Sentence examples for against overwhelming opposition from inspiring English sources

Even if the decision to strike was partly motivated by flagging domestic support, the strike came against overwhelming opposition among the public for unilateral military action, according to a recent poll.

The suits claim the Agriculture Department violated the Administrative Procedure Act, issuing its rules with little public notice and no reasoned explanation and against overwhelming opposition from the public.

I hope those who applauded upon hearing the news keep their responsibility to students by angrily standing up for the right to dissent against overwhelming opposition, by not giving in to the tidal wave of whitewash that threatens to dominate the news and by clinging onto the optimism that as long as their kind of political engagement happens, there will never be another Thatcher.

"For more than ten years, Stanley Prusiner fought an uneven battle against overwhelming opposition," noted Ralf Pettersson, who was vice chair of the Nobel committee for physiology and medicine when Prusiner was honored in 1997.

Mr. Dent was one of just 22 Republicans who helped pass major legislation this year — to avert a fiscal showdown, to provide relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy and to pass the Violence Against Women Act — in the face of overwhelming opposition within his own party.

Congress was inundated with calls 100 to 1 against bombing Syria, and, faced with such overwhelming opposition, was set to reject the requested war authorization.

Probably the most famous "fact" about Columbus — his insistence, against overwhelming scholastic opposition, that the world was round — was the work of a fabulist, Washington Irving, who wrote the first modern biography of the explorer.

First of all, they said, Syria did not want to stand out against overwhelming Arab opposition to the war and could not ignore what they described as "passionate pleas" for support from Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

Although there was overwhelming opposition to the bill, the delegation reported quite the opposite to Congress.

You would think that the democratic thing for Rep. Wasserman Schultz to do, in the face of such overwhelming opposition, would be to take a stand against the center.

The idealistic lawyer is working in the face of the overwhelming opposition of his or her fellow British citizens and against the express wishes of most poor-country governments, who need to hold on to their most dynamic citizens.