The voice of those children is important in this case, don't you think?" Theodore Olson, counsel for opponents of the gay-marriage ban, said the referendum "walls off the institution of marriage" to gay people – something he said society does not have the right to do.
But Stephanie Leveene, an editor who rides the N, R, 4 and 5 trains, counsels that true opponents of pole-huggers must be willing to go the distance with them.
One of Benazir's former ministers had told me that her most troublesome problems were posed by the I.S.I., which continued to run domestic surveillance operations, counsel her political opponents, including Nawaz Sharif, and conduct an aggressive policy in Afghanistan, to the increasing annoyance of her government and the United States.
Acting as his own counsel, Cobbett confounded his opponents and was set free.
Rather than mentioning abortion, which he opposes, Mr. Bush praises the work of crisis pregnancy centers, organizations typically staffed by abortion opponents, who counsel pregnant women against having the procedure.
Clinton's opponents that the independent counsel's investigation of the President is about sex.
Crosby even found time for opponents who posed no threat, counselling the Green party mayoral candidate, Jenny Jones, that she was doing well but could profitably tack left – perhaps a further ruse to destabilise Livingstone.
But as he arrives in a Virginia courthouse Tuesday for the first of two trials against him, he's up against a formidable opponent: Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the U.S. federal government.
Luckily Clarke was up against opponents (the judge and the inquiry counsel) whose knowledge of the internet matched that of two professors last seen alive in the Bodleian library in 1981.
Clients know that in a high-stakes suit they and their opponents will both hire skilled and costly counsel, and one side will lose.
