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California can also be a leader of progressive resistance or “uncooperative federalism,” by refusing to carry out federal policies that it
opposes.
Radical groups receive immense support from the large share of the population that
opposes
women’s rights.
Their vision seems almost entirely defined by what it
opposes.
Nevertheless, in Gaza’s political milieu, Hamas is a moderate Islamic group that
opposes
al-Qaeda-style extremism.
But, to achieve this, he must encourage reforms that would lead to a strong middle class, which, as can already be seen in Russia’s big cities,
opposes
Putin’s clientilist “guided democracy” and the massive corruption that comes with it.
China
opposes
proliferation, but not as much as it wants to maintain a divided Korean Peninsula and ensure that North Korea remains a stable buffer state on its borders.
France may elect a president who
opposes
the fiscal compact and whose policies may scare the bond markets.
Western Europe may well be glad to withdraw as well, seizing an opportunity to jettison increasingly burdensome neighbors like Poland, which, despite being the largest recipient of EU funds,
opposes
further integration, has not adopted the euro, wants to burn coal, and quarrels with Germany, France, and EU governing institutions.
France has long pushed for this, but Germany – which spends a meager 1.2% of its GDP on defense –
opposes
it, claiming that it would open a Pandora’s box of other demands and exclusions.
The Australian government strongly
opposes
whaling, yet it permits the killing of millions of kangaroos each year – a slaughter that involves a great deal of animal suffering.
It
opposes
necessary structural reforms in order to defend its clients’ rent-seeking practices; rejects citizen candidacies in favor of unaccountable party elites; recoils from union modernization, owing to the corporatist practices that it implemented; and refuses to dismantle the monopolies that it established.
He recently has referred to Mexico’s business community as a “rapacious minority” that
opposes
him because “it does not want to stop stealing.”
Bannon
opposes
the existing order of global openness, as does Peter Navarro, who heads the White House National Trade Council.
While China
opposes
North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, it is even more opposed to policies that could threaten the North’s stability and lead to massive refugee crossings into China or to a unified Korea with its capital in Seoul.
The secular, center-left Republican People’s Party, for example,
opposes
interference in the internal affairs of any country, advocating instead that Turkey re-establish good relations with the countries of the region, including Syria.
A coalition of European civil-society organizations
opposes
Zimbabwean government participation on human rights grounds.
CONAIE
opposes
the FTAA and is advancing a proposal entitled Alternatives for the Americas , which offers a more balanced approach to trade liberalization.
But the government of Ukraine, just as obviously,
opposes
this, and has made free and fair elections in those regions a precondition for discussing constitutional changes – a stance that is fully compatible with the Minsk agreement.
The issue is simple: can France and Germany win sufficient support for a large stride towards a politically more integrated EU; or will Britain, which
opposes
such moves, succeed in blocking them?
First, the AKP insists that it
opposes
creating a Sharia state, and experts say that there is no “smoking gun” in the Chief Prosecutor’s indictment showing that the AKP has moved toward such a goal.
Germany
opposes
the new bank-resolution mechanism proposed by the European Commission, generating moral and political support at home by portraying its stance as an effort to protect German taxpayers: Why should the German ants pay for the southern European grasshoppers?
In fact, he
opposes
all kinds of cross-shareholding arrangements, which enable families with minority stakes to maintain control over their empires.
For the German left, which
opposes
the use of hard power, there is no reason to lament this lack of resources.
(Has the Russian government which
opposes
both NATO’s enlargement and NATO’s interference in the Balkans been blind to the inherent contradiction?)
Sanders is not simply an adversary; he leads a movement that
opposes
what Clinton and the “establishment” stand for.
The US Chamber of Commerce
opposes
all such proposed rules as “politically motivated,” because the pressure to require disclosure of election-related corporate spending does not come from institutional investors, but from government pension funds controlled by elected officials.
Meanwhile, a democratic crisis has emerged in Poland as well, starting last October, when the Law and Justice (PiS), a Euroskeptic party that also
opposes
immigration, secured an outright parliamentary majority by promising to implement populist economic policies and “put Poland first.”
If the British public truly
opposes
immigration, they are probably referring to non-EU immigration, not the arrival of, say, Italian university graduates.
Greece vehemently
opposes
its northern neighbor’s use of “Macedonia” without a qualifier, because a region in Greece bears the same name.
While Fillon does not want to revoke same-sex couples’ legal right to marry, he
opposes
granting them the right to adopt children.
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