Opposition MP Akram Chehayeb said " That is where the difference between us and them lies: They asked these people to come and they brought them here, whereas the opposition's supporters come here on their own.

This made political libel cases unfortunately common, with one infamous case even filed by the Prime Minister himself versus Official Opposition for alleging that the Prime Minister, when in Opposition, had bribed MP Chuck Cadman.

Joe Clark's rapid rise from a relatively unknown Alberta MP to the Leader of the Opposition took much of Canada by surprise.

Opposition to Douglas's reforms remained strong – eventually, a Labour MP, Jim Anderton, left to establish the NewLabour Party, eventually forming the basis of the left-wing Alliance.

* Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper filed a suit against the Liberal Party of Canada, the Official Opposition, after the latter paid for trucks to drive through the streets playing a journalist's tape of Harper admitting he knew of " financial considerations " offered to dying MP Chuck Cadman before a critical Canadian House of Commons vote in 2005.

The article shocked Italian feminists and provoked criticism from Opposition MP Paola Concia.

* Kenneth Matiba, Former MP, Leader of Official Opposition, youngest Permanent Secretary to serve in Kenya, Chairman Alliance Hotels and Hillcrest Schools

In Westminster parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a Member of Parliament ( MP ) or a legislator who does not hold governmental office and is not a Front Bench spokesperson in the Opposition.

If the first question is asked by a government backbencher, the Leader of the Opposition is the second MP to ask questions.

If the first question is asked by an opposition MP, this will be followed by a question from a government MP and then by the questions from the Leader of the Opposition.

Opposition to O ' Neill's reforms was so strong that in 1967 George Forrest-the MP for Mid Ulster, who supported the Prime Minister-was pulled off the platform at the Twelfth of July celebrations in Coagh, County Tyrone and kicked unconscious by fellow members of the Orange Order.

Park Hill ( Part One ) was officially opened by Hugh Gaitskell, MP and Leader of the Opposition, on 16 June 1961.

George Forbes, Prime Minister from 1930 until 1935 and United Party Leader, opened the conference ; he served as Leader of the Opposition from May until November, when the Reform MP Adam Hamilton was elected the first leader.

Opposition MP Carty Salmon initially served as speaker for the first federal Australian majority government, the Andrew Fisher Labor government, resulting from the 1910 election.

The tenaciousness and aggressiveness that made Nielsen a successful Opposition MP made him a liability as a Cabinet minister as he gave the impression of being secretive and disdainful of criticism by the Opposition and the media.

After two years as a backbench MP, Ron Davies was appointed an Opposition Whip in 1985, where his subject areas included agriculture and the environment.

It is often the Whips who answer the question this time after which the Speaker announces the Tellers, two ( one Government MP, one Opposition MP ) for the Ayes and two for the Noes.

He was chosen to serve as Leader of the Opposition in 1993 very shortly after giving notice that he was considering departing from politics due to his inability to survive at a satisfactory level on the means of an MP.

After being sworn in as the MP for Calgary Centre North on July 16, Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper named Prentice to the Shadow Cabinet as the Official Opposition Critic for Indian and Northern Affairs.

Ralston served as Minister of National Defence until the defeat of King's government in the 1930 federal election but was re-elected and remained the MP for Shelburne-Yarmouth through the 17th Parliament, serving in His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

In 2009, the CPS celebrated its 35th anniversary for which the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron MP, gave a speech highlighting the role the CPS played in the Conservative Party ’ s victory in the 1979 election crediting them with ‘ a great rebirth of intellectual ideas, of intellectual vigour, and of intellectual leadership ’

Opposition to Jesus comes to a head with accusations that his deeds are done through the power of Satan ; Jesus in turn accuses his opponents of blaspheming the Holy Spirit.

Under an agreement between President-elect Chamorro of the National Opposition Union ( Unión Nacional Oppositora-UNO ) and the defeated FSLN party, General Humberto Ortega, former defense minister and commander in chief of the EPS under the Sandinistas, remained at the head of the armed forces.

