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That Japan has joined the United States in standing alongside Taiwan in opposing an end to the EU’s arms embargo on China suggests that this is so.
A conceptual basis for the opposing perspective, to which I adhere, lies in the Harvard economist Michael Porter’s theory of shared value creation.
Despite having long been viewed as a result of the Sunni-Shia divide, the competition is really between two opposing political systems: Iran’s revolutionary regime, bent on changing the regional balance of power, versus Saudi Arabia’s conservative monarchy, which seeks to uphold the old regional order.
Thus, the outstanding issue is media freedom, with the FSB faction and the liberals opposing one another.
Alas, such divisiveness already exists: public opinion opposing the veil is strident, but it appears to be less about religion than about racist xenophobia, anti-immigrant feelings, and resistance to multiculturalism.
So opposing both entry and exit is a coherent position.
These financial networks provided the information that enabled the British government to discover the sensitive strategic vulnerabilities of the opposing alliance.
In the periodic short breaks, we sounded each other out enough to find out that we were definitely in opposing political camps.
Populists are always anti-pluralists; the task for those opposing them is to fashion conceptions of a pluralist collective identity devoted to shared ideals of fairness.
This all happened when the Iron Curtain divided Europe – and the world – into opposing camps.
They are comfortable with protracted uncertainty about who is right even in bitter debates, conceding gaps in their knowledge and granting legitimacy to opposing views.
What was striking during this European championship was the intimate collegiality between opposing players.
The Senate bill’s provision on derivatives is a good litmus test: the Obama administration and the Fed, in opposing these restrictions, have clearly lined up on the side of big banks.
In 2007, the military issued a statement opposing the AKP’s candidate for president – then largely a figurehead.
These countries are fully justified in opposing an IP regime that is neither equitable nor efficient.
Second, they must convince Pakistan to begin actively opposing the Afghan Taliban and denying them the safe haven and support they currently receive in Pakistan.
It is no coincidence that the motley alliance of ultranationalists, populists, and protectionists opposing the treaty broadly overlap with those who are now siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military adventurism in Ukraine.
But it does mean that France will no longer oppose America just for the sake of opposing America.
Highly leveraged local governments could not tolerate higher interest rates or an appreciating currency, and they were adamant about continuing land sales and opposing property taxes.
Though the dispute has important implications for European and global security, only four EU members joined the UK, the US, Japan, and South Korea in opposing the resolution.
French elites, however, have opposing objectives.
It may well be female students’ very success – and the role of educated women in opposing Iran’s theocracy – that led the government to seek to reverse the trend.
Paradoxes abound, as the United States’s traditional Middle East allies (Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, and the Gulf states) have taken opposing – and sometimes seemingly contradictory – positions on the region’s key conflicts.
There may be a temptation to inflate away debt held by foreigners, but the fact is that the majority of US debt is held by Americans, who would constitute a strong constituency opposing the policy.
For opposing him, I have been demonized by the Bush campaign.
But few understand that this is not a simple matter of opposing interests: public safety versus an individual’s right to privacy.
Labour has begun to realize that its only possible route back to power is by opposing Brexit.
Rather than opposing it, more countries should be building their capacity to take advantage of it.
But the best way to prevent this is to create an environment in which opposing views can clash freely, enabling truth ultimately to triumph.
But it is no exaggeration to state that whenever Britain has perceived an opportunity to wage a war of attrition against the European supranational project, it has done so, opposing any substantial increase in the EU’s competences or resources.
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