* 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.

Given the composition of the current 41st Canadian Parliament, once the Official Opposition, the New Democratic Party, is finished, the next question comes from the only other officially-recognized opposition party, the Liberal Party.

Opposition to the Public Domain Enhancement Act comes from the entertainment industry sphere, particularly the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ) and its lobbyists.

Opposition to economic materialism comes from many sources including religion, environmentalism and social activism.

By convention, the Opposition Leader comes from the House of Representatives, as does the deputy, although the Government and Opposition will also both have leaders in the Senate.

Opposition to pornography comes from many sources:

Opposition to iodisation comes from small salt producers who are concerned about the added expense, private makers of iodine pills, concerns about promoting salt intake, and unfounded rumours that iodisation causes AIDS or other illnesses.

Opposition to reunification comes mainly from Unionist political parties in Northern Ireland, particularly the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party.

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.

The Official Opposition maintains a shadow cabinet, with the Leader of the Official Opposition at its head, of Members of Parliament ( MPs ) and Senators who often have the same portfolios as actual ministers.

The notion of a loyal opposition exists in various Commonwealth realms, being therein termed formally as Her ( or His ) Majesty's Loyal Opposition and informally as the Official Opposition, with the head of the largest opposition partynormally that which holds the second largest number of seatsdesignated as the Leader of Her ( or His ) Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

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.

Opposition MP Péter Szijjártó, as the head of a committee set up to investigate the origins of Gyurcsány's wealth, stated in his report that one of Gyurcsány's companies leased the former vacation site of the Hungarian government in Balatonőszöd and rented the site back to a state-owned company so that the rent paid by the government covered exactly the leasing fee during the first two and a half years of the ten-year lease term ( 1994 – 2004 ).

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.

Opposition to the term " myth " stems from a variety of sources: the association of the term " myth " with polytheism, the use of the term " myth " to indicate falsehood or non-historicity, and the lack of an agreed-upon definition of " myth ".

Only one other party reached the 7 % threshold: the Rightist Opposition with ca.

Opposition to Turkish membership of the EU developed in parallel to an increasing unease as to how Europe deals with Islam.

The notes Erwin made for his planned meeting with Holt ( which he evidently provided to Reid ) indicate that he and others were worried that Holt was too susceptible to traps set for him by the ALP over issues like the VIP jets scandal, and that he had repeatedly let himself become the target of Opposition " harassment " instead of letting his ministers take the heat on controversial issues.

Opposition from senior Iraqi officials, together with the poor security situation, meant that Bremer's privatization plan was not implemented during his tenure, though his orders remain in place.

Opposition MPs were also not satisfied with Karami's resignation, and kept pressing for full Syrian withdrawal.

The discontent with Trotsky's policies of strict discipline, conscription and reliance on carefully supervised non-Communist military experts eventually led to the Military Opposition ( Russian: Военная оппозиция

Until exiled from Russia in 1929, Leon Trotsky helped develop and led the Left Opposition ( and the later Joint Opposition ) with members of the Workers ’ Opposition, the Decembrists, and ( later ) the Zinovievists.

The governing coalition split in 1997, with the MMM going back to the Opposition and Navin Ramgoolam staying on as Prime Minister.

He was replying to queries from Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang on the next course of action to be taken by Malaysia and Asean with the Burmese military junta.

In Opposition it has worked in formal Coalition or separately, but generally in co-operation with the Liberal Party and it predecessors, the United Australia 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.

Trotsky, the prime force behind the Left Opposition, was defeated by a triumvirate formed by Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev, with the support of Bukharin.

According to Bob Hawke, the historically large $ 9. 6 billion budget deficit left by the Coalition ‘ became a stick with which we were justifiably able to beat the Liberal National Party Opposition for many years ’.

When a party becomes the largest party not to be represented in a Westminster-style parliament, the party's parliamentary group forms the Official Opposition, with Official Opposition frontbench team members often forming the Official Opposition Shadow cabinet.

Seated in the front, directly across from the ministers on the Treasury Bench, the leaders of the opposition form a " Shadow Government ", complete with a salaried " Shadow Prime Minister ", the Leader of the Opposition, ready to assume office if the government falls or loses the next election.

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 ".

As Opposition leader, Bennett faced off against the more experienced Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in Commons debates, and took some time to acquire enough experience to hold his own with King.

With ninety-five percent of the Bundestag controlled by the coalition, an Extra-Parliamentary Opposition ( APO ) was formed with the intent of generating protest and political activity outside of government.

Opposition to same-sex marriage and LGBT rights is often associated with conservative religious views.