Given what you've said about not wanting to arm the opposition at this point, is that not a proposal that you guys would consider?
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McConnell and other members of the Senate Appropriations and Foreign Relations Committees, Mr. Ross quickly established that there would be serious opposition at this point to an outright repeal of such PLO-related legislation.
Over the Knicks' 12 games in January, the opposition's point guards have shot 39% from three-point range and 51% overall, while averaging 18.5 points, 6.8 assists and 4.5 rebounds in 36 minutes per game.
For the first time since then, the all-powerful African National Congress (ANC) was challenged by an opposition party able to point to its own perky record in local government and contrast it with the ANC's fairly dismal one.
The seat allocation was a key sticking point for the opposition, which wanted to ensure that it had the power to veto major decisions.
His current manoeuvrings could enlarge his coalition to the point where the opposition no longer has enough votes to launch a no-confidence debate or block a constitutional amendment.
"The press and the opposition appear to have missed the point, " Mr Hughes lamented.
The failure of Annan's six-point peace plan has emboldened opposition groups.
Ideologically, Pahlavi has made his message as broad as possible, focusing on the major point on which most exile opposition groups agree: a new secular constitution.
"I do understand and respect their opposition, but from a security strategy point of view this is absolutely the right decision, " he said of the knife rule.
Fisheries Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, a leader of the Freedom Party, wrote an open letter to the president in which he noted that the government could hardly be proud of scoring about a one-percentage-point advantage over the main opposition party after four-and-a-half years in office.
While it is not difficult to see the point made by those in opposition to this sort of government interference and restriction, it would be wise for everyone to take a deep breath and gain a better understanding of what we are talking about before blowing our collective stacks.
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The opposition Social Democrats have issued a 10-point programme for the east with some good ideas, like streamlining the bewildering array of investment-promotion schemes and co-ordinating aid via the chancellery.
Only on the domestic right was the West Point speech ambiguous, with the opposition falling into the same trap as on an economy already in ascent, with the corporate profits bubble about to leak into major league job creation.
The only real political point that she stressed strongly was her opposition to the Iraq war.
Moreover, leaders who oppose ruling party Golkar do not seem to agree on any point at all, further undermining the opposition effort.
This initiative has met plenty of opposition, and not just from the many who point out that designing a scheme to pay people not to do something is tricky.
In this scenario, the U.N. mission would move its personnel from the field back to Damascus, where it would focus on pushing forward the six-point plan to the Syrian government and the opposition.
But to get to your main point, point number 2: just how good were the opposition?
Yossi Sarid, leader of the opposition Meretz Party, reached the same conclusion from the opposite point of departure.
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Pakistan and India, which have acquired nuclear arsenals despite concerted opposition by the United States and others, are cases in point.
They have lately discovered that Pablo Perez (the opposition candidate to replace Rosales) has a 16 to 20 point advantage in all the surveys.
And despite facing significantly less opposition, President Bush had already made 10 recess appointments by this point in his presidency and he made another five over the spring recess.
But if Berlin and Paris at some point - and of their own accord - make it clear that their opposition to the transaction has abated, BAE and EADS would then have another go.
From a batsman's point of view he is never one you necessarily like to see in the opposition's line-up.
To illustrate his point, Toro uses the examples of Ollanta Humala in Peru and Venezuelan presidential opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski. (To this list, we could also add Fernando Lugo in Paraguay).
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And although it isn't a compulsory event, the opposition is of a very high quality, including Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal (with a point to prove on his favoured surface) and Robin Soderling, Murray's conqueror in California last month.
Later, shadow justice secretary Dominic Grieve complained, in a point of order, about the justice secretary making the statement during question time, arguing that opposition MPs had not had a chance to scrutinise the plans properly.
Mr Fawzi said the former UN secretary general's six-point peace plan had so far been "relatively respected" by both the government and armed opposition, but that he was "aware that we don't have a perfect situation".
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