Sentence examples for powerful opposing from inspiring English sources

Green saw Brown's life as an unfortunate convergence of powerful opposing forces.

Getting that done in the face of powerful opposing forces — from consumers who will always want their fuel, electricity, food and clothing to be cheaper than it is, to corporations driven by the bottom line — will ultimately be a matter of sheer political will.

To almost criminally oversimplify, American Gods traps Shadow between two powerful opposing forces: the Old Gods, traditional sources of guidance and objects of worship, and the New Gods, who represent modern-day icons like media and money.

Each executive is answerable directly to the supervisory board.Although there have been moves in the American direction in some German executive suites, there are powerful opposing forces, as Ulrich Schumacher, the flamboyant, American-style boss of Infineon, a semiconductor firm, found out last week when he was abruptly ousted by his supervisory board.

The generals, still powerful, opposed this & after 22 months of military pressure, on Dec. 22, 1986, the Uruguayan Congress passed an amnesty law.

The subsidising of alternatives, however, is far easier to negotiate since the fossil fuel interest are only indirectly affected and cannot therefore muster as powerful an opposing force.

The restaurant lobby isn't the only powerful voice opposing the initiative.

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He says he remains "focused like a laser beam fighting for the middle class," even as "powerful voices" oppose him.

Their gentry, wishing to share in the privileges of the Polish szlachta, wanted a real union, but the powerful magnates opposed it.

The National Farmers Federationn, a powerful lobby, opposes the sale, arguing that a privatised firm would ignore customers scattered over Australia's outback, where services are hard to maintain.