In 1970, Whitlam, as Leader of the Opposition, had stated of a budget bill, " Let me make it clear at the outset that our opposition to this Budget is no mere formality.

Professor Paul Curtis who has worked with the Board of Trustees in 2005 stated, " The primary problems that the deer cause to the community are damage to garden plants, deer-vehicle accidents and the potential threat of the spread of foreign diseases .” Opposition to the deer culling program both in Cayuga Heights and nationally has criticized the culling program as " war on sweet innocent deer ", " brutal slaughter " and Cayuga Heights as a " constant killing field ".

Speaking at the Opposition dispatch box in the Lords, he stated:

The Leader of the Opposition, Bill Rowling stated that he would remove Holyoake as Governor-General should the Labour Party win the 1978 general election, and openly suggested that he would have appointed Sir Edmund Hillary as Governor-General.

Opposition to the strategy came from Brendan Howlin, Kathleen Lynch and Tommy Broughan ( who is regarded as being on the party's left wing and who advocated closer co-operation with the Green Party and Sinn Féin ), who opposed the boost that would be given to Fine Gael in such a strategy and stated their preference for an independent campaign.

Advani stated that as the Leader of the Opposition in a parliamentary democracy, he considered himself as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the general elections, ending on 16 May 2009.

" As Leader of the Opposition, Cameron stated that he did not intend to oppose the government as a matter of course, and would offer his support in areas of agreement.

" Opposition Leader Pearson stated, " He was a man who shirked no duty, faltered in no task, was daunted by no obstacle.

On 27 April Persad-Bissessar was appointed Opposition Leader and she stated that she would step aside should Panday's appeal prove successful.

" However, Giga Bukia, a member of the Georgian parliament with the Rightist Opposition stated that " Georgians will never, under any circumstances, give up this territory " and also accused the government of softening its position on the complex in order to secure financial aid from Azerbaijan.

" The Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, initially backed Slipper, but later publicly stated that it was up to each member to adhere to the rules regarding entitlements.

" Opposition Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff wrote an op / ed piece which stated that his party " condemns the CUPE resolution in the strongest possible terms.

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 ).

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.

Then, just prior to the Queen's pan-country tour to celebrate her Golden Jubilee the following year, Manley ( at that point the designated minister in attendance for the sovereign's arrival in Ottawa ) again stated his preference for a " wholly Canadian " institution to replace the present monarchy after the reign of the Queen ; he was rebuked by other Cabinet members, a former prime minister, and the Leader of the Opposition, as well as a number of prominent journalists.

Hacker is also noted as having challenged Humphrey while he was a member of the Opposition by asking difficult questions when Sir Humphrey was testifying to a Parliamentary committee: Sir Humphrey stated that Hacker had asked "... all the questions I hoped nobody would ask ," showing his new Minister to be at least a reasonably capable politician.

After the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War he stated that India should retract its ban on the LTTE, claiming the ban was " a shield to suppress freedom of expression and stifle the voice of the Opposition ".

On 26 September, Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry stated his intention to approach the Electoral Commission and the office of the Auditor-General to investigate Kaitani's new appointment.

The Conservative Party, when in Opposition, stated that they planned to scrap the legislation, calling it ' expensive and deficient red tape '.< ref > Indeed, Conservative opposition to HIPs was instrumental in a defeat in the House of Lords, where peers voted by 186 to 160 in favour of abandoning the packs.

Several Central Committee members, who were members of the Workers Opposition, offered their resignation to Lenin but their resignations were not accepted, and they were instead asked to submit to party discipline.

Opposition forces in Congress are loosely organized, but historically they often unite to block the administration's initiatives and to remove cabinet ministers.

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.

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

Called Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, they occupy the benches to the Speaker's left.

Opposition satellite stations broadcast from abroad ; they include London-based Barada TV and Orient TV, which operates from the UAE.

Whitlam argued that because of the vacancies being filled as they were, the Senate was " corrupted " and " tainted ", with the Opposition enjoying a majority they did not win at the ballot box.

Despite this exclusion, members of the commons must still express their loyalty to the monarch and defer to her authority, as the Oath of Allegiance must be recited by all new parliamentarians before they may take their seat, and the official opposition is traditionally dubbed as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev formed a United Opposition against the policies of Stalin and Bukharin but they had lost influence as a result of the inner party disputes and in October 1927 Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev were expelled from the Central Committee.

To protest the change, the Opposition made random quorum calls through the afternoon for every question they felt they had been denied that day.

In the end, the NDP succeeded in increasing their parliamentary representation to 29 MPs, though they had significantly fewer seats than the Bloc Québécois ( 51 ) or the Opposition Liberals ( 103 ).

Any member of either House can put down a motion that an Instrument should be annulled, although in the Commons unless the motion is signed by a large number of Members, or is moved by the official Opposition, it is unlikely to be debated, and in the Lords they are seldom actually voted upon.

In March 1975, Daniel Patrick Moynihan's article " The United States in Opposition ," urged America to vigorously defend liberal democratic principles when they were attacked by Soviet-bloc and Third World dictatorships at the United Nations.

Opposition to war has led peace activists, such as Ammon Hennacy and Ellen Thomas, to a form of tax resistance in which they reduce their income below the tax threshold by taking up a simple living lifestyle.

