Opposition
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By December 2015, voters elected a National Assembly with a two-thirds
opposition
majority, signaling to Maduro and his cronies that even a highly illiberal democracy would not suffice to maintain them in power.
Their
opposition
has undermined international efforts to build a more resilient system – and it will likely hamper efforts to put the European economy on a sounder footing.
To be sure, the Communist Party of China’s sophisticated “United Front” operation – which focuses on neutralizing
opposition
to its policies and authority, inside and outside China – often relies on private citizens to achieve its objectives.
He has also been startled by the rise of domestic
opposition.
Obama’s praise of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak as a man with whom one could do business demoralized Egyptian
opposition
groups, which have been struggling against the long-serving autocrat and his efforts to ensure that his son, Gamal Mubarak, succeeds him.
More ominously, following riots the regime put 16
opposition
members on trial for taking part in the demonstrations, with prosecutors indicating that some would be charged with the offense of mohareb , or “making a war against God” – a capital crime.
We believe that the European Parliament should commemorate her sacrifice by hanging a poster of her image on the external wall of the Parliament’s premises in Brussels, beside the poster of Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma’s democratic
opposition.
The prospect of a broad coalition government that excludes Wilders could enhance his influence, by making him the main
opposition.
Armenia frequently sees skinheads attacking reporters covering
opposition
rallies and once severely beating a leading
opposition
politician.
He won an overwhelming victory in the July 2007 election and faces little serious opposition, particularly as the Turkish military’s influence has been weakened by charges that some high-ranking officers were involved in plots to destabilize the government.
But in other cases,
opposition
to America's preferences is wrought by public sentiment and goes against the instincts of leaders who know better.
After the voting, the authorities of my jurisdiction posted a copy of the certificate of results on the door of the Electoral Board, which registered 155 votes for the
opposition
candidate, 76 votes for the candidate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and two votes for other candidates.
If the results of these boards had been counted, the
opposition
would have won the capital’s mayoralty by a wide margin.
This culminated a process of electoral fraud that began five months earlier with the suspension of the legal standing of the
opposition
Conservative Party and the Sandinista Renewal Movement, a rival to President Daniel Ortega’s FSLN.
Early in the Syrian civil war, when President Bashar al-Assad’s government was claiming that the many pictures of atrocities that
opposition
members posted to social media were fake, it would have been possible to develop a United Nations platform with verification procedures to ensure the authenticity of photos and videos posted.
Optimism about the Syrian people's future must be tempered by realism about the challenges facing Syria's
opposition
movement and the international community alike.
Germany is being “betrayed to foreigners” by the opposition, and “good” productive capital is once again being opposed to “bad” speculative capital.
In recent weeks, leaders of various
opposition
organizations in Georgia, such as Antisoros and Fairness, have been jailed on unfair accusations of plotting a coup on behalf of Russia.
With popular dissent growing and
opposition
forces strengthening, the authorities have sought to controll non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and strengthen the security forces.
But the people rounded up in the latest raid against the
opposition
were originally imprisoned by Eduard Shevarnadze’s government, which Saakashvili helped depose in Georgia’s supposedly democratic “Rose revolution” in 2003.
Before the security forces targeted the
opposition
bloc that I represent, supporters of educational reforms were prosecuted, while most of the press is under the influence of the government.
Saakashvili claims that the
opposition
forces that I represent oppose Western values.
Last year, many investors questioned the ECB's ability to launch a bond-buying program in the face of German opposition, and many others doubted the Fed's willingness to tighten monetary policy, because doing so could choke off the US economic recovery.
There were no gas chambers, and arguably the motivation for Stalin’s killings was not genocide, but rather the intimidation and suppression of real or imaginary
opposition
to his rule.
Putin’s hatred of the Yeltsin era’s “subservient” relations with the West fuels his
opposition.
But the West’s delay in resolving Kosovo’s status permitted that
opposition
to gain traction.
The opposition, too, floundered, doing no more than simply faulting the ruling establishment.
But any boost in its military capabilities will meet strong opposition, particularly from China and the Koreas, which continue to insist that Japan's alliance with the US provides it with all the security it needs.
Until recently, she seemed likely to muddle through to the end of her four-year term in 2018, if only because
opposition
parties were reluctant to clean up the economic mess her government created.
Not only are government leaders under fire; when
opposition
leaders joined the street protests two weeks ago, they were booed.
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