whip up opposition

Some of the biggest banks fear the idea could whip up opposition to deregulation, while smaller institutions see it as a threat to their existence.

However, he travelled the neighbouring principalities whipping up opposition to the new Florentine government.

Mr. Putin traveled the world in the spring whipping up opposition to the American missile defense project.

Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force.

But without the daily terrorism against Israelis, Israel's right-wing Likud Party has found it difficult to whip up opposition in the Israeli public to these latest moves.

Mr Chambers told Harwich magistrates that when he arrived, two men, John Tipple and Richard Allday, acted as ring-leaders, whipping up opposition.

Hard-Liners Are Quiet Gone from this year's congress is the ideological breast-beating that dominated proceedings 12 months ago, when party hard-liners sought to whip up opposition to "bourgeois liberalization."

At the same time, he said, the leaflets are designed to whip up opposition to tax breaks that he says are cheating the public and leaving too little money for transit and other services.

No doubt there are some good arguments against free schools, but the fact that the NUT has to spread misinformation and lies about them in order to whip up opposition suggests they can't think of any.

Seeking to whip up opposition to management's proposal to cut starting wages by 40 percent, Mr. Bevona said: "Because of this huge savings, employers would do everything possible to replace current employees with new workers receiving the lower rate.

Ms. Lewis, who leads the New York chapter of the scrappy community group Acorn, has spent the last two months whipping up opposition to Edison Schools, the for-profit company hoping to take over the five schools in September.

At the biggest and strongest banks, officials favor superbanks but say - refusing to be identified publicly - that they fear disclosure of the Treasury's view could backfire in Congress and whip up opposition to further deregulation of banking.

Experts say the paramilitary groups have tried to whip up opposition to the cease-fire as part of Mr. Castaño's attempt to gain political recognition for his group and the chance to take part in talks with the government, a move that the government opposes.

When he tried to cut foreign aid, Mr. Stockman recalled, he "got rolled by Al Haig," who whipped up opposition to the cuts on Capitol Hill and "instructed U.S. ambassadors" to generate protests from foreign governments.

Ernesto Ruffo Appel, whose 1989-95 tenure in Baja California made him Mexico's first non-PRI Governor in the modern era, accused the authorities of whipping up opposition to the voting proposals out of fear that migrants would vote against the PRI.

Mr. Leahy said Coca-Cola had used misinformation and "scare tactics" to whip up opposition to parts of his bill, which is supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Children's Defense Fund, the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society.