Kazakhstan had lobbied for years for this opportunity in the face of fierce opposition from Britain and other EU countries.

Subsidies on diesel and cooking gas have been reduced in the face of vociferous opposition.

Syrian activists face unprecedented brutality and a media war to suppress all forms of opposition.

Yet in the face of opposition from local ethnic Kachin and environmental and political activists, former President Thein Sein suspended the project in September 2011.

Successive speakers have pleaded helplessness in the face of such determined obstructionism by the principal opposition party.

On the other hand, companies might face domestic opposition when they decided to move certain services abroad.

Opposition from local residents remains stiff.

French Gaullists did not face persecution several Egyptian opposition figures have already vowed that Morsi and the Muslim Brothers will.

Some of the opposition stems from misunderstandings.

But it, too, will have to face strong opposition from domestic agricultural interest groups and manufacturing sectors, which might mobilize even more strongly than they did in opposing the FTA with the US.

Face mirrors away from direct sunlight6.

So, when an ideologically implacable Republican opposition, in his very first days in office, threw the vision back in his face, adopting a policy of scorched earth opposition, the rejection was about more than policy it affected his very being.

Giscard faced political opposition from both sides of the spectrum from the newly unified left of François Mitterrand, and from a rising Jacques Chirac, who resurrected Gaullism on a right wing opposition line.

Yet what the Saharan people had withstood for 30 years in pursuit of self determination in the face of such opposition was a model for all.

In the 1990s, the Government had attempted to change the law to allow for this choice, but it had had to step back in the face of opposition from non governmental organizations, religious groups and women's legal practitioners groups.

Likewise, the government has reduced subsidies on diesel and cooking gas in the face of vociferous opposition, including a one day strike that shut down the country.

The Secretary General was left with a strong impression of Prime Minister Sharon's determination to proceed with the plan, even in the face of serious domestic opposition.

In Uganda, most of our successes have been attained in the face of opposition, indifference or distracting, superficial heckling by quite a number of our external partners.

Opposition from the tobacco industry is an obvious obstacle to tobacco control.

Then in 2011, massive protests against Putin and his party of crooks and thieves erupted, and Alexei Navalny, who coined that epithet, became the face of Russia s opposition.

The Roman Catholic Church has not moved away from its opposition to IVF.

He refers to Henrique Capriles, Chávez's opponent, as the face of the rise of the opposition and the one that for the first time can challenge President Hugo Chávez.

Of course, our movement was created out of opposition opposition to corruption, opposition to surrendering our national independence, opposition to the rule of the bully.

Of course, our movement was created out of opposition opposition to corruption, opposition to surrendering our national independence, opposition to the rule of the bully.

This phase begins with flakes peeling from the face.

We shall remove all rancor from their hearts , and as brethren they shall recline on couches face to face .

Finally, in the face of political opposition to fiscal consolidation, especially in the US, there is a risk that the path of least resistance becomes continued monetization of fiscal deficits.

Musharraf backed the military s opposition to this reform, gaining some gratitude from military commanders.

And they can face discrimination from the authorities and suppliers.

Now they face a second blow from the global recession.

Other eurozone leaders face stiff political opposition Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, whom one hopes may soon be booted out of power José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Spain George Papandreou in Greece.

Mikhail Kasyanov, a former prime minister and now an opposition critic, was inherited from Yeltsin.

First, Obama has taken, perhaps, a heavier beating from his political opposition than most presidents.

Initially, a provisional government that included members of the opposition was formed, but the opposition leaders soon left in protest at the number of cabinet holdovers from Ben Ali s administration.

You memorize your executioner s face from the sound of his footsteps.

Both the leadership of the opposition in Mogadishu and Habsade, the member of the opposition in charge of Baidoa, purchased arms from BAM in apparent anticipation of the fight for Baidoa.

They have targeted various geographic locations for military operations, planning to wrest them from the opposition.

Happy face? Sad face? Sleepy face? Anybody do that?

And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

The al Saud face two threats one from violent Islamists, and the other from liberal reformers.

Reclining face to face .

Reclining face to face .

Forging Syria s Opposition

Malaysia s Opposition Reborn

International opposition helps.