Opponents of the Lydia scenario point to the fact that coins of that era have been totally absent from archeological finds in Sardis, capital of Lydia.

Opponents of that interpretation point out that he did not attend the funeral ( he generally did not attend funerals ) and immediately left Paris with Diaghilev for a performance of Les noces ( The Wedding ) by the Ballets Russes at Monte Carlo.

Opponents, by contrast, point out that property owners and operators can indeed feel terror.

Opponents point out that the practice of offshore outsourcing by countries with higher wages leads to the reduction of their own domestic employment and domestic investment.

Opponents of this approach point out that many of the terms in question carry male denotations and connotations in the original Hebrew and Greek.

Opponents of quotas object that one group is favored at the expense of another whenever a quota is invoked ( i. e., 8 out of 10 available positions ) rather than factors such as grade point averages or test scores.

Opponents of simplified spellings point to the impossibility of phonetic spelling for a language with many diverse accents and dialects.

Opponents of the three-state strategy point out that the 1789 resolution proposing what is now the Twenty-seventh Amendment did not contain a deadline for ratification.

Opponents to both of these methods point to the large increase in reporting requirements they impose, and claim that they rob industry of necessary flexibility.

Opponents of Mao point out the Cultural Revolution as a time of unprecedented social chaos attributed to Mao's fear of losing power, and the effects of such deep-seated impact from the movement wasted an entire generation of Chinese who would be productive forces in the economy.

Opponents of CCTV point out the loss of privacy of the people under surveillance, and the negative impact of surveillance on civil liberties.

Opponents point out that most agriculture in developed nations is produced by industrial corporations ( agribusiness ) which are hardly deserving of sympathy, and that the alternative to exploitation is poverty.

Opponents of the invasion strategy point to a lack of examples in which occupying or peacekeeping forces have met with conclusive success.

Opponents of the rule point out that junior gymnasts are scored under the same Code of Points as the seniors, and train, mostly, the same skills.

Opponents of his accumulation theory also point to many instances in which foreign rulers needed and requested Western capital, such as the hapless moderniser Khedive Ismail Pasha.

Opponents of the notion of " moral clarity " also note that organizations such as al Qaida and neo-Nazis also believe that their own point of view is one of " moral clarity ", which justifies them to take whatever action they feel necessary against what they see as the " forces of evil ".

Opponents of catch and release point out that fish are highly evolved vertebrates that share many of the same neurological structures that, in humans, are associated with pain perception.

Opponents point out that the practice of sending work overseas by countries with higher wages reduces their own domestic employment and domestic investment.

Opponents point to the logistical disadvantages of trying to promote the mainstream use of a second signing language, and dispute that SEE offers advantages to warrant educational resources which could be put toward encouraging universal adoption of ASL.

Opponents of snus sales maintain, nevertheless, even the low nitrosamine levels in snus cannot be completely risk-free, but snus proponents point out that inasmuch as snus is used as a substitute for smoking or a means to quit smoking, the net overall effect is positive, similar to the effect of nicotine patches.

Opponents of expansion, in the majority in largely rural Randolph County, point out that only 6 % of the trash in the landfill is from Randolph County, whereas most of it is from Miami County.

Opponents of the Apology Resolution point to this official repudiation of the Blount Report as sufficient reason to dismiss any conclusions based on it.

Opponents to Québécois nationalism point to the fact that Quebec is just as ethnically diverse as the rest of Canada and therefore is divisible by different ethnic and language groups, or point to the shared Francophone heritage of the ROC ( Rest of Canada ).

Opponents of this view observe that the religion of the Torah seems different to Atenism in everything except the central feature of devotion to a single god, although this has been countered by a variety of arguments, e. g. pointing out the similarities between the Hymn to Aten and Psalm 104.

Opponents of this view include revisionist historians and a number of post – Cold War and otherwise dissident Soviet historians including Roy Medvedev, who argues that although " one could list the various measures carried out by Stalin that were actually a continuation of anti-democratic trends and measures implemented under Lenin ... in so many ways, Stalin acted, not in line with Lenin's clear instructions, but in defiance of them ".

Opponents in Republican Sinn Féin accused Sinn Féin of " selling out " by agreeing to participate in what it called " partitionist assemblies " in the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Opponents who continue to bet after a player is all in can still bluff each other out of the side pot, which is also to the all in player's advantage since players who fold out of the side pot also reduce competition for the main pot.

Opponents pointed out that leading pro-treaty politicians had admitted if referendums had been held in countries other than Ireland, it would probably have been defeated there as well.

Opponents of prohibition pointed out that while it was historic, it was also detrimental to the normal development of the city, and that no visitor ever came to town to look at the dry law.

Opponents feared that the policy would take research out of the hands of scientists.

Opponents of loss leading pricing practices argue that the strategy is basically predatory in nature, designed to ultimately force competitors out of business.

Opponents and critics of Milošević claimed that " Yugoslavia could be that one state but the threat was that, should Yugoslavia break up, then Serbia under Milošević would carve out a Greater Serbia ".

One tempting measure of security is ' I can't figure out how to break it, so I will assume Opponents will not be able to do so either '.

Opponents of Student Broad Left claim that many of the founders of the group, including all SBL candidates to the NUS National Executive Committee, have been closely linked to Socialist Action, pointing out that the Student Broad Left supports the same campaigns as Socialist Action, for example the Student Assembly Against Racism, Unite Against Fascism, Student CND and Cuban solidarity.

Opponents of holding non-binding plebiscites include monarchist David Flint, who described this process as " inviting a vote of no confidence in one of the most successful constitutions in the world ," and minimalist republican Greg Craven, who states " a multi-option plebiscite inevitably will produce a direct election model, precisely for the reason that such a process favours models with shallow surface appeal and multiple flaws.

Opponents accused Handal of exploiting anti-American sentiment while FMLN supporters accused the United States of corrupting the electoral process, because several high-ranking U. S. officials stated that American relations with El Salvador would be seriously threatened if Handal won the elections.

Opponents of the occupation, such as the various insurgent groups, claimed the elections were not free and fair, citing flaws in the process.

Opponents of an eruv typically take the view that the government participation in the eruv process necessary to approve its construction violates the First Amendment's prohibition of governmental establishment of religion.

The teams are divided into the Declarers ( also known as Defenders ) and the Opponents ( also known as Attackers ), which are determined in the process of the game and will change frequently ( see below ).

Opponents say that frivolous parties make a mockery of an important public process, and undermine the prestige of the democratic system.

Opponents accuse these programs of perpetuating an oligarchy and plutocracy as they lower the weight of academic merit in admissions process in exchange of financial one.

Opponents of the idea often argue that the Constitution should be changed through the amendment process, and that allowing judges to interpret the constitution " impoverish democracy.