Sentence examples for a common opposition from inspiring English sources

General strikes have been a common opposition tactic in Bangladesh, a fragile parliamentary democracy, since nine years of military rule ended in 1990.

An organic network of support was developed, drawing on a diverse set of local residents, Puerto Ricans, Italians, intellectuals, labourers and, rumour has it, even the mafia – united by a common opposition to their homes and businesses becoming a merge lane.

The opposition was fragmented during the electoral campaign and suffered from their inability to agree on a common opposition candidate.

The Rejectionist Front of the PLO allied itself with Islamists in a common opposition against the agreements.

They shared a common opposition to what they saw as fascist governments and the imperialist policies of the West, including the U.S. war in Vietnam and the West's support for Israel against Palestinians, and they even collaborated on occasion.

Syriza built its political coalition in exactly the way Laclau prescribed in his key 2005 book On Populist Reason – as Essex professor David Howarth puts it, "binding together different demands by focusing on their opposition to a common enemy".

Here we suggest, and provide evidence for, parasitism being an external force that has the potential to help stabilize cooperation by aligning the selfish interests of cooperative partners in opposition to a common enemy.

According to the law anyone who serves more than six months in prison must forfeit his civic rights for seven years.In his first interview since leaving prison, Mr Fonseka told The Hindu newspaper of India that all parties must form a strong, common opposition against the government.

"The DPRK conducted another nuclear test in disregard of the common opposition of the international community," a Foreign Ministry statement, issued May 25, noted.

On returning to Egypt in 1894, he had reached an understanding with the khedive on the basis of their common opposition to the British occupation.

They defined themselves as much by their shared passion as their common opposition to certain things.