Sentence examples for sharpened opposition from inspiring English sources

In Manchester, though, the Act has merely sharpened opposition to the drink trade.

Mr. Bush's efforts to scale back American peacekeeping missions and to build a missile shield are also facing sharpened opposition.

Mr Sarkozy's comeback, starting with his steamroller campaign to take over the centre-right UMP party in November, will sharpen opposition to Mr Valls.

Although Saxony's economic interests naturally gravitated toward Prussia, Beust's foreign policy increasingly drew him nearer to Austria, thus forcing him into an ever sharpening opposition to Bismarck.

This fight may have sharpened the opposition, but it expanded the range of support for transgender equality".

An audience poll judged Ms Gillard the winner by 83 votes to 75.Mr Abbott has sharpened the opposition's attack against the government since he took over as Liberal leader.

Albanese sought to sharpen the opposition's political attack on Turnbull on the eve of parliament resuming for the final sitting fortnight of the year.

But a major risk is that the U.S. interventions in the two Mideast countries will sharpen the opposition of Iranian hard-liners toward the United States generally in the region, and to the nuclear deal in particular.

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If anything, it only sharpened Maurice of Nassau's opposition to Holland and Oldenbarnevelt.

The political message would be this: tough-minded opposition to austerity works; financial capitalism is the new enemy; a sharpened leftwing profile is popular again.