This third force, between Mr Chavez and the opposition, holds out hope that Venezuela can navigate a peaceful course towards the alternation of power.

这个处于查维斯先生和他的反对者之间的第三种力量，使得委内瑞拉能够继续在权力交替中保持平静变得可能。

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As it now stands, the League is but a symbol of international accord, and the opposition to it - with Senator Lodge as the villain - is just an inchoate obstructive force.

按照现在的情况，联盟只是国际协议的一个象征，包括作为恶人的参议员洛奇在内的反对派只是不成熟的阻力。

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Outright hostility was a driving force in the rise of the opposition Green party.

反对派绿党则对其采取全然敌视的态度，而这在其兴起过程中起到了推动的作用。

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Newspaper columnists and some members of the opposition questioned the legality of the operation, and whether the flotilla could have been intercepted without using force.

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Muhammad Salim Akhtar of the American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections says Obama administration support for the opposition would send a signal that the United States favors full democracy in Pakistan.

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While this might appear to mark a setback for Syria, it has made some important compensatory gains in its relations with the US, Europe and Saudi Arabia, and it is debatable whether Syria's security interests would necessarily have been served by a result enhancing the position of Hizbullah, the Iranian-backed Shia political and military movement that was the driving force of the March 8th opposition bloc.

ECONOMIST: The road to Damascus

They will keep up their threat of force, encourage the Iraqi opposition, try to get inspections under way again, step up patrols of the Gulf against sanctions-busting smugglers and launch a diplomatic offensive to bring the world round to their point of view.

ECONOMIST: What next for Iraq?

Already the main trade-union federation, which has emerged as an influential political force in the absence of strong opposition parties, has called for strikes and wage increases in certain sectors.

ECONOMIST: The revolution is still in flux