* Anti-Somozistas who had supported the revolution but felt betrayed by the Sandinista government – e. g. Edgar Chamorro, prominent member of the political directorate of the FDN, or Jose Francisco Cardenal, who had briefly served in the Council of State before leaving Nicaragua out of disagreement with the Sandinista government's policies and founding the Nicaraguan Democratic Union ( UDN ), an opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami.

The new marriage not only re-established ties to senatorial opposition, but also served the broader Flavian propaganda of the time, which sought to diminish Vespasian's political success under Nero.

To this end, Ribbentrop often worked closely with General Hiroshi Ōshima, who served first as the Japanese military attaché, and then as Ambassador in Berlin, to strengthen German-Japanese ties despite furious opposition from the Wehrmacht and the Foreign Office, which preferred closer Sino-German ties.

Cambridge historian Christopher Andrews claimed that it was later discovered that the FSLN had, in fact, been actively suppressing right-wing opposition parties while leaving moderate parties alone, with Ortega claiming that the moderates " presented no danger and served as a convenient facade to the outside world ".

Fox retained his own place, and though the two men continued to be of the same party, and afterward served again in the same government, there was henceforward a rivalry between them, which makes the celebrated opposition of their illustrious sons seem like an inherited quarrel.

Webster's efforts for New England Federalism, shipping interests, and war opposition resulted in his election to the House of Representatives in 1812, where he served two terms ending March 1817.

While leader of opposition, he parted domestic and international interests and served as special mediator of the United Nations in the Iran – Iraq War, but returned to power as Prime Minister after stunning electoral victories in 1982 and 1985.

Clark served as a chief assistant to provincial opposition leader and future Premier Peter Lougheed, and served in the office of federal Opposition leader Robert Stanfield, learning the inner workings of government.

" The current leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott supports the status quo and previously served as Executive Director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy.

In fact, Islam served as the principal basis for expressing opposition to the Soviet invasion.

Herbert Dingle ( 2 August 1890, London – 4 September 1978, Kingston upon Hull ), an English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.

Between 2, 500 and 5, 000 children served in the armed opposition group, the Sudan ’ s People ’ s Liberation Army ( SPLA ), in the south.

Robert Mann Jr. ( R ) is the elected Supervisor of Blenheim, he previously served on the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors Finance Committee as Chairman, and was re-elected to his position on November 3, 2009-without opposition.

Finally in 1792, with navigations in other parts of the country bringing increased prosperity to the towns they served, the people of Chelmsford decide to avoid the opposition of Maldon by bypassing it, and terminating the navigation at Heybridge, on the River Blackwater below Maldon.

After the Great Schism of 1054, the polarized religious atmosphere served to strengthen Guiscard's alliance with papal forces, resulting in a formidable papal-Norman opposition to the Eastern Empire.

Between October 2002 and May 2003, he served personally as international facilitator of the OAS mesa process aimed at finding a solution to the internal Venezuelan political crisis between President Hugo Chávez and the Coordinadora Democrática opposition, moving to Caracas for six months to do so.

After resigning as a cabinet minister in 1991, Kibaki served as an opposition Member of Parliament from 1991 up to his election as Kenya's third president in 2002 after two unsuccessful bids for the Kenyan presidency in 1992 and 1997.

Redwood served in the Shadow Cabinet of eventual winner William Hague, shadowing first the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, leading the Shadow Cabinet's opposition to the National Minimum Wage.

She did not return to ministerial office, but served as a front bench spokesman on, by turns, transport, health, and foreign affairs during the 18 years of Labour opposition from 1979 to 1997.

While in parliamentary opposition, Stoltenberg served in the standing committees on energy affairs.

In China, the dam proposals served as a watershed movement for a bourgeoning environmental movement, which mobilized in opposition to the project.

Martineau, however, sidestepped Grote's opposition, much as Hoppus had learnt to do during his Professorship, and developed a cordial friendship with Robertson, who retired in 1885, full of years and honours, from the principalship of the college he had so long served and adorned.

He served in the governments of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan, as PPS to Eric Varley as Minister of Technology, a Labour whip in opposition, and Minister for Employment, stepping down in 1986.

Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri ( born 23 January 1947 ), also known simply as Megawati, is an Indonesian politician, and leader of the opposition party PDI-P. She served as the President of Indonesia from 23 July 2001 to 20 October 2004.

