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 to the Charter and earlier francophone-favoring language legislation has had limited success, given the support of the laws by the Parti Québécois and Quebec Liberal Party.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

Political, economic and military experts were all agreed that chaotic, mountainous little Laos was the last place in the world to fight a war -- and they were probably right.

It was My Political Awakening and, according to Hitler in his book Mein Kampf, it reflected the ideals he already believed in.

From the British side the camp was attended by Mortimer Durand and Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, Political Agent Khyber.

Political acquiescence in demutualisation was clearest in the case of the position on ' carpet baggers ', that is those who joined societies by lodging minimum amounts of £ 100 or so in the hope of profiting from a distribution of surplus after demutualisation.

Political murder was one of their well known tools.

Political violence against FARC and UP members ( including presidential candidate Jaime Pardo ) was blamed on drug lords and also on members of the security forces ( to a much lesser degree on the argued inaction of Betancur administration ).

" It was replaced by the State Political Administration or GPU, a section of the NKVD of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ).

However at the 8th Party Congress held in 1919, the Political Bureau ( Politburo ) was established to respond to questions needing immediate responses.

Political geographers maintain that colonial behavior was reinforced by the physical mapping of the world, visually separating “ them ” and “ us ”.

Marx's Critique of Political Economy played an important role in the German branch of the student revolt, which was centered in Berlin.

Hume's volume of Political Discourses ( published by Kincaid & Donaldson, 1752 ) was the only work he considered successful on first publication.

" Deng's father, Deng Wenming, was a middle-level landowner and had studied at the University of Law and Political Science in Chengdu.

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.

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference ( CPPCC ), was dispatched to Fiji and met Prime Minister Qarase during a brief stopover on 21 – 22 May, a move that Tavola said was not coincidental.

Political power was to be concentrated in Parliament, with a lesser role for the Senate.

Political party activity was legalized in 1992, when more than 40 political parties were officially recognized for the first time.

Political change in continental Europe was spurred by the French Revolution under the motto liberté, egalité, fraternité.

Political power was solely executed by leading members ( Politburo ) of the communist-controlled Socialist Unity Party ( SED ).

Political organizations and writers, as well as Aristide himself, have suggested that the rebellion was in fact a foreign controlled coup d ' état.

Marx's clearest formulation of his " Materialist Conception of History " was in the 1859 Preface to his book " A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ," whose relevant passage is reproduced here:

Political institutions and parties were allowed to function, which was combined with electoral manipulation and strong-arming of those not willing to cooperate into submission.

The Political Department of the JNC was responsible for relations with the Arabs, ties with the Jewish Agency and negotiations with the British.

Political power was widely dispersed.