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Time for China to FloatChina is being pressured to halt its interventions to prop up the US dollar in world currency markets, with opponents emphasizing how much harm the policy is causing to other countries.
Opponents of the deal offered three main reasons for rejecting it: Iran could never be trusted to fulfill its commitments; the agreement would unacceptably elevate Iran’s regional status; and Iran did not deserve the time of day.
Jewish fundamentalists believe that Israel’s critics are anti-Semitic or, in the case of Jewish opponents of Israel’s harder-line policies, “self-hating Jews.”
One problem Orban faces will emerge, not from his opponents, but from within his own party ranks.
Opponents of Mr. Kim's policy point out that the South keeps making concessions without gaining anything from the North in return.
President Kim Dae Jung's opponents romped to victory in a landslide that suggests the unpopularity of his policies.
After all, Putin, a former KGB officer, has proved more than willing to use digital (not to mention physical) means to harass, intimidate, and coerce his enemies and opponents.
If Assad defeats his opponents with the help of Hezbollah and Iran, his survival is bound to be perceived as a victory for the regional “axis of resistance” to Israel.
Most Africans ignored the ICC’s opponents, not least because the ICC indicted the likes of Sudan’s Omar Al Bashir, who is widely reviled for his long record of engaging in – and capitalizing on – brutal civil wars.
But Kenyatta’s opponents continue to demand justice for the victims of the post-election violence.
His approach so far is very different from that of his predecessors, including his father Jomo Kenyatta, the founder of modern Kenya, who was notorious for openly threatening his opponents with the words, “Nitawasaga kama unga” (I will grind them like flour).
Opponents of President Daniel arap Moi, who succeeded the elder Kenyatta, were not safe, either; there were even government torture chambers operating in the basement of a skyscraper in downtown Nairobi.
Moreover, he works to negotiate with – and persuade – his opponents.
Rafsanjani was at least partly hostage to hardline opponents keen to sabotage his foreign-policy initiatives with precisely timed acts of terror in France, Germany, and Argentina.
That is why it finds itself currently backing the opponents of revolutionary Islam: Bashar al-Assad against the Islamists in Syria and the Houthis against al-Qaeda in Yemen.
It is very conventional short-run stabilization policy: you can find it in all of the leading textbooks...”I can understand (though I disagree with) opponents of the stimulus plan who believe that the situation is not that dire; that the government spending will be slow and wasteful (whereas properly targeted tax cuts would provide a more effective stimulus); and thus that it would have been better to defeat Obama’s stimulus bill and try again in a couple of months.
I can also understand (though I disagree with) opponents who believe that the short-run stimulus effect of the plan will be small, while America’s weak fiscal position implies a large long-run drag on the economy from the costs of servicing the resulting debt.
Root-and-branch stimulus opponents whose work has crossed my desk recently include efficient-markets fundamentalists like the University of Chicago’s Eugene Fama, Marxists like CUNY’s David Harvey, classical economists like Harvard’s Robert Barro, gold bugs like the Council on Foreign Relation's Benn Steil, and a host of others.
Opponents of a higher minimum wage argue that such policies reduce employment for low-wage workers, or in lower-wage regions within a particular state.
As the Nobel laureate economist Angus Deaton argues, “what is crazy is that some of the opponents of globalization forget that a billion people have come out of poverty largely because of globalization.”
Yet there was also frustration and bewilderment, as vocal opponents of foreign aid began to oppose the increased funding for disease control.
Several economists with little knowledge of public health became outspoken opponents.
This process explains why, at the moment, Yuri Luzhkov and Evgeny Primakov, Boris Yeltsin's most influential opponents, are top presidential contenders, but strictly within the system of power, which has already plunged the country into a political crisis.
Whereas Boris Yeltsin has sacrificed his status of "Father of the Nation" to maintain an uncompromising conflict with the opposition, the new president within the same model will have to take into account new trends and to become an excessively caring "Father of the Nation" through clenching both supporters and opponents in one firm fist.
As a standard-setter, a negotiator, and a rule enforcer, it has considerably more influence than its opponents recognize.
Senior and junior army officers have defected, often with their troops, to the regime’s opponents.
Opponents were accused of associating with terrorists, and Western officials, particularly European Union leaders, were openly attacked.
The good news is that the strong showing by the amendments’ opponents, and their ability to mobilize through alternative media and micro-organizations, even while under duress, has shown that Turkish civil society remains vibrant.
This leniency has drawn fire from the agreement’s opponents, but, like the guaranteed congressional seats, it makes sense.
The Age of IncompetenceBERKELEY – On January 20, 2017, US President-elect Donald Trump will take office having received almost three million fewer votes than his opponent; and he will work with a Republican Senate majority whose members won 13 million fewer votes than their Democratic opponents.
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