Opposition
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Although the
opposition
has long vowed to cut off aid, the last thing that the United States wants to see today is a Cuban collapse, as immigration from the island has already doubled in the last year.
In this context, it seems possible that the US will end up pushing Venezuela’s
opposition
not to cut off oil to Cuba, even as it pressures the government to free political prisoners and pursue fairer and more transparent governance.
The Brexit vote in the UK and bipartisan
opposition
to trade agreements in the US are clear signs of this.
In my view, the Syrian crisis is at a tipping point: while it is now apparent that the
opposition
will eventually win and President Bashar al-Assad will fall, the endgame’s duration will be a key element determining who actually comes into power and on what terms.
Even when the US is not on the front lines, it has played a vital role in behind-the-scenes diplomacy, nudging wary rivals closer to one another to create a united opposition, and working with regional leaders like Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to broker deals.
If those countries have been egoistic in the past fourteen years, why should candidates believe they would not misuse new decision-making mechanisms to the detriment of small countries--hence the
opposition
of some candidate countries to creating the post of a European president.
It is and would be wrong to make
opposition
to terrorism the centerpiece of what responsible governments do in the world.
Second, Americans don’t demand that immigrants regard their cultural or ethnic background as being in contrast to or in
opposition
to their American-ness.
Still, the various factions that comprise the Tudjmanite
opposition
gained a chance to pull Budisa toward them, creating a new center of political gravity for the next crisis.
Indeed, steps by the authorities to mollify public opinion will continue to be accompanied by increased pressure on the
opposition
and on civil-society organizations.
Mikhail Kasyanov, a former prime minister and now an
opposition
critic, was inherited from Yeltsin.
Opposition
parties have become negligible.
Europe’s inland empire of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland – helmed by mini-strongmen – will stand in firm
opposition.
Yet the
opposition
managed to win two-thirds of the seats in the single-chamber parliament.
But they did not hesitate to use the power of the state to perpetuate themselves in power, harassing
opposition
newspapers, manipulating judicial investigations, and abolishing the independence of the central bank.
For starters, the common funds are meager, with no prospect of being increased – not least because of Germany’s unrelenting
opposition.
People would say you look weak if you’re not cursing the
opposition
and driving around in a big black car wearing a tie.
So when Erdogan decided to nominate Gul as the AKP candidate for the presidency, I was surprised by the strength of the secularist
opposition.
The main
opposition
party argued that the vote was invalid, and the General Staff issued a statement that it was “watching this situation with concern.”
Such a move would put Ukraine’s strategic network of gas pipelines under direct Russian control, and, as Tymoshenko, now the
opposition
leader, has noted, would be tantamount to the “full absorption of Ukraine by Russia.”
Although CEU, founded by the Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist George Soros and led by the human-rights scholar and former Canadian
opposition
leader Michael Ignatieff, is just 26 years old, many of its departments already rank among the top 50 in the world.
If an extended period of depressed growth following a crisis isn’t the right moment to challenge them, then when is?South Korea’s Middle-Power DiplomacyBEIJING – Last week, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, despite the
opposition
of her country’s closest ally, the United States, stood together with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tiananmen Square to watch the military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of World War II’s end in Asia.
That is why the US has been pressing South Korea to express more explicitly its
opposition
to China’s behavior regarding its territorial claims in the South China Sea.
But, though Bachelet’s coalition has a clear majority in Congress, supermajority requirements will force her to bargain with the right-wing
opposition
to pass her reforms.
And the Polish
opposition
party Kukiz ’15 has been collecting signatures for its own referendum on the issue.
One is seen not just in acts of religious extremism, but also in the desire of religious people to wear their faith as a badge of identity in
opposition
to those who are different.
And the UN and Arab League’s special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has created a set of working groups, chaired by Europeans, to “create a framework for concrete talks between Syria’s government and opposition.”
Finally, Egypt – a perennial candidate for a permanent or rotating African seat in a reformed Security Council – has important relationships throughout the region, particularly with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries that are directly supporting some Syrian
opposition
groups.
This has provoked intense local
opposition
to major new infrastructure development, with endless delay, increased cost, or lasting resentment the inevitable result.
America’s interventions in Vietnam and Iraq, its
opposition
to the Kyoto Protocol and insatiable consumption of natural resources, its role in creating the current financial crisis, the abuses at Abu Ghraib, and much else highlight America’s flawed record.
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