Political opposition groups were splintered and the Contras began to experience defections, although United States aid maintained them as a viable military force.

Political freedom has also been theorized in its opposition to ( and a condition of ) " power relations ", or the power of " action upon actions ," by Michel Foucault.

In the meantime, an Interim Political Authority ( IPA ), charged with reviewing the electoral structure in the country, was created in December 1998 and devised a proportional electoral system to ensure that there be opposition in the National Assembly.

Political experts criticized this act, saying that this was a move by President Nasheed to gain the decreasing public support and to silence the voices of the opposition by threatening them.

Political parties continued to proliferate but produced only a divided and weakly organized opposition or were suppressed.

Political leaders from the parties critical to the Aquino rule appointed Former House Speaker Jose B. Laurel Jr. as Interim President in a Manifesto signed by opposition leaders.

The PNM affiliated with the former, while several opposition parties ( the People's Democratic Party, the Trinidad Labour Party and the Party of Political Progress Groups ) aligned themselves with the DLP, and soon merged to form the Democratic Labour Party of Trinidad and Tobago.

Political opposition to the King gradually became centered around George Augustus and Caroline.

Political opponents were jailed and sometimes killed, and opposition newspapers were occasionally seized.

Political persecution of local leaders and strict radio and press control were designed to prepare for an eventual unlimited communist dictatorship, including the liquidation of opposition.

Political opposition came from those who thought too much money was being spent on the project, as well as those opposed to the New Deal in general.

Political opposition to the logging of forests by the process known as clearfelling has grown very strong in recent years ( particularly in the case of woodchipping ), and the extent of future harvesting remains uncertain.

Political opposition was expressed in a number of colonies, including Barbados and Antigua, and by absentee landowners living in Britain.

The Citizens ' Political Party and the LUA endorsed Robert Turton and Arthur Balderamos, a Creole lawyer, who formed the chief opposition in the new council of 1936.

Political figures, including Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, blamed the fire on " radical environmentalists " and their opposition to logging to thin the forests.

Political pressure by the Peronist opposition and other organized economic interests coincided with the December 2001 riots.

Political commentators Neal Lawson and Joe Cox wrote that tactical voting helped to provide New Labour with its majorities in 1997, 2001 and 2005 and argued that, the party won because of public opposition to the Conservative Party.

By the time his son attempted his putsch in 2000, however, Sam Speight was an opposition member of Parliament, his Fijian Political Party having lost power to the Indo-Fijian-led Labour Party of Mahendra Chaudhry in the elections of 1999.

Many opponents of the KMT asking for democracy were organized as an opposition camp gradually after the establishment of the magazine “ Taiwan Political Review ” in 1975 founded by one of active members, Ning-Siang Kang.

However, underlying opposition to the Political Bureau and to the absence of alternative candidates was manifested in an 18 percent abstention rate nationwide that rose to 36 percent of the electorate in Algiers.

The opposition NF Flag Group contained the traditionalists such as Andrew Brons, Ian Anderson, Martin Wingfield, Tina Wingfield, Joe Pearce ( initially associated with the Political Soldiers ' faction ) and Steve Brady, who ran candidates under the NF banner in the 1987 general election.

Category: Political opposition

Political opposition was founded both on opposition to software patents and towards what was considered heavy-handed management by the Commission.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights has several parallels with the Canadian Charter, but in some cases the Covenant goes further with regard to rights in its text.

Political scientist Rand Dyck, in observing these criticisms, notes that while judges have had their scope of review widened, they have still upheld most laws challenged on Charter grounds.

According to Article 19, Section 2 of the Charter of the Chinese People ’ s Political Consultative Conference, the relationship between the National Committee and the regional committees is a relationship of guidance ( no direct leadership ).

Subsequent human rights standards that codify minority rights include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( Article 27 ), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, two Council of Europe treaties ( the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ) Copenhagen Document of 1990.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

Political economy was the earlier name for the subject, but economists in the latter 19th century suggested ' economics ' as a shorter term for ' economic science ' that also avoided a narrow political-interest connotation and as similar in form to ' mathematics ', ' ethics ', and so forth.

It developed some of the ideas mentioned in an earlier work, the article Economie Politique ( Discourse on Political Economy ), featured in Diderot's Encyclopédie.

Created by two Canadian filmmakers, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, it expands on the ideas of Chomsky's earlier book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which he co-wrote with Edward S. Herman.

The English term economic man can be found even earlier, in John Kells Ingram's A History of Political Economy ( 1888 ).

Chartism followed earlier Radical movements, such as the Friends of the People Society, the Birmingham Political Union or the Tolpuddle Martyrs, all of which demanded a widening of the franchise.

The beginning of the Taishō period was marked by the Taisho Political Crisis in 1912 – 13 that interrupted the earlier politics of compromise.

Political scientist Andrew Price-Smith published data from the Austrian archives suggesting the influenza had earlier origins, beginning in Austria in the spring of 1917.

Instead Owen Carron, who had served as Sands ' election agent in the earlier election, was nominated and elected as a " Anti-H-Block Proxy Political Prisoner ".

It formed an important part of the constitutional reform programme implemented by the 1997 Labour Government, building on the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 ( c. 48 ) passed two years earlier.

In 1971, Congress consolidated its earlier reform efforts in the Federal Election Campaign Act ( FECA ), instituting more stringent disclosure requirements for federal candidates, political parties and Political action committees ( PACs ).

Rubayyi's NF joined with other parties 1975, creating the United Political Organisation NF ( التنظيم السياسي الموحد الجبهة القومية ), all rival parties were outlawed earlier.

It is awarded annually by a panel based in the Department of Political Science of Columbia University, for the best book in the field published two years earlier.

On October 26, 2005, National Party leader Don Brash appointed Mapp as the party's Political Correctness Eradicator, following a speech Mapp had given on the topic earlier that month.

It was there that she joined the Women's Political Council, which Mary Fair Burks had founded three years earlier.

The group had its origins in the earlier New Ulster Political Research Group ( NUPRG ), which was set up, on the initiative of UDA chairman Andy Tyrie, in January 1978 under the chairmanship of Glen Barr, largely as a reaction to antagonism that had grown between the UDA and Ian Paisley after the loyalist group had supported a failed strike organised by Paisley the previous year.

Instead Owen Carron, who had served as Sands ' agent in the earlier election, was nominated as a " Anti-H-Block Proxy Political Prisoner ".

Mackenzie Book Prize from the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, awarded to the best book in political science each calendar year ; and the 1988 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize from the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, New York, awarded annually for the best book in liberal and / or democratic theory that had been published two years earlier.