Sentence examples for sizable opposition from inspiring English sources

At first there was sizable opposition.

The president faces sizable opposition from the public were he to do so.

Moderate leaders of the sizable opposition have been thrown in jail.

Nor were they surprised that the candidates of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's only sizable opposition, took a beating.

Some people affected by the one-day strike said the sizable opposition would force the government to address protesters' concerns.

Anti-American sentiment was already running high in Okinawa, with sizable opposition to attempts to relocate a Marine Corps base to a new site on the island.

Although Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisyan defeated Ter-Petrossian in an election that international observers largely deemed free and fair, a number of sizable pro-opposition protests held in Yerevan criticized the integrity of the vote and the validity of the election's outcome.

A sizable group of opposition politicians angrily boycotted the vote.

Yet as Nadal climbed into the stands on Monday for a raucous celebration and an awkward hug with Lakers forward Pau Gasol, the clay-court season ended, as did Nadal's sizable edge over his opposition.

It seems that these defectors make up a sizable part of the armed opposition at this point.

CURRENTLY relegated to the ranks of the "patriotic opposition," with a sizable bloc in Parliament, the Russian Communist Party remains a presence on the streets of Moscow, where its supporters still turn out to march, wave red banners and jeer the West.