In early 1954 the Old Guard put forward a constitutional amendment, called the Bricker Amendment, which would curtail international agreements by the Chief Executive, such as the Yalta Agreements ; Eisenhower opposed the measure.

Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik was sworn in as President of the Maldives on 7 February 2012, in connection to the resignation of President Nasheed amidst weeks of protests and demonstrations led by local police dissidents who opposed Nasheed ’ s 16 January order for the military to arrest Abdulla Mohamed, the Chief Justice of the Criminal Court.

Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O ' Connor wrote the majority opinion ; they were joined by David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer, and opposed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia.

British Prime Minister Lloyd George opposed the offensive as did General Foch the French Chief of the General Staff.

On January 9, 2004, a group claiming to be loyal to the Progressive Conservative Party and opposed to the merger, which they characterized as an Alliance takeover, filed application with the Chief Electoral Officer to register a party called the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Landrieu voted for the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005, but in 2006, she opposed Samuel Alito, though she did vote in favor of cloture to send the nomination to an up-or-down vote.

Kruger was opposed by many liberal elements in South Africa, and, when, in June 1898, Kruger fired the Transvaal Chief Justice, his long-term political rival John Gilbert Kotzé, most lawyers were up in arms.

In 13 January 2006, the Liberal Party has opposed Chief Executive Donald Tsang's plan to implement a five-day work week for most civil servants, due to concerns that this would put too much pressure on small to medium-sized enterprises to cut their working week to five days as well.

Ironically, Awami League later opposed him as Chief adviser ( CA ) until Mukhles Chowdhury brought all parties in elections meeting their demands for the sake of a participatory democracy and in another contradiction Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League government took oath from him.

Prachanda resigned from the post of Prime Minister on 4 May, 2009, after his move to sack the Nepalese Chief of the Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal was opposed by President Ram Baran Yadav.

The former president opposed prohibition during his presidency and much of his time as Chief Justice, but was himself a teetotaler and during his last years wrote letters in support of Prohibition's objectives.

He and other treaty supporters signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, but it was not signed by John Ross, the Principal Chief, and was opposed by most of the tribe.

The National Council and John Ross, the Principal Chief, opposed removal, as did the majority of the people.

While the majority of the Cherokee led by Chief John Ross opposed the act, Boudinot began to believe that Indian Removal was inevitable.

Although this was opposed by the majority of the delegation and lacked the signature of the Principal Chief John Ross, the US Senate ratified the treaty.

These levels alternate between the Master Chief and a Covenant Elite called the Arbiter, who occupy diametrically opposed roles in the story's conflict.

Chief Justice Rose Bird and Associate Justices Cruz Reynoso and Joseph Grodin were staunchly opposed to capital punishment and were subsequently removed in the 1986 general election.

The majority of the Cherokee opposed removal, and the Tribal Council and Chief John Ross, of the National Party, refused to ratify the treaty.

As Secretary of the Monday Club Northern Ireland Policy Committee, he backed calls from Ulster Unionist MPs for Mrs Thatcher to implement her 1979 Conservative General Manifesto commitment to " establish one or more elected regional councils in Northern Ireland with a wide range of powers over local services " in place of the 1982-86 Northern Ireland Assembly, and opposed the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which earned him the admiration and support of the then Ulster Unionist Party Leader Jim ( now Lord ) Molyneaux and the then Ulster Unionist Chief Whip and MP for East Londonderry, Willie Ross.

As opposed this, in 1971 Rav ‘ Ovadia Yosef, who was then the Rishon LeṢiyyon / Chief Rabbi of the Sefaradim and ‘ Edot HaMizraḥ of Israel proclaimed that Karaites are Jews " LeKhol Davar " ( literally, for all purposes ) and that it is permissible for Rabbanite Jews to marry with them.

Chief Mkwavinyika Munyigumba Mwamuyinga ( 1855 – 19 July 1898 < sup > 1 </ sup >), more commonly known as Chief Mkwawa, was a Hehe tribal leader in German East Africa ( now mostly the mainland part of Tanzania ) who opposed the German colonisation.

She is replaced as Chief of Surgery by Dr. Lucien Dubenko, whom she had been adamantly opposed to hiring at County in the first place.

Chief Keokuk had not opposed the advance of the white men, and Keokuk and his followers eventually moved west of the Mississippi River.

