They are the loyal opposition: loyal, that is, to the regime, not to the people.
PPP, provided loyal opposition throughout the Suharto years, and has anyway since succumbed to an internal rift.
When she criticizes, either in her column or in her editing choices, she uses the language of loyal opposition.
Like a political party, a TV show is nothing without a loyal opposition.
Now it has to play a new role of a strong loyal opposition.
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I've said this before, but I'm a big believer not just in the value of a loyal opposition, but in its necessity.
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Their political arm in Jordan, the Islamic Action Front, has been the country's strongest party for decades, playing the role of a loyal opposition.
The GOP faces the challenge of transitioning from 12 years as the majority, setting the agenda and controlling votes, to becoming the congressional loyal opposition.
And I'm profoundly mindful that a loyal opposition, a vigorous back and forth, a skepticism of power, all of that is what makes our democracy work.
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They can, therefore, help frame a needed debate over national security first principles and assist the "Loyal Opposition" in charting and securing popular support for the needed, different course.
Their destruction is undermining U.S. foreign policy, as the Democrats and all of us will discover to our detriment when the loyal opposition again gains the Oval Office.
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Their destruction is undermining U.S. foreign policy, as the Democrats -- and all of us -- will discover to our detriment when the loyal opposition again gains the Oval Office.
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Then too, Livni's own behavior towards both the government and the Obama administration tells both the public and the government something very important about her willingness to behave as the loyal opposition.
This would entail the "Loyal Opposition" in Congress joining the executive branch and its new GOP majorities on both sides of Capitol Hill in a mobilization of the American people and federal resources in a heretofore- unprecedented effort to secure our homeland.
Is there any way Hamas can be domesticated as a loyal Palestinian opposition rather than a mutinous one?
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Nor can successful governance take place if presidential and Democratic Party rhetoric consistently portrays loyal-opposition leaders as having devious or extremist motives.
As recently as May 2008, heavily armed forces loyal to the parliamentary opposition, made up of Hizbullah, the fearsome Shia party-cum-militia, and motley allies backed by Syria and Iran, stormed areas loyal to the parliamentary majority that is dominated by Sunni Muslims, Druze and right-wing Christian parties and backed by Saudi Arabia and the West.
When the elder Assad faced an uprising in 1982, he ordered his loyal army to pulverize the opposition.
But the opposition Justice Party says that parties loyal to the president, in collusion with the authorities, have bribed voters, beaten up opposition activists and stuffed ballot boxes.
In places like Syria, where fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have battled opposition forces for the past 21 months, professional journalists have faced difficulty and persecution while attempting to report.
Some MPs, including former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind, have backed the move, arguing that opposition fighters are being heavily outgunned by forces loyal to the Syrian President and this has led to huge casualties among civilians.
But Mr Mobutu bought off some opposition parties and created scores of new ones which were loyal to him.
He referenced support for the moderate opposition, a nod to a plan to increase training for rebels now fighting both forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and extremists linked to al Qaeda.
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