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But countries in the region, fearing a large number of refugees and the impact they might have on government budgets, have opposed such a move.
What we are seeing now – open campaigning, as opposed to selection behind closed doors – seems to be a move in the right direction.
Given this commitment, subsidy for the opera raises an obvious question: Since liberals are opposed to the establishment of religion, how can they justify supporting the establishment of one of the great totems of secular humanism — the operas of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and other lesser saints in the secular canon?
Owners of coal mines and their clients are thus strongly opposed to any tax on carbon.
Vallenilla claimed to be seeking an effective (as opposed to the formal) constitutional system for his country.
It would be a pity if these concerns continued to be distorted by hard-line Chinese leaders engaging in nationalist rhetoric aimed at convincing their people that Americans and others stand opposed to China's legitimate national aspirations.
They are aided by radical, environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which are permitted to participate in Codex meetings, and which are ideologically opposed to new technology.
Although President Nicolas Sarkozy recently opposed the use of primary elections in his own party, many of those responsible for his legislative majority, including Prime Minister Francois Fillon, seem to consider it likely that the French right will also begin the practice of using political primaries, if not in 2012 (because Sarkozy will run again), then in 2017.
Just as Bush openly denounced the “thousand lobbyists” working the halls of the US Congress against a vital national interest, Obama said in a conference call that his critics “would be opposed to any deal with Iran,” and called out AIPAC’s $20 million advertising campaign against the agreement.
The truth is that American Jews largely opposed the Iraq war.
European governments are adamantly opposed to capital punishment – the European Union bans it outright – and some Europeans consider its use in the United States barbaric.
They are not opposed to poverty reduction in faraway countries.
They are staunchly opposed to deeper European economic integration.
In fact, just last week, Trump was given no choice but to sign a bill imposing new sanctions on Russia that he had stridently opposed.
When he rightly opposed America’s war against Iraq, the pride of standing up to the world's only superpower was palpable.
Growth in the New Climate EconomyMILAN – Action to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and mitigate climate change has long been viewed as fundamentally opposed to economic growth.
Worse, because they came in rapid succession, they created the sense that now (as opposed to previous alarms) the Trump presidency was truly spinning out of control.
In institutional terms, long-term reform should aim for a shift to a pension system based on individual savings accounts, as in Chile, as opposed to the current state run, pay-as-you-go pension systems.
Neither the US public nor Congress has proven willing to invest seriously in the instruments of nation building and governance as opposed to military force.
It was also wrong to call for the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, because the forces opposed to Assad lacked the necessary popular support, and the US was not prepared to help them win that support.
At the height of the Cold War, many leftists opposed NATO.
The measure was, at least initially, opposed by the Conservative government, but supported by members of all political parties.
Lawyers call this the fact-finding process, which is characterized by a tradeoff: Finding out what really happened, as opposed to ending the dispute, can be costly.
People on the left would defend brutal dictators (Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, Khomeini, et al.) simply because they opposed “Western imperialism.”
The joy of opposition is its simplicity;Ukrainians understood what we opposed and stood side by side with us.
The German Bundesbank, which was forced to buy most of the bonds, strongly opposed the program, but was unable to stop it.
The US delegation, dispatched by a government intent on reducing state intervention in the economy, declared itself vehemently opposed to the idea.
The DPJ’s only reason for being, however, is its anti-LDP stance, while the SDP has long opposed the Japan-US Security Treaty, and the PNP strongly opposes the privatizations of the Koizumi era.
Indeed, many in the DPJ cabinet are baby boomers influenced by the radical student groups that opposed the Japan-US Security Treaty 50 years ago.
He implacably opposed joining the European Union (then the European Economic Community) on the grounds that doing so would compromise British identity and sovereignty.
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