The ultra-modernising MP has worked alongside the current Conservative leadership since opposition.
Having said all that, it is a setback for Labour since opposition parties during government crises are meant to win and win big.
Obama and the Republicans have been fighting over federal spending since the opposition party regained control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.
The Conservatives currently hold 51 seats, having lost three to their main opposition since the 2009 election.
Since voicing his opposition to the marriage-equality bills just weeks ago, Koering has received hundreds of hate e-mails.
The group first organized a boycott of the project but have since softened their opposition in the hopes of finding a compromise that doesn't threaten fishing.
Uganda has a new rival for the West's affections in east Africa, since the Kenyan opposition crushed the crooked regime of Daniel arap Moi at an election in December.
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Tunisia has been in turmoil since the killing of opposition leader Chokri Belaid on 6 February.
He's been pushing the idea of creating enterprise zones here since he was in opposition.
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The court has spent an unhurried three-and-a-half years pondering this, since Spain's opposition People's Party first challenged the charter.
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But that requires help from the opposition, since the PRI failed to win a majority in either house of Congress.
The Tories were highly critical of the IT programme in opposition and since forming the coalition government costs have been reduced.
And since Mexico's opposition parties have failed to clinch a mooted alliance, Mr Labastida now looks likely to win the presidential election next July.
Incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak has voiced confidence that the National Front coalition will remain Malaysia's dominant political force despite facing its most unified opposition challenge since independence from Britain in 1957.
Alexander Lebed, an ex-general whose backing of Mr Yeltsin clinched the presidential election for him last year, has made little impact since he joined the opposition after a brief sojourn in government.
And Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil run since 1988 by the opposition Workers' Party, has led the region in getting the public involved in monitoring and influencing how their taxes are spent.
The Workers' Party won six seats, the most the opposition has held since independence in 1965.
Since that ballot, the opposition has edged up to 86 seats in Parliament through special elections, though it lost control of one state.
Mr Blair has strained relations with Jacques Chirac, particularly since the French president led opposition within the EU to the US-led invasion of Iraq.
But if the prime minister is to win the third term he covets, the Liberals must do better in the Atlantic provinces, since they face a revitalised opposition in Ontario and western Canada.
In Washington, he was invited to the White House to meet President Bush - a very rare honour for a mere minister and an honour which has evaded President Jacques Chirac ever since he led the international opposition to the Iraq war.
Edward Seaga, the leader of the opposition Jamaica Labour Party since 1974, has been around for even longer.
"Mr. Anwar can say anything... because that's what he has been saying since he became leader of the opposition, " Ahmad Omar said in a text message.
The EU also urged Mugabe, who has led the south African country since independence in 1981, and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to comply with the power-sharing agreement reached after last year's disputed presidential election.
Since Richard Leakey, a former opposition politician who was appointed head of the civil service a year ago, has made some headway, it now seems likely that the donors will re-open the aid taps later this year.
According to an article in the 20 July editions of the Washington Post (a copy of which is attached), the G-7 declined at their London Economic Summit even to ask that international monitors be dispatched to Croatia since the USSR had signalled its opposition to such an initiative.
Mr Karoubi, a leader of the opposition Green Movement, has since been hounded out of politics.
Manuel Rosales, who won 37% for the opposition in December, has since lost popularity.
Since the Reform Party, the official opposition, has said it will support the bill, though seeking to amend it, its passage, if not necessarily swift, seems assured.
The company has said the project will regenerate the town and create jobs for local people, but there has been opposition to the plans ever since they were released.
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