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.

Since then it has been endowed with papers from other political figures including former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, as well as former Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock, alongside those of eminent scientists and engineers, including Reginald Victor Jones, Rosalind Franklin and Sir Frank Whittle.

Black had been granted access to Duplessis ’ s papers, housed in Duplessis ’ s former residence in Trois-Rivières, which included “ figures from the famous Union Nationale Caisse Electorale ( the party war chest ), a copy of the leader of the Opposition ’ s tax returns, gossip from bishops ,” as well as “ historically significant letters from Cardinal Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve side-by-side with hand-written, ungrammatical requests for jobs with the Quebec Liquor Board, unpaid bills, the returns of his ministers who were cheating on their taxes, a number of scribbled notes for Assembly speeches, tidbits of political espionage, compromising photographs, a ledger listing the political contributions of every tavern-keeper in the province .” Black subsequently had the principal items from the papers copied and microfilmed, and donated copies to McGill, York, and Windsor universities.

When the leading figures of the " Revolutionary Opposition ", the name itself only first appearing in print in their appeal document, were expelled from the IS its members met to decide on their course of action, and disagreements between Tearse's allies and the majority of the faction around David Yaffe rapidly surfaced.

The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, as well as other senior Opposition figures such as the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Eric Abetz, called for Slipper to resign until Ashby's claims are investigated.

For most of the 19th century, there was rarely any one person who could be considered Leader of the Opposition — those figures who took leading roles in opposing the government of the day were merely " first among equals ", and had no formal office.

Though the Lower Manhattan Expressway was opposed by dozens of public figures and over 200 community groups, Maciuanas ' efforts and the loft artists ' power effectively stopped Moses, " Opposition to the expressway was going nowhere.

Opposition parties have argued that these reduced figures reflect a decline in the manufacturing sector, a charge that Duncan has rejected.

Opposition to the government grew within the middle class and leftists including Paris-educated leaders like Son Sen, Ieng Sary, and Saloth Sar ( later known as Pol Pot ), who led an insurgency under the clandestine Communist Party of Kampuchea ( CPK ).

Several Central Committee members, who were members of the Workers Opposition, offered their resignation to Lenin but their resignations were not accepted, and they were instead asked to submit to party discipline.

On 4 August 2005, Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry called for more Indo-Fijians, who presently comprise less than one percent of the Military personnel, to be recruited.

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

The Leader of the Opposition is David Shearer, who replaced Phil Goff as leader of the Labour Party.

In the subsequent power struggle among Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, and Stalin, Bukharin allied himself with Stalin, who positioned himself as centrist of the Party and supported NEP against the Left Opposition, which wanted more rapid industrialization, escalation of class struggle against the kulaks, and agitation for world revolution.

Parliamentary party members and leaders who are part of neither the Government or Official Opposition frontbenches are known as backbenchers, and are relegated to sitting behind or perpendicular to designated frontbenchers.

Opposition to Bradshaw's rule began to build, especially by the families and supporters of former estate owners, who founded the People's Action Movement party in 1964, after frustration over a failed demonstration against a raise in electricity rates.

Opposition was especially great in Nevis, who felt that their island was being neglected and unfairly deprived of revenue, investment and services by its larger neighbour.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra February 25, 1990 ' Lost as 579. 886 A total valid votes equivalent to 40. 82 %, well below that obtained by the main opposition Mrs. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro candidate of the National Opposition Union ( UNO ) who won 777. 552 to obtain valid votes equivalent to 54. 74 %.

* Opposition against Apartheid in South Africa and worldwide grows to a mass international condemnation of racial segregation policies comes to a peak by December 1989 in the Springbok summit when SA President de Klerk grants clemency to imprisoned ANC activist Nelson Mandela who was released in February 1990.

In 2009, Opposition parties held a filibuster against a local government bill, and those who could recorded their voice votes in Māori, all faithfully interpreted.

When Whitlam won the election, McMahon resigned the Liberal leadership and was replaced by Snedden, who became the new Opposition Leader.

A radical non-parliamentary, anti-democratic far-right organization active in Austria was the VAPO ( Volkstreue Außerparlamentarische Opposition ) founded by the Austrian neo-Nazi Gottfried Küssel in 1986, who publicly declared to be a member of the US-American neo-Nazi organization NSDAP / AO since 1977.

" His dismissal attracted a strong reaction from Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry, who said that whereas Kotobalavu was paid to be the Prime Minister's spin doctor.

Opposition to the Lend-Lease bill was strongest among isolationist Republicans in Congress, who feared that the measure would be " the longest single step this nation has yet taken toward direct involvement in the war abroad.

