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Its reluctance is understandable, because voters are evenly divided on the issue, and no one will invest a cent in Mexican oil or gas if the recently approved constitutional amendment on Pemex can be overturned in 2015, as the opposition claims will happen.
Among the remainder -- those who participated in neither or only one wave -- opposition to increased price controls is weak, with only 26% disagreeing.
Three years later, my father went home, not to die, but to infuse new life into the demoralized ranks of the opposition to the dictatorship.
It fell to the Catholic journalist and opposition activist Mazowiecki to be modern Poland’s first non-Communist prime minister and to start the road to recovery.
Fillon’s supporters seem to be united in their opposition to gay marriage, and Fillon, as an avowed Catholic, was the most socially conservative candidate on offer.
While France would not be a member, it could be an important ally, given the current government’s opposition to austerity.
Of course, someone – presumably Gulf States such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia – is supplying the Syrian opposition with weapons.
Its credibility in doing so, and therefore its likelihood of success, would be far greater if it were to intervene now to establish a no-fly zone to protect civilians in the opposition neighborhoods of Syria’s cities.
Of course, if Medvedev actually meant what he says, he would be leading the opposition to the Russian state that Putin has built.
But the laws of physics don’t surrender to opposition: for the past 35 years, global warming has unfolded as predicted by science.
Five years later, the same question is being asked about the tattered, demoralised Conservatives, who seem on the verge of a party split which could condemn them to opposition for decades.
The other half of the explanation is to be found in the Labour opposition and its leader Tony Blair.
In opposition Blair showed there was life after Thatcherism for the Left.
My opposition to the "united economic space" is not opposition to Russia.
In the United States, literalist Christians with engineering backgrounds have long led opposition to Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Though Turkey’s Western partners swiftly broke with Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi in support of the opposition, the “zero problems” principle dictated that the Turkish government maintain relations with the old regime.
Giving their full-fledged support to the Syrian opposition, Turkey’s leaders started to profess their country’s duty to protect the victimized people of the Middle East.
I defected to a new opposition party and campaigned on behalf of Museveni's opponent in last year's presidential election.
That he is – but not to get married, owing to the opposition of Israel’s powerful Orthodox community.
But he congratulated the opposition for having accepted the results, and he committed himself to being a better president than he had been previously and to insisting on greater efficiency from his officials.
Conserving a democratic system, although damaged, has been possible thanks to the efforts of Venezuelan civil society, which helped the opposition receive two million votes.
The moderate opposition still stood, and the Islamic State had not yet emerged from the shadows.
This means that the primary objective of the Russian attacks is to weaken the entire opposition, including the democratic opposition, fighting the Assad regime.
But some Alawites are prominent opposition figures.
But the Assad regime’s efforts to consolidate the support of Christian and secular elites by blaming foreign radical groups for fueling the opposition cannot obscure the fact that conservative Sunnis are in full revolt.
This opposition is rooted in rejection of the central leadership and the corruption that it has bred; it is not based on anti-Alawite bigotry.
To this end, the White House is investing enormous effort and political capital in two major trade deals – the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Trans-Pacific Partnership – despite domestic opposition.
Turkey has been threatening and calling for military action for 18 months, but US officials say that the Turks are not in fact ready to do anything beyond providing support for refugees and opposition fighters.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are also sending arms to Syrian opposition groups, but the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council are paralyzed.
LONDON – The referendum on Scottish independence, due on September 18, comes at a time of growing opposition in the United Kingdom to remaining in the European Union.
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