Sentence examples for substantive opposition from inspiring English sources

This is disgraceful, especially since there seems to be no serious substantive opposition to the deal.

Kremlin forces on Sunday organized a parallel pro-government event, now a familiar response to substantive opposition displays.

The result has been an attenuated process that gives administration officials cover for their political reluctance to advance rules or their substantive opposition to them.

Dictatorships may hold elections in cases where no substantive opposition is remotely feasible (e.g., because opposition forces have been repressed) or when economic factors favour the regime.

The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group which has provided the most substantive opposition to Mr Mubarak's regime for many years, in what may be a historic first, was invited to take part in negotiations.

The G.O.P. can begin to rectify this situation by agreeing to up-or-down votes on the 14 qualified appellate and district nominees, most of whom received Judiciary Committee approval with minimal substantive opposition.

Featuring the Tory logo – prompting one Conservative MP to ask if permission had been sought – the mock manifesto was, Smith insisted, a credible picture of a Conservative programme "if they were wholly unfettered, both by coalition, or indeed by a substantive and credible opposition in the Labour party".

Given the rapidity with which such crises develop, outsiders are poorly positioned to provide substantive assistance to the opposition.

The material in the Helsinki Watch files is substantive in dissidents and opposition movements especially in the former Soviet Union and its satellites.

Britain had argued unsuccessfully at an EU meeting in Brussels last week for arming of the "moderate" rebel groups in Syria Londonn is now pressing for substantive help for the opposition at an international summit in Rome this week.

The leadership of the Labour party offers no substantive intellectual or political opposition, nor represents a potential governing coalition, nor, wedded to a bankrupt simplistic top-down statism, understands the complexities of these new times.