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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In 2005 the then-KMT chairman, Lien Chan, saw Mr Hu when the party was in opposition at that point, the highest-level contact between the two parties since 1949.
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.
Within weeks, those advocating on the family's behalf found they were being given a more sympathetic audience, in particular with the Labour Party, then in opposition.
"(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.
The deal which Congress struck with the President in order to avoid the alleged horrors of the fiscal cliff is basically a fiscal cave, in which the opposition party caved in on pretty much every issue except one tiny detail about what the income threshold would be for the highest tax rate.
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For 18 years -- for 18 long years -- my party has been in opposition.
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The minority party always votes in opposition because it allows an easy opportunity to smear the majority.
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Amid the buzz were the usual types of resolutions the Nationalists passed at conferences when the party was still in opposition.
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 largest opposition party in Parliament, ex-PM Chuan Leekpai's Democrats, may lead a censure debate next month.
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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.
An opposition party in the middle of a parliamentary term amid a deeply difficult economy should expect victories and plenty of them.
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.
On Monday, the premier is due to meet Shahbaz Sharif, president of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) - the biggest opposition party in the National Assembly.
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.
Part of their problem, one senses, is they haven't yet managed to define exactly what the role of a lead opposition party in the National Assembly really is.
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