Sentence examples for unexpected opposition from inspiring English sources
Supported by California teachers' unions, Mr. Brown was tenacious in seeking support for the initiative, but he encountered fierce and sometimes unexpected opposition.
The plan encountered unexpected opposition, primarily from the managing partner of the Texas Rangers, who some years later would become president of the United States.
Tens of thousands of Soviet citizens, tired of the bread lines, bureaucracy and broken promises of the old government, rallied in Moscow and elsewhere against the coup, which withered in the face of such determined and unexpected opposition.
The main hurdle now is the unexpected opposition from the Senate Armed Services Committee, one of four committees that will consider the deal and the only one that has criticized it.
Mr. Weinberg's presence adds a touch of celebrity to a kind of zoning dispute that has become all too common across a region where the eco-conscious sometimes find themselves trying to cling to dwindling unspoiled land in the face of unexpected opposition: their own neighbors.
But the measure, proposed by Mr. Chirac in December after the recommendations of a presidential commission, has met with unexpected opposition from a small center-right party, the Union for French Democracy, and criticism from some members of Mr. Chirac's own commission that its work has been distorted.
The New Yorkers met unexpected and strenuous opposition from three Republican senators, Phil Gramm, John McCain and Don Nickles.
The increase in the annuity is popular: indeed, the president led a celebratory march by pensioners through Santa Cruz.The new constitution has also become hostage to an unexpected source of opposition.
As a group, they share right-leaning politics, hawkish foreign-policy views, and strong support for the invasion of Iraq — and they have, to their credit, emerged as some of the most unexpected and effective opposition voices.
Since that glum morning of 8 May, when the 63% who had not voted Conservative woke up to find that David Cameron had achieved an unexpected majority, the opposition away from Westminster has been re-energised.
But there's another, somewhat unexpected source of opposition to AB 1327, passed last month by the California State Senate: anti-drone activists.
