A leader who respects his or her opponents is more likely to earn respect himself than one who doubts their patriotism and resents their criticism.

But he has been maneuvered into a peculiar dilemma.

Moreover, Maliki has used the criminal courts to silence his political opponents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has consistently used the courts to neutralize his opponents.

Civility in politics is not simply political confectionery. A leader who respects his or her opponents is more likely to earn respect himself than one who doubts their patriotism and resents their criticism.

His opponents must be incorporated into the decision making process.

His most controversial political moves were aimed at his domestic opponents, not the Chinese government on the mainland.

Actuarial valuations for the Fund are undertaken every two years to determine whether the present and estimated future assets of the Fund will be sufficient to meet its present and estimated future liabilities, using various sets of assumptions as to future economic and demographic developments.

His political opponents quickly observed that this amounted to an admission that the first stimulus had failed.

Regardless of what the Saakashvili government claims about his opponents, our political orientation is not pro Russian, but pro Georgian.

But he did so without ever seeming to despise his opponents or disparage their intentions.

His Republican Party opponents complained that Obama s proposals would bust the budget.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah has been trying to bully its more moderate Sunni Muslim, Christian, and Druze rivals into submission.

And yet few would deny that China s is a repressive regime that deals with its opponents harshly.

Nixon used these methods against political opponents, journalists, and government employees suspected of disloyalty to the president.

His political rivals are gaining new positions of power, and the population is increasingly unhappy with the economy s continuing decline.

2 The situation in the prisons are so bad that even the regime s president should not know them and use them as a winning card against his opponents.

Modi would rather be perceived as embodying Patel s decisiveness than as the destructive bigot his enemies decry.

Initially, it looked like Obasanjo would weather the storm and serve out his last term without making concessions to his opponents.

No one needs diplomatic immunity to talk to their friends. They need it to talk to their adversaries.

Assuming he conducted them at all, they very probably did not produce the neat results that he used to assail his opponents.

In fairness to Sarkozy, his motives in appointing Kouchner had more to do with wrong footing his Socialist adversaries than with the droit d ingerence.

Palestinian rivals, both from his own Fatah party and from the Islamists of Hamas, as well as the Israelis, perceived Abbas s civility as weakness.

In 2000, the new acting president defeated his opponents in the presidential election on 26 March, and won a landslide 4 years later.

Towards the end of the season he began finding the net more often 11 of his 14 league goals for the season came from the last 13 games.

Chávez is a master at manipulating the media after the failed coup against him in 2002, he brandished a crucifix to pardon his adversaries and be pardoned by them.

They are falling back on the same facile, prefabricated responses that Qaddafi used to demonize his domestic and international opponents for four decades.

In fact, based on Darwin s assumptions, most anthropologists claim that modern humans were simply descended from Cro Magnons, who had exterminated their less fit adversaries.

His opponents cavalierly dismiss the affair, with the deputy head of President Leonid Kuchma's administration suggesting that Yushchenko should hire a food taster.

Yushchenko offered his hand to his foes in good faith so as to bind up our nation s wounds in return, the governing pact that he reached with Yanukovich was betrayed at every turn.

At home, Putin has focused over the past year on dealing with his opponents co opting some and intimidating others by turning the Russian legal and penal systems into blunt instruments of repression.

Eight years after seizing power and exiling his main civilian opponents, the general is moving heaven and earth to hold on to political office.

The political opposition would have little capacity to organize an effective campaign in an environment in which Mugabe has shut down independent media, rewritten electoral rules, and used the police to pummel literally his adversaries.

The US Supreme Court has interpreted the US Constitution in a way that vitiates all restrictions on campaign spending, essentially allowing wealthy American individuals and corporations to buy elections.

But, having deftly out maneuvered his opponents for three years, Zardari seems to have misread the current political environment, for Pakistan is not the same country in which his wife and father in law wielded power.

So my own hope is that Obama will not be dissuaded from trying to work with his opponents, to build consensus, and to deal courteously even with those whose views he may thoroughly dislike.

He never had a chance. Palestinian rivals, both from his own Fatah party and from the Islamists of Hamas, as well as the Israelis, perceived Abbas s civility as weakness.

Like most recent American presidents, Obama campaigned on a promise to work with his political opponents for the greater good of the country.

But the risk of being maltreated by political opponents who are in the oppositionc cannot be attributed to the State party and must be regarded as falling outside the scope of article 3.

And he signed the JOBS Act, proposed by his Republican opponents, which aims to create crowdfunding Web sites that allow small investors to participate in start up ventures.

How does a regime get rid of political opponents and critics in countries where religion plays an important role in the lives of the majority? One way is to throw them in jail and say they insulted Islam and its Prophet.

When initially examined in August 2001, he complained of torture by the police in 1997 and assaults by political opponents and Muslims in 1996 and 1999 but made no mention of torture in 1995.

But, as the LDP retained the most seats in the upper house, it soon forged a coalition with its long time rivals, the Social Democrats, forcing Ozawa back into opposition.

The only question now is whether Zubkov, or his successor, will eventually succeed in turning Czar Vladimir into the same sort of non person that Putin s rivals have become.

Opposition parties, human rights groups, and other government critics, hitherto cowed by a seemingly omnipotent Obasanjo and PDP machine, have found a new lease on life. Obasanjo, besieged and angry that friends at home and abroad (particularly in the United States and Europe) betrayed him by aiding his political opponents in killing the amendment, is determined to settle scores.