Sentence examples for vocal local from inspiring English sources

Technocratic planning decisions may be best overall, but run up against vocal local interest groups.

Despite the work of increasingly vocal local campaigners, the views from Eliot's former abode are threatened by a south London developer's plans to build a five-storey block of flats opposite Grade II-listed Holly Lodge, where Eliot lived.

The plans sparked such vocal local objection to the RMJM-designed, 1,516-foot skyscraper that it was moved from its original site across the Neva River to the northwestern edge of the city.

However, plans for another new route, through north London, has met vocal local opposition – including comparisons to the Blitz – despite a Transport for London consultation finding two-thirds support for the scheme.

Harney County judge Steve Grasty, one of the most vocal local opponents of the militia, said the occupiers should be held accountable, but that his biggest priority was finding a way to get them to leave as soon as possible.

One of the few openly gay men in Uganda, and the most vocal local critic of the proposed legislation, Kato had told close friends of increased harassment since the court victory on 3 January, and of receiving warnings that people were going to "deal with him".

Vocal locals versus incoming developers might continue to "win" but developments brought forward by local communities or through developer-partnerships, can put the power back into our hands.

The locals, the more vocal locals, have had serious issues with our policy and our price point, and they have expressed their displeasure in blogs and letters to local editors.

From tiny groups vocal on local matters to great national organisations, all risk being silenced in the year before a general election, to avoid falling under electoral law.

Yet another element of the debate is a point made by Edbrooke: that while libraries tend to have vocal, eloquent local defenders, users of other services sometimes do not.

Brady was vocal in local politics, friends said.