The press, which he had tried to woo in opposition over regular lunches of sea cucumber, breathed freer air.

他曾经呼吁媒体起来反对把海参作为午餐，而在他的治下媒体们也呼吸着更自由的空气。

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Do you use a press conference to send a message to the opposition, the team or the referee?

你会通过新闻发布会向对手、或球队或裁判传达什么信息么？

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A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that 50 percent of Americans oppose the new health care law and opposition is strongest among those 64 and older.

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

Iranian opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who have not spoken on Press TV since a controversial presidential election in June, both complain that IRIB is unfairand biased in its coverage.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Khin Ohmar, a member of the Forum for Democracy in Burma, says ASEAN needs to press Burma to talk with the democratic opposition and ethnic nationalities about the release of political prisoners and a halt to human rights abuses against ethnic minorities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

The opposition will press the government to come up with real tax cuts instead of merely continuing temporary ones.

ECONOMIST: Hold on, Japan��s busy

At the opposition parties' press conference, Conservative assembly leader Nick Bourne said the opposition had behaved constructively through negotiations with the government and it was Mr Morgan's duty to "sit down and hammer this out".

BBC: Rhodri Morgan addresses AMs at the Senedd

Although a few fear chaos in Egypt once Mubarak's rule comes to an end, the incident in parliament last week has also renewed demands by opposition parties to press for more democratic reforms.

BBC: NEWS | Africa | Profile: Egypt's great survivor