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Not only is it four years (since he played here) but it's another new team for him, ... He's just a member of the opposition and we have to play him accordingly.

No time as a party has the MDC engaged in some kind of undemocratic methods to remove the current government from power ... It is part of harassment against the opposition by this regime. I have no doubt that Mr. Bennett will be in police custody by the end of the day.

Social attitudes have changed. This would have been inconceivable a decade ago. Now there are more women in Parliament and opposition to smoking goes across the range of age and class.

As you look at the numbers, they were tilted toward the opposition today. I thought that Montana was a very, very physical ball club, and if you look up front, they were able to run the ball and we weren't.

Their pitchers made an adjustment and our hitters didn't. The name of this game is to adjust when the opposition adjusts. We just didn't get it done.

I'm not sure about the quality of the opposition but you had to tighten them up in the markets on the back of that performance.

I'm not optimistic about this share offering. They have basically offered presents to employees and unions to stop the opposition from getting out of hand - and it hasn't even worked.

In either case I have to point out my opposition to Guatemala participating in armed operations in any part of the planet. We can't tolerate that they declare them martyrs and heroes and let that be enough to prevent an investigation into the matter.

Immigrants are really trying to be present and visible in their opposition to the bill.

If one of our troops has a malfunction or runs out of ammunition, he or she can still continue the engagement with opposition weaponry if they know how to use it.

I have no regrets. Even if I had anticipated the size of the opposition to my disengagement plan, I would have maintained it,

I'm cautiously optimistic. I haven't detected any organized opposition for it. That doesn't mean everybody's for it.

If the opposition parties are seen as not being constructive and blocking everything Morales tries to do that would not be in their own interests.

If you get too caught up in what the opposition is going to do, it really affects the way you play. We're not going to change as far as our philosophy and the way we need to play. We play a certain way and we're going to play that way. We'll make some adjustments, but we have to stick to our game plan and our identity and the way we need to play. It has gotten us this far ? we're not going to go a different route.

If you're playing a villain, you like to have a rationale. Why is this person behaving in that way? It can't just be 'I'm going to kill them all, I want to take over the world!' Because then your character becomes a functionary, the hero's opposition and nothing else.

If you look at my record on the question of affirmative action, yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas. Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

If you change your formation, you are hoping to maybe cause 20 minutes of uncertainty with the opposition whereby they have to think on their feet and solve problems on the pitch to what they thought you were going to do. Both times we have done that, there has been no surprise element and they have been able to cope with that before the game has kicked off. There is no surprise when our team sheet is read out and plenty of surprises when theirs is read out.

In the face of implacable opposition from some of the most vocal critics in Britain, and at the grave and constant risk of personal unpopularity, you have courageously revived, defended and sustained the most humane principles of British and American architecture and town making,

In the eyes of the public, ... the museum is a greedy hoarder of ill-gotten goods, in opposition to the legitimate claims of the powerless.

In their opposition to our amendment, big oil lied to get our bill killed, ... They lied then, and they'll lie again.

I just think there's an excitement in this team at the moment. We're confident we can play well. We don't go out and worry about what the opposition will do to us. We get excited about what we can do to them.

I reiterate that I am completely innocent.... However, I do not wish to be the excuse for opposition to stall the parliament. Hence I have decided to tender my resignation from the cabinet.

I regret that the moral smugness, ideological rigidity and marginalized nature of the peace lobby have left the American public without a credible opposition that can reasonably examine the strategic choices that most certainly await us down the road,

I'll just take the same. Everybody asked if last year was a career year. I don't believe in career years. Once you do it once and find your formula, you should be able to do similar. He knows what he's doing now. He has an idea. He knows how to make adjustments quickly. He's very consistent. He recognizes very quickly what the opposition is trying to do to him and he knows his own limitations.

I hope Japan's ruling and opposition parties can emerge from the shadow of history from now on,

I have seen more opposition to this than any other thing I ever worked on.

In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.

In the absence of any opposition to this candidate, the senator believed the president deserved his nominee,

It has changed the perception of the public. She's what the opposition has said she was, an illegitimate president, dictatorial.

Clearly, the BJP doesn't want to give much time to the opposition parties to regroup. But I think ... the earliest dates could be late April.

Before this is over, I predict there's going to be a lot opposition to this program. This is a pretty divisive issue.

How can one call the opposition weak if the authorities are afraid to create equal conditions for the opposition candidates?

