Sentence examples for sustained opposition from inspiring English sources

But he faced sustained opposition from the faculty, who, according to polls, questioned his intellectual leadership.

But neoliberals have begun to encounter sustained opposition from fellow reformers.

This rhetorical escalation was driven, in part, by the pressure of sustained opposition, as was the Administration's tendency to overstate its claims about Saddam Hussein's capabilities and intentions.

Ms. Chopra's item song was, however, later cleared by the board's revising committee in the face of immediate and sustained opposition from the film fraternity.

Despite the profound and damaging changes to social housing policy since 2010, there has been little by way of sustained opposition.

His forthright, courageous and sustained opposition to violence did him great credit, as did his frank recognition of unionism as a legitimate reality in Northern Ireland.

Heavy policing has blunted public protests, while a more targeted campaign of arrests, intimidation and controls on communications has hamstrung attempts to organise and sustain opposition.

The belief that one is carrying out divine purpose can serve legitimate needs and sustain opposition to injustice, but it can also promote dangerous simplifications -- especially if the believer has virtually unlimited power, as Mr. Bush does.

This country may no longer separate mothers from their children simply for the crime of being poor, but the consequences of this legislation, coupled with the present recession, will be just as draconian and the capacity to galvanise and sustain opposition just as testing.

It's intriguing, too, how willing we are to put myths ahead of scientific proof -- a fact that played a major role in the spread of Ebola in West Africa and that now sustains opposition to vaccines in America.

Jeb Bush has defended the Iraq war despite broad and sustained public opposition to it.