Mr Sharon went on to become leader of the right-wing Likud Party in opposition after Mr Netanyahu's decisive defeat in the 1999 general election.
But while the Scottish Labour leader at the time, Jack McConnell, later stood down, Mr Stephen stayed on to lead his party in opposition.
The mayor, who belongs to a party in opposition to the ruling African National Congress (ANC), claimed the city could not afford its expected contribution to build the arena.
She was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, when the party was in opposition.
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When the Labour party was in opposition, it often criticised the Conservatives for packing quangos with its own supporters.
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Campbell, a former newspaper editor who became Blair's spokesman when the Labour party was in opposition in the 1990s, said he hoped "some form of proper regulation" would arise from the hacking and bribery scandal.
"(The) Malawi Congress Party ... will not accept the results if Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika and the Democratic Progressive Party are declared winners in these elections, " the opposition party said in a statement signed by Tembo late Thursday, according to Malawi's Daily Times.
From there, she plans to lead her Pakistan People's Party, the largest opposition party in the country, in parliamentary elections due in January.
The ruling coalition shrank in August 2011 when the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) leader Pravind Jugnauth said his party was now in opposition.
For 18 years -- for 18 long years -- my party has been in opposition.
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The former have supported bailouts, corporate welfare, and protectionist legislation like SOPA. The Tea Party was organized in opposition to those things.
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Mr Hatoyama, whose Democratic Party is now in opposition after December's election, has in the past called for Japan to improve its ties with Beijing in a rebalancing of traditional alliances.
In fact, the Democratic Party, the Miami-Dade Democratic Party has come out in opposition to his proposal.
He will seek legitimacy for whatever he does in parliament, where the People's Party looks increasingly lonely in its opposition.
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The DMK is the main opposition party in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, which has a large population of Tamils.
The minority leader serves as the chief legislative strategist for the opposition party in the House -- in this case, Democrats.
Zimbabwe officials have accused members of the U.S. ambassador's office of trying to aid the opposition party in the coming presidential runoff.
An opposition party in Uganda has called on donors to suspend foreign aid to the country, which accounts for about half of its budget.
This was proposed by the Conservatives as part of a scheme to fund the basic pension, but rejected by the Labour Party when it was in opposition.
The tension between these three men created a vicious triangle at the centre of the party when it was in opposition, and the same geometry has persisted in government.
Its founder, Leon Castro, a Jew, was also the spokesman of the largest Egyptian political party, the Wafd, related to the largest opposition party taking part in this week's demonstrations.
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He was also key in the opposition Social Democratic Party that supported the losing candidate in last year's presidential elections.
Mr Dutra is a moderate in his party, and he will face an opposition majority in the state legislature.
Mr Lubotzky and his party colleagues sided with the opposition in the vote on July 29th, as did Dan Meridor of the ruling Likud party, an erstwhile minister of finance who has now thrown down an open challenge to Mr Netanyahu's leadership.
There has again been speculation about the revival of a "third front" - a loose alliance of regional parties - to take on the ruling Congress party and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the general elections.
Ozawa led a 1993 revolt against his own party and spent several years in opposition.
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