After meeting with the Russian United Nations envoy, Vitaly I. Churkin, members of the Syrian National Council described the Russian position as noncommittal about forcing Syria to accommodate opposition demands.
Sher Bahadur Deuba, known for his willingness to accommodate opposition parties and for the shaky coalition government he once led, was chosen prime minister today to head the ninth government since democracy was restored to Nepal in 1990.
Kibaki, a Kikuyu, talked of "accommodating" the opposition; Odinga, a Luo, bridled.
"Most people in the army feel like they stand to lose from accommodating the opposition so they will listen to those who oppose peace".
The minority that remains opposed to same-sex marriage and other gay-rights issues has grown more vocal in its opposition; the question for the new majority has become how to address, or accommodate, such opposition.
When security forces refuse orders to, say, fire on peaceful protesters, regimes must accommodate the opposition or give up power — precisely what happened in Egypt.
Instead, it shows a president who had to abandon the outside game out of circumstance and who -- admirably, though perhaps unwisely -- proved too accommodating to the opposition.
But it's not as though Bush suddenly gave up his own point of view to become more accommodating to the opposition.
A1 Syria Silences Opposition Syrian officials, despite indications that they would consider limiting the ruling Baath Party's power, are aggressively silencing domestic political opposition while accommodating religious conservatives to shore up support across the country.
He has spent much of his presidency trying to accommodate an obstructionist opposition that cares only about taking him down, and he is still not sure that campaigning aggressively for the common good will succeed politically.
