Sentence examples for prompting opponents from inspiring English sources

The school would remain at Fort Benning and still offer courses involving purely military tactics and strategies, prompting opponents to denounce the changes as cosmetic.

Even during the American Revolution, it was a center of Tory loyalists to King George -- prompting opponents to break off and form North Hempstead.

While a member of the Heath cabinet (Thatcher was only the second woman to hold a cabinet portfolio in a Conservative government), she eliminated a program that provided free milk to schoolchildren, provoking a storm of controversy and prompting opponents in the Labour Party to taunt her with cries of "Thatcher the milk snatcher".

Two councils are being asked to back exploratory gas drilling bids, prompting opponents' fears of potential future extraction through fracking.

Two south Wales councils have backed exploratory gas drilling bids, prompting opponents' fears of potential future extraction by fracking.

A number of trees have already been marked, prompting opponents to claim parts of the 700-hectare (1,700 acre) woodland would be felled.

That portrait, along with his penchant for rebuking Congress, prompted opponents to call him King Andrew and Yankee King.

The announcement prompted opponents of Prime Minister David Cameron to accuse him of playing politics with an industry intertwined with the country's history.

A big athlete at 6 feet, he carried weight that in his later years prompted opponents and spectators to chide him as the Ice Cream Man or just, crudely, Fat Boy.

Another environmental concern, the recent delineation of seven acres of wetlands in the quarry, or nearly a quarter of the property, has prompted opponents to argue that 198 units is an obsolete figure that should now be reduced proportionately.

The volatility of this issue can be seen in the current controversy in Massachusetts over the Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's past description of herself as of indigenous American descent, which prompted opponents to accuse her of using that status to gain special consideration in hiring and promotion decisions.