In 1937, Stalin again unleashed what Trotskyists say was a political terror against their Left Opposition and many of the remaining ' Old Bolsheviks ' ( those who had played key roles in the October Revolution in 1917 ), in the face of increased opposition, particularly in the army.

Opposition came from fishermen along the Zuiderzee who would lose their livelihood, and from others in coastal areas along the more northerly Wadden Sea who feared higher water levels as a result of the closure, and others who doubted whether it was financially practical.

Opposition to the Department of Education mainly stems from conservatives, who see the department as an undermining of states rights, and libertarians who believe it results in a state-imposed leveling towards the bottom and low value for taxpayers ' money.

Lang was ousted as NSW Opposition Leader in 1939 and was replaced by William McKell, who became Premier in 1941.

Pitt, who had been stripped of his post as Chancellor of the Exchequer, joined the Opposition.

When he was Leader of the Opposition, Bruce's successor James Scullin ( 1929 – 32 ) had objected to the cost of running The Lodge and, true to his word, he and his wife lived at the Hotel Canberra ( now the Hyatt Hotel ) during his Prime Ministership.

Previously, he was a prominent member of the Iraqi Opposition and lived in exile in the U. S. for over 30 years.

During the 1990s, he lived in Kuala Lumpur, where he was an advisor to Anwar Ibrahim, the former Deputy Prime Minister and now the Leader of the Opposition.

Opposition rose and without any important ally among the Portuguese aristocracy other than Afonso, Count of Barcelos, the illegitimate half brother of King Edward and count of Barcelos, the queen's position was untenable.

Opposition to Federalists among Democratic-Republicans reached new heights at this time since the Democratic-Republicans had supported France.

Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

He seems to have enjoyed a majority in the Politburo initially ( he said that Kalinin and Voroshilov betrayed the Right at the last minute ) and unlike the Left Opposition, broad mass support among the peasantry, which made up 80 % of the Russian population.

On the other hand, Brandt needed a while to get into contact with, and to earn credibility among, the " Ausserparlamentarische Opposition " ( APO ) (" the extra-parliamentary opposition ").

** by consensus among the Government and Opposition ;

Opposition to the absorption of million of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe was especially strong among eugenicists such as scientists Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard, who believed in the " racial " superiority of Americans of Northern European descent as member of the " Nordic race ", and therefore demanded immigration restrictions to stop a " degeneration " of America's white racial " stock ".

Opposition to oath-taking among some groups of Christian caused many problems for these groups throughout their history.

Opposition was centered among the black activists of the civil rights movement, and college students at elite universities.

During 2002 the Labor Party approved a series of reforms proposed by new Opposition leader Simon Crean, among them the direct election of the party's National President by the party membership ( the post had previously been filled by election at the party's National Conference ) and a reduction of the union's representation at party conferences from 60 % to 50 %.

In December 1898 the crisis arrived and, with Morley, Harcourt retired from the party and resigned his Leadership of the Opposition, alleging as his reason, in letters to Morley, the cross-currents of opinion among his old supporters and former colleagues.

This caused significant rifts among the Opposition parties.

-The social-democratic Komala ( not to be confused with the communist Komalah with an h ), although an important party, can't be classified among the four powerful party of the Opposition cited above since its modest activities are only concentrated in the kurdish-inhabited provinces of Iran.

According to reforms of the late 1990s, some 500 hereditary nobles elect 92 Lords from among themselves to exercise voting rights in the House of Lords ; there are also some 600 Life Peers nominated by the Government and Opposition.

The 14 nominees of the Great Council of Chiefs correspond to the 92 Lords chosen from among the nobles, while the nominees of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition correspond to Britain's Life Peers ( although, unlike Life Peers, they are term-limited ).

Opposition arose among the powerful paulista coffee oligarchs to these unprecedented mass interventionist policies, as well as to the increased centralization of the government, its increasing populist and fascist stance, its protectionist / mercantilist policies ( protecting politically favored producers at the expense of consumers ) and the increasing dictatorial stance of Vargas himself.

Opposition to the war among munitions workers continued to rise and what had been a united front in favour of the war became two sharply divided groups.

Opposition to circumcision exists among Jews in Israel.

Opposition to the project, however, was strong among the 5, 000 Crees of James Bay, the 3, 500 Inuit to the north and several environmental groups.

Opposition among the Cree was even more vocal this time than in the early 1970s.

Paul Forseth was also among the very few MPs in Parliamentary history to ever have his Private Members Bill, coming from the Opposition side of the House, cooperatively taken over by the government and incorporated into a larger piece Government Legislation.