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.

Opposition from the laity took longer to surface.

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

His reputation rose further when opposition leaders under parliamentary privilege alleged that Taoiseach Charles Haughey, who in January 1982 had been Leader of the Opposition, had not merely rung the President's Office but threatened to end the career of the army officer who took the call and who, on Hillery's explicit instructions, had refused to put through the call to the President.

Delta South MLA Fred Gingell became the Leader of the Opposition while the Liberal leadership race took place.

When he entered the chamber of deputies in 1815 he at once took an active part in the debates as a member of the Liberal Opposition, and strenuously opposed the election of the son of Napoleon as emperor after his father's abdication.

In Parliament he acted with the small Opposition Irish Patriot Party group led by Henry Grattan, but took no prominent part in debate.

Mulock remained in Opposition through two subsequent elections until 1896 when the Liberals under Wilfrid Laurier took power.

Schreyer also waded into the federal parliamentary dispute that took place from late 2008 into early 2009, wherein the members of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition threatened to revoke their confidence in the sitting prime minister, Stephen Harper.

" Further leadership changes took place in the early 1920s, and Party members accused of being Trotskyites were expelled ; of these, Heinrich Brandler, August Thalheimer and Paul Frölich set up a splinter Communist Party Opposition.

Opposition parties were strongly opposed to the move ; the NDP took the unusual step of attempting to filibuster against the bill by reading out the name of every street name in Toronto.

When Bill English took over National, it was thought that he might lead the Opposition away from its prior hardline New Right economic and social policies, but his indecisiveness and lack of firm policy direction led to ACT New Zealand gaining the New Right middle-class voting basis in 2002.

Shipley continued to lead the Party until October 2001, when Bill English took over the leadership and the role of Leader of the Opposition, and she subsequently retired from Parliament in 2002.

Opposition from traditional broadcasters was fierce and the process took until 1997, at which time the FCC had moved to auctions rather than awards when licensing spectrum.

After Labor took office in August 1904, he became Leader of the Opposition.

Led by Cliff Slaughter and Dot Gibson, it initially had support in the Workers Revolutionary Party ( Namibia ) and a South African section which renamed itself WIRFI and took 5, 481 votes in the South African general election, 1994, as well as Michel Varga's Group of Opposition and Continuity of the Fourth International.

Members of the Opposition had by that point took up " liar " as a chant, which put Sir Billy in the position where he would have to name every Member, one by one.

Marler took over as Leader of the Official Opposition.

The 12-minute speech by the Opposition could be divided into 8 and 4, in which case the Leader of the Opposition took the Opposition's first 8-minute speech, the Member of the Opposition the second 8, and the leader finished with 4 minutes of pure rebuttal.

Maclean therefore took on the role of Leader of the Opposition, until Asquith returned to the House after a by-election in 1920 and took over.

Before that a member of the House of Lords sometimes took on the role, although often there was no overall Leader of the Opposition.

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.

Similar shifting alliances were played out amongst various dissident factions within the CPSU, such as the Workers Opposition and Left Communists, with Joseph Stalin and his supporters gaining absolute power within the party by the mid-1920s.

Opposition to U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War began slowly and in small numbers in 1964 on various college campuses in the United States.

A federation of the Janata Dal with various regional parties including the DMK, TDP, and AGP, came into being, called the National Front, with V. P. Singh as convener, N. T. Rama Rao as President, and Leader of the Opposition, P. Upendra as a General Secretary.

He served as Member of Parliament for various constituencies and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone before becoming Leader of the Opposition.

In 1974 he became Leader of the JLP, in which he served for 30 years, he was also Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition in various periods.

Tunku Abdul Rahman's announcement for the expansion of Malaya into a larger federation known as Malaysia in 1961 galvanised the cooperation between the various Opposition parties in the Parliament.

Simon then freelanced on speechwriting, policy and advice, clients included Tony Blair's Office in Opposition, Microsoft UK, the International Duty Free Confederation and various other charities and communication companies.

Between May 1997 and June 2002, she served in various Opposition front bench posts, including as an Opposition Whip and as Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport.

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.

Opposition from various external organizations delayed actual testing into the early 1990s.

Opposition to construction came from various citizen's groups and different levels of local government.

Nevertheless, the various right opposition groups did come together to form an International Communist Opposition ( ICO ).

He served as an Opposition spokesman on various subjects ; immediately prior to the 2010 general election he was spokesman for transport and an Opposition whip.

Opposition from the various pressure groups was so vociferous that a public enquiry was called for.

He sat in the Upper House as a Liberal and served in various positions including Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate and led the Liberals ' filibuster against the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax forcing Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to use an obscure section of the Constitution to appoint extra Senators and ensure passage of the measure.

Each book features time travel of some kind, where Mel is tasked by the Agency to unravel various celestial problems involving humans and the Opposition.

Simen Vangen took over for Jon Lauvland Pettersen, a founding member of Madrugada ; Lauvland Pettersen left the band after their second album ( in 2002 ) and is currently playing in the band Milestone Refinery ; Simen Vangen announced his leaving in 2005 and stated he wanted to focus on various jazz projects, things that did not fit together with being a member of Madrugada ; however, he will continue to collaborate with Sivert Høyem in The Opposition.

He had previously served as the state's Leader of the Opposition and Treasurer, as well as holding various other portfolios in Western Australia's Cabinet.

Opposition to construction came from various citizen's groups and different levels of local government.