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Even before Obama took office, Republican leaders were plotting to oppose his every proposal, so he could not claim bipartisan support.
Back to the Great Game in KazakhstanBRUSSELS – Those who oppose Western rapprochement with Kazakhstan cite the country’s lack of political and human rights.
But it did not reduce support for Hamas among Palestinians, and it reinforced the position of Islamic and other extremists who oppose negotiations with Israel.
Even the League’s own voters are unlikely to buy into the citizen’s income program, owing to the perception that it would feed a culture of dependency and entitlement that many of them oppose.
About 30% of British voters oppose the EU so passionately that they will always back leaving, regardless of the economic costs, just as Trump’s “base” will always support “their” president regardless of how he behaves.
Now, however, the rumor mill is heating up with gossip that the Fund’s managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, will leave in order to oppose Nikolas Sarkozy in the 2012 French presidential elections.
Many European politicians would view a member state’s repatriation of competences as a totally destructive precedent, and thus would oppose it resolutely.
Still, Trump and the Republican congressional leadership oppose any increase to the federal minimum wage, which puts them at odds with a majority of Americans.
Yet there was also frustration and bewilderment, as vocal opponents of foreign aid began to oppose the increased funding for disease control.
It was easy enough for politicians and activists in Europe to oppose the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a monumental deal intended to defend Western trade standards in an increasingly multipolar world.
The need to overhaul SOEs, for example, remains on the agenda, owing to the power of vested interests that oppose further privatization and market-based reforms.
Santos’s political rivals have been exploiting these disadvantages to oppose the peace agreement.
Those who oppose their proposed reforms are most likely insiders – people who have received payments from big banks over the past year or two.
But, while it’s good news that a majority of Americans oppose their president on this key issue, Trump is plunging ahead, apparently thinking the public will like the tariffs better when they are in place.
Breitbart News also condemned the Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, publishing a column that accused McConnell of being soft on Clinton to remain in the good graces of donors who oppose Trump.
The problems Witte dealt with were the same we confronted over the past decade: corruption, the pseudo-patriots who oppose everything foreign (including capital), and an elite and court system dominated by interest groups, rather than defending the state against them.
Some will oppose greater solidarity nonetheless, disregarding the elementary fact that enhanced interdependence in a monetary union requires it, and ignoring the Lisbon Treaty’s affirmation of Europe’s “social market” model.
In order to form a coherent bloc that could oppose the US-led global order, Russia would need powerful friends, which it sorely lacks.
Those who oppose radical hostility to all forms of Islam are “appeasers” of, or “collaborators” with, “Islamofascism.”
Turkey’s effort to fine and imprison those who do not toe the official line convinces me that I was correct to oppose opening negotiations on the country’s European Union membership.
But the strongest reason to oppose Turkey’s accession is a question of democracy: a majority of the EU’s population simply does not want it.
The international community agrees that ending the conflict is in everyone’s interest – France has long argued for a new resolution, and Russia has no incentive to oppose one.
The government claims extensive support, but opinion polls consistently show that an overwhelming majority of Hong Kong's people oppose the legislation.
This damage will become permanent if those who oppose the security laws go completely unheeded.
Her endorsement of a candidate whom she knew Cameron would vehemently oppose was a serious mistake, because it strengthened the hand of those in the UK who want to leave the EU.
But, however well founded those fears might be, they are probably the wrong reason to oppose nuclear energy.
The court’s ruling strengthens Germany’s government and those in its parliament who want less support for crisis countries and oppose a further transfer of sovereignty to Europe.
Indeed, it is in their self-interest to turn to politicians who oppose these changes.
The result is that the many lobbies that oppose increased competition, or fight to protect state aid, have been hugely weakened.
But in those regions headed by strong politicians – Astrakhan, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, for example – the damage Putin has suffered in the past week makes it unlikely that he will be able to oust leaders who oppose him.
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