Sentence examples for drop opposition from inspiring English sources

Councils will be able to demand neighbouring authorities co-operate and drop opposition to new housing developments.

C1 I.R.S. Ex-Chiefs United Seven former I.R.S. commissioners urged Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill to drop opposition to a proposed crackdown on tax havens.

In return the coalition said it would amend petitions it had filed with the Agriculture Department and the E.P.A. to drop opposition to approval of the seeds and the new herbicide form.

July 2012 Amid signs that the chancellor is pressing Cameron to drop opposition to the third runway, key Osborne allies say the government should grant planning permission for both a third and fourth runway at Heathrow.

European leaders are under pressure to do more to crack down on individuals and corporations seeking to escape heavy tax bills, with Austria and Luxembourg giving the strongest signals yet that they would finally drop opposition to sharing bank account data.

If Congress does not go along, then the department will change its policy on workers' compensation claims brought against it, telling its contractors to drop opposition in cases that met its new, relaxed criteria, and not asserting the statute of limitations as a defense.

After the group dropped opposition to the bond, the freeholders passed the ordinance that would pay for new machines and other incidentals.

Groups like the WWF eventually dropped opposition to Medupi, recognising its necessity, but still lobbied intensely (though ultimately unsuccessfully) against a critical World Bank loan for Kusile.

The FCC fear that a hotch-potch of local rules would hold back development of the service.California's regulators dropped opposition to a deal that will create America's biggest health insurer.

A8 A Minimum Age for Combat Negotiators in Geneva agreed on a new international protocol prohibiting the use of child soldiers in war, after the United States dropped opposition to establishing 18 as the minimum age for combat.

The union, The Writers Guild of America, has dropped opposition to state legislation, sought by Los Angeles, that would allow cities to examine state tax records to find people who file as a business entity but do not pay local business license taxes.