president faced with a large opposition majority adopted a strategy of "triangulation" between the left and right.

"The Senate is voting the expulsion of a man who is since yesterday the reference point for a large opposition formation," wrote the analyst Stefano Folli in the business daily Il Sole 24 Ore.

My hospital is the main one in a large opposition-controlled area in east Damascus.

Starting Wednesday, a broader group critical of the council and endorsed by the United States will try to create a larger opposition umbrella group.

Helped by his chums on an absurdly partisan London Evening Standard, Johnson's taste in buses helped his campaign to sell a larger opposition, depicting Livingstone as a cynical, soulless modernist and "Good old Boris" as a jovial, can-do traditionalist.

If and when that happens, the main thrust on Tripoli is likely to come from the rebels in Misrata, Libya's third biggest city, perhaps reinforced by a larger opposition force currently holding its position hundreds of miles east near the town of Brega, which is still in government hands.

A similarly large opposition protest received barely a minute in coverage.