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On the other hand, the North could be taking advantage of criticism of South Korean President Park Geun-hye by her opponents on the left for failing to include the October 4 agreement in her five-year plan regarding inter-Korean relations.
Political opponents and disaffected people, many of them young and with few prospects of finding jobs, took to the streets.
Meanwhile, opponents contend that a nuclear Iran would only destabilize the Middle East.
Recently, opponents of structural reform have put forward more exotic objections – most notably the problem caused by deflation when policy interest rates are at zero.
If voters rejected “no deal” in favor of no Brexit, May’s hardline opponents would be silenced, and her position as Prime Minister would be secured until the 2022 election.
Pinochet's opponents were permitted little opportunity to campaign against him.
There, even many of the most dedicated opponents of apartheid favored the provision of the 1993 Temporary Constitution that required an amnesty.
True, Kirchner entered the campaign not so much to win as to prepare for the next presidential election, but as Menem's opponents fell, he captured the spotlight.
These "technologies" range from producing decoy political parties and legally persecuting opponents to publishing fake polls and falsifying elections.
Certainly, parties and candidates attempt to persuade voters on the basis of their track records (and by impugning their opponents' track records).
Globalization for EveryoneLIMA – Nowadays, globalization’s opponents seem increasingly to be drowning out its defenders.
Its operatives are happiest when their opponents cease their activities – when writers stop writing, or publishers stop publishing.
The message was clear: those in power were clearly convinced that eradicating their opponents was a better strategy than including them.
Unsurprisingly, the coup and subsequent crackdown on opponents triggered a spike in an enduring insurgency.
In the midterm elections, which Trump himself described as a referendum on his presidency, the Democratic candidates for both the House and Senate vastly outpolled their Republican opponents.
Of course, opponents can counter with a “slippery slope” argument: Only total prohibition is a defensible line against political pressure for ever-laxer rules.
Typically, losers of Nigerian elections accuse their opponents of cheating and ask the courts to determine the “real” winner.
He returned to power two days later because of his opponents' mistakes.
During his primary and general election campaigns, Trump lied incessantly about himself, his businesses, his opponents, other countries’ behavior and motivations, America’s electoral system, the size of trade deficits, the actions of the Federal Reserve, and data on everything from labor to crime (to name a few examples).
And candidates would stand to gain a competitive advantage against opponents who refuse to take the oath.
Like the EU’s leftist opponents, they denounce “diktats” from the European Commission in Brussels and the French government’s acquiescence in them.
Opponents argue, in pre-crisis language, that the FTT would reduce market efficiency and displace trading to other locations.
He is also using anti-corruption and reeducation efforts to intimidate (real and potential) reform opponents within the CCP.
The center-right opposition, a shifting firmament led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is lost in the political wilderness, and his main opponents are now the populist Five Star Movement and regional politicians who offer little more than disdain for the national political establishment.
Meanwhile, advocates of continued EU membership portray their opponents as obscurantist, ill-educated, know-nothing little Englanders, driven solely by anger and fear.
In the face of this asymmetry, America’s opponents – both state and non-state actors – began to emphasize unconventional tactics.
Obama needs to force his Republican opponents to blink, and there is no guarantee that they will.
The individual mandate is essential to barring insurance companies from discriminating against those with pre-existing conditions – a provision that even Obamacare’s opponents want to keep.
The Iranian government’s intransigence, its blatant efforts to mislead nuclear inspectors, its odious calls for the destruction of Israel, its brutal repression of political opponents – all provide good reason for Obama to slam the door shut on dialogue.
But it proved significantly less compelling than the economic doomsday scenarios advanced by its unionist opponents, including former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former World Bank President Robert Zoellick, and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
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