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 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 of clearfelling point out that the clearfell process was unavailable until the arrival of European settlers ( indigenous people practised a mosaic burn system that kept the forest open but didn't remove large amounts of timber ).

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 the grapheme transliteration model continued to mount unsuccessful attempts at reversing government policy until the turn of the century, with one critic calling appealing to " the Indian Government to give up the whole attempt at scientific ( i. e. Hunterian ) transliteration, and decide once and for all in favour of a return to the old phonetic spelling.

Opponents generally argued that the ballot couldn't give enough information about tax proposals for the voters to make an intelligent choice.

Opponents of food irradiation sometimes state that large-scale irradiation would increase processing, transportation, and handling times for fruits and vegetables thus contributing to a negative ecological balance compared to locally grown foods.

Opponents also refer to a number of scientific publications reporting significant negative effects of irradiated food, for example

Opponents of the Revolution and defenders of religion, most influentially the Irish essayist Edmund Burke, therefore placed the blame for the excesses of the French Revolution directly on the revolutionaries ' misplaced ( as he considered it ) adulation of Rousseau.

* Opponents are allowed to strike their opponent with punches and kicks, including kicks below the waist, except for the groin.

Opponents allegedly complicated matters for organisers by booking their own events in Berlin and so to exclude the parade from being able to register with city police.

Opponents of the Dutch drug policy either call for full legalization, or argue that laws should penalize morally wrong or deviant behavior, whether enforceable or not.

Opponents to the legislation voiced fears that the country would become a haven for money launderers and other sorts of criminal activity.

Opponents would say that this is a false assertion: numerous books refer to poor organization between government departments ( for example the Hurricane Katrina incident ).

Opponents also argue that school choice in the form of vouchers could result in nothing more than a cash-handout for many middle-class and wealthy families already sending their kids to private schools, with disadvantaged families either unable to secure enrollment or unable to cover costs in addition to the vouchers.

Opponents of Harrison have argued that a phrase in Pope Pius XII's legislation " Cardinals who have been deposed or who have resigned, however, are barred and may not be reinstated even for the purpose of voting ", though it speaks of someone deposed or resigned from the cardinalate, not of someone who may have incurred automatic excommunication but has not been officially declared excommunicated, means that, even if someone is permitted to attend, that does not automatically translate into electability.

Opponents may also see trophy hunting as an issue of morality or animal cruelty, criticising the killing of living creatures for recreation.

Opponents of SdRP ( Social Democratic Party of the Republic of Poland ) claimed that the wealth was created from membership fees ; therefore, they demanded wealth inheritance for SdPR which at that time administered the wealth.

Opponents say that such a market would encourage criminals by making it easier for them to claim that their stolen organs were legal.

Opponents argue that this method loses the spatial separation of individual voice lines, an otherwise valuable feature for the audience, and that it eliminates sectional resonance, which lessens the effective volume of the chorus.

" Opponents claim that they deviate from the text in a number of places ( for example, the Baker is supposed to have whiskers and hair, Fit the Fourth, but in the illustrations he is bald ) and hence should be discounted.

Opponents such as land and mining claim holders blocked efforts to reclassify the monument as a U. S. National Park for 11 years.

Opponents of these decisions have argued that if all corporate rights under the Constitution were abolished, it would clear the way for greater regulation of campaign spending and contributions.

Opponents of racial quotas believe that qualifications should be the only determining factor when competing for a job or admission to a school.

Opponents of Jansenism in the church refused absolution to Roger du Plessis, duc de Liancourt for his continued protection of the Jansenists.

Opponents of the current reform care proposals fear that U. S. comparative effective research ( a plan introduced in the stimulus bill ) will be used to curtail spending and ration treatments, which is one function of NICE, arguing that rationing by market pricing rather by government is the best way for care to be rationed.

Opponents also state categorizing patients based on factors such as social value to the community or age will not work in a heterogeneous society without a common ethical consensus such as the U. S. Doug Bandow of the CATO Institute wrote government decision making would " override the differences in preferences and circumstances " for individuals and that it is a matter of personal liberty to be able to buy as much or as little care as one wants.