Sentence examples for corporate opposition from inspiring English sources

Corporate opposition was incessant and it even became a political issue in the 1920 provincial election.

Roosevelt turned corporate opposition into a badge of honor: "I welcome their hatred," he declared.

High unemployment, globalization of manufacturing and corporate opposition will continue to drag down unions, especially private sector ones, he said.

It will take carefully planned popular pressure to weaken corporate opposition and push governments into acting on our behalf.

But that takes laws, and they require governments prepared to pass them - even in the teeth of fierce corporate opposition.

Several chairmen of the S.E.C. have tried to change the nomination rules, and have failed in the face of fierce corporate opposition.

(Not counting races where the non-corporate opposition raised $0).

On average, corporate-backed groups are out-fundraising their mostly non-corporate opposition by 10-to-1 in races examined in this study.

Kenneth Ballen, the counsel to the Senate committee, said, "These people have amassed such unaccountable power!" By 1993, when Bill Clinton became President, Citizens for a Sound Economy had become a prototype for the kind of corporate-backed opposition campaigns that have proliferated during the Obama era.

City politicians were up against a corporate-funded opposition effort.

The position taken by the corporate bar in opposition to the FASB proposal was not terribly nuanced.