Example sentences of "member [prep] [art] opposition " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as usual , what Mr Gummer was most interested in was sharing his recipe for spit-roasting members of the Opposition . |
| 2 | It seems to have been working — up to a point at least — and even members of the opposition Popular Front agree that he has been accepted by many Moldavians . |
| 3 | In the latter , ‘ in criticism , proposal and debate , the leading members of the opposition are … guided by their own previous experience in the various ministries and their expectation that one day they themselves may have to administer the policies now under debate . ’ |
| 4 | Reference is constantly made to the president 's budget and the chief executive is held responsible for the consequences of budgetary policy , especially by members of the opposition party in Congress . |
| 5 | The President knew well that Diem 's rule was both repressive and corrupt , but the idea of an alternative government made up of members of the opposition National Liberation Front ( NLF ) and including some Communists was rejected by the Americans . |
| 6 | To my knowledge there was never the slightest justification for this discreditable course of conduct ; nor was it employed by the reputable members of the Opposition . |
| 7 | But it might occasionally happen that , rather than give way , the Government might prefer to reconstruct itself as a Coalition Government with the support of some middle-of-the-road members of the Opposition . |
| 8 | Nobody apart from an accredited lobby correspondent is allowed into the lobby room without prior invitation but eventually most members of the Cabinet as well as senior members of the Opposition find it desirable to seek an invitation to meet this group of journalists . |
| 9 | A few weeks before he left Iran , the Shah had asked one of the most respected members of the opposition that he had crushed in the fifties to try to form a government . |
| 10 | Meanwhile on Jan. 9 the Supreme Court ordered a retrial of 10 members of the opposition Liberia Unification Party who in October 1988 had been convicted of plotting against the Doe regime [ see p. 36610 ] . |
| 11 | The scandal , dubbed " Danubegate " because of its similarities to the notorious US " Watergate " affair of 1972-74 , was made public on Jan. 5 at a press conference by members of the opposition Alliance of Free Democrats ( SzDSz ) and League of Young Democrats ( FIDESZ ) . |
| 12 | In accordance with the creation in February of the Democratic Liberal Party ( formed from an amalgamation of Roh 's ruling Democratic Justice Party with two opposition groups — see p. 37247 ) , three of the new ministers were former members of the opposition . |
| 13 | The session was reconvened on May 29 , when the vote was delayed once again , for seven hours , as 21 members of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party stormed the podium , seized microphones and disrupted voting . |
| 14 | A new five-member board was also appointed which included two members of the opposition CPD alliance , Robert Zahler and Juan Eduardo Herrera , as well as the then Finance Minister , Brig. -Gen . |
| 15 | The Botswana Labour Party , registered in September 1989 , said that it would not align itself either with communism or capitalism ; most of its officials were former members of the opposition Botswana National Front . |
| 16 | On Sept. 6 the military authorities in Myanma arrested two high-ranking members of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , acting chair Kyi Maung and Chit Khaing , on charges of " passing state evidence that they should have kept to themselves to an unconcerned person " . |
| 17 | Accordingly , he dismissed five members of his Cabinet , including his deputy , Danny Philips , and replaced them with four members of the opposition ( George Luialamo , Sam Alasia , Alfred Maetia and Sir Peter Kenilorea , a former Prime Minister ) and Job Tausinga , a PAP backbencher . |
| 18 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
| 19 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 20 | The new government , which brought in a number of technocrats to take over key economic portfolios , did not , however , include any members of the opposition or resistance movements . |
| 21 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 22 | Lin Cheng-chieh , one of the most prominent members of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) , resigned on June 2 . |
| 23 | The three remaining seats were won by members of the opposition alliance of the Mauritius Labour Party ( MLP ) and the Parti Mauricien Social-Démocrate ( PMSD ) who had held 13 seats at sissolution ; one of the successful opposition candidates was the alliance and MLP leader , Navin Ramgoolam . |
| 24 | On Oct. 9 the Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration describing the events of September and October as " an attempted coup " and on Oct. 22 nine members of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia were arrested . |
| 25 | A report published by the human rights organization Amnesty International on Nov. 6 called on the Djibouti government to end the arbitrary detention of members of the opposition . |
| 26 | Their responsibilities were assumed by a High Authority for the Transition to the Third Republic and a National Committee for Economic and Social Recovery ; both these bodies would include members of the opposition . |
| 27 | Many members of the opposition also disapproved of the planned change , arguing conversely that it would strengthen the LDP 's hold on power . |
| 28 | He dismissed five of his ministers ( including Deputy Prime Minister Danny Philip ) and replaced them with four members of the opposition and one PAP backbencher [ see p. 37862 ] . |
| 29 | On Dec. 19 Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy announced the formation of a new broader-based coalition including members of the opposition Comité de forces vives . |
| 30 | He accused members of the opposition of involvement in an attempted coup , whereas opposition parties claimed that the soldiers ' action was part of a government conspiracy . |