Example sentences of "had met with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts in January 1991 to rush through the privatization of the banking sector had met with legal objections [ see pp. 38007 ] , but two public-sector banks had been privatized , in January and August . |
| 2 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 3 | The offer was relayed by the Japanese embassy in Yangon ( Rangoon ) after a member of Japan 's governing Liberal Democratic Party had met with Prime Minister and SLORC Chair Gen. Saw Maung on Sept. 6 . |
| 4 | Leading separatists had met with Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar in Delhi on April 17 and 19 ; on April 20 it was announced that a large number of Sikh youths imprisoned for minor offences would be released . |
| 5 | So my first tentative Effort to tell the medical powers of the further help I hoped to seek , had met with little enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Such efforts had met with little success from Liberal and Tory politicians alike . |
| 7 | The turnpike from Salisbury towards Romsey was the best and earned high praise for the trustees , whose management he judged responsible , for he had met with other roads whose materials were as fine but " never with any that were so firmly united , and kept so totally free from loose stones , ruts and water " . |
| 8 | However , a few had met with negative attitudes in the process . |
| 9 | Algerian radio reported that on Jan. 16 Ait Ahmed had met with two FIS leaders , Abdelkader al-Hachani ( described as chairman of the FIS provisional executive bureau ) and Mohammed Said , at the offices of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights . |
| 10 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 11 | Workers would probably have been less inclined to support them if their protests had met with reasoned discussion rather than tear gas . |
| 12 | The other parties had met with mixed success and it was obvious that the enemy were mounting far stronger guards on their airfields . |
| 13 | However , even this cost control team was subsequently absorbed by the Treasury in 1983 because it was politically unpopular and had met with mixed success . |
| 14 | On Dec. 31 Salim announced that he had met with various Somali representatives in Addis Ababa , Djibouti and Nairobi . |
| 15 | Environmental organizations led by Greenpeace , the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Australian Conservation Foundation had spearheaded the campaign , which had met with strong support from the Australian and French governments . |
| 16 | Initially his management of this crisis had met with high levels of popular approval , but as the conflict dragged on it became a damaging symbol of American weakness and presidential ineptitude with polls clearly revealing the public 's dissatisfaction with Carter 's performance . |
| 17 | Hariri denied reports that he had met with Lebanese opposition figures in France . |
| 18 | Tedjini had met with Marchand during a brief visit to Paris on that day , but the report of his resignation from the HCS was immediately denied by the Algerian ambassador in Paris . |
| 19 | All its major innovations — the sale of council houses , the reform of the unions , privatization of industry , tax reform — had met with popular acclaim and substantially added to the Conservatives ' constituency . |
| 20 | This would effectively replace the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities ( Cramra — see p. 36062 ) , which had met with widespread opposition , and which Japan alone now supported . |
| 21 | In early 1939 , Lord Hailey had voiced fears that ‘ the problem would frankly become unmanageable ’ , but his appeals to the government to support the refugee cause with public funds had met with blank refusal . |
| 22 | By mid-April there were reports that the Iraqi military campaign in the north had met with fierce resistance from Kurdish guerrillas . |