For months, the ambassador and many civilian development experts had opposed doing so now, because it didn't fit long-term national plans for power generation.
He has a powerful supporter in Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who said last week that he has consistently opposed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and is exploring ways to get rid of it in the current legislative year.
"He has opposed everything we've done to turn our country around; he's failed to put forward an economic plan to secure Britain's future.
Congress has debated bills that would increase border security, but Trump has opposed any compromise that doesn't include harsh cuts to legal immigration as well.
Its new head, Mario Draghi, rejects the idea that it should be a lender of last resort, and Germany — without whose support the bank can do nothing — has opposed a more active monetary policy at every turn.
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Russia, for one, has been providing weapons to the Syrian government and has opposed UN Security Council sanctions because it doesn't want to see an Islamist-dominated government in Damascus.
Support for the Lib Dems is linked only loosely to rational factors such as their own proposals, the issue of the day (though the unpopularity of the Iraq war helped the party, which had opposed it, do well at the last general election) and even the fortunes of the two main parties.
He noted that some prominent conservatives share this philosophy and had opposed the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, for example, without being attacked.
The director general of Unesco, Irina Bokova, who had opposed the prize, did not attend the ceremony, Unesco officials confirmed, citing protocol; because the president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, did not appear, Ms. Bokova sent her deputy.
