Opposition
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As long as these maneuvers do not proliferate and turn into easy ammunition for the
opposition
of the moment, they may provide a safety valve for presidential systems.
In Western countries, meanwhile, interpretations of human rights have evolved alongside a larger cultural shift toward individualism and secularism, prompting
opposition
to a broad set of religious practices.
Moreover, popular
opposition
to fossil-fuel development is mounting, generating political pressure and financial and legal risks.
For example, the data that Doing Business provides can help to generate the political will and public support needed to overcome
opposition
to competition-boosting measures from entrenched actors that have an interest in maintaining high entry barriers or procedural bottlenecks.
The combination of his clear
opposition
to Turkey’s admission to the EU and uncertainty about the ultimate agenda of the Islamist party in power there has contributed, at least in part, to the current Turkish crisis.
Many blame rising inequality over the past few decades on foreigners, rather than technology, and it is easy to rally
opposition
both to immigration and globalization.
Opposition
candidates and parties were denied registration for the slightest formal complaint.
The prizes conferred on opportunistic defectors not only undermine the party system, but weaken the foundations of parliament by making organized
opposition
impossible.
The situation escalated sharply earlier this month, when Yameen refused to comply with the Supreme Court’s unanimous order quashing the convictions, which he had engineered, of nine
opposition
figures – including the exiled former president, Mohamed Nasheed – on terrorism charges.
Will India intervene militarily, as Nasheed and other Maldivian
opposition
leaders have requested, or will it allow Yameen to continue to enable China to pursue its strategic objectives in the region?
Russia’s
opposition
to NATO enlargement is often explained as an effort to prevent the countries that were formerly aligned with the Soviet Union from allying with a new geostrategic partner.
As in Iran in 1979, demonstrators united in
opposition
to the old regime have wildly differing goals.
Divisions within the
opposition
movements are thus inevitable.
When 40 leading Republican foreign policymakers and national-security experts signed a letter expressing their
opposition
to Trump, whom they fear would be “the most reckless president in American history,” their concerns were largely disregarded.
In the 1970s, he would flatter Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev with spectacular displays of fealty to the Kremlin, only to meet with protesting Georgian students in support of their right, in
opposition
to the Kremlin’s wishes, to speak Georgian, not Russian, as a state language.
Abortion receives extensive media coverage in developed countries, especially in the United States, where Republicans have used
opposition
to it to rally voters.
In 2008, the government, despite fierce
opposition
from other political parties, changed the Law of Associations and allowed religious-minority associations to purchase real estate (and to receive contributions, regardless of size, from abroad).
One might expect a leader who faces internal armed
opposition
to avoid doing anything that might weaken the military.
Tech vs. DemocracyBRUSSELS – Instagram, a photo-sharing platform owned by Facebook, recently caved in to a demand by the Russian government that it remove posts by
opposition
leader Alexey Navalny alleging misconduct on the part of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko.
And the overwhelming
opposition
to Trump in trend-setting states such as California and New York could encourage their voters to elect legislatures to counteract federal conservatism with progressive state laws on issues ranging from air quality and health care to abortion, treatment of immigrants, and gun control.
Women, of course, are not alone in their
opposition
to Berlusconi, but they made the difference in Milan.
A government pursuing a reform agenda should, under these circumstances, make the public aware of the emergency conditions and appeal to the responsibility of the
opposition.
But the letter also implores the party’s opponents – 16% of Poles support the largest
opposition
party – “to remember that PiS voters are our mothers, brothers, neighbors, friends, and colleagues.”
At first, the media were rather silent, with the exception of a few
opposition
pundits who spoke out to hold the PiS responsible.
That nickname for the ACA, coined by the Republicans when the law was enacted in early 2010, was intended to be derogatory, and their
opposition
to the program seemed to be vindicated in that year’s midterm elections, when they swept both houses of congress.
The parliament currently is considering 15 bills along these lines, all of which have the full support of the main
opposition
parties.
Turkey and Syria still have border disputes; for many Syrians, scenes of Turkish troops crossing the border, even behind lines of Syrian
opposition
fighters, would rally nationalist pride and strengthen Assad’s narrative of foreign-inspired terrorism and insurgency.
But opposition, while broad, was diffuse.
The US presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have both made
opposition
to trade agreements a key plank of their campaigns.
The Syrian track – requiring Israel’s withdrawal from the strategically vital Golan Heights and the evacuation of tens of thousand of settlers – is hampered not only by the Israeli leadership’s legitimacy deficit, but also by US
opposition
to the talks.
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