Opposition figures who lived among the exile communities in Spain and elsewhere agitated for reforms ; some of them had been employed in the Macías and Obiang governments.

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.

For my part, I think it is much more hard on His Majesty's Opposition to compel them to take this course.

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 of rural Russians to Red Army conscription units was overcome by taking hostages and shooting them when necessary in order to force compliance, exactly the same practices used by the White Army officers.

Opposition to Edward and the Despensers rule continued ; in 1324 there was a foiled assassination attempt on their lives, and in early 1325 John of Nottingham was placed on trial for involvement in a plot to kill them with magic.

To ensure the Opposition leaders could reach Canberra in time for the meeting, Whitlam brought them back in his VIP aircraft, which arrived in Canberra at midnight.

Whitlam, now Leader of the Opposition, refused all invitations to events at Yarralumla, which the Kerrs continued to extend until his refusal of an invitation during the Queen's 1977 visit caused them to feel that no further efforts need be made.

Stephen Cowan ( Lab ), the Council ’ s Leader of the Opposition strongly disputed this allegation and wrote to the Prime Minister challenging his comments and detailing why he was wrong to make them.

The Opposition used its numbers in the Senate to defer supply bills, refusing to deal with them until an election was called for both Houses of Parliament, an election which it hoped to win.

On 3 August Law spoke openly in the House of Commons, saying that " the Government already know, but I give them now the assurance on behalf of the party of which I am leader in this House, that in whatever steps they think it necessary to take for the honour and security of this country they can rely upon the unhesitating support of the 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 Opposition ," he writes to Gillray, " are as low as we can wish them.

The Workers ' Opposition demanded that Russian Communist Party secretaries at all levels cease petty interference in the operations of trade unions and that trade unions should be reinforced with staff and supplies to allow them to carry out their work effectively.

Trotsky and other leaders of the International Left Opposition complained to the CLA that Shachtman had intervened against them within the ILO's fragile European affiliates.

At the 7 February elections Beattie won 63 seats, a net loss of only three, losing four seats to the National-Liberal Opposition but gaining one from them.

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 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 ’

In June 1971, he proposed three new powerful committees at Stormont which would give the Opposition salaried chairmanships of two of them.

After the banning of the last two Opposition parties in 1983, parties and candidates usually have operated in loose alignments within two main coalitions, the conservative ( osool-garayan ) and the reformist ( eslah-talaban ) both of them coming from the former single-party Islamic Republic Party.

At times they cooperated with the " Opposition Whigs ", Whigs who were in opposition to the Whig government ; however, the ideological gap between the Tories and the Opposition Whigs prevented them from coalescing as a single party.

Outside of the government, the Official Opposition Chief Whip in the Commons, like the Leader of the Opposition, receives a stipend in addition to their parliamentary salary, because their additional responsibilities will make them unable to hold down another job.

Opposition to a proposed transmission line has resulted in possible delay in development of solar facilities by Xcel Energy which together with Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association serves the valley.

Opposition from local landowners resulted in the plan being shelved, but a further plan was proposed at a meeting held in Warwick in August 1781, for a canal to run from Wednesbury through Fazeley to Atherstone, which was the end of the Coventry Canal at the time.

These two conservative parties fighting allowed the Liberal Party to remain in government, and even resulted in the separatist Bloc Quebecois to become the Official Opposition.

The 2003 election resulted in a Tory minority government while the NDP maintained Official Opposition status under new leader Darrell Dexter.

Abbott led the Liberal-National Opposition to the 2010 federal election, which resulted in a hung parliament.

Opposition of the Greek populace to taxing or paidomazoma resulted in grave consequences.

The government's claims of bias were strenuously denied by Simon Davies and resulted in heated debate between Government and Opposition parties both in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

Opposition from the many railway travellers resulted.

This action, coupled with Capildeo's absentee rulership, led to a revolt in the party executive, and this resulted in the appointment of Stephen Maharaj ( a former Butler Party member ) as Leader of the Opposition, while Capildeo retained the post of Party Leader.

It succeeded the Morgans Ministry on 23 December 1901 after a series of ministerial by-elections to confirm that ministry resulted in half of the ministry being defeated by Opposition and Labour candidates.

Opposition to the implementation of the new civil code resulted in the government shuttering of the campus journal and the subsequent creation of the Chuo Law Review ( Hōgaku Shinpo ), which has since been published regularly.

Opposition parties ended up contesting only a-third of the seats, the lowest portion since 1968, which resulted in the largest number of walkovers for PAP in history.

Finally, this came against the backdrop of a very large swing to the ALP across the Territory, which also resulted in Opposition Leader Denis Burke losing his very safe seat of Brennan.

Dissident groups such as the so-called Workers ' Opposition and the Democratic Centralists emerged in the Communist Party, widespread dissatisfaction among the peasantry over forced grain requisitioning resulted in isolated uprisings.

Opposing Ardito Barletta and the UNADE ( Unión Nacional Democrática ) coalition was the Democratic Opposition Alliance ( ADOAlianza Democrática de Oposición ) and its candidate, the 82-year old veteran politician, Arnulfo Arias, who had already been president three times, each of which resulted in his being ousted from office by a military coup.

Opposition to his fair housing activism resulted in his losing a 1966 judicial election, but he became a judge of the Cook County Circuit Court in 1970.

" This resulted in various verbal gymnastics as Opposition MPPs struggled to find a way to say " why " without saying " why.

Opposition to the rule of these oligarchies resulted in the Rebellions of 1837.

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.

However, it proved highly unpopular with the Left Opposition in the Bolshevik party because of its compromise with some capitalistic elements and the relinquishment of State control.

* specific-knowledge cases, i. e., cases which are unfair toward the Opposition team because they require highly obscure knowledge to oppose effectively (" NASA should replace the current sealant used on the space shuttle with hypoxynucleotide-C4598 ")

The phrase His Majesty's Opposition was coined in 1826, before the advent of the modern two-party system, when Parliament consisted more of interests, relationships and factions rather than the highly coherent political parties of today ( although the Whigs and Tories were the two main parties ).

He continued these relationships when Labour went into Opposition, and according to material from the Mitrokhin Archive, his insights into British politics were passed to and highly rated by the KGB.