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Clearly, political calculations played a role: Fabius intuitively felt that the French, especially those on the left, oppose the construction of Europe in its current form, and that carrying the banner of rejection could win him the party leadership – and thus its presidential nomination in 2007.
But European Socialists remain divided: German and British members oppose higher spending and fiscal homogeneity.
A few days after Wen's interview, while commenting on recent developments in Taiwan with Premier Wen at his side, US President George W. Bush said that America opposed "any unilateral decision to change the status quo, and the comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan indicate that he may be willing to make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo, which we oppose."
The British, in the name of protecting national sovereignty, oppose all such notions.
Since these groups were thrown on the defensive for a while after the old regimes were toppled, initially they did not have the political power to oppose rapid and irreversible changes.
Once upon a time, the liberal project’s defining feature was, in John F. Kennedy’s stirring words, the readiness to “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Indeed, despite endemic social unrest, a large majority of Greeks acknowledges the need for change and does not oppose it.
To those in the other Arab countries of the Middle East and elsewhere who oppose the war, the impact is to make human rights seem a justification, or a pretext, for a projection of American power.
Of course, French optimism does not mean that those defeated at the ballot box will not take to the streets, especially to oppose the implementation of reforms to French labor laws.
There are also those who vigorously oppose the prisoner exchange with Hamas because some of the released prisoners will return to terrorism against Israel, as has happened after past exchanges.
And there are of course plenty of Remainers who oppose Brexit in any form.
Of course, some countries, not least the US, would oppose making such a reversal in Israeli policy a condition of creating an international force and consensus in NATO, the EU, or the UN may not be found or, if it were to emerge, Israel might simply refuse to abide.
Critics of neoliberalism should not oppose mainstream economics--only its misuse.
Sarkozy’s message is that Chirac and Villepin were right in substance to oppose America’s military adventure in Iraq, but that their style was disastrously wrong.
Figures like Senators Pete Domenici and Alan Simpson, who talked a good game about the long-run deficit, never met a budget-busting Republican program that they would oppose or a deficit-reducing Democratic initiative that they could support.
Those who oppose these principles have had a rather good year.
As a result, they oppose efforts to reduce the number of American nuclear weapons in Europe, part of NATO’s “nuclear sharing” policy.
The only way to oppose it, at least by peaceful means, is by consistently demonstrating that its claims are not recognized.
Legally, morally, politically, and militarily, it has only one justification: protecting Libyans from the kind of murderous harm that Qaddafi inflicted on unarmed protestors four weeks ago; has continued to inflict on those who oppose him in the areas that his forces control; and has promised to inflict on his opponents in Benghazi and other rebel-held territory.
Confronted with the prospect of a US veto, an increasing number of international observers flatly oppose the Palestinian plan, on the grounds that it is unlikely to generate concrete political gains and would merely deflect attention from the main requirement of Middle East peace-making: a return to the negotiating table.
Pakistan’s major political parties oppose him.
Can we oppose them with anything but individual rights?
Over the past 18 months, civil-society organizations, journalists, trade unionists, and students have voiced opposition to the new law and organized an alliance to oppose it.
After all, nobody accepts Israel's claim to oppose as a matter of principle the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
If Turkey grants its own Kurdish minority more cultural and language rights and allows legitimate Kurdish political representation in the Turkish parliament, the willingness of Turkish Kurds to oppose Ankara will be diminished.
Second, governments should oppose international restrictions on DDT and withhold all funding from UN agencies that oppose the use of the “best available technology” (including DDT) to control mosquito-borne diseases.
So the dividing line in Pakistan is not between liberals and extremists, but between those who support the status quo and those who oppose it.
Moreover, other powers in the region that have or are believed to have a nuclear arsenal will have no excuse to oppose disarmament.
It is similarly misguided to think that populist politicians, once in power, will not be able to govern effectively, because they have emerged from protest parties whose agendas are defined entirely by what they oppose.
At the same time, Syria and Iran might exploit the inevitable chaos to expand their presence in Iraq, and all parties, including Turkey, would oppose a central role for the Kurds.
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