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In Georgia, Russia provided military support to Abkhazian
opponents
of the Tbilisi authorities and coerced Georgia into the CIS.
But the almost two million officials who have been indicted surely weren’t all Xi’s
opponents.
Insuring ImmigrationNEW YORK – Almost immediately after the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were revealed to be immigrants,
opponents
of immigration reform in the United States seized on the case to highlight the danger of adopting a more open approach to the issue.
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elite always reacts to the popular mood and concerns – often stealing its opponents’ ideas.
If these losers engage in post-election jockeying to cheat
opponents
of their fair allotment of seats, that will tell much about the future.
The fact that national governments referred three of the Court’s four active cases – and that in each of those cases only armed rebels or government
opponents
have been charged so far – has contributed to this perception.
At home, Putin has focused over the past year on dealing with his
opponents
– co-opting some and intimidating others by turning the Russian legal and penal systems into blunt instruments of repression.
An analysis by Martha Mundy of the London School of Economics has found evidence that the coalition’s airstrikes are deliberately targeting food production and distribution in areas held by its
opponents.
Actually, a country may be a better friend – to Trump, if not the US – if it is run by a “tough guy” who locks up (or worse) critics and
opponents.
Similarly, Germans have been critical of the ECB’s monetary-policy instruments, especially its “outright monetary transactions” program, with
opponents
appealing to the German constitutional court to invalidate the OMT scheme’s conditional purchases of eurozone government debt.
All of those crimes were committed during "Operation Condor," a Latin America-wide program among the continent’s dictators to physically eliminate their
opponents
on the left.
Such figures start out attacking their opponents’ corruption and accuse them of hijacking the state for a self-serving political establishment that excludes the interests of ordinary people.
Rather, populism is a thoroughly moralized conception of politics, and a populist is a politician who claims that he or she – and only he or she – truly represents the people, thus relegating all political
opponents
to the role of iniquitous pretenders.
This is why they are fierce
opponents
of Keynesian interventionism.
Their opponents, by contrast, see structural weaknesses and internal imbalances as the major impediment to growth; for supply-siders, it is the slow pace of economic and social reforms that is to blame.
And Putin’s return to the Stalinist practice of sending police to search opponents’ homes, combined with his attempts to ignite hostility between social groups – for example, between provincial Russia and the urban middle class – is deepening antagonism and distrust among citizens.
Instead, Maliki ordered preventive arrests of young Sunni men, supposedly in anticipation of their defection to terrorist groups, and hounded his political opponents, in some instances driving them out of government (and in one case into exile).
It ousted reliable old allies like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (now hiding out in Riyadh), and turned once-tolerable regimes like Bashar al-Assad’s in Syria into murderous
opponents.
The Saudis consider the struggle between Assad and his
opponents
a proxy war against their own main adversary, Iran.
Detractors on the right insist that the new laws will break the budget and undermine economic growth, while
opponents
on the left argue that they do not go far enough in covering all of India’s poor and vulnerable.
It may be painful for many Americans to hear, and it will not impress my
opponents.
Whether these violations involve shutting down TV stations, imprisoning and exiling opponents, arming guerrillas in neighboring countries, provoking an arms race in the region, or flirting with Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, they all can be proved and denounced.
Early on, Le Pen would campaign like her father: using her heavy frame and heavy frown to intimidate opponents, forcing her smoker’s voice to make her point, never playing the “woman card.”
His
opponents
have responded by proclaiming their right to self-determination and threatening to boycott the referendum with which he hopes to legalize the reform.
Meanwhile,
opponents
of the accord to limit Iran’s nuclear activities for the next 15 years have likened it to the Munich Agreement (shameful appeasement of an evil foe), while its supporters have compared it to the rapprochement between the United States and China in the 1970s.
That July, after an uneasy period of sharing power with Prince Norodom Ranariddh’s royalist party, Hun Sen launched a bloody coup in which his
opponents
were exiled, arrested, tortured, and in some cases summarily executed.
Nixon used these methods against political opponents, journalists, and government employees suspected of disloyalty to the president.
Traces of this prejudice can still be found in some
opponents
of the European Union, who see the EU’s Brussels headquarters as the new Rome.
Creation of a Hydra-headed security apparatus, mass-murder of
opponents
(both real and imagined), widespread torture, and sustained censorship and repression are some of the common tactics used by Qaddafi, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and other Arab autocrats.
The dismissal and jailing of
opponents
has gone far beyond those who may have had a role in the putsch.
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