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen opposed the policy in January 2007: " I now believe that if gay men and lesbians served openly in the United States military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces " Shalikashvili wrote.

Secretary of the State Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Jeffersonian Republicans, strenuously opposed Hamilton's agenda, but Washington typically favored Hamilton over Jefferson, and it was Hamilton's agenda that went into effect.

But, the recently appointed French Secretary of State, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, was trying to promote farming in the colony and was opposed to exploration and trapping.

Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, ( the State Secretary 1938 – 1943 ) opposed the general trend in German foreign policy towards attacking Czechoslovakia: he feared that it might cause a general war that Germany would lose.

At the conference, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared the Good Neighbor Policy, which opposed U. S. armed intervention in inter-American affairs.

* Robert Ten Broeck Stevens ( 1899 – 1983 ), American businessman and politician, Secretary of the Army, opposed Joseph McCarthy

* Robert Ten Broeck Stevens ( 1899 – 1983 ), American businessman and politician, Secretary of the Army, opposed Joseph McCarthy

President Harding was very specific in commenting on the appointment of Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, that the secretary would be the sole spokesman for the State Department ( as opposed to the Wilson administration ).

As Secretary of State, Marshall strongly opposed recognizing the state of Israel.

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the " erosion of civil liberties " by the then Labour government, and successfully won re-election on a civil liberties platform ( although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties ).

By 1792, a party division had emerged between Federalists led by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who desired a stronger federal government with a leading role in the economy, and the Democratic-Republicans led by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Representative James Madison of Virginia, who favored states ' rights and opposed Hamilton's economic program.

The first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, who in his previous capacity as Secretary of the Navy had opposed creation of the new position, found it difficult to exercise authority over them with the limited powers his office had at the time.

As Secretary of War under President James Monroe, he reorganized and modernized the War Department, building powerful permanent bureaucracies that ran the department, as opposed to patronage appointees.

Following a confrontation with the Trades Union Congress, which strongly opposed the proposals, and internal dissent from Home Secretary James Callaghan, the government substantially backed-down from its intentions.

The early-1978 proposition by Moro of a DC-PSI cabinet supported also by the PCI was strongly opposed by both super-powers: the USA ( and its State Secretary Henry Kissinger in particular ) feared that the collaboration of an Italian government with the Communists might have allowed these later to gain information on strategic NATO military plans and installations, and pass them to Soviet agents.

Bevan opposed the heavy censorship imposed on radio and newspapers and wartime Defence Regulation 18B, which gave the Home Secretary the powers to intern citizens without trial.

His various struggles to formulate and enact legislation or effect departmental changes are opposed by the British Home Civil Service, in particular his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne.

Sheridan and Mrs. Custer disapproved, however, and when his request for leave was opposed by U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward, who was against having an American officer commanding foreign troops, Custer refused the alternative of resignation from the Army to take the lucrative post.

President Roosevelt had declared on March 8, 1933, in his first press conference, that he opposed a guarantee of bank deposits for making the government responsible for the “ mistakes and errors of individual banks ” and for putting “ a premium on unsound banking .” Glass had reluctantly accepted that no banking reform would pass Congress without deposit insurance, but President Roosevelt and Treasury Secretary William Woodin continued to resist such insurance during their negotiations with the Senate subcommittee.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testified to the Joint Economic Committee that he opposed reenacting Glass-Steagall and that he did not believe “ the end of Glass-Steagall played a significant role ” in causing the financial crisis.

* while only various military commanders and since 1916 a Secretary for Civil Affairs in Albania ( Ugo Capialbi ) had acted for Rome since Italy invaded on 27 December 1914 ( occupying Valorë and parts of Southern Albania ; on 3 June 1917 Albanian independence under an Italian protectorate was declared by Italy, opposed by most Albanians ; adding in November 1918 the former Austro-Hungarian occupied areas to the Italian zone ) only since in 1919 an Albanian provisional government recognized by Italy as the legal government of the protected zone, consecutive High Commissioners for the Crown were appointed until Italy effectively withdraw its troops on 3 September 1920 ( as agreed on 22 August 1920 when formally recognizing the total independence of Albania ):

As Colonial Secretary, he opposed a movement for equal rights for South Asian workers, led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.