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When shareholders balked, Chubais sought to neutralize his opponents, unilaterally changing the agreement with the Bank of New York to control the votes of most holders of American Depository Rights (ADRs).
Food should not be used to fuel cars,
opponents
insist.
Authoritarians have always beaten up their
opponents
– physically, in the courts, and now on Twitter – to make them keep quiet.
Trump’s
opponents
must not be intimidated.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly supported the military dictatorship that reigned from 1964 to 1985, when the government tortured and murdered its
opponents.
But they reflect the respect she commanded, and her commitment to conducting herself in a civil manner even when dealing with her
opponents.
The crackdown on Chen for representing villagers who have been abused by the authorities follows the same pattern as the silencing of parents who protested shoddy school construction after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and of
opponents
of the environmentally damaging Three Gorges Dam.
This is monetary policy on steroids, and, to
opponents
of inflation-inducing money creation, it amounts to playing with fire.
To this end, they have eased restrictions on political speech and stopped pursuing harsh retaliation against
opponents.
As John Limbert, the erudite Iran scholar and retired US diplomat (taken hostage in Iran for 444 days) once reflected on the 1979 Iranian revolution, “Our liberal-minded Iranian friends proved to be helpless in political turmoil....[T]hey could write biting editorials,” but lacked the stomach to “throw acid, beat up opponents, organize street gangs...and engage in the brutality that wins” in political uprisings.
Second, and most alarmingly for those around the world who crave decent and intelligent international leadership from the US, Lugar was mocked by his
opponents
for his foreign-policy expertise and reputation as an outstanding statesman, who for decades had played an absolutely central role on arms control and disarmament issues.
Instead of engaging with sensible critics on the topic, the government has labeled its
opponents
“populists” and accused them of damaging “the image of Sweden.”
More often, governments misapply anti-terrorist laws against their non-violent
opponents.
Here, he resembles former US President Reagan, whose popularity was rooted in an ability to feel the pulse of the public more accurately than his
opponents.
Some
opponents
of the Iraq War, including me, believe that a fundamental – and deeply misguided – objective of the war from the outset has been to create a long-term military base (or bases) in Iraq, ostensibly to protect oil routes and oil concessions.
The Trade Numbers GameCAMBRIDGE – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a mega trade deal covering 12 countries that together account for more than one-third of global GDP and a quarter of world exports – is the latest battleground in the decades-long confrontation between proponents and
opponents
of trade agreements.
The TPP’s
opponents
have latched on to a competing model, which generates very different projections.
But Europe must nonetheless recognize the need to distinguish clearly between partners, competitors, and opponents, and to formulate a more sophisticated and articulated policy towards Russia, in particular.
For example, we Central Europeans are
opponents
when we do not accept Russia’s policy of renewing “spheres of interest” and “security zones.”
Carson has said, for example, that people enter prison as heterosexuals and come out gay; that America is like Nazi Germany in suppressing ideas and opponents; and that the president need not enforce the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision legalizing gay marriage.
His political
opponents
quickly observed that this amounted to an admission that the first stimulus had failed.
Nor he is overly worried about the domestic scene, since
opponents
are deeply divided and thus unable to offer an electoral alternative.
Governments compete with each other and with other organizations to enhance their own credibility and weaken that of their
opponents.
In his recent book The New Urban Crisis, the University of Toronto’s Richard Florida decries this phenomenon, comparing
opponents
of housing construction to the early-nineteenth-century Luddites, who smashed the mechanical looms that were taking their weaving jobs.
Opponents
of nuclear power have suggested that self-interest has compromised the Chernobyl Forum’s integrity.
At the same time, the junta’s agenda entails measures to control the direction of Thai politics – in particular, by marginalizing opponents, especially politicians tied to the influential Shinawatra family.
Opponents
see red at its very mention.
But, as
opponents
of industrial policy are right to remind us, freebies never lead to a good outcome.
As industrial policy returns to the scene in countries around the world, that is a goal that advocates and
opponents
alike should be happy to embrace.
Lessons learned as a young politician shape his approach: create mutual trust by making buddies of opponents, then strike a deal that both sides can live with.
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