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opposed and Confederation
The 1831 Federal Pact between Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe Provinces opposed a military alliance to the League and ultimately defeated it during 1832, its former members joining the Federal Pact into a loose confederation of Provinces known as the Argentine Confederation.
Most classical liberals, who believed in free trade and low taxes, opposed Confederation because they feared that it would result in Big Government.
Some members of the Confederation Congress opposed the establishment of a peacetime army, and also opposed the establishment of a military academy ( one of Knox's key proposals ) on the basis that it would establish an egalitarian military class capable of dominating society.
Attempts by Prussia to reorganize the loose and un-led German Confederation, were opposed by Bavaria and Austria while taking part in its own discussions with Austria and other allies in 1863 in Frankfurt without Prussia and its allies attending.
Frantz opposed the idea of a nation state as it was raised by the German question and advocated a commonwealth of the member states of the former Confederation of the Rhine together with the Austrian multiethnic state and Prussia with its large Polish share of population.
They were opposed by most of the Catholic priests: Franciszek Krasiński was the only bishop that signed them ( Szymon Starowolski claimed he did so under the " threat of the sword "), and the future legal acts containing the articles of the Confederation were signed by bishops with the stipulation: " excepto articulo confoederationis.
The Polish – Russian War of 1792 ( also, War of the Second Partition, and in Polish sources, War in Defence of the Constitution ()) was fought between the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth on one side, and the Targowica Confederation ( conservative nobility of the Commonwealth opposed to the new Constitution of May 3, 1791 ) and the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great on the other.
In the War in Defense of the Constitution, the Commonwealth's ally Prussia, under Frederick William II, broke its alliance with the Commonwealth, which was effectively defeated by Catherine the Great's Imperial Russia in alliance with the Targowica Confederation, a coalition of Polish magnates and landless nobility who opposed reforms that might weaken their influence.
Palmer remained ardently opposed to Confederation after 1864.
The Anti-Confederation parties were accordingly opposed by the Confederation Party.
The Anti-Confederation Party was opposed by the Confederation Party of Charles Tupper.
But this amendment ultimately failed, falling two states short of the unanimous approval required for amending the Articles of Confederation ( only New Hampshire and New York were opposed ).
Cameron was opposed to Confederation, preferring a legislative union.
In 1454, the city joined the Prussian Confederation, an association of cities and gentry that opposed the policy of the Order.
The Confederation parties were accordingly opposed by Anti-Confederation parties in those three jurisdictions.
Howe, himself, initially opposed Confederation, but accepted it as a reality after initial attempts to scuttle it failed.
During the constitutional debates of the early 1990s, he suggested that the Parliament of Canada ( as opposed to the executive branch of government ) should assume responsibility for reformulating the terms of Canadian Confederation.
Bennett was opposed to Confederation because he feared the Québécois: he thought that if Newfoundland joined in Confederation with Quebec, then the Canadian Parliament would be dominated by Canada West ( Quebec ); he feared there would be a whole dynasty of French-Canadian statesmen who would centralize power in Ottawa and ignore the people of Newfoundland ; he feared a National Unity Crisis within Canada and believed that Newfoundland would lose control of its natural resources to the new federal government.
He opposed its regionalist aspects, and was concerned by its popularity with voters who opposed bilingualism and Quebec's role in Canada's Confederation.
In the provincial elections of 1986 and 1988, he was the leader of the province's Confederation of Regions Party, a group that opposed the extension of French-language rights and sought greater autonomy for western Canada ( unlike the Western Canada Concept and Western Independence Party, it did not seek full independence for the western provinces ).
The less populous states were adamantly opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to the more populous states, and so proposed an alternative plan that would have kept the one-vote-per-state representation under one legislative body from the Articles of Confederation.

opposed and project
To stop his own people from shutting down his Dalek project, he arranges for them to be wiped out by the Thals, then blames their destruction on a scientist that opposed him, having the Daleks kill them.
During World War I, Zionist volunteers fought in the Jewish Legion of the British Army against the Ottomans because they expected the British would be less opposed to the Zionist project than the Ottoman authorities.
In addition to opposition in Congress, Kemp fought White House Budget Director Richard Darman, who opposed Kemp's pet project HOPE ( Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere ).
Some activists have, however, opposed the project in the past, claiming it may have negative effects on waterside villagers.
# Antihumanism: a term applied to a number of thinkers opposed to the project of philosophical anthropology.
The British government had opposed the project of the canal from the outset to its completion.
Town residents immediately opposed the project.
As opposed to operational project management, these organizations typically try to raise awareness, acceptance and knowledge by lobbying, press work and activist event.
The WPA was hesitant to approve the project ; in March, Frank Holcomb, Chairman of the County Commissioners, was opposed to any major additional expenses.
The City of Glendale and the Gila River Indian Community opposed the project for various reasons, arguing that it would harm residential neighborhoods and compete with tax-paying businesses.
Proponents of free enterprise cite the failings of Nehru's socialist policies as opposed to Patel's defence of property rights and his mentorship of the Amul co-operative project.
Adolphe de Leuven, the co-director of the Opéra-Comique most bitterly opposed to the Carmen project, resigned early in 1874, removing the main barrier to the work's production.
The drilling project has been opposed by some environmental groups and scientists who have argued that hot-water drilling would have a more limited environmental impact.
The final citizen ’ s vote was ninety-nine opposed to the project, six for the project.
Delaware is opposed to the project and filed a lawsuit in Federal court to stop the project from going forward on the basis that they control the waters in which part of the pier would be situated ; a lawsuit the State of Delaware lost.
David Dubinsky and the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union opposed the project, arguing that the factory town would cause unions to lose their power over wages.
Political opposition came from those who thought too much money was being spent on the project, as well as those opposed to the New Deal in general.
TVA had called the meeting in hopes of gaining the support of locals, and the agency was surprised when most of the 400 or so in attendance vehemently opposed the project.
The project is widely opposed in Nevada and is a hotly debated national topic.
The project was begun by Dhuey and Berkeley without the knowledge of Apple head Steve Jobs ( who opposed features like expansion slots ).
As opposed to Corbusier ’ s project 23, which consisted of one building containing both the Assembly Hall and the councils in the centre of the site ( as it was hierarchically the most important building ), Niemeyer's plan split the councils from the Assembly Hall, locating the first alongside the river, and the second on the right side of the secretariat.
The liberal democratic project was strongly opposed by conservative factions allied with the Roman Catholic clergy and the wealthy landowners.
When the institution of a revolutionary tribunal was proposed, Vergniaud opposed the project, denouncing the tribunal as a more awful inquisition than that of Spain, and avowing that his party would all die rather than consent to it.

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