Sentence examples for wave of opposition from inspiring English sources

The wave of opposition, coupled with a deepening economic crisis, threatens to challenge the military's authority.

A slow but massive wave of opposition was mounting to General Abacha's plan to be the sole presidential candidate at the election due on August 1st.

Banerjee rose to power on a wave of opposition to the Communist Party's seizure of farmland for industrial projects, which united its enemies against it.

The Gaitskellites pledged themselves to get rid of Harold Wilson who, opportunistically, was riding the wave of opposition to the then leader.

The government should have heeded the warning bells when Lansley's white paper caused a massive wave of opposition, from all quarters of the NHS and beyond.

Britain's leading countryside campaigner, Bill Bryson, has joined a growing wave of opposition to government moves to shake up planning laws.

White House officials, no doubt, are hoping that this uproar will subside, as other waves of opposition to the steady erosion of civil liberties in the name of counter-terrorism have dissipated over the years.

Texas lawmakers are scrounging for cash, and for ways to generate state revenue without breaking their promises not to raise taxes, which would set off waves of opposition in the 2012 elections.

The Opposition Unconvinced By Unconventional As the new math -- a cousin of the "new math" popular in the 1960's -- entered the educational mainstream, first in California in 1992 and then around the country, it sparked waves of opposition.

Despite waves of opposition in Congress to the administration's efforts, Republican leaders in the House said today that they would go along with most of the Bush plans for a Department of Homeland Security.

By the afternoon, bolstered by waves of opposition fighters who had streamed in from Libya's western mountains and the rebel enclave of Misrata to the east, they began to move forward on Bab al-Aziziya.