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Hariri was the leading Sunni politician, and after his murder both communities found themselves in opposing corners with respect to Syria.
On April 27, 2007, the Turkish Armed Forces issued a statement opposing the presidential candidacy of Abdullah Gul, Turkey’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister at the time, warning that if Gul was elected, Turkey would descend into chaos.
Moreover, by siding with the Saudi government over his own intelligence agencies in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October, Trump has made clear that opposing Iran and purchasing US arms is one of the quickest ways to his heart.
Russia seeks China’s support in opposing American missile-defense systems, and calls for the involvement of all nuclear states in future strategic arms-control talks, but then cites concerns about China’s military modernization to justify its refusal to negotiate with NATO on tactical nuclear-weapon reduction.
Gubernatorial elections this November will force Kurdish political contenders to offer opposing programs, and some candidates will seek electoral advantage via populist calls for independence.
Mainstream Republicans assumed that they had little to lose, and perhaps something to gain, by opposing Clinton, because that is the lesson they took from the experiences of both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Nixon then went on to become the party’s presidential nominee in 1968, winning out over Republicans who had alienated the party’s activist base by opposing Goldwater.
The bulk of this spending is just the two opposing parties canceling each other out.
Ever since the question was first raised in 2011-2012, there have been two opposing views.
Environmentalists opposing the pipeline refer, with equal deftness, to “dirty oil.”
Given the current fluidity of Egyptian politics, different groups, representing opposing ideologies, deflect blame and responsibility for the various failures and assign guilt to others.
Today’s emerging Sino-Russian ties are serving as a catalyst for the rise of opposing camps in the Asia-Pacific region and, perhaps, a new Cold War -- something both Russian and Chinese leaders say they are against.
She did not “triangulate” in an effort to find the middle point between opposing views; she deplored the idea that the middle ground of politics, where most voters dwell, was pre-determined by a wishy-washy elite consensus.
After a man-of-the-match performance, throughout which he had been racially taunted, he turned to the opposing team’s cheer squad, raised his top with one hand and pointed dramatically to his chest with the other.
To succeed, he needs to demonstrate respect for reasonable opposing viewpoints and tone down his more extreme positions to broaden his popular support.
Opposing stances on security, defense, or, again, asylum cannot be sorted out this way.
He might even offer some symbolic gestures, such as dissociating himself from objectionable political and media figures, or showing leniency towards those he has imprisoned for opposing him.
They were not happy when, in the 1970s, their older sons became communists, strongly opposing the brutal regime of Hafez al-Assad, President Bashar al-Assad’s father.
For example, protectionist Democrats in the US Congress have been able to insulate themselves from charges of opposing free trade if they scuttle Colombia’s FTA, because they will most likely ratify the deals for Panama and Peru.
Wars are mostly fought with arms on battlefields between soldiers of opposing countries.
Energized by broad voter dissatisfaction, particularly in struggling economies, these political movements tend to focus on a small handful of issues, opposing, say, immigrants, austerity, or the European Union – essentially whomever they can scapegoat for their countries’ troubles.
A citizen who stays home, rather than voting for the candidate he or she prefers, is merely reinforcing the impact of the fat cat who donates to the opposing candidate’s campaign.
Euro-skepticism is now at an all-time high in Turkey, fueled by some European political leaders’ rhetoric opposing Turkey’s accession, and by the EU’s own failure to dispel doubts about the feasibility of Turkey’s eventual membership.
That is why even demonstrations opposing some government policy or outcome are not so much “protests against” as “appeals to” the regime.
She also reiterated the administration policy opposing “unilateral threat by either side to change the status quo.”
Indeed, as Israel’s right-wing government moves to bury the two-state solution for good, Germans are joining other Europeans in vocally opposing Israeli policy in Palestine.
Unfortunately, the two countries stand on opposing sides on climate change.
Such data have given rise to two opposing views.
The bloodshed in Kosovo is a war within that united civilization, it is not a clash between opposing civilizations.
Making matters worse, voters on both sides are tuning in only to views with which they agree, rather than attempting to understand and reconcile opposing arguments.
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