With such conflicting perspectives, it can be argued that a certain polarization between both supporters and opponents of President Uribe seems to be forming both inside and outside the country.

While supporters of the merger argued that there would be economies of scale and that the sales of PCs would drive sales of printers and cameras, Walter Hewlett was convinced that PCs were a low-margin but risky business that would not contribute and would likely dilute the old HP's traditionally profitable Imaging and Printing division.

In the Compromise of 1850, Utah and New Mexico Territory had been organized without any restrictions on slavery, and many supporters of Douglas argued that this compromise had already superseded the Missouri Compromise.

Lenin and his supporters, the Bolsheviks, argued for a smaller but highly organized party while Martov and his supporters, the Mensheviks, argued for a larger and less disciplined party.

It is also argued that in the absence of a ranked ballot system supporters of minor parties are effectively disenfranchised and denied the right of representation by someone of their choosing.

Greenspan famously argued the case for returning to a ' pure ' gold standard in his 1966 paper " Gold and Economic Freedom ", in which he described supporters of fiat currencies as " welfare statists " intending to use monetary policies to finance deficit spending.

Some people have argued that communitarianism's focus on social cohesion raises similarities with nationalistic communism, or various forms of authoritarianism, although supporters contend that there are substantial differences between communitarianism and authoritarianism, and that communitarianism has very little in common with Communism, which they see as not really valuing individual liberty at all.

His supporters argued that, while he lacked physical stamina due to his age, mentally he remained aware and attentive, and maintained a very active work schedule, showing up for every floor vote.

Other supporters of the Bill, such as Thomas Jefferson, argued that a list of rights would not and should not be interpreted as exhaustive ; i. e., that these rights were examples of important rights that people had, but that people had other rights as well.

At the Central Committee meeting held in July 1928, Bukharin and his supporters argued that Stalin's new policies would cause a breach with the peasantry.

Reagan and other conservative advocates of the Reagan Doctrine advocates also argued that the doctrine served U. S. foreign policy and strategic objectives and was a moral imperative against the former Soviet Union, which Reagan, his advisers, and supporters labeled an " evil empire.

However, this model was rejected by supporters of Deng Xiaoping, who argued for a more market-based economic system.

O ’ Neill believes that Hobbes ( who had instructed Charles in philosophy ) had significant influence on Cavendish ’ s natural philosophy and notes that Cavendish was among the few seventeenth century supporters of Hobbes ’ materialist philosophy, which argued that incorporeal souls do not exist in nature.

Criticism of the CAP has united some supporters of neoliberal globalisation with the alter-globalisation movement in that it is argued that these subsidies, like those of the USA and other Western states, add to the problem of what is sometimes called Fortress Europe ; the West spends high amounts on agricultural subsidies every year, which amounts to unfair competition.

While the difference in the definitions was very small, with Lenin's being slightly more exclusive ( Lenin's formulation required the party member to be a member of one of the party's organizations, whereas Martov's only stated that he should work under the guidance of a party organization ), it was indicative of what became an essential difference between the philosophies of the two emerging factions: Lenin argued for a small party of professional revolutionaries with a large fringe of non-party sympathizers and supporters, whereas Martov believed it was better to have a large party of activists with broad representation.

Lévesque had argued that the party should not make sovereignty the object of the 1985 election and instead opt for the " Beau risque " strategy of seeking an understanding with the federal government of Mulroney, which angered the strongest supporters of sovereignty within the party.

This, supporters argued, avoided the dubious issue of an unexpressed legislative intent on which the Sorrells court had relied and instead grounded the entrapment defense, like the exclusionary rule, in the court's supervisory role over law enforcement.

As well as the problem of Home Rule, there were internal party struggles ; supporters of the Church of England or military reform lambasted Law for not paying attention to their causes, and tariff reformers argued with him over his previous compromise on food duties.

The Minority argued that this turn from work in the Labour Party was a " threat to 40 years work ", and that " only about 250 " supporters had been expelled, out of a membership which in the late 1980s had numbered 8000.

He argued that Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier was un vendu (" a sell-out ") to British imperialism and its supporters in Canada.

Copps argued that there were improprieties in the nomination process and in the conduct of the vote, and called on various authorities to investigate ( other nomination elections between Chrétien and Martin supporters had similar allegations of tampering ).

Women supporters of early pin-up content considered these to be a “ positive post-Victorian rejection of bodily shame and a healthy respect for female beauty .” On the contrary, women protesters argued that these images were corrupting societal morality and saw these public sexual displays of women as lowering the standards of womanhood, destroying their dignity and harmful to both women and young adolescents.

As a result of the stadium layout and segregation policy, turnstiles that would normally have been used to enter the North Stand from the east were off-limits and all Liverpool supporters had to converge on a single entrance at Leppings Lane.

Civil rights supporters dismissed Goldwater's individual liberty argument by noting that he expressed no opposition to segregation laws forcing business owners to operate on a segregated basis.

He belonged for a time to St. George's Methodist Church, but he and his supporters resented its segregation and decided to leave the church.

