Opposition
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Religious
opposition
notwithstanding, the use of IVF by infertile couples of normal reproductive age has been widely accepted around the world, and rightly so.
The Balkan region remains sullen and politically divided, with Bosnia and Herzegovina unable to institute an effective central government and Serbia deeply jolted by the 1999 NATO bombing and the contentious independence of Kosovo in 2008, over its bitter
opposition.
The Peronist opposition, until now weakened and divided, is hoping to make a comeback by triggering protests against budget cuts and additional energy-price adjustments.
The fact that May is facing the weakest domestic
opposition
imaginable may actually compound her difficulties.
She no longer has serious rivals within the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), while the left
opposition
is fragmented into four parties.
For example, while they pale in significance to, say, the World Bank, China-led institutions have proved appealing to a growing number of countries; most US allies have joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, despite American
opposition.
Last month in Arizona, despite well-funded
opposition
from agribusiness, the ban on small cages for sows and veal calves also passed, with 62% support.
Maduro’s election in 2013, by contrast, was a very close affair that many people question; for one thing, the
opposition
was allowed virtually no television time, even if starry-eyed US academics insisted that Maduro won fair and square.
Targeted repression, imprisonment of
opposition
leaders, press censorship, shortages, inflation, and wanton violence – Caracas is one the world’s most dangerous cities – have created a situation that appears untenable in the medium term.
The three that count because of their size – Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico – are all frightened of the consequences: Brazil that its companies will lose contracts, Mexico that the Venezuelans will finance
opposition
to their energy reforms, and Argentina of losing an ally that knows too much.
And no outside mediation is feasible without a minimum of censure or criticism of Maduro’s extremism, even if the
opposition
takes its lumps, too, for some of its factions’ radical, occasionally subversive stances.
This is where faith becomes a badge of identity in
opposition
to those who do not share it, a kind of spiritual nationalism that regards those who do not agree – even those within a faith who live a different view of it – as unbelievers, infidels, and thus enemies.
This is especially true for an asymmetric peace process between a democratically elected government and an unaccountable non-state actor, which doesn’t have to worry about upcoming elections,
opposition
political parties, the press, or a skeptical public.
The main
opposition
party, the Indian National Congress, triumphed in the northwestern state of Punjab and won pluralities in Goa and Manipur (though the BJP formed governments in the latter two states anyway, by assembling coalitions to ensure legislative majorities).
All I can say is that I feel ashamed for this failure of the German government and – unfortunately – also for the leaders of the red and green
opposition
parties who at first applauded this scandalous mistake!
Resistance to the process of political capture led in some countries (such as Switzerland) to
opposition
to establishing any central bank at all.
Hezbollah has also been shaken by the abduction and continued detention of a dozen Lebanese Shiites – some close to Nasrallah – by
opposition
forces in Syria.
But no French government in recent decades has been remotely strong enough to face down
opposition
– often involving illegal action that goes unpunished – to any reduction in entrenched privileges.
As a result, Arab nationalist governments feel justified in resisting serious political reform and vindicated in repressing all domestic opposition, particularly the swelling Islamist movements.
But in Turkey’s constrained political environment, and with a popular if polarizing president still at the helm,
opposition
leaders will face a difficult struggle to maintain the momentum they have established.
Feeling the heat, including threats from some US senators to link America’s nuclear deal with India to its actions in Myanmar, India has announced that it is asking for the release of Burmese democratic
opposition
leader and Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.
Mikhail Kasyanov, a prime minister under Putin and now a leader of the
opposition
People’s Freedom Party, insisted that “nobody knew” about the swap.
Opposition
to BPO from rich countries has nothing to do with international labor standards, which deal with the poorest workers in poor nations.
As an
opposition
legislator, I attracted considerable opprobrium for voicing my opinion, on the morning of Memon’s hanging, that it should not be.
The cynical way in which despots try to discredit all
opposition
as the work of foreign agents no doubt plays a part in this silence.
But American hawks want what most
opposition
leaders in Libya have expressly rejected.
The civil war there is not just a matter of a ruthless dictator quelling the aspirations of a democratic-minded
opposition.
Yet, given intense
opposition
to further fiscal and political integration, progress, if it is to occur, will entail difficult and divisive negotiations.
Popular
opposition
to the Iraq war made it impossible for Mexico and Chile to give into American pressure at the United Nations to endorse the invasion; the citizens of these countries were proven right.
For starters, it is more difficult to rally support for a positive agenda than it is to build solidarity through
opposition
to presumed enemies.
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