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Instead of rejecting foreign products, opponents of globalization today are rejecting foreign people.
More candidacies die of failure to achieve name-recognition than at the hands of their opponents' barbs.
But it is the opponents of liberalism who are wielding it most effectively.
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer falsely accused of treason in 1894, was such a polarizing figure in France because his opponents saw him as symbol of national decadence, of a nation whose sacred identity was being diluted by alien blood.
Even if business as usual continues, his domestic opponents can now make the case that, far from modernizing his country, he is leaving it isolated and weaker than it was before he came to power.
But now Ahmedinejad’s opponents are moving to reassert longstanding constraints on the presidency.
Why engage in theoretical debates with your ideological opponents, the Islamists are saying, when one can simply shut them up for good?
Perhaps Yanukovych’s retreat from Europe should have been foreseen, given behavior – like locking up his political opponents – that has been difficult to reconcile with European values and democratic norms.
After all, the opponents of free trade ask, if Asia's tigers can be brought to their knees by international financial markets, is any developing country safe?
For much of her term in office, Yingluck garnered praise for her pragmatism, and for seeking to ameliorate the antagonism of her opponents.
If opponents to these reforms block real change, they risk a quick closing of Hungary's openness to growth.
Populism can still be defeated, but only if its opponents concede the obvious: they need a new strategy.
In the last years of the increasingly unstable Weimar Republic, as democracy was fraying, German governments started to use their opponents’ radicalism in an effort to extract security concessions from the Western powers.
In the US, Trump routinely demonizes opponents and dehumanizes marginalized groups; during his first year in office, politically motivated murders, perpetrated primarily by fanatical white supremacists, doubled.
Opponents of more comprehensive reform rely on three arguments, none of which stands up to scrutiny.
Finally, opponents claim that the financial sector’s global mobility would make it difficult to widen the scope of national reforms.
Why resort to such elaborate and costly measures against political/religious opponents when simpler methods of neutralizing them - such as execution or imprisonment - are available to dictators?
The team’s tactics were also slow to evolve, even after opponents double- and triple-teamed Salah.
One way to overcome opposition to privatization is to identify potential opponents and cut them in on the deal by means of, for example, stock ownership, a kind of populist capitalism at which Mrs. Thatcher was skilled.
That simply leaves a core of determined opponents in place who will work diligently (and often successfully) to reverse the change.
The first is a parallel pro-regime army; the second is an organization for intimidating opponents and anyone seeking a more open society.
Rumors suggest that the US is likely to insist on maintaining the perverse selection process in which it gets to pick the World Bank’s president, simply because, in this election year, Obama’s opponents would trumpet loss of control over the choice as a sign of weakness.
This gives opponents of reform a political advantage.
They claim that only the journalists on their payroll – who praise their rulers and criticize the regime’s opponents – are legitimate; all others are enemies of the state.
Now, Park is using her father’s economic accomplishments to differentiate herself from her opponents, both political novices, while presenting herself as a moderate (contrary to the positions that she has taken previously).
Election-year politics in the US will strengthen these forces further, with President Barack Obama’s administration unlikely to relinquish a symbol of global power, which would invite opponents’ charges of weak leadership.
In the opinion of Royal’s many opponents among Socialist leaders and militants, the dominance of the media in the political process is leading to mediocrity: the qualities required to be elected are becoming nearly incompatible with those needed to govern.
Developments like the US Congress’s enactment of the Magnitsky Act, portrayed in Russia as an American provocation, have allowed the Kremlin to rally support at home with retaliatory measures such as a ban on foreign adoptions, while providing cover for a crackdown on domestic opponents.
Legally, morally, politically, and militarily, it has only one justification: protecting Libyans from the kind of murderous harm that Qaddafi inflicted on unarmed protestors four weeks ago; has continued to inflict on those who oppose him in the areas that his forces control; and has promised to inflict on his opponents in Benghazi and other rebel-held territory.
And, as for the wider mandate to protect civilians, the resolution allows airborne attacks to knock out tanks or troop columns advancing on Benghazi or other rebel-held towns, and – should they exist – concentrations of forces within those areas that pose a direct and immediate threat to Qaddafi’s opponents.
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