Sentence examples for considerable official from inspiring English sources

They had always operated in the face of considerable official pressure, turning out distinguished, often subtly subversive movies.

Though Daoism never became the exclusive state religion in the South, its most eminent representatives founded powerful organizations that received considerable official support.

Falun Gong initially enjoyed considerable official support during the early years of its development, and amassed a following of millions.

There is considerable official and entirely legal movement of commercial goods across the border in both directions.

Meanwhile, although the economic benefits of outdoor recreation are considerable, local officials complain that only about 8 percent of the county's land is private and tax-generating.

A nationwide surveillance system to track the progress of an outbreak as it moves around the world and across the country still needs considerable work, officials said.

The results could reveal a culture of self-dealing and personal enrichment that exceeds even the Chinese public's considerable tolerance of official abuse.

Documentary hands show a considerable range: stylized official "chancery" hands, the workaday writing of government clerks or of the street scribes who drew up wills or wrote letters to order, the idiosyncratic or nearly illiterate writing of private individuals.

"To put it bluntly, we can't afford to pursue every case -- even cases that may have considerable merit," the official said.

During the 1980s, Derek Hudson, the long-time conductor of the Bulawayo Philharmonic Orchestra, had considerable difficulty securing official permission to give the first Zimbabwean performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Various studies have analysed these considerable divergences between official policies and actual practice in other health sectors [ 23- 25].