Sentence examples for tremendous opposition from inspiring English sources

President Obama and Congressional Democrats have called for more stimulus spending aimed at job creation, only to meet tremendous opposition from Republicans.

"It's overwhelming, the tremendous opposition," said Glen Vereb, a chief in the Office of International Trade at Customs and Border Patrol.

Jairam Ramesh said he had taken note of "tremendous opposition" from state governments within India, broad public resistance and the lack of a scientific consensus.

As such, it is already facing tremendous opposition from certain quarters in the government with prevailing links to the Suharto regime.

Just minutes later, officials with the National Rifle Association made clear what House Republicans had been whispering all week: The president's call for gun control in the wake of the Connecticut shooting is likely to run into tremendous opposition.

His interest in women was also limited, to Rattenbai (Rutti the daughter of Sir Dinshaw Petit, a Bombay Parsi millionaire whom he married in 1918 over tremendous opposition from her parents and others.

Despite tremendous domestic opposition, international pressure and an assassination attempt that severely wounded him in June, Mr. Saleh has refused to step down.

Between 1969 and 1971, Thomas served as President of the Kalamazoo Board of Education, and in the face of tremendous public opposition, he and the majority of board members voted in May l971 to desegregate the public schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Pointing to "tremendous community opposition," the State Liquor Authority has voted to deny a liquor license to Dreams Come True, a highly successful Japanese pop band that is opening a supper club in Chelsea.

One plant Japan may finance is the Batang Power Plant in Indonesia, which has been met with tremendous local opposition, delaying the project for four years.

"There was still a tremendous amount of opposition from the Webster group, who saw no future in computer printing," he went on.