The powerful National Rifle Association is fiercely opposed to any ban on assault-style weapons.
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The U.S. reversal is likely to please Russia, which had fiercely opposed the plans.
Businesses are fiercely opposed to government plans to extend parental leave and boost the minimum wage.
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Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the two Arab states most fiercely opposed to the Syrian government, only sent envoys.
Such means testing of Medicare is fiercely opposed by liberal Democrats, who are in no rush for a deal.
Any hint that capital might be expropriated is fiercely opposed by the industry.
The so-called "Tesco tax" has been fiercely opposed by large retailers who said it could limit investment and cost jobs.
Google-Verizon was limited and fiercely opposed by groups like Aaron's, which saw it as a betrayal by a giant edge firm.
Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson, who is fiercely opposed to the Agreement, said the focus should be on issues not personalities.
Anne Lauvergeon, Areva's impressive boss, is fiercely opposed to this, as it would dash her hopes of taking Areva public this year.
Though fiercely opposed by residents of the Delta itself, who fear that their infrastructure will fall into disrepair, this plan is gaining support.
Key issues that had some momentum coming out of Newtown but are fiercely opposed by the NRA appear to have a slim chance of passage.
The gun lobby remains fiercely opposed to any kind of regulation.
But, though France also wants Italy in, Germany remains fiercely opposed.
The consumer agency, created by the 2010 financial overhaul law in response to the crisis, was fiercely opposed by Wall Street interests and Republicans in Congress.
Greeks - even those fiercely opposed to Pasok from the left and right - are resigned to the fact that the country faces years of painful restructuring.
Britain is fiercely opposed to the proposed financial transaction tax (FTT), which the European Union said could raise 57 billion euros (49 billion pounds) a year if implemented across the bloc.
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Fiercely opposed by the National Rifle Association, Republicans and some Democrats, Reid calculated that it would be best not to include it in the main bill because it would invite a filibuster.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and fiercely opposed by the National Rifle Association, Republicans and some Democrats would get fewer than 40 votes, Reid said, far below the threshold needed to defeat any filibuster or pass the Senate.
"It is very disappointing, but perhaps not surprising given the fact that Nelson McCausland in the past along with his colleagues in the DUP has been fiercely opposed to any housing development on the Girdwood site, " he said.
Obama's rhetoric has reflected the political uncertainty, with the president and his aides using increasingly personal language intended to shame Republicans into allowing public votes on measures that have public support but are fiercely opposed by the influential National Rifle Association.
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This fact has long since been conveniently dropped down the memory hole, but in 1993 virtually all of the leaders of the gay political establishment were fiercely opposed to the idea of gay marriage, and they vilified as sellouts those of us who supported it.
Turkey, which has NATO's second-largest army, fiercely opposed Mr Fogh Rasmussen's candidacy for NATO's top job because he was Denmark's prime minister during the Prophet Muhammad cartoon crisis and because the Danes have refused to ban Roj TV, a satellite channel run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that is beamed out of Denmark.
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The banks, like business groups that have opposed the 1099 requirement, are going to lobby fiercely against this one.
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