Opposition
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Fear of radioactive contamination has stoked strong
opposition
from residents in areas that would need to accept rubble – even when the rubble is from areas nowhere near Fukushima.
But a strategy that aims to isolate Hamas entirely divides the Palestinians, and also poses a serious problem to Arab governments, which face strong domestic
opposition
from Islamic parties that back Hamas.
Put crudely, it is more beneficial politically for an
opposition
politician to claim that his country’s problems are self-induced, caused by domestic profligacy, and have little to do with global financial failures.
Despite Cameron’s warning that “this is not like Iraq…we must not let the spectre of previous mistakes paralyze us,” members of his Conservative Party joined with
opposition
Labour MPs to defeat the motion to launch airstrikes in Syria in response to Assad’s chemical-weapons attacks.
Her failure to win the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to amend the constitution, together with
opposition
candidates’ success in recent midterm elections, suggests that Argentina may well be set for a rightward shift in 2015.
In August,
opposition
candidates like Sergio Massa and Mauricio Macri attracted substantial electoral support with their business-friendly, anti-inflation campaigns, making them likely presidential candidates in 2015.
Not surprisingly, the Venezuelan
opposition
– which lost the last presidential contest by one percentage point – has little confidence that UNASUR’s involvement will ensure a credible election.
Nor is it surprising that
opposition
leaders have called for the presence of observers from the OAS, by far the most experienced body in the Western Hemisphere when it comes to election monitoring.
In fact, on his recent trip to Israel, Vice President Mike Pence refused even to talk to the leader of the
opposition
Labor Party.
Ever since the Fukushima accident,
opposition
to nuclear power has been growing in China and South Korea, both of which had been planning a massive expansion of their nuclear generating capacity – and both of which face a change of political leadership next year.
The Ma government has also been kept on its toes by the
opposition
Democratic Progressive Party’s call for the phase-out of nuclear power in Taiwan by 2025.
Although Chen’s government, under pressure from the
opposition
Kuomintang, later restarted work on the plant, design revisions have repeatedly delayed its completion.
Opposition
from local residents remains stiff.
His focus on reducing military expenditure, however, attracted strong
opposition
from army officers, who assassinated Takahashi in 1936.
But the Republicans’
opposition
to anything that raises revenue means that this key to breaking the budget stalemate won’t be implemented.
As a next step, the Labour
opposition
should ask Prime Minister Theresa May’s government to sponsor a convention.
And the tactically foolish ban on Assad’s participation in any US-led strike against the Islamic State – not to mention calls for
opposition
factions to hold provisional elections – is sloganeering, not policymaking.
Similarly, in Italy, Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin recently warned of a “fake news” campaign, backed by the
opposition
Five Star Movement, to dissuade parents from vaccinating their children.
Of course, our movement was created out of opposition:
opposition
to corruption,
opposition
to surrendering our national independence,
opposition
to the rule of the bully.
The joy of
opposition
is its simplicity;Ukrainians understood what we opposed and stood side by side with us.
Instead, each proposal faced its own
opposition.
Despite having more than 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) of coastline, India has struggled to implement its planned expansion of nuclear power through seaside plants, owing to strong grassroots
opposition.
Russia’s support of the Syrian government’s assault on Aleppo has stymied the peace process, which depends on the cooperation of global players, regional powers, and the moderate
opposition
forces that Putin is bombing.
In fact, with his Democratic Party holding only 40% of the 299 seats in the National Assembly, he will have to win support from centrist parties and even the conservative
opposition.
The US went to war despite strong
opposition
from France, Germany, Russia, China, and other United Nations Security Council members.
Poland’s Successful LosersWARSAW – How can a government with the best economic record in Europe (indeed in the entire OECD) be humiliated at the polls by a Euroskeptic, nationalistic, and economically illiterate
opposition
– one deemed unelectable only a year ago?
Even the fact that these promises, though plentiful, were mostly inexpensive (certainly compared to those of the opposition) was not used to convey a commitment to fiscal responsibility.
In his last visit to NATO, Secretary of Defense William Cohen replaced polite approval in principle with expressions of concern that stop just short of outright
opposition.
Instead of dealing with these concrete threats to Japan, Hatoyama continues to act like an
opposition
politician by attacking the LDP and undermining one of the proudest achievements of LDP rule, the deep and trusting alliance with the US.
Yet, despite public promises by Kerry to supply the Syrian
opposition
with weapons – and even after Obama declared that Assad must go – Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced that the Pentagon had no such plans.
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