Sentence examples for was actively opposed from inspiring English sources

The bill was actively opposed by Americans for Common Cents, a lobbying organization that had been founded specifically to defeat the legislation.

The proposal was actively opposed by Ms Rousseff, and while it was initially rejected by Congress, Mr Cunha immediately re-tabled an amended version that was subsequently passed.

The confederation was actively opposed by the Russian forces stationed in Poland.

George Applegarth's 1935 design was actively opposed from several directions and Pflueger's social contacts and his friendship with mayor Angelo Joseph Rossi were needed to get the project started.

This was actively opposed by the families of the two arrested men, who said that an extremist protest would "only give another opportunity for our community to be portrayed in a negative light", and sent a statement to more than twenty mosques which was read to worshippers during prayers, urging them to disassociate themselves from the event.

By continuing the legacy of excluding legal protections for California's 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, home health aides and other domestic workers, the governor chose to side with the Chamber of Commerce, which was actively opposing the legislation.

He is also being actively opposed in the primary by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Paradoxically Zeke is "actively opposed" to legalising euthanasia and physician-assisted dying.

Value-politics Republicans are largely unconcerned with inequality and are actively opposed to redistribution.

"We don't use torture and we are actively opposed to it.

Brontë's first biographer and loyal advocate, Elizabeth Gaskell, accused Nicholls of having been actively opposed to the novel.