A survey among the residents' families has shown overwhelming opposition to the closure proposal.

Yeltsin knows the plant cannot be completed with such overwhelming opposition.

"There's overwhelming opposition to the idea that we even need another supermarket," he added.

What can you say to convince the people that the missions to China weren't secret simply to avoid the overwhelming public opposition to them?

But how much the public knew did not alter the overwhelming opposition to an increase.

Asking a political leader to take his country to war in the teeth of overwhelming popular opposition is tough enough.

The poll found overwhelming opposition to American policy on two crucial issues.

It is hard to see how he can possibly carry on with his bill in the face such overwhelming professional opposition.

The overwhelming opposition of disabled people had been entirely ignored.

Only the overwhelming public opposition ensured that this treaty would not become law.