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The only hopeful aspect in Iliescu’s looming victory is that his opponents succeeded - just in time - in promoting growth and this may encourage the postcommunist to keep looking ahead.
Opponents of central-bank independence contend that, given the allocational and distributional consequences of current monetary-policy interventions, central banks’ decision-making should be subject to political control.
Courtiers also learned to avoid showing arrogance toward their opponents – this might alienate potential allies – and they thought little of using logical reasoning with their prince.
The current president comes out of the IRGC (specifically, the Ramazan Unit of the Quds Force), and has used that organization and the Basij to help consolidate his power by moving against more liberal political opponents.
But his opponents’ dismal approval ratings grant him the power of brinkmanship, and the growth and competitiveness agenda that Italy and Europe crave require him to command political center-stage for whatever time he has left in office.
But, while the US suffered costs to its reputation around the world, the supposed advantages from this for America’s opponents proved illusory.
Nuclear Weapons in Civil War ZonesLOS ANGELES – The recent failed military coup in Turkey has produced instability, paranoia, and a crackdown on the regime’s perceived opponents, including many journalists.
For the plan’s opponents, the main causes of indignation are the criteria for assessment.
The question is not just whether he and his ex-KGB cronies muzzle the media and jail their opponents.
Opponents argue that carbon pricing would hurt economic growth.
AQI not only failed to embed itself in the local context, but had begun eliminating local opponents, fueling a revolt against it by Sunni militias in 2007.
In 2009, her campaign was deliberately boring and banal, embracing – however reluctantly – her opponents’ characterization of her as a “Mutti,” an unflattering stereotype of a mother managing the family home.
Given the Kim regime’s past negotiating tactics, Obama is understandably reluctant to launch any new diplomatic initiative and may well believe that negotiating with North Korea would provide his domestic political opponents with ammunition to ruin his Iran deal.
In Syria, on the other hand, the revolution has not yet come to fruition, owing to the regime’s brutal repression of its opponents.
Second, opponents eventually blocked his proposal for a national central bank.
And Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s wealthiest man, spent ten years in prison on trumped-up fraud and embezzlement charges after funding Putin’s opponents.
Trump is aggressive with his opponents, especially in the media.
His modus operandi is to attack his opponents, wait for them to hit back or mount resistance, and then retaliate with full force.
South African voters and the watching world must understand that his opponents are unlikely to fold quickly.
A key problem lies in the intricacy of the EU, which is poorly equipped to function amid chaos, much as Germany’s highly disciplined soccer team was ill-prepared to face their Mexican opponents’ frenetic play early in this year’s World Cup.
When US President Barack Obama could not implement his original vision of health-care reform, he sought to compromise with his opponents by basing the reform on a plan developed by a conservative think tank and implemented in Massachusetts by former Governor Mitt Romney, Obama’s opponent in last year’s presidential election.
Moreover, the socialist and the liberal left are divided over whether some progress is better than none, with opponents arguing that half-hearted changes to the constitution would preclude eventual real reform.
While this fact alone will not quiet opponents of immigration, it does give countries more breathing room to repair and strengthen badly broken systems for receiving and integrating newcomers.
Or, as some of his opponents have preferred to frame the issue, does he really love his country?
Obama's opponents are delighting in picking apart the threads of the draft resolution in yet another effort to discredit his administration.
It is difficult to prove that membership in the EU – which opponents portray as meddlesome and disruptive – has made Britain materially worse off.
And in Palestine, protests against the use of defamation laws to imprison political opponents have gained traction, with popular support for Bakr having played a key role in spurring the agreement that allowed her to return to her house in Nablus without being arrested or called in for questioning.
As for the civil war between Assad and his opponents, the Vienna talks offer reason for cautious optimism.
Until recently, Ukrainian leaders were accustomed to more efficient means than prison for dealing with inconvenient opponents.
Perhaps Tymoshenko herself did not understand how sharply her country had turned away from democratic norms when she mocked Yanukovych and her opponents during her trial.
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