Opposition
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But, at home,
opposition
to her refugee policy gathered momentum.
The PA prime minister, Salam Fayyad, like his Hamas counterparts in Gaza, rules by decree, keeps parliament inactive, and silences the
opposition.
Moreover, Morsi urged Iran to join Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia – all Sunni-majority countries – in pressing for political transition in Syria (a role that the Syrian
opposition
rejected before Iran could even say no).
Today, similar apprehensions stoke
opposition
to New START.
His campaign promise to “make America great again” was, after all, always code for
opposition
to an increasingly multiethnic America.
Arab
opposition
to the very existence of a Jewish state in what the Arabs call “the Arab region” has been more sustained than Herzl or anyone of his generation -- nurtured on European ideas of humanism -- would have ever believed.
The real surprise was the reaction of the Romanian press as a whole, including
opposition
magazines.
A rather broad term, resistance could refer to everything from supporting
opposition
candidates to the life-threatening work of those who went underground to sabotage Nazi occupations during World War II.
PARIS: For the fifth time in sixteen years the French have switched course, putting the
opposition
in power.
Only this inducement to the most powerful state in the union persuaded Madison to drop his
opposition
to the proposal.
He proposed a model of joint-stock banking on a national scale, which ran into immediate
opposition
(curiously, his proposal was much more influential in Canada).
Control of Syria’s territory is now divided between President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, various armed
opposition
groups, the Kurds, and the Islamic State.
For Syria, this means that part of the existing state, including Assad’s Alawite sect, should be included in a broad coalition, along with the
opposition
and the Kurds.
The
opposition
Maoist-Madhesi alliance wants the decision rule to be consensus, whereas the exasperated government proposes requiring a two-thirds majority.
The
opposition
has since boycotted all Constituent Assembly proceedings.
The
opposition
parties have gained wide support for their position, with Nepal's largest media organizations, key civil-society leaders, minority activists, and women's groups all opposing the ruling coalition's effort to railroad a constitution through the Constituent Assembly.
Now this task falls to the Polish
opposition
– and to Europe.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, and other European Union leaders have said that they will boycott matches held in Ukraine, owing to the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other
opposition
figures.
Yet today the ANC stands accused of both fecklessness and moral decay, and it suffered unprecedented losses to the
opposition
Democratic Alliance in urban areas in local elections in 2016.
As in the darker decades of the twentieth century, today’s nationalism takes the form of heightened
opposition
to immigration and – to a lesser degree – free trade.
Yet Mori’s proposal has been met with considerable
opposition.
This vacillation contrasts starkly with the position taken by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar, which have steadfastly supported the Sunni
opposition
to Assad, and that of Shia Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, which have been equally resolute in supporting the regime.
The radicalization of Syria’s opposition, however, has complicated the situation even further, nesting one problem within another – much like Russian matryoshka dolls.
Indeed, it is now clear that the agreement’s chief side effect has been to breathe new life into the regime, thereby frustrating the hope of the more moderate rebel groups and allowing Al Qaeda-linked forces to gather support and strength within the
opposition.
The regime, for its part, wants the conference to focus on combating the growing extremist presence within the opposition, which it refers to generically as “terrorist.”
And, despite the resistance of Saudi Arabia and the Sunni opposition, the US and the EU currently seem more inclined to accept Iran’s inclusion in the Geneva II negotiations, especially now that advances are being made in the implementation of the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program concluded in November.
First, there is evidence that the Syrian
opposition
has amassed chemical weapons.
The Turkish government has now firmly sided with the Syrian opposition, whose representative organization, the Syrian National Council, is located in the country.
Most of the previous amendments relied on agreements between governing and
opposition
parties, and were not put to a popular vote.
Indeed, the AKP insisted on submitting the entire package to a single “yes/no” vote, despite repeated calls from civil-society groups and
opposition
parties to allow for votes on each amendment separately.
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