Michael Coe, an expert on South-East Asia at Yale University, makes the comparison to the Soviet Union's devastation of the Aral Sea.Vietnam, along with the region's environmentalists, is much clearer in its opposition to going ahead with Xayaburi.
In the speech, Mr. Obama outlined his opposition to going to war in Iraq, highlighting the sharp contrast to Mrs. Clinton's vote that year to authorize military action against Iraq.
A man who, out of a sense of personal honour as much as religious conviction, was prepared to stand in opposition to the king's plan to go against the tenets of Rome to divorce and marry for a second time.
He was willing to go to jail in opposition to the war in Vietnam.
Strong feelings permeated the scene, but few people other than Trinidad wanted to go on record in opposition to UMS.
"The message is that whatever you do, even if you do socially useful things, if you are in opposition to the government, you are going to jail".
"The message is that whatever you do, even if you do socially useful things, if you are in opposition to the government, you are going to jail," Mr. Guriev said.
In 2000, "Fatherland" went in opposition to President Kuchma.
"Never in the history of this district have all those forces joined together in opposition to one candidate," the statement went.
Sites in opposition to the measures will either "going dark" or post information to educate visitors about bills H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), two pieces of legislation meant