Opponents
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It is difficult to shake hands with
opponents
who are killing one’s families and neighbors.
With Rousseff dropping in the polls and her
opponents
slowly gaining, the October presidential election – once thought to be a done deal – may be up for grabs.
BDS’s
opponents
(including me) regard the movement as a political subterfuge intended to bring about the implosion of the Jewish state.
It shows what leaders can get away with when they demonize opponents, achieving conceivably defensible ends by morally atrocious means.
There is a real danger that
opponents
of Burma’s transition could exploit these tensions, fueling ethnic conflict in order to derail reform efforts.
Populist leaders are thus obliged to limit their opponents’ rights.
Populists have benefited from disseminating fake news, slandering their opponents, and promising miracles that mainstream media treat as normal campaign claims.
They must also display determination and ruthlessness, though without becoming the mirror image of their
opponents.
Either populism’s
opponents
drastically change their rhetoric regarding migrants and refugees, or the populists will continue to rule.
Both Abu Bakar Ba’asyir and Playboy are now out on the streets and in the public eye, but neither is as significant as its
opponents
claim.
Government tolerance of bribery and racketeering enabled
opponents
to say the "mafia" was grabbing the gains of economic change.
The objection of most UBI
opponents
is that a majority of people would respond, “Nothing at all.”
Had Gilani remained in office, he would have provided more ammunition to his opponents, who argue that the Zardari-led government has been leading Pakistan in the opposite direction.
According to his opponents, Morales is reproducing the tradition of caudillismo, concentrating power in his hands and turning government institutions into mere formalities.
For example, Colombian
opponents
of the peace deal appealed to universal norms of justice for war crimes committed by the military and the FARC, not to national particularism, as in the UK and the Netherlands.
As a consequence, the law is used only against political opponents, the budgetary division between party and state disappears, and those delivering bad news are treated harshly, as many local media have long known, and as global news outlets like CNN have recently discovered.
All of these institutions require political forces to negotiate with, rather than persecute, their
opponents.
Indeed, Obama is placed in a unique position for an American president, a position that he appears to comprehend, though his
opponents
in the US do not.
Trump and Tillerson, it seems, are fully willing to ignore the Kremlin’s repression of its
opponents
– not to mention its interference in America’s own democratic election, new evidence of which emerges almost daily – if it means avoiding uncomfortable conversations with Putin.
Meanwhile, the perception that he has the US on the ropes enables Putin to continue silencing his
opponents.
Earlier this month, more than 200 Putin
opponents
won seats on local councils in Moscow’s municipal elections.
Obama’s Republican
opponents
love to hammer home the phrase “leading from behind.”
And her
opponents
have consistently tried to tar her business career with a taint of criminality.
Moreover, Tymoshenko managed Ukraine’s crisis despite the tremendous and often irresponsible resistance of her political opponents, who frequently paralyzed the parliament when the government refused to accept populist proposals that would undermine efforts at financial stabilization.
It has carried out vendettas abroad and is believed to have murdered a host of
opponents
– including journalists, activists, and political leaders – at home.
Opponents
of the double standard draw on principles of fairness, equity, and distributive justice.
Moreover, whereas members of all ethnic groups committed crimes, in its first years, the ICTY indicted and prosecuted far more Serbs than others, fueling a perception, even among
opponents
of Milosevic’s regime, that the tribunal was political and anti-Serbian.
And yet few would deny that China’s is a repressive regime that deals with its
opponents
harshly.
But even
opponents
of Olmert’s second war must face the blunt fact that Hamas is lethal.
For example, in all of the debates on the EU’s constitutional treaty, neither its supporters nor its
opponents
have so much as mentioned the Lisbon Strategy.
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