Sentence examples for formidable opposition for the from inspiring English sources

One month after this country's momentous elections, Parliament officially opened today with the governing party forced to share space and power with a formidable opposition for the first time in more than a decade.

A8 New Parliament in Zimbabwe The Parliament officially opened with the governing party forced to share space and power with a formidable opposition for the first time in more than a decade.

He certainly would have delivered them more grief than contenders who consistently have come up short over the past decade, and he would have been formidable opposition for everyone else in a depleted field.

Although Mrs. Clinton is not facing any formidable opposition for her Senate seat, she is considering whether to run for president in 2008, giving her remarks about national policy and the Republican leadership extra resonance.

To bolster that point, developers note that half of the state's municipalities have yet to submit plans on how they will comply with the Mount Laurel doctrine; they also complain about formidable opposition from the State House, which for years has been trying to undo Mount Laurel through legislation.

He has for the first time encountered formidable opposition from the Republicans in Congress.

Consider Nevada, where the legalization measure, Question 2, faces formidable opposition from the state's powerful gambling industry.

"We've knocked off some pretty formidable opposition over the last five or six weeks.

President Rouhani has the upper hand so far but there is formidable opposition in the clergy and ultra-right fundamentalists.

For its attack on all forms of morality based on religion it aroused formidable opposition, particularly from the son of Louis XV, the dauphin Louis, though it was published openly with the benefit of royal privilege.

But the bills face formidable opposition, including from the Obama administration.