Sentence examples for opposition action from inspiring English sources

Officials quickly condemned the opposition action.

Significant opposition action was restricted to students at Tehran and Sharif universities who continued protests on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, according to opposition Web sites.

A few dozen journalists waited outside the Investigative Committee building on Tuesday, but energy for opposition actions is flagging in the midsummer heat.

Yingluck told reporters in the capital that police would deal with protesters "in line with international standards" and that she had instructed authorities to be "patient" with the opposition actions.

Senator John McCain of Arizona said Germany had been helpful to American military actions in Kosovo and Afghanistan, describing its opposition to action in Iraq as an aberration.

China had no free press to give warning of impending disaster, no opposition demanding action.

The death of Luís Diaz, a leader of the opposition Democratic Action party in central Guarico state, has rocked Venezuela days before the vote for a new National Assembly, which the Socialists risk losing for the first time in 16 years.

Although Barack Obama has been largely reticent on climate change, his opponent would have been much less likely to approach the negotiations favourably, given the extent of opposition to action on emissions within the US Republican party.

LH: But do you think it is just fossil-fuel lobbying etc, or is it an ideological/psychological opposition to action on climate change and one feeds the other?

However, eight Republicans voted for the bill, breaking their party's blanket opposition to action on climate change, and allowing Obama to claim a share of bipartisan support for his energy reforms.

The utterance immediately got star billing on the right-wing blog Drudge Report as well as a mention on Fox News - both repositories of opposition to action on global warming.