It was a grim day — for the democratic opposition of Belarus, but also for Europe's much-vaunted soft power.
HIS future had looked grim, but Katsuya Okada, Japan's opposition leader, scored two big wins this week one without even trying.
Opposition figures were grim, suggesting that the government accepted the plan as a ploy to buy time to end the uprising by force.
French media viewed the Chilcot report as a grim vindication of Jacques Chirac's opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq, with a leading newspaper remarking that Tony Blair had gone to war against "the wise and prophetic advice" of France's then president.
A superannuated government; a derided prime minister; a plausible, but not quite loved, leader of the opposition; a recession; an increasingly grim war: each of these conditions has obtained before, but not in quite the same way or combination.
The grim aftermath of each crisis can test the Republicans' opposition to such policies.
This kingdom within a kingdom sets him in opposition to the new farm owners, and a grim battle ensues.
The opposition leader's apartment contrasted sharply with its grim institutional surroundings.
A leader of the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), a small Sri Lankan opposition group, she had attacked the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa on its grim human-rights record.
As journalists and opposition officials combed through the piles of documents in recent days, a grim picture emerged of mass corruption and desperation.