Since the segregation of supporters in the 1970s, away fans had been situated in the lower tier of the North Stand.

In some circumstances, gender segregation is a controversial policy, with critics contending that in most or all circumstances it is a violation of human rights, and supporters arguing that it is necessary to maintain decency, sacredness, modesty, female safety, or the family unit.

Racial segregation per se was hardly an issue in 1920s Alabama because at the time both supporters and a majority of white opponents of the Klan were segregationists.

The governor, a staunch supporter of racial segregation, responded by ordering the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to investigate Koinonia's partners and supporters for purported Communist ties.

The stadium's original capacity was 69, 041 fans ; however, due to FIFA rules regarding the segregation of home and away supporters, the actual capacity was reduced to 67, 229.

The obvious choice, filling it with seats ( like the other corner infills ) was rejected, due to possible segregation problems that might arise ( such a stand would enclose the away supporters with home fans on each side ).

The NCAA authorities took measures to prevent brawls, such as the segregation of supporters of opposing schools in the playing venues.

Unlike in soccer, there is no segregation of supporters at matches and rival fans mingle freely.

When elections are called, politicians and their supporters attempt to influence policy by competing directly for the votes of constituents in what are called campaigns.

Because of the brevity of his reign, Emperor Yōmei was not responsible for any radical changes in policy, but his support of Buddhism created tension with supporters of Shintoism who opposed its introduction.

Trade policy is managed by the European Union, where Finland has traditionally been among the free trade supporters, except for agriculture.

Instead, he pursued a moderate policy, leaving Francisco León de la Barra, one of Díaz's supporters, as president.

Although a certain level of doubt took hold among Yishuv supporters, their apparent defeats were due more to their wait-and-see policy than to weakness.

The French have stood among the strongest supporters of NATO and EU policy in the Balkans to prevent genocide in Yugoslavia.

The Soviet Union and its allies, however, became Mozambique's primary economic, military, and political supporters and its foreign policy reflected this linkage.

However, there were signs that moderates among Stalin's supporters sought to end official terror and bring a general change in policy, now that mass collectivization was largely completed and the worst was over.

According to William A. Niskanen, one of the architects of Reaganomics, " Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives, although not to the extent that he and his supporters had hoped ", and notes that the most substantial change was in the tax code, where the top marginal individual income tax rate fell from 70. 1 % to 28. 4 %, and there was a " major reversal in the tax treatment of business income ", with effect of " reducing the tax bias among types of investment but increasing the average effective tax rate on new investment ".

Officials with ties to the Shanghai administration form a powerful faction in the national government, the so-called Shanghai Clique, which often competes against the rival Youth League Faction over personnel appointments and policy decisions: Xi Jinping, the presumptive successor to Hu Jintao as General Secretary and President, is a compromise candidate between the two groups with supporters in both camps.

Upon assuming power, the FSLNs political platform included the following: nationalization of property owned by the Somozas and their supporters ; land reform ; improved rural and urban working conditions ; free unionization for all workers, both urban and rural ; price fixing for commodities of basic necessity ; improved public services, housing conditions, education ; abolition of torture, political assassination and the death penalty ; protection of democratic liberties ; equality for women ; non-aligned foreign policy ; formation of a " popular army " under the leadership of the FSLN and Humberto Ortega.

It is common for a government in power during war or supporters of the war policy to use the term loosely against opponents of the war.

The modern Pax Americana era is cited by both supporters and critics of United States foreign policy after the Second World War.

They must maintain a large informed network of supporters who can be mobilized for events to garner media attention and influence policy changes.

Brandt's supporters claim that the policy did help to break down the Eastern Bloc's " siege mentality ", and also helped to increase its awareness of the contradictions in its brand of Socialism / Communism, which – together with other events – eventually led to the downfall of Eastern European Communism and Stalinism.

Raeder's traditional Anglophobia, which always led him to view Britain as the main enemy and together the chance for increased naval building represented by the anti-British turn made Raeder into one of the strongest supporters of the anti-British foreign policy.

His unpopular repressive policy toward protestantism motivated some protestant gentlemen to attempt a coup d ’ etat against the king and his supporters, the House of Guise, during the Amboise conspiracy.

Tariff Reform proved popular with Unionist supporters, but the threat of higher prices for food imports made the policy an electoral albatross.

With Haughey and his supporters taking a dangerously populist line in every area of policy, and refusing to address serious shortcomings in the performance of the state, a growing minority in his own party were becoming increasingly concerned.

However, Zhao's policy had huge popular support and the supporters of the Gang of Four turned to assassination after all other supposedly legal means failed.

He was also one of the only early supporters of the Iraq surge policy.

Ironically, it struck an immediate chord with many disenchanted Fine Gael supporters who had tired of the failure to fully address the economic crisis and who yearned for a coherent rightwing policy from FitzGerald.

He later regretted this, noting that " unrecognized by virtually all of the bill's supporters, were provisions which would eventually lead to unprecedented growth in numbers and the transfer of policy control from the elected representatives of the American people to individuals wishing to bring relatives to this country.