The Orleanists, enormously rich, had long been the centre of opposition to the encroachment of Bourbon royal power.
Novocherkassk long served as the capital of the Don Cossack region and was a centre of opposition to the Bolsheviks in 1917 20 during the Russian Civil War.
Appointed military governor of Rhineland Province in 1849, he made his residence at Coblenz, a centre of opposition to the reactionary policies of Berlin.
Nevertheless, during the three years (1717 20) when George Augustus was banned from court, she made their London residence a lively centre of opposition to the crown.
The whole of Iraq now fell into his hands, and the only remaining centre of opposition was the now aging anticaliph, Ibn az-Zubayr.
Certainly putting him on the backbenches would have created a centre of opposition around which Old Labour forces could coalesce with the aim of ousting Tony.
Thirdly, the winner of the Lenin peace prize declared open war on the Catholic church, the chief centre of opposition to his regime, which he has inconclusively skirmished with in the past.
But when, in December 1917, the Bolsheviks dispatched an army to destroy Kaledin's centre of opposition, he lacked the critical support of many regular Cossack regiments and the industrial workers.
Yet even by the Libyans' account, those vials were only analysed four years after being collected and did not show the presence of HIV, but of antibodies to the virus.Testimony from other health workers amply illustrates the poor state of public health services in Benghazi, a city which, incidentally, has long been a centre of opposition to Muammar Qaddafi.
