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Even as Germany’s Bundesbank fiercely (and rightly) opposed the OMT program for its focus on countries’ solvency, rather than liquidity risk – thus creating a backdoor fiscal union – the government was relieved that the German Constitutional Court, assessing the scheme’s legality, ultimately passed the buck to the European Court of Justice.
I opposed the Bush administration’s policy on Iraq because this type of foreign policy is associated with a form of power – resurgent, I believe, in conservative parties around the world – that projects leadership as command.
Nor are they are diametrically opposed either.
In the mid-twentieth century, during the civil rights movement, it was again the Southern political elite that opposed the muscular use of federal power.
Here, those who disagree stand opposed across a chasm of values.
Wariness of another Middle East war has also underpinned Obama’s unwillingness to go beyond a one-time punitive strike on Syria – with some in Congress opposed to even that.
Of the 98 fellow Muslim Brotherhood prisoners with whom Qutb discussed his new confrontational ideology in 1964, 35 were strongly supportive, 23 strongly opposed, and 50 hesitant.
Eliminating the “spiritual guide” (as opposed to the organizational leaders) of a militant group might be perceived as a political victory for a government in the short term, but it probably makes a comprehensive de-radicalization process less likely, and it will not necessarily mean the end of the organization in question.
Islamist candidates were in an awkward position, seeking support from women voters, whose participation they opposed.
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The coincidence of economic crisis with the 30th anniversary of China’s reforms has provided a timely reminder of the pain of the Cultural Revolution, memories of which make most Chinese opposed to returning in any way to the pre-reform years.
Taking Monetary Policy to the PeopleLONDON – The United Kingdom was late to adopt central-bank independence, because then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher firmly opposed allowing unelected bankers to control interest rates.
When Winston Churchill suggested in 1945 that the British people should vote in a referendum on whether to continue the wartime coalition government, the Labour leader Clement Attlee opposed it.
The rest of the world is overwhelmingly opposed to war.
Removing Saddam is a good thing; yet the way President Bush is going about it must be opposed.
But rising uncertainty over America’s reliability – together with the departure of the UK, which has long opposed European defense, from the European Union – has already spurred Germany to acknowledge the need for progress.
Building a true democracy (as opposed to simply holding elections) is an enterprise that requires decades or even generations.
It opposed statist economic policies, as well as the cat's cradle of business, government, and the vast machinery of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which governs Mexico.
In March 2016, 83% of Russians supported the annexation of Crimea, while only 13% opposed it.
Entrepreneurs even more markedly diverge from the rest of the population, with 67% of business owners opposed to new price controls, while only 37% of the remaining sample share that opinion.
But, since Putin put Medvedev in his job and can remove him anytime he pleases, Russia’s president is not opposed to the ways of the Putin regime.
France opposed the war in Iraq in 2003; intervened militarily against Libya’s dictator, stopping a potential crime against humanity in March 2011; and saved a fragile democracy in Muslim-majority Mali in 2013.
The problem for Palestinian moderates is clear: any leader willing to agree a peace treaty with Israel would be opposed - passionately and even violently - by roughly 80% of the movement.
Cohn’s sin was to let it be known publicly that he almost resigned following the violence last month in Charlottesville, Va., when Trump equated white supremacist and neo-Nazi demonstrators, many of them armed, with those who opposed them.
But, despite Tony Blair's one-time declaration that he would take Britain "into the heart of Europe," he remains viscerally opposed to the prospect of further integration, and he will resist any new encroachment on British sovereignty in his "red line" areas of tax, foreign policy, and EU budget finance.
But the insurgency was Islamist, not Sunni; it opposed the ruling party’s secular nature and tendencies toward centralized power, not its Alawite character.
The surprise here is that Lula, a former labor leader who had been on the far left, was widely opposed, if not despised, in business and financial circles.
Obama has consistently been opposed to the trade agreement with Colombia.
This has led to calls for new alternatives, such as “responsible nationalism” or “inter-governmental” – as opposed to supranational – decision-making in the European Union.
Even more opposed the change.
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