Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political opposition, was assassinated in 1983 at the Manila International Airport ( now the Ninoy Aquino International Airport ) upon returning home from exile.

Hoover provided aid to the defeated German nation after the war, as well as relief to famine-stricken Bolshevik-controlled areas of Russia in 1921, despite the opposition of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and other Republicans.

* Case and Controversies in U. S. History, Page 42 Senator Pickering explains his opposition to the Louisiana Purchase, 1803.

He switched because of his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, disaffection with the national party, and support for the conservatism of the Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater.

Upon Clay's instruction, Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas ( Illinois ) then divided Clay's bill into several smaller pieces and narrowly won their passage over the opposition of those with stronger views on both sides.

McEwen's opposition forced McMahon to withdraw from the leadership ballot and opened the way for the successful campaign to promote the Minister for Education and Science, Senator John Gorton, to the Prime Ministership with the support of a group led by Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser.

Senator Richard Russell, Jr. of Georgia was popular in the South, but his support of segregation and opposition to civil rights for blacks made him unacceptable to Northern and Western Democrats.

Sponsored by Senator Henry F. Hollis ( D ) of New Hampshire and Representative Asbury F. Lever ( D ) of South Carolina, it was a reintroduced version of the Hollis-Bulkley Act of 1914 that had not passed Congress due to Wilson's opposition.

Raimondo withdrew his name from consideration following controversy over Behlen's operations in China ; and, according to Robert Novak, because of opposition from Senator Chuck Hagel arising from Raimondo's support of Democrat Ben Nelson over Republican Hagel in the 1996 senatorial election.

However, public opposition by the residents of Blue Diamond and other area residents, joined by Nevada Senator Harry Reid, has so far blocked the project.

In opposition to the Glass bill ’ s branch banking provisions, Senator Huey Long ( D-LA ) filibustered the Glass bill until Glass revised his bill to limit national bank branching rights to states that permitted their own banks to branch.

With the argument changed from preserving the profitability of large commercial banks to preserving the “ competitiveness ” of US banks ( and of the US economy ), Senator Proxmire reversed his earlier opposition to Glass-Steagall reform.

Political figures, including Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, blamed the fire on " radical environmentalists " and their opposition to logging to thin the forests.

Elected Senator on 30 January 1876, he continued to support the government of the republic against the reactionary opposition until his death on 20 January 1880.

The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Senator Strom Thurmond ( D-SC ): " This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason.

However, local opposition in Nevada was intense, and the concept gained a powerful enemy in the form of Senator Paul Laxalt.

He faced no major-party opposition in 2008, which is unusual for a freshman Senator.

Following a 1998 appeal for a pardon on the part of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, President Bill Clinton pardoned Morison on January 20, 2001, the last day of his presidency, despite the CIA's opposition to the pardon.

Pawlenty then decided on the U. S. Senate, but he abandoned those plans when Vice President Dick Cheney asked him to step aside and allow former St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman to challenge Senator Paul Wellstone without Republican primary opposition.

However, Grams faced opposition for the Republican party endorsement from State Senator Gen Olson, Bert McKasy ( former chief of staff to David Durenberger ), and Doug McFarland.

Perhaps one of the most notable positions of Senator La Follette was his opposition of American entry into World War I and, failing that, his critique of the wartime policies of President Woodrow Wilson.

In opposition, Lenihan and Haughey attracted some international criticism when, against the advice of senior Irish-American politicians Senator Edward Kennedy and Speaker Tip O ' Neill, they campaigned against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which the government of Garret FitzGerald had signed with the British government of Margaret Thatcher and which gave the Republic an advisory role in the governance of Northern Ireland.

Among those arrested were Senate President Jovito Salonga, Senator Jose Diokno, and Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., the staunchest of his critics and the man who was groomed by the opposition to succeed Marcos after the 1973 elections.

Dewey Lawrence, a Tyler lawyer representing the Texas Bankers Association, sounded the opposition keynote when he said it would force banks to violate their contractual obligations with depositors and undermine the confidence of bank customers.

Senate Republican Leader Dirksen ( Ill. ) and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck ( Ind. ) said the message did not persuade them to change their opposition to compulsory medical insurance.

She expressed reservations over the eventual winner David Cameron, feeling that he did not, like the other candidates, have a proven track record, and she was later a leading figure in parliamentary opposition to his A-List policy, which she has said is " an insult to women ".

Craig Quigley, a Navy spokesman, expressed the opposition of many in the military at the time when he said, " Homosexuals are notoriously promiscuous " and that in shared shower situations, heterosexuals would have an " uncomfortable feeling of someone watching ".

Druze leader Walid Jumblatt appealed for calm, but said the car bomb was a clear message for the opposition.

Responding to the announcement, opposition leader Walid Jumblatt said that he wanted to hear more specifics from Damascus about any withdrawal: " It's a nice gesture but ' next few months ' is quite vague – we need a clear-cut timetable ".

Another opposition member said the pro-Syrian government pressured people to turn out and some reports said Syria had bused in people from across the border.

French individualist anarchist Emile Armand shows clearly opposition to capitalism and centralized economies when he said that the individualist anarchist " inwardly he remains refractory – fatally refractory – morally, intellectually, economically ( The capitalist economy and the directed economy, the speculators and the fabricators of single are equally repugnant to him.

This opposition must be put in context with the second option offered by the majority opinion, which allowed that the defendant had the option of remaining silent, saying: " Had he wanted to remain silent, he could have said nothing in response or unambiguously invoked his Miranda rights, ending the interrogation ".

Neither party moved into the opposition, and both Ousmane and Djermokoye said they were willing to negotiate with the president.

Many U. S. ambassadors have said that they will never forget the outpouring of people as they showed their sympathy to the American people and their opposition to terrorism.

As of April 2006 reconciliation talks between the government and the opposition are in progress, said talks were suspended after Eyadema's death in 2005.

Gladstone said that the government would withdraw opposition to the Lords ' amendments to the Local Government Bill " under protest " and that it was " a controversy which, when once raised, must go forward to an issue ".

Dukakis ' reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the eventual failure of his campaign for the White House.

" Ueno made us aware there was opposition in the camps ," said Omori.

Trotsky said that only the Fourth International, basing itself on Lenin's theory of the vanguard party, could lead the world revolution, and that it would need to be built in opposition to both the capitalists and the Stalinists.

; October 2006: Synagogue proposal: Uri Ariel, a member of the Knesset from the National Union party ( a right wing opposition party ) ascended to the mount, and said that he is preparing a plan where a synagogue will be built on the mount.

He later said that his opposition to German militarism during the final years of the German Empire under William II led him, as early as 1913, to become a pacifist.

That said, ‘ good lordship ’ also had its harder face and the Stanleys brooked no opposition and tolerated few rivals in their areas of dominance.

Although he said he had " deep aversion against capital punishment " and in his 1974 campaign proclaimed his opposition to the death penalty, he did not commute three of the death sentences that he had to decide upon during his presidency ( although he did so in several other occasions ), keeping France as the last country in the European Union to apply the death penalty.

Their opposition to birthdays is said to be based on how the Bible presents them.

After initial opposition from the representatives of Saginaw and Midland counties, a compromise revision that would present the matter for ratification to the voters of " in said county " was passed by the legislature on February 17, 1857.

This reversed decades of Paisley opposition to Sinn Féin such as his comments on 12 July 2006 in Portrush, following Orange Order parades when he said, "< nowiki > Fein </ nowiki > are not fit to be in partnership with decent people.