Colonialism often gives rise to its own most vehement opponents.

Meanwhile her two leading opponents were calling for investigations.

But a totalitarian regime that forces its political opponents to flee, presents special circumstances.

Israel simply cannot ignore the Americans in the way that the Egyptian army has as it massacres its Islamist opponents.

The key rule here is that the winner in any power play must not shut out his opponents.

No matter how Morsi attempts to sideline his domestic opponents, Egypt is in no shape to ignore the rest of the world.

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

In Syria, on the other hand, the revolution has not yet come to fruition, owing to the regime s brutal repression of its opponents.

It should be noted that neither the supporters of President Vieira nor his opponents can possibly muster more than a slim majority in the National Assembly.

According to his opponents, Morales is reproducing the tradition of caudillismo, concentrating power in his hands and turning government institutions into mere formalities.

Some point as a cause of Putin s absence to recent tensions between Russia and the United States arising from Putin s increasingly harsh response to the protests by his opponents at home.

As Qaddafi fought his opponents this summer, ten states in southern Sudan broke away, claiming independence as the 54th country on the African continent.

President Ali Abdullah Salih has regularly used Yemeni Wahhabis to defeat his domestic opponents first the Communists, then the Zaidis, and then the Huthis.

His trouble was with powerful opponents in Iran s security apparatus, who sabotaged his pragmatic foreign policy initiatives by staging terrorist attacks in France, Germany, and Argentina.

Obama will tread carefully as he approaches Congress and, even as his Republican opponents vote to offer limited support, they will make his life as difficult as possible.

Perhaps Yanukovich s retreat from Europe should have been foreseen, given behavior like locking up his political opponents that has been difficult to reconcile with European values and democratic norms.

While President Bashar al Assad s regime remains vicious and tyrannical, and some of its opponents motives remain altruistic, the conflict can no longer be defined simply as one of good versus evil.

We can only hope that the American public will reject not just the insistent calls to derail the construction of the Park 51 project, but also the contested assumptions that underpin opposition to it.

Felipe Calderón has taken the oath of office, braving the wrath of his left wing opposition, out smarting the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) and its leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but nonetheless paying a high price.

He preferred humor to hectoring, gently making fun of those whom he criticized, while always making sure that even the most severe intellectual critique did not deny the humanity of his opponents.

Some point as a cause of Putin s absence to recent tensions between Russia and the United States arising from Putin s increasingly harsh response to the protests by his opponents at home. Others suggest that Putin s aloofness stems from Kremlin infighting.

But Yemen, too, is engaged in its own destructive policies. President Ali Abdullah Salih has regularly used Yemeni Wahhabis to defeat his domestic opponents first the Communists, then the Zaidis, and then the Huthis.

President Hugo Chávez showed once again that he enjoys broad support among the nation s poor and desperate, and that he is miles ahead of his opposition in terms of political skill, cunning, and ruthlessness.

The question he asked of his opponents was What must they believe in order to claim that persistent mass unemployment is impossible, so that government stimulus to raise the employment level could do no good?

On the one hand, he needs to maximize his control of the economy and society in order to raise wages and pensions and to keep opponents down, while nourishing the long tail of patronage that keeps him in power.

The Iranian regime would continue to brutally repress its domestic opponents, meddle in Iraq and Afghanistan, arm and fund Hezbollah and Hamas, and, most important, develop the ability to construct one or more nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.

Al Wazir was referring to the fact that ex President Saleh, who was ousted after more than three decades years in power, during the 2011 Yemen revolution, is alleged to be helping his former adversaries in their quest to topple the government.

Thus, the effort to contain and destroy the Islamic State has become yet another referendum on President Barack Obama's stewardship of US foreign policy. Is he tough enough?

They still do. Today s Russians hope that Putin, who blindsided his opponents with his annexation of Crimea, might have another daring trick up his sleeve one that will stabilize financial markets and revive the oil prices on which Russia s economy depends.