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And, although they are far from united on the Iran deal, the agreement’s supporters outnumber its
opponents.
Thaksin’s sins are voluminous, and became the basis of the rise of his yellow-shirted opponents, the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which entered the electoral arena as the New Politics Party.
Fortunately, in the end, the
opponents
were forced to fight a will stronger than their own: the will of those who – after the abolition of slavery and torture – want to mark another turning point for civilization.
The government’s
opponents
can mobilize public protests, as they did in November, but they are much less capable of formulating alternative policy agendas and attracting support for them.
Indeed, it is safer for politicians to offer the opposite of a global vision: to renationalize every economic problem and attribute all of them to the mistakes of domestic
opponents.
His eloquent resignation letter made clear that he objected not just to the Syrian blunder, but to a pattern of behavior: Trump’s confusion of allies and opponents; his willingness to abandon friends, such as the Kurds; and his trashing of alliances, such as NATO.
Trump has made many more false statements than any of his opponents, and few (if any) could pass the test of not being self-serving.
The Republican Party as a whole attracts massive financial support from
opponents
of decarbonization, and these donors aggressively fight even the smallest step toward renewable energy.
Ruling in the national interest, rather than for the benefit of favored sections or clans, we will apply the law equally to our supporters and our
opponents.
The Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS), largely sidelined by former President Mohammed Khatami, has re-emerged as a powerful repressive force, using plain-clothes agents, allied with the paramilitary Bassij and non-government vigilantes, to crack down on potential
opponents
of the regime.
On the eve of Wen’s European trip, two
opponents
of the regime, Ai Weiwei and Hu Jia, were released from jail.
According to the policy’s opponents, what looked like carpooling was an evasion of it.
It is now clear that the right-wing
opponents
to the Obama administration’s policies are not objecting to the use of fiscal measures to stabilize nominal spending.
Opponents
of open-ended ECB action argue that Italian and Spanish borrowing costs are not actually that high: interest rates have merely returned to levels seen in the run-up to the introduction of the euro, when investors distinguished properly between the countries that now share the euro.
And when liberals engage in international military conflict, their worldview is a recipe for total and perpetual war, because their commitment to abstract norms encourages them to view their
opponents
not merely as competitors but rather as “absolute enemies.”
Opponents
of the trade say demand for horns could increase as a result of legalization, reviving dormant interest.
Opponents
of Obamacare have failed to stop it in the courts and, more recently, in Congress.
In Britain, Brexit
opponents
insisted that if voters decided to leave the European Union, a recession, if not a full-blown economic crisis, would be inevitable.
But, according to reports too numerous and too credible to discount, Assad’s regime (and to some extent his opponents) has not complied with the plan after signing on to it: troops were withdrawn from urban areas prior to inspection and returned when the monitors left.
But such "proofs" had scant effect on their opponents, who shout that globalization aggravates poverty and inequality while blighting communities and the environment.
Issues raised by globalization’s opponents, such as labour standards in poor countries -- all those images of exploited women and children in sweat-shops -- are manipulated by rich countries as a form of protectionism by other means.
The region’s first generation of elected leaders, like former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, often proved to be no more than elected autocrats who used their majorities to crush their
opponents
and suppress technologies that could be used as tools for change.
Others, like Martin Feldstein and Murray Weidenbaum, understood the consequences of the Reagan tax cuts and were bitter bureaucratic opponents, even if they did not speak out publicly.
Both take pride in denigrating political
opponents
and international figures, such as former President Barack Obama and Pope Francis.
Nonetheless, that has not stopped Trump from expressing disdain for his own Justice Department, or from seeking to use the judicial process as a means of retaliating against political
opponents.
I hate its human-rights abuses, assassinations, dirty tricks, and criminal prosecutions to intimidate political
opponents.
That, in a nutshell, is what many
opponents
of free trade and economic globalization – as well as many on the right who believe that all industries should be treated equally – want to know.
For this reason, they refused to reach out to their secular
opponents
to offer them a piece of the political pie.
This has become crucial to their survival, as younger
opponents
are seeking new ways to bring about political change outside state-controlled politics.
Moreover, combatants could invade nuclear plants and threaten sabotage to release radioactive elements to intimidate their
opponents.
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