The Ethiopian government denies it, and says that the BBC allegations come from a political opponent of Mr Zenawi.
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The new government of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, a political opponent of the president, says many inmates were imprisoned unfairly.
Ablyazov, a political opponent of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, headed to London after Kazakh prosecutors sought to arrest him.
And thus will he cripple, perhaps permanently, a perennial political opponent.
The sooner the supporters of Senator Cruz recognize the profound difference between opposing a political appointment or opponent and smearing such an individual through lies and innuendo, in the tradition of Joseph McCarthy, the sooner we can put the breaks on Senator Cruz and his misguided desire to repeat the serious and harmful errors in our past.
Teaming up with a one-time political opponent to champion relief for the victims of the Asian tsunami, the Hurricane Katrina.
The fact that Mr Earley looks a bit of a political punchbag explains why his Democratic opponent, Mark Warner, has opened up a big lead.
Correa also attributed the rebellion to a plot inspired by his political opponent, former president, Lucio Gutierrez.
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This time, it helps that his opponent is a political neophyte, a personal-injury lawyer continuing the time-honoured tradition of rich trial lawyers morphing into Democratic Senate candidates.
Mr. Healy has painted his opponent as a political opportunist who wants to privatize the education system, while Mr. Fulop has said Mr. Healy's government is corrupt and hasn't done enough to help downtown development spread.
"This charge is the result of a political order that seeks to discredit an opponent before the legislative elections, " he told reporters.
Some Republicans suspect that the federal government is taking all this interest in New York's policing in order to give a political boost to Mr Giuliani's opponent in this year's senate race, Hillary Clinton.
Following a weekend imbroglio over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's claim that a former Romney associate told him Romney paid no taxes in past years, the campaign has veered into a political mud pile that emphasizes dirtying the opponent first.
"My opponent sees an economic crisis as a political opportunity instead of a time to lead, " Sen.
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Now Tancredo accuses the company of retaliating against him by forming a new political action committee to help Tancredo's Democratic opponent defeat him in November.
Gauck is an independent political thinker from the former east who was a strong opponent of the communist government, and who was nominated by the left-leaning SPD party in 2010 to run for president of Germany.
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This is a tough campaigner who is obviously in a very, very difficult environment, but he has both the money as well as an opponent in Bruce Lunsford who has a significant amount of political baggage.
This applies to ordinary cases but also to high profile political cases such as the case of General Raul Baduel, a Chavez opponent, imprisoned since April on charges the government cannot even prove.
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The premise is simple: In a political environment where perception often trumps policy, mount early challenges to your opponent's strongest attributes to raise questions and create an alternative image in the minds of voters.
In briefings, stump speeches and a detailed website, the campaign accused supporters of their Democratic opponent Barack Obama of turning what was originally a non-political enquiry into a partisan circus designed to smear Governor Palin and alter the course of the election.
His successful opponent was Radek Sikorski, now foreign minister, who had fled Poland as a political refugee from the martial law that Mr Rakowski so steadfastly defended.
The ruling centre-right Popular Party of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar -- a staunch opponent of Basque self-determination -- emerged as the region's second political force thanks to its alliance with the smaller conservative party.
However, like his closest political opponent, Anastasiades appears content to push potential gas revenues down the road, setting up a sovereign wealth fund for when wells actually begin to earn money, which officials estimate will be sometime in 2018 or 2019.
In his first political campaign for a seat as a circuit county judge, McCarthy published campaign literature falsely claiming that his opponent was 73, senile and guilty of financial corruption despite knowing that the gentleman was 66, in full control of his mental faculties and had never done anything that had so much as a whiff of corruption.
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