While the degree of opposition to unions varies among countries, this opposition is perhaps strongest in the United States, where employers have aggressively opposed unionization of their employees.
Even some politicians aligned with staunchly secularist and nationalist parties — groups that in the past would have aggressively opposed talks with the P.K.K. — are lining up behind the peace efforts.
Labor unions, environmental groups and open Internet advocates have aggressively opposed the pact.
The fact that they are Christians is secondary to the fact that they have aggressively opposed the gay community in the past.
Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, and Cinemark, "have aggressively opposed any encroachment on their release window, maintaing that any shortening would encourage consumers to stay home," according to one report.
The statewide coalition of New York's prosecutors has always aggressively opposed any proposal to amend the Rockefeller drug laws, even those modest in scope, because such measures would curtail their power.
Mr Nivola argues that rather than wringing their hands, Americans should welcome the fact that their parties have become aggressively opposed.
BP and TransOcean have also aggressively opposed new safety regulations proposed last year by a federal agency that oversees offshore drilling -- which were prompted by a study that found many accidents in the industry.
The outreach to Netanyahu, though, comes after he has been as aggressively opposed to Obama as any Israeli leader has been to a U.S. president in the history of the relationship between the two countries.
He has eagerly and aggressively opposed policies and people he finds objectionable — like road tolls and politicians he deemed unsupportive of charter schools.
