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Many are lining up to oppose the science of global warming.
As he said in his inaugural speech: “[W]e shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Not surprisingly, the US government’s national security officials oppose full encryption by American technology companies, arguing that the country will be less safe if the proper authorities have no “backdoor” – a piece of code that lets them in.
As a result, the rest of the EU should oppose any bid to eliminate existing border controls, which is exactly what would happen if Bulgaria and Romania were included in the Schengen Area.
They could oppose their “positive energy” with the pessimism dominating European minds.
In doing so, he has marshaled those who oppose immigration behind the banner of their own group identity.
As a result, even though they largely oppose the Assads and the Ba’ath Party, they are generally not attracted to the radical Salafism that extremist groups from the Gulf and elsewhere are promoting.
A recent poll shows that only one-third of Germans now favor the scheme, while a majority oppose it.
Given these benefits, it seems masochistic for Germans to oppose the ECB’s strategy.
In addition, Wen announced that China would support India’s inclusion as a permanent member of an expanded United Nations Security Council, and oppose Japan’s inclusion, which the US supports.
These voters will oppose the fiscal and monetary integration required to stabilize the eurozone if they think their money will be spent on subsidizing poor countries on Europe’s periphery that refuse to cooperate on refugees and fail to abide by EU laws.
In emerging democracies, electoral minorities tend to be tied to the old establishment, and often oppose change led by popular upstarts.
Some, such as France’s National Front, oppose their country’s eurozone membership; others, such as Podemos in Spain, do not.
While intensely nationalist movements such as Mussolini’s fascists and Adolf Hitler’s Nazis did compete with one another over who was more genuinely fascist, they ultimately united to oppose the liberal order.
The Muslim Tatars – roughly 15% of Crimea’s population – strongly oppose joining the Russian Federation and may become a permanent thorn in its side, along with the 25% of Ukrainian-speaking Crimeans who have been silenced over the past ten days.
Here is an illustration of one of the oldest principles of democratic governance -- great reforms are likely to be successfully implemented only by those who oppose them.
If I did not believe that, I would oppose capital punishment, because revenge and other possible motives should not be a basis for public policy.
Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.
Keeping the pound does not mean that we oppose the Euro, or hope for its failure.
It is on this basis that British Conservatives oppose the proposed constitution.
We disagree with many of its contents, of course, but also oppose the idea of having an EU constitution at all.
The agreement gives pharmaceutical firms, tobacco companies, and other corporations substantially less than they had asked for – so much so that US Senator Orrin Hatch and some other Republicans now threaten to oppose ratification.
You could understand, for example, why the sponsor of the Bridgewater Canal (perhaps England’s first) would vehemently oppose the planned Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
We on the left oppose just about everything Trump has said and done.
But we can’t successfully demand or oppose anything until we have shaped a coherent view of international politics.
But President Barack Obama and the congressional Democrats oppose any reduction in future entitlement programs, while the Republican presidential candidates and their party’s congressional delegation oppose any increase in tax revenues.
But even though such a reform could maintain income levels for retirees, Democrats oppose it, because it lowers traditional government benefits.
In contrast, other leaders with different objectives from their followers invest heavily in educating those who would oppose them to a different point of view.
Moreover, they oppose key changes in the eurozone’s economic governance.
By its immobilization, however, such a community may simply be too passive to oppose the violent men acting in its name.
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