Opposition
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Where the right is in opposition, such as in Spain and Portugal, it has improved its position.
In France and Denmark, where the Socialist Party is in opposition, it did no better.
There is substantial
opposition
to the border tax adjustment among US importers who are not convinced that the dollar will strengthen enough to balance the higher implicit import tax.
Syria’s Christians, many of its 1.5 million Kurds, and even Damascus-based, secular classes have been disinclined to join what is widely perceived in the country – though not by the rest of the world – as a sectarian Sunni
opposition
that might not be supportive of cultural pluralism were it to assume power.
By contrast, many Sunni Arab states have provided varying degrees of support to the largely Sunni opposition, a hodgepodge of groups that include the Muslim Brotherhood and other sectarian forces similar to Egypt’s ultra-conservative Salafis.
Some 1,200 items and almost every imaginable service were slotted into a rate category, though not before being shifted around in response to popular
opposition
(for example, to high taxes on previously exempted goods used by the disabled).
But that would have required the central government to work with states to develop a rational and simpler system, with the rate capped, as the
opposition
Congress party demanded, at 18%, rather than the ultra-high 28% the BJP chose (for as many as 30% of all items, no less).
The enemies of civil society know this; it animates their
opposition
to it.
The
opposition
inherited a bankrupt country whose institutions are in ruins.
And though I am not the British ambassador, I will be happy to state my belief that the UK government was wise to join the AIIB, and that the US administration, in voicing its opposition, was not.
Opposition
to the reforms they propose is usually dismissed as "populist."
Opposition
to Milosevic, however, appears to have been the sole glue holding them together.
Now he is clearly hamstrung not only by the Democratic opposition, but also, and perhaps more so, by the succession struggles within his own party.
That is why she adopted a hard line in a recent protracted wage dispute with public-sector workers – in which she ultimately prevailed, despite
opposition
within her own party.
The opposition, still smarting from its narrow defeat in last autumn's election, accuses him of not having told the truth about Germany's weak economy and the consequences for the national budget.
Opponents within his own party are increasingly replacing the ineffectual Tory
opposition.
The CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), lost support, and the SPD fared so poorly that it has decided to return to the
opposition.
The leader of the Sunni Hamas can no longer support his Syrian host, who has cracked down on the Sunni-dominated
opposition.
Moreover, Senate procedures dictate that to enact tax reform with a simple majority, rather than the three-fifths supermajority required to defeat an almost-certain filibuster by
opposition
Democrats, the reform must be budget-neutral for ten years.
Ethiopia’s Struggle for DemocracyWhen we in Ethiopia’s political
opposition
agreed to participate in the election that the government called in June, we were under no illusion that the process would be faultless.
Yet we nonetheless believed that the opposition, led by the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), would have room to maneuver and campaign, owing to the government’s desire for international legitimacy.
Its election campaign took on a vilifying tone, charging that the
opposition
was bent on destroying ethnic groups through genocide.
Indeed, it called the
opposition
“interahamwe,” invoking the memory of the Hutu militia that slaughtered 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis in 1994.
The government also began to harass
opposition
parties, especially in rural areas.
So we gave a press conference – all the
opposition
parties together – the day before the vote, demanding that the government release our party workers and allow people to vote freely.
Although the government met neither of these demands, the early results clearly showed that the
opposition
was gaining a large number of seats.
In rural constituencies,
opposition
candidates defeated such EPRDF heavyweights as the ministers of defense, information, and infrastructure, along with the presidents of the two largest regions, Oromia and Amhara.
Everyone – the government, the opposition, and the public – must commit themselves to a peaceful resolution.
The government-controlled media must be open to diverse opinions; in particular,
opposition
access must be guaranteed.
The Roman Catholic Church has not moved away from its
opposition
to IVF.
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