Lacking serious opposition, the Republican party's Congressional caucus stopped meeting, and for practical purposes the Republican Party stopped operating.

The 1832 Democratic National Convention, the party's first and held in May, had nominated him for vice-president on the Jackson ticket, despite the strong opposition to him which existed in many states.

It should also be noted that while more often than not, party members will " toe the line " and support their party's policies, they are free to vote against their own party and vote with the opposition (" cross the aisle ") when they please.

The growth of the Republican party's political power in the inland West ( apart from the Pacific coast ) was facilitated by the rise of popular opposition to public lands reform.

When in opposition he never hesitated to put firmly his party's case.

The party's opposition to immigration is particularly focused on non-European immigration, and includes support for deporting illegal, criminal, and unemployed immigrants ; its policy is nevertheless more moderate today than it was at its most radical point in the 1990s.

The party's leader Paul Rosenmöller was seen as the unofficial leader of the opposition against the Kok cabinet-led Purple governments by the media, fellow politicians and academics, even though it was only the second largest party in the opposition.

Under pressure of internal opposition, led by former PSP members and the party's youth organisation DWARS, the parliamentary party changed its position: the attacks should be cancelled.

Between the Easter Rising of 1916 and the 1918 general election, Sinn Féin's popularity was increased dramatically by the execution of most of the leaders of the 1916 rebels, the party's reorganisation in 1917 and by its opposition to military conscription in Ireland ( see Conscription Crisis of 1918 ).

He wanted the Social Democrats to re-nominate him for the presidency without opposition, but two opponents signed up for the party's presidential primary.

Artist Hans Bellmer made surrealistic dolls that had interchangeable limbs in 1930s and 1940s Germany as opposition to the Nazi party's idolization of a perfect Aryan body.

In November 2010, after mounting public opposition to a new tax and the controversial ending of a political corruption trial, and with low popularity ratings, Campbell announced his resignation, and on February 26, 2011, Christy Clark was elected as the party's new leader.

That party's successor, the Union Nationale, was the main opposition to the Liberals until the 1970s.

Because of Qasim's government's repressive policy towards the opposition, Ali Salih al-Sadi, Secretary ( leader ) of the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party's Iraqi cell, reorganised the party's rank and file, and on 24 December 1962 launched a nationwide protest against Qasim's regime.

The Reform Party was plagued by an influx of intolerant people who supported the party's opposition to government-funded multicultural programs and bilingual programs.

Recently, the party's education spokesman and first deputy chairman Jan Björklund has called on schoolteachers to report schoolchildren with extreme opinions to the intelligence services, something which has caused opposition from within the party, not least from the youth league.

After Labour's defeat in the 1970 General Election, he became the party's Junior Defence Spokesman until 1972 when he resigned with Roy Jenkins over Labour's opposition to the European Community.

However, 18 months after Labour lost power in 1979, the staunchly left-wing politician Michael Foot was elected party leader, despite vocal opposition from Labour Party moderates ( including Owen ), sparking a crisis over the party's future.

Brüning supported his party's determined opposition to his successor, Franz von Papen, and also of re-establishing a working parliament by cooperation with the National Socialists, negotiating with Gregor Strasser.

During the long years in opposition the party's support had grown steadily and in 1987 it attained the best parliamentary election result in its history.

The party's policies include a " Progressive Expenditure Tax " ( with no tax payable on any income that is saved or invested ), universal living allowance tied to basic per capita living costs, rejection of the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) and other taxes for general revenue that it views as regressive, federal funding for the education of students attending non-government schools to be based on an equitable distribution and increased diversification in overseas trade to broaden the base for growth, and on opposition to abortion, euthanasia, therapeutic cloning and same-sex marriage.

The opposition party's deputy leader ( assuming that post is occupied ) is often chosen for this role unless ( s ) he plans to run in the leadership election, in which case someone else would be chosen since it would be considered harmful to the election process if the interim leader was to be one of the candidates.

De Valera may have saved his party's dominance, but the election did produce enough seats among the opposition groups for them to be able to form a non-Fianna Fáil government, the first time in sixteen years.

In Wales the party's share of the vote increased from 1. 2 % ( in 2007 ) to 2. 4 % giving the SLP the second biggest percentage gain of the total votes cast in the election meaning it far outperformed all other left-wing opposition as well as once again outperforming the BNP.