Sentence examples for in opposition to the changes from inspiring English sources

"We must on the one hand protect the mayor's role as contract officer for the city but on the other hand protect the comptroller's right to review how the mayor is doing in that role," Mr. Sexton said.. Glenn Pasanen, associate director of City Project, a city budget watchdog group that testified in opposition to the changes, said he was pleased by the offer.

It is found that the change in Gibbs energy corresponding to the first step is positive and, hence, in opposition to the change needed for dissolution.

But those ranged in opposition to the change threw up a myriad situations in which couples would end up being fined should one spouse not know the full financial affairs of the other or should the couple temporarily separate.

The society was founded in opposition to the liberalizing changes of the Second Vatican Council.

Tensions flared last January after Benedict revoked the excommunications of four bishops from the Society of St. Pius X, a group founded in opposition to the liberalizing changes of the Second Vatican Council.

Mr. Chidambaram's battle to tame the deficit takes place against the backdrop of a continued economic slowdown, and a fractious Parliament, where the government has lost its majority after its biggest coalition ally withdrew support in opposition to the economic changes.

In disbelief, Edward watched his town rally together at City Hall in opposition to the proposal to change zoning which would allow for this monstrosity of construction and corporate interest, only to see their local politicians shrug their shoulders and grant the zoning in favor of the project......Deep pockets and small town politics prevailed.

The changes in trabecular structure within the BML-affected area are in opposition to the typical age-related changes in trabecular structure in the proximal tibia that involve trabecular thinning and progression from a plate-like structure to a rod-like structure [ 29- 31].

Porter enhances the poignancy of these lines by including a chord change that goes from A flat major to A flat minor in opposition to the lyric "how strange the change from major to minor".

While Japan's mainstream political parties remain weak and divided, citizen activism in opposition to these changes may be energised, particularly at the level of local politics.

There is increasing evidence that select forms of exercise are associated with vascular changes that are in opposition to the well-accepted beneficial effects of moderate intensity aerobic exercise.