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Last October, Yar’Adua joined South Africa and Libya in opposing US plans to deploy AFRICOM, its new African regional military command, on the continent.
Greece, which proudly claims to be the cradle of democracy, has leaders who largely grew up opposing an authoritarian military government.
Indeed, Lapid, a popular, eloquent, and attractive television journalist, clearly found the right formula for opposing the status quo without alienating too many voters with radical positions.
He not only probably won his last election by openly opposing military action in Iraq, but he continues to behave as if he were heading a peace march rather than a country.
Clearly, the regime is not interested in entertaining opposing views.
Moreover, it threatens to turn into a battleground for its neighbors’ opposing interests.
In opposing how the war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban is fought, many in Pakistan's minuscule middle class find themselves aligned with people they abhor: extremists whose distorted religiosity violates the tolerant version of Islam prevalent in this region.
Opposing parties use the same weapons, develop comparable tactics, and preach increasingly similar ideals.
Nemat Shafik, a deputy governor of the Bank of England, tried to position herself between these opposing positions.
Since some of the groups opposing GM organisms destroy the field trials that could give us more knowledge, a more pertinent argument might be that many opponents do not want us to know more.
In his effort to prove that losing its imperial status has not diminished Russia’s global role, Putin has meddled relentlessly in international decisions, opposing sanctions against Iran and supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, even as it slaughters its own citizens.
In this context, political parties and movements criticizing or opposing the EU have gained considerable traction, particularly in Western Europe.
So, in 2015, the resolve that Europe and the United States have shown in opposing Putin’s designs must not only be maintained; it must be hardened.
For decades our world existed under a shell of bipolarity, with two power blocs opposing each other on values, ideas and political convictions.
The Labour Party is slowly coming to the conclusion that, even though many working-class voters supported Brexit, opposing it offers the only chance of bringing down the May government.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, ever the opportunist, is also opposing the reforms.
It is probably no coincidence that three days after the new Italian government revealed its economic plan – which, if implemented, will blow up the eurozone – 154 German economists published a manifesto strongly opposing any substantial eurozone reform.
For populists, an election is never just about opposing policy views; it is about the personal corruption, immorality, and fundamental illegitimacy of all other contenders for power.
What, then, can strike a balance between the opposing forces operating on the euro-dollar exchange rate?
In fact, that seems to be the goal of some US hotheads, despite the obvious fact that Iran is on the same side as the United States in opposing the Islamic State (ISIS).
He destroyed the credibility of colonialism by opposing principle to force.
At the same time, divergences within the two main camps have grown, making it much more difficult to distinguish clearly two opposing perspectives.
Many of the same countries that signed the declaration in Moscow opposing the EU’s new carbon-pricing mechanism have also blocked the idea of a global agreement.
Others, opposing this claim, insist that the country must live up to the legacy of its 1971 secession from Pakistan, in a revolution that proclaimed Islam insufficient grounds for nationhood and asserted the primacy of Bangladesh’s secular culture and Bengali language over its allegiance to Islamabad.
Should we believe such projections of opposing developments in the West and East?
Courtesy towards and accommodation of opposing views are treated as signs of weakness.
For example, he has backtracked on ending "dollarization" and has stopped opposing America's military presence at the coastal Manta Air Base, both key CONAIE demands.
Disappointingly, many Europeans have responded to this humanitarian crisis, which closely resembles the one that Europe endured a century ago, by opposing their countries’ acceptance of any more refugees.
A New Course for Economic LiberalismGENEVA – Since the Agrarian Revolution, technological progress has always fueled opposing forces of diffusion and concentration.
If not openly committed to opposing Western values and interests, China’s interests in cowing Taiwan and in asserting regional hegemony across Asia certainly are not those of Europe and the West, not to mention Japan, India, and the rest of Asia.
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