Sentence examples for opposition mounted from inspiring English sources

Last Friday, the company canceled its proposed merger with Allied World Assurance, as shareholder opposition mounted.

As opposition mounted, the coalition government began to shift its case for HS2.

Extremely anticlerical, Zanardelli was forced to resign (1903) when opposition mounted to his attempts to pass divorce legislation.

Then the opposition mounted the City Hall steps, led by Councilman Steve Levin, who exclaimed, "We have had it with overdevelopment in our neighborhood".

For years there was stalemate as opposition mounted to the owner's plans to turn the America into new apartments and underground parking.

All the while, from his office at Facebook HQ in Silicon Valley, Chris Daniels, the vice-president of Internet.org, watched with alarm as the opposition mounted in India.

With opposition mounting, the government has conceded more amendments.

With public opposition mounting against Marcos, he called a snap election in November 1985.

Soon, though, they were under attack from escaped slaves who had organized into a formidable opposition, mounting raids on plantations.

Now, with opposition mounting to his plan to end loan guarantees for risky commercial shipbuilders, Mr. Bush faces the first test of his resolve.

With opposition mounting and Paul J. Feiner, town supervisor, urging the club to back down, club officials dropped the idea of putting up in the mesh in the fall of 2000.