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But what my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps, that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition, that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.
In my opinion, these people are much more wiser than, not only the political elite, even the intellectual elite, even opposition leaders including political parties.
We should not get distracted by resistance and opposition, but this should motivate us further.
And a couple of weeks later when Zacarias Moussaoui was indicted on six counts of conspiracy to commit terrorism, and the U.S. government called for a death penalty for him, if convicted, my husband and I spoke out in opposition to that, publicly.
At the time, there was a lot of opposition.
They think that if there's anything against them, then we are being an opposition newspaper.
Israeli Activist: Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.
And the very next year, in 1994, we had the conference here in Edinburgh, and I had no opposition in having Tim Berners-Lee as the keynote speaker.
It took us 10 years to unite 18 opposition party leaders, with their big egos, behind one single candidate against the Balkan dictator Slobodan Milosevic.
Recent proposals for supervised injection sites in cities like Seattle, Baltimore and New York have been met with stiff opposition: opposition that goes against everything we know about addiction.
But, for an idea that is so broadly accepted in private, birth control certainly generates a lot of opposition in public.
The government and the opposition, they have been simply paralyzed.
And because many of our governments are quite dictatorial, they need really to have the army clobber the opposition.
A dictator may not be able to provide me with good health care, but he will be able to make me love him and to make me hate the opposition.
And I see their parents and their fathers who, like my own, advocate for them, despite and even in the face of daunting opposition.
This is very much in the sense of Max Weber's idea of potential power, which is the probability of imposing one's own will despite the opposition of others.
And second, and probably the more reflective one, is just about how much each of us can hold problems in opposition when they're really not that way.
And as the very first pilot middle school in all of Los Angeles Unified School District, you better believe there was some opposition.
Because, by Western definitions, a so-called civil society has to be separate or even in opposition to the political system, but that concept is alien for Chinese culture.
When the opposition party decided to shut down part of the city center, we negotiated alternative routes.
When Iran and Israel's security imperatives dictated collaboration, they did so in spite of lethal ideological opposition to each other.
We got a lot of criticism, a lot of opposition, and a lot of opponents.
So what's actually happened is, although there is still some opposition, the movement is clearly growing.
Now these efforts are small, they're often underfunded, and they face formidable opposition.
I find it astounding that someone from the shadowy corners of cyberspace can become its voice of opposition, its last line of defense even, perhaps someone like Anonymous, the leading brand of global hacktivism.
To understand this, I went back to Turkey about a year after the Gezi protests and I interviewed a range of people, from activists to politicians, from both the ruling party and the opposition party and movements.
Despite her poverty, despite her social status as a divorcée in an ultra-conservative society, and despite the opposition of her parents to her going back to school, Fayza knew that her only way to control her life was through education.
So I am really struck by the notion in your career of the opposition you faced, that when you began thinking about exoplanets, there was extreme skepticism in the scientific community that they existed, and you proved them wrong.
This is a false opposition.
Polarity is a state in which two ideas or opinions are completely opposite from each other; a diametrical opposition.
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