Sentence examples for waves of opposition from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

For many senators, the administration's unyielding approach to postwar reconstruction could not be reconciled with the waves of opposition that their constituents have voiced in the five weeks since Mr. Bush announced his intention of spending $87 billion in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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

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.

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.

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.

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