He's probably put himself into more difficult positions on the training track than what he did yesterday, but it's the first time you're playing against an opposition and that'll just come over the next few weeks.

I don't know if we're using (youth) as an excuse. At some point, we have to start believing we're just as good as the opposition that we're playing. Until that happens, it's just going to be the same result.

By any standard, this is a strong start to the year. The FW28 reflects our very best efforts, we have a reinvigorated and strengthened driver line-up and we are privileged to have secured many new partners who are confident we will take the fight to the opposition this year.

hoped that the Japanese side will demonstrate concrete actions, its adherence to the One-China policy and opposition to Taiwan's independence.

For national security considerations, we hope the opposition will approve the new bill as soon as possible,

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

I buckle that chin strap and I'm a different guy. I'm very vocal and I don't like offense of the opposition a whole lot.

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.

I assured the opposition lawmakers that the discussion may be held at any meeting in future.

I assumed, albeit incorrectly, that anyone with a pulse who stood in opposition was a shoe-in. These polls, however, made me realize just how wrong my assumptions were.

How the game (2nd ODI) was going it was required for someone to stop the flow of wickets that the opposition was getting so I had to decide what role was best for the team so that was the role I took up to stop the flow of wickets.

I cannot write the script, but I believe opposition to him is growing.

Carroll's kidnapping, and any further action that may ensue, will not help the Iraqi people. Nor will it help the cause of those who express opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq, or those who are trying to showcase the suffering of the Iraqi people.

He also made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government,

For the peace activists, they are good, symbolic results. They can use them to impress people with how widespread opposition is. But they're misleading as far as aggregate public opinion. It's an April election, which has very low turnout. So as a public opinion specialist, I have to point out how unrepresentative highly motivated voters are in an April election.

When we are accomplishing the good, the greatest opposition comes.

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

He who finds not opposition from [sin]... is at peace with it, not dying to it.

I love opposition that has convictions.

The Maoists can voice their opposition to these elections, but that does not mean they are free to kill those who choose to participate.

The danger here is, I don't see a lot of viability in the opposition groups.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

The elections are a 100 percent successful step. At least there will be hope after six years. Now we don't know the opposition candidates, but we will know them then.

The Ethiopian government is violently suppressing any form of protest and punishing suspected opposition supporters.

The informal opposition towards President Slobodan Milosevic's government I think is very strong. In terms of organized opposition, we will see. This is the major test that we, the opposition leaders, will have to pass. It is up to us to persuade these people that we can make a difference.

The indications are that the administration has no intention of giving a single rifle or a single anti-tank missile to a single Iraqi opposition group or person. Until they state to do that, they clearly aren't serious.

A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other.

The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

The effect of all this opposition is not to prevent gay people from becoming parents. All it can do is diminish the pool of mothers and fathers for children who need homes.

The duty of the opposition is to find fault with the existing proposed arms procurement package.

The forces will be deployed to maintain peace. We want the opposition rally should take place in a peaceful manner.

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

The coalition can pass all their bills no matter what the opposition does. They don't need the opposition.

The figures are so diametrically opposed and so far removed from each other, that the Opposition is calling for a thorough examination followed by a full explanation of the differences.

The fight has shifted to the the streets. Aquino and the opposition groups have nothing to lose, although it may take some time before they can mount a major protest.

The common thread, apart from the opposition to the requirement itself, ... was every one of them was concerned about retaliation on the part of the faculty or being ostracized by members of the student body.

I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.

The detention and possible punishment of Mr. Abney comes at a time when growing numbers of US military personnel, including Marines, are coming to Canada because of their opposition to the Iraq War. It seems pretty clear that Mr. Abney's sudden difficulties are a response to this. As well, it seems the Marine Corps is trying to prevent further desertions by making an example of Mr. Abney. Besides being vindictive, this is unlikely to be effective. The best way to end the US military's problems is to end the war in Iraq immediately.

The market sees very little opposition from Japan so that opens the way for further declines in the yen. The yen is looking vulnerable across the board.

The markets are seeing that opposition to tax hikes is very strong. Practically all sectors of society are opposed to the budget.

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

If you can't outplay the opposition, you must outnumber them.

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

Two kinds of persons know Him: those who have a humble heart, and who love lowliness, whatever kind of intellect they may have, high or low; and those who have sufficient understanding to see the truth, whatever opposition they may have to it.

Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted -- because everyone would join that party.

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million

About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.