Following a Cabinet split on 25 May 1915, caused by the Shell Crisis ( or sometimes dubbed ' The Great Shell Shortage ') and the failed offensive at the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli, Asquith became head of a new coalition government, bringing senior figures from the Opposition into the Cabinet.

In December 1987, he resigned as head of the party, Leader of the Opposition and member of the National Assembly.

English replaced Shipley as head of the National Party and thus as Leader of the Opposition.

Anthony remained head of the party and assumed the role of Leader of the Opposition.

He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign.

He was appointed as the Opposition frontbench local government spokesman in 2004, before being promoted into the shadow cabinet that June as head of policy co-ordination.

Notable faculty members at the Walsh School of Foreign Service include former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, former Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, Ambassador Donald McHenry, former CIA Director George Tenet, former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and current Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, former World Bank VP Callisto Madavo, former Dean Peter F. Krogh, former USAID head, former Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios, Ambassador of Israel to the United States Michael Oren, former Prime Minister of Spain José María Aznar, and former President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe Velez.

John W. Ellis in the 1860 election as head of the " Opposition Party ," which consisted primarily of former Whigs, like himself.

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What is known is that Kirov had brooked the displeasure of Joseph Stalin, the head of the Soviet Communist Party, by refusing to persecute adherents of a growing Opposition movement to Stalin's leadership.

In June 2011, the Institute advertised that it had invited Iain Duncan-Smith, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Welfare and Pensions, head of the Centre for Social Justice and former leader of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom and the Opposition ( 2001 — 2003 ).

Hawkes was the officiant at the state funeral of Jack Layton, Leader of Canada's Official Opposition and head of the NDP, on August 27, 2011 at Roy Thomson Hall.

In February 1922 Kollontai ( now tainted as well by her involvement in the Workers ' Opposition ) was replaced as head of the Zhenotdel by Sofia Smidovich.

Opposition to LSC during this time came from both Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner, who favored a " judicare " approach of compensating private lawyers for work done for the poor, and Conservative Caucus head Howard Phillips, who objected to LSC representing gays.

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In her first term in Parliament, Coffey served initially as a member of the trade and industry select committee until she was promoted by Tony Blair to become an Opposition whip in 1995 and became an Opposition health spokeswoman in 1996.

However, after several months of hearings, the Opposition majority on the committee recommended that no further action be taken to advance the bill.

* March 18 — Gagliano testifies in front of the Public Accounts Committee, a committee of the House of Commons chaired by a member from the Official Opposition.

The Human Rights Commission is chaired by the Ombudsman of Fiji, one person who is qualified to be a judge, and a third person appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister, who is first required to consult the Leader of the Opposition and the House of Representatives committee responsible for human rights.

He is Secretary of the Opposition backbench committee on Agriculture and Infrastructure as well as Chair of the Liberal Party Rural and Regional affairs Committee and a member of the Liberal Party Federal Executive and Federal Council.

Opposition MPs complained that several recommendations for access-to-information reform were left out of the bill, and were instead sent to committee for further review.

He was appointed to the Liberal Party's election committee after the campaign, and later served as Chief Opposition Whip.

The Government stood firm, and had the support of the front Opposition bench ; and after some applications of the closure, Sir Frederick Broome had the satisfaction of witnessing the passage of the bill through committee with all restrictions erased, the whole of the lands of the vast territory — 1, 060, 000 square miles in extent — being freely handed over to the Legislature of Western Australia, which thus obtained its new constitution on the same basis as the other colonies of the continent, there being no opposition to the bill in the House of Lords.

Opposition MPs on the House Foreign Affairs committee requested that the Speaker rule on the possible contempt of parliament against Oda but Prime Minister Harper continued to support Oda.

As would be the case on any Parliamentary Committee when a minority government is in power, Opposition party members outnumbered the governing party members on this committee ; perhaps more important, this committee had elected an opposition member, Paul Szabo, as its chairperson.

Hacker is also noted as having challenged Humphrey while he was a member of the Opposition by asking difficult questions when Sir Humphrey was testifying to a Parliamentary committee: Sir Humphrey stated that Hacker had asked "... all the questions I hoped nobody would ask ," showing his new Minister to be at least a reasonably capable politician.