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Or you can oppose controls because you think that they can be easily evaded and are therefore doomed to remain ineffective.
What you can’t do is oppose capital controls because they are both costly and ineffective.
But maybe those who oppose private seed corporations are really against capitalism and the market economy rather than GM seed.
Nonetheless, some tax reforms are likely to be a key component of a bipartisan deficit-reduction deal, because they provide Republicans who oppose increases in tax rates for high-income taxpayers with an ideologically preferable way to increase revenue from them.
Represented by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the accommodators champion democracy, the rule of law, and human rights; but, like China, they oppose Western interference.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called on his ministers and his supporters in the US to lobby Congress to oppose the agreement.
The Helms-Burton Act requires the US Treasury Secretary to “instruct the United States executive director of each international financial institution to use the voice and vote of the United States to oppose the admission of Cuba as a member until the President submits a determination under section 203(c)(3) that a democratically elected government in Cuba is in power.”
So they oppose extradition of the indicted - including ex-president Milosevic - to the Hague Tribunal.
The EU is trying to impose quotas that many member states strenuously oppose, forcing refugees to take up residence in countries where they are not welcome and do not want to go, and returning to Turkey others who reached Europe by irregular means.
Nonetheless, for the 37% who oppose gay marriage, particularly in the red center of the country, the issue helped mobilize Bush supporters to come to vote.
A fair US policy would also have to refuse Israel’s theft of land (via its establishment of exclusively Israeli settlements on occupied territory) and oppose the existence of an apartheid-style regime, whereby an illegal settler minority lives under civil law, and the majority lives under military law.
One activist gathered 100,000 signatures on a petition to oppose using the mosquitoes in eradication efforts.
How could anyone oppose turning every American into an owner?
Such pacts cannot extend recognition to organizations that oppose democracy.
Not only do many defend their entitlements strongly; some oppose growth in other types of public spending for fear that it will weaken the government’s ability to pay for the benefits that they believe they are owed.
The Case for Compensated Free TradeLONDON – Almost all liberals support globalization and oppose economic nationalism.
Whatever Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration decides to do, state governments under the control of different parties are likely to oppose his policies, or fail to devote adequate attention and resources to them.
To mark World Food Day (October 16) this year, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) – a network of farmers’ organizations operating in 52 out of 54 African countries – is joining with hundreds of other leading advocates worldwide to oppose the use of gene drives.
Those who oppose genetic patents claim that they also deny US constitutional rights, making this the first time a genetic patent has been challenged on human rights grounds.
Saakashvili claims that the opposition forces that I represent oppose Western values.
Indeed, even Russia, with all its imperfections, cannot be said to oppose Western values.
I cannot believe that people in developed counties, when informed about the issues, would support rescuing bankers and oppose partial compensation for poor countries and regions.
Moreover, both China and South Korea strongly oppose such a scenario, while the United States is poorly positioned to implement it, given its involvement in Iraq.
I suspect that, above all, mainstream politicians fear religious institutions that oppose voluntary euthanasia, even though individual believers often do not follow their religious leaders’ views.
Even in strongly Catholic Poland, more people now support legalization than oppose it.
Will the IMF endorse or oppose this view?
Those running their fiefdoms in eastern Ukraine would certainly oppose such an arrangement, but Putin’s Kremlin is no stranger to dealing with those who disagree with it.
Egypt’s political elite, fearful of critical media coverage, defeat in fair elections, and even imprisonment, prefer the existing regime and oppose any significant reform.
As the PiS accelerates its takeover of the judiciary, many of those who oppose the new law have placed their hopes in the European Union.
Now the Europeans are setting up a European Monetary Fund – a nickname that Europeans may oppose – in cooperation with the IMF.
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