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In Belarus, an impoverished Lukashenko increasingly resorts to brute force to maintain his rule – breaking up peaceful demonstrations, imprisoning political opponents, and terrorizing the intelligentsia.
Opponents of industrial policy rely on two arguments.
In his decade in power, Putin has consolidated and strengthened the security forces, intimidated and jailed opponents, and muzzled the media and courts.
In October 2003, Putin cracked down on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the CEO and main owner of Yukos oil, Russia’s most valuable company, who was thrown into prison on dubious charges of tax fraud after backing Putin’s political opponents.
National governments throughout Europe and elsewhere issued statements of support, and encouraged Greek and Macedonian opponents of the agreement to get behind it.
In Khamenei’s eyes, it was Ahmadinejad who kept Khamenei’s reformist opponents at bay and resisted President George W. Bush’s attempt to “dominate” Iran and the Middle East.
Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard.
Though steps toward democracy are possible, when the euphoria of the moment passes, political contenders will realize that, if only in self-defense, they must restrict their opponents’ freedoms.
Having come to power in the revolt that overthrew the corrupt Shevardnadze, he resorted to the same Soviet-style techniques – intimidating and discrediting opponents, dispersing dissenters by force – to keep his opponents at bay.
Opponents will respond that abortion is, by its very nature, unsafe – for the fetus.
They are falling back on the same facile, prefabricated responses that Qaddafi used to demonize his domestic and international opponents for four decades.
The old regimes’ opponents have demonstrated bravery without recklessness, and differences of opinion without bigotry.
But the letter also implores the party’s opponents – 16% of Poles support the largest opposition party – “to remember that PiS voters are our mothers, brothers, neighbors, friends, and colleagues.”
The Crisis of PutinismPARIS – Why is Russian President Vladimir Putin resorting to increasingly repressive measures against his opponents?
Even prosecuted opponents, like Sergei Udaltsov and Alexei Navalny, have managed to “remain in the game.”
Opponents of the Argentine junta were still keen to know the outcome of matches, even when they were locked away in clandestine detention centers.
Although football victories have sometimes united bitter opponents, such truces have been all too ephemeral, and usually end soon after the final whistle blows.
The battle between austerity’s defenders and opponents thus threatens to tear apart not just the eurozone, but the EU as a whole.
The Brothers’ political opponents have not been silent.
No matter how Morsi attempts to sideline his domestic opponents, Egypt is in no shape to ignore the rest of the world.
Interest groups for or against the euro project were never able to coalesce and harden into fixed proponents or opponents because both the economic benefits and costs imposed by the euro are diffuse.
Opponents, including the US, argue that India’s food-security program is distorting world prices and harming poor farmers in Africa.
Whatever his decision, Taiwan’s first DPP president will go down in history as a pathetic failure, because he used his office to divide the island’s citizens, as if his domestic political opponents were Taiwan’s mortal enemies.
The so-called sunset clauses that stipulate expiration dates for various restrictions imposed on Iran’s nuclear program – clauses that attracted so much derision from Trump and other opponents of the deal – were vital, because they necessitated further negotiation.
For German conservatives, European integration and national identity are not warring concepts, as they seem to be to our opponents and so many others.
Because five of the seven members of the Standing Committee are to be replaced in 2017, this would be the moment for his opponents to challenge him by nominating a successor.
With even his political opponents supporting him against the military coup, the Turkish people have made their preference known.
A coup would almost certainly fail, giving an already repressive government a new justification to crack down on its opponents.
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And yet, while Assad’s opponents insist that he relinquish power, that clearly will not be a precondition for the talks.
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