Sentence examples for provoking opposition from inspiring English sources

"He likes the challenge, the contact, and provoking opposition players.

That posture is provoking opposition, but most states and districts are going along.

The Schumer bill, called a "poison pill" by the leading Republican advocate of the tax increase, went nowhere after provoking opposition from an array of industries.

In Singapore, the debate looks somewhat different: The government plans to increase the population from just more than five million to a possible high of nearly seven million by 2030, via regulated, legal immigration, and this is provoking opposition.

One of New York City's largest hospital systems has made an offer to take over the financially struggling St . Vincents Hospital in Greenwich Village, provoking opposition from elected officials who fear the loss of critical medical services, especially emergency care, for tens of thousands of patients who could be sent elsewhere.

He took steps to return the expenses incurred by his nephews in their combat with Frederick II, distributed the bishoprics of England and the East to cousins, and supported the creation of a strong family estate at the foot of the Ligurian Apennines, provoking opposition from bishops and lay lords in that area.

New mines in Honduras, Peru and Chile have all provoked opposition.

Its prominence and growing wealth, however, provoked opposition from rival orders.

That was hardly the first or last time that his prescriptions provoked opposition.

Already, the two most important planned projects -- the new stadium and the Olympic village -- have provoked opposition.

Dr. Michael Dixon, chairman of the N.H.S. Alliance, which supports clinicians' ability to commission health care, said it was inevitable that the proposals would provoke opposition.