Sentence examples for base of opposition from inspiring English sources

Telluride, the rich ski town an hour away by car and a universe apart in terms of money and clout, has emerged as a main base of opposition to the proposed mill, called Piñon Ridge, which would be the first new uranium-processing facility in the United States in more than 25 years if it is approved by Colorado regulators next month.

The organization, which can submit just one American city to be considered to host the games, chose Boston over Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco in January, despite an existing base of opposition.

By the death of Einar and his son around 1050, the Earls of Lade had outplayed their role as a base of opposition, and Trøndelag was definitely subordinated to Harald's national kingdom.

By destroying white farms, Mr. Mugabe wiped out a major base of black opposition.

Some government supporters warn that its actions are widening the base of the opposition and could bring together Morsi supporters and secular activists, though the latter bitterly oppose the Islamists and Morsi as equally authoritarian.

There is talk of civil war, of a divided country: the north, run from Chiang Mai (where Yingluck lives when she's not in Bangkok), versus those in the south, in Bangkok – the power base of the opposition and current protest movement.

There is talk of civil war, of a divided country: the north, run from Chiang Mai (where Yingluck lives when she's not in Bangkok), versus those in the south, in Bangkok, the power base of the opposition and current protest movement.

For such cases, Aristotle shifts from a formal to a semantically based criterion of opposition (17b16 25).

But too many senators are willing to stand instead with Wall Street, blocking a qualified nominee for the first time in the history of the Senate based on opposition to an agency's very existence," Brown said.

A former BBC reporter and army reservist, Lewis took his Norwich South seat from the Lib Dems after a campaign based on opposition to the privatisation of the NHS.

Government medical services have done little to win the confidence of people who often prefer to use traditional healers.Since the disease broke out a few months ago some easterners say the government is trying to depopulate their part of the country, the power-base of the opposition.