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 ".

Regular, fixed sessions have taken place since 1961, and the list below outlines the prime ministers since 1961 and Opposition party leaders they faced across the floor of the House of Commons:

These questions may be asked by the same Member of Parliament to follow up on the answer provided to the lead question, or they may be given to another member of the Official Opposition.

During the election campaign, Chrétien promised to repeal the GST, which the Liberals had denounced so vociferously while they were the Official Opposition, and replace it with a different tax.

Although Australian Speakers are supposed to behave with reasonable impartiality, they see it as part of their duty to support the Government of the day in getting its business through the House, and generally rule in favour of the Government on the frequent points of order raised by Opposition members.

Opposition and officialist members of the Paraguayan Congress immediately announced they were going to boycott Duarte's resignation by not attending the extraordinary session of the Congress, a session called in order to debate and determine whether the President's resignation is accepted or not.

On March 14, 2005, the day after the election, members of the Collective of Political Parties of the Opposition ( CPPO ), including Goumba, signed a petition in which they alleged that fraud had occurred.

While the Whigs were still part of the Opposition under the minority government of the Earl of Derby, John Russell had said, in January 1852, that he intended to introduce a new Reform bill into the House of Commons which would equalize the populations of the districts from which members of Parliament were elected.

Opposition in the Senate, particularly from Republican politicians Henry Cabot Lodge and William Borah and especially in regard to Article X of the Covenant, ensured that the United States would not ratify the agreement.

As the war progressed, with no hope of joining the rebellion due to power of the Royal Navy ( in the letter he had addressed to Bermudians soliciting the theft of the gunpowder, George Washington had written We would not wish to in volve you in an Opposition, in which from your Situation, we should be unable to support you: -- We knew not therefore to what Extent to sollicit your Assistance in availing ourselves of this Supply ), with increasing numbers of Amercan loyalists in Bermuda ( such as the privateer Bridger Goodrich ), and with their economic opportunities dwindling, Bermudians overcame their sympathies for their erstwhile countrymen and unleashed their privateers ( which, by the middle of the 18th Century already outnumbered those of any of the mainland colonies ) upon American shipping.

Joseph LyonsAlthough the new party was basically the Nationalist Party under a new name, Lyons was chosen as leader of the party ( and thus became Leader of the Opposition ) rather than the old Nationalist leader John Latham, as it was recognised that ( as an affable family man with the common touch ) he was a far more electorally appealing figure than the aloof Latham, and his Labor background and his Catholicism would allow him to win traditional Labor support groups ( working-class voters and Irish Catholics ) over to the new party.

Lang replied that he would not resign, and Game dismissed his government and commissioned the Leader of the Opposition, Bertram Stevens, to form a caretaker government pending new elections, in which Labor was defeated.

If the Opposition were to allow supply to pass, Whitlam would not advise a half-Senate election until May or June 1976, and the Senate would not convene until 1 July, thus obviating the threat of a possible temporary Labor majority.

After the meeting, Fraser proposed a compromise: that the Opposition would concede supply if Whitlam agreed to hold a House of Representatives election at the same time as the half-Senate election.

Kerr concluded on 6 November that neither Government nor Opposition would yield, and that supply would run out.

Opposition to the Lend-Lease bill was strongest among isolationist Republicans in Congress, who feared that the measure would be " the longest single step this nation has yet taken toward direct involvement in the war abroad.

At the time, Opposition leader Trudeau said that he would allow the Progressive Conservatives a chance to govern, though he warned the Prime Minister against dismantling Petro-Canada, which was unpopular in Clark's home province of Alberta.

She remained personally more popular than the Liberal Opposition Leader, Jeff Kennett, but the electorate would no longer accept the continued mismanagement and waste which had occurred throughout the ALP hold on government.

Opposition came from fishermen along the Zuiderzee who would lose their livelihood, and from others in coastal areas along the more northerly Wadden Sea who feared higher water levels as a result of the closure, and others who doubted whether it was financially practical.

Opposition to the nomination came from the Organic Consumers Association, which outlined in a November 2008 report several reasons why it believed Vilsack would be a poor choice for the position, particularly as energy and environmental reforms were a key point of the Obama campaign.

Opposition would come from the neighbouring province of Numidia.

Opposition would come from the neighbouring province of Numidia.

The legislative elections on August 28, 1910 had elected 14 new representatives ( resulting in an assembly that was divided: 9 % Republican, 58 % Government and 33 % Opposition ) which helped the revolutionary cause, but which made little importance since the Setubal Congress ( on 24 – 25 April 1909 ) had determined that the Republicans would take power by force.

In the days leading up to the testing, Denis Healey, the Opposition defence spokesman, had criticised the aircraft saying that by the time it was introduced it would face " new anti-aircraft " missiles that would shoot it down making it prohibitively expensive at £ 16 million per aircraft ( on the basis of only 30 ordered ).

Opposition to a buried high voltage power transmission line that would require the rezoning of existing urban planning designs and the purchase ( forced relocation of current residents ) of houses along the planned corridor.

In 1979, when the Liberals lost the election to Joe Clark's Tories, MacEachen served as interim Leader of the Opposition when Trudeau announced he would retire from politics.