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Opposition and forces
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.
Opposition forces have reportedly used technicals in the fighting for the Chouf District during the May 2008 clashes in Lebanon.
Opposition to the reformation ended in 1550 when Jón Arason was captured after being defeated in the Battle of Sauðafell by loyalist forces under Daði Guðmundsson.
In Part I: “ Feuerbach — Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook ” of The German Ideology ( 1846 ), Karl Marx said: “ things have now come to such a pass that the individuals must appropriate the existing totality of productive forces, not only to achieve self-activity, but also, merely to safeguard their very existence ”.
The civil war pitted Rahmonov's neo-communist forces against a loose coalition of democrats and Islamists known as the United Tajik Opposition ( UTO ).
Opposition forces emphasized the Soviets ’ atheism, demanding support for the Muslim faith from civilians.
* Conflict: Opposition of people or forces resulting in a dramatic effect.
In 1782 they joined forces with other members of the Opposition to bring down the North government which had overseen the American War since the beginning, and was blamed for the surrender of the British army at Yorktown.
After their defeat, Zinoviev and Kamenev joined forces with Trotsky's Left Opposition in what became known as the United Opposition.
Opposition to these occupation regimes caused the formation of resistance movements, resulting in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ( CPY ), then only active in the underground but fast gaining popularity, assuming the role of leading the forces in the Yugoslavian resistance.
Alexander was prominent on the Opposition front bench, leading attacks on the government's policies, but was careful not to exploit the widespread dissatisfaction with pay cuts in the armed forces ( especially the Invergordon Mutiny ), concerned that the military should not become involved in political matters.
Opposition by Vichy French forces who defended the airport ended that same day, as orders from Admiral Darlan in Algiers were issued to cease all hostilities in North Africa.
The government was dominated by the Lieutenant Governors ( Archibald and his successor, Alexander Morris ) until July 1874, when Joseph Dubuc's francophone bloc joined forces with the Opposition members to bring down the government.
In 1990 PSN joined hands with right-wing forces in the National Opposition Union to topple the Sandinista government.
In the summer of 1925, an informal ceremony was held in the Memorial Chamber wherein Governor General of Canada the Viscount Byng of Vimy ; Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King ; Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition Arthur Meighen ; and the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces during World War I, the Earl Haig, laid the base stones of the clustered marble columns that support the fan vault ceiling.
A memorandum had been submitted to the Australian War Cabinet in February 1942 ( after Menzies, Fadden, and the United Australia Party-Country Party coalition had moved to Opposition ), where the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Home Forces, Lieutenant-General Iven Mackay, had advocated that in the event of an invasion, the majority of available Australian forces be concentrated in the area between Brisbane and Melbourne, where most of the nation's industrial capability was located.
Opposition to this pro-French absolutism ( from the King ’ s sister the Queen of England, and his younger brother Prince Pedro ) is swept aside, and Castelo Melhor initiates the final, successful phase of the Portuguese war of restoration with the aid of the Franco-German Marshal Schomberg, who brilliantly commands an international mercenary army against the Spanish forces.
Opposition groups blamed the government and security forces for failing to prevent the incident.
The United Tajik Opposition ( UTO ) was an alliance of democratic, nationalist and Islamist forces that officially banded together in 1993, after the most violent phase of the Tajik Civil War.

Opposition and Congress
During the 10th Party Congress ( March 1921 ) Lenin condemned the Workers Opposition, a faction within the Communist Party, for deviating from communism and accused Trotsky of factionalism.
The 10th Party Congress also introduced a ban on factionalism within the Communist Party ; however, what Lenin considered to be ' platforms ', such as the Democratic Centralists and the Workers Opposition, were allowed.
Despite the ban on factionalism, the Workers ' Opposition continued its open agitation against the policies of the Central Committee, and before the 11th Party Congress ( March 1922 ) the Workers ' Opposition made an ill-conceived bid to win support for their position in the Comintern.
During the 11th Party Congress Alexander Shliapnikov, the leader of the Workers ' Opposition, claimed that certain individuals from the Central Committee had threatened him.
At the 15th Party Congress ( 2 – 19 December 1927 ) the Left Opposition was crushed ; none of its members were elected to the Central Committee.
The Congress declared Opposition views incompatible with membership in the Communist Party and expelled Kamenev and dozens of leading oppositionists from the Party, which paved the way for mass expulsions of rank and file oppositionists as well as internal exile of opposition leaders in early 1928.
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.
Opposition from conservatives in Congress and the business community against the OPA undercut Galbraith and he was forced out in May 1943, accused of " communistic tendencies ".
In November, prior to the Fifteenth Party Congress Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled from the Communist Party itself as Stalin sought to deny the Opposition any opportunity to make their struggle public.
Both Vajpayee and the Leader of the Opposition, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, then staked claims to form the government.
The Opposition parties ( including the Congress, the Left Front, Janata Dal ( Secular ), and various regional parties ) supported a second term for him, and Sonia Gandhi met him to request his candidature ; Vajpayee then met Narayanan, informed him that there was no consensus within the NDA on the question, and advised against his candidature.
The NDA then proposed to elevate the Vice President Krishan Kant as a consensus ; this drew support from the Opposition and an agreement to this effect was conveyed by Vajpayee's representative to the Congress.
The legislative elections on August 28, 1910 had elected 14 new representatives ( resulting in an assembly that was divided: 9 % Republican, 58 % Government and 33 % Opposition ) which helped the revolutionary cause, but which made little importance since the Setubal Congress ( on 24 – 25 April 1909 ) had determined that the Republicans would take power by force.
Opposition in Congress to Chinese immigration led President Rutherford B. Hayes to authorize James Burrill Angell to renegotiate the treaty in 1880.
But as the Congress had regained power in the state elections, Naidu had to sit in the Opposition.
The Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party, in 1921, condemned the Workers ' Opposition for factionalism, but adopted some of its proposals, including conducting a purge of the Party and organizing better supply of workers, to improve workers ' living conditions.
Despite emerging as the single largest party, the Congress opted to sit in Opposition, and a coalition headed by V P Singh as Prime Minister formed the government.
Several members of the International Trotskyist Opposition left the organisation after the 1995 World Congress, with a few joining the Workers ' International League.
He joined the Congress ( O ) during the Congress split and served as the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly from March 1972 to March 1976 and again fron November 1976 to December 1977.
Opposition and officialist members of the Paraguayan Congress immediately announced they were going to boycott Duarte's resignation by not attending the extraordinary session of the Congress, a session called in order to debate and determine whether the President's resignation is accepted or not.
The 2001 elections ended in a tie, with both the Opposition PNM and the governing United National Congress winning 18 seats.

Opposition and are
Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
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.
In December 2011, Fraser was highly critical of the Australian government's decision ( also supported by the Liberal Party Opposition ) to permit the export of uranium to India, relaxing the Fraser government's policy of banning sales of uranium to countries that are not signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
There are currently four parties in Opposition ; the Labour Party, the Green Party, New Zealand First and the Mana Party.
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.
As Privy Counsellors are bound by their oath to keep matters discussed at Council meetings secret, the appointment of the leaders of Opposition parties as Privy Counsellors allows the Government to share confidential information with them " on Privy Council terms ".
Opposition parties are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power, though the country remains peaceful.
Opposition parties are now legally allowed to form following the adoption of the new Constitution.
Those generally recognized by the astrological community are Conjunction ( 0 °), Opposition ( 180 °), Square ( 90 °), Trine ( 120 °), Sextile ( 60 °), Semi-Square ( 45 °), Sesquisquare ( 135 °), and Quincunx ( 150 °).
Professor Paul Curtis who has worked with the Board of Trustees in 2005 stated, " The primary problems that the deer cause to the community are damage to garden plants, deer-vehicle accidents and the potential threat of the spread of foreign diseases .” Opposition to the deer culling program both in Cayuga Heights and nationally has criticized the culling program as " war on sweet innocent deer ", " brutal slaughter " and Cayuga Heights as a " constant killing field ".
Any member of either House can put down a motion that an Instrument should be annulled, although in the Commons unless the motion is signed by a large number of Members, or is moved by the official Opposition, it is unlikely to be debated, and in the Lords they are seldom actually voted upon.
In Ireland, for example, technical groups are often formed by third parties and independent TDs in the Dáil Éireann in order to increase the members ' right to speak against larger parties which can afford the right to speak as Front Benches in Government or Opposition.
Further, certain senior Loyal Opposition shadow cabinet members are also made Privy Counsellors, so that sensitive information may be shared with them " on Privy Council terms ".
The most high-profile contributors at prime minister's questions are the prime minister and the Leader of the Opposition, who speak opposite each other at the dispatch box.
When the Official Opposition has exhausted its initial three questions, the lead questioners of the other officially-recognized opposition parties are permitted an initial question and one supplementary question each, in order of size.
* Opposition and flexion of the thumb are lost.
The lessons to be learnt from Russell's foreign policy, Salisbury believed, were that he should not listen to the Opposition or the press otherwise " we are to be governed … by a set of weathercocks, delicately poised, warranted to indicate with unnerving accuracy every variation in public feeling ".
" The Opposition ," he writes to Gillray, " are as low as we can wish them.
During proceedings within the chambers, forms such as " The honourable Member for ...", " The honourable the Leader of the Opposition ", or " My honourable colleague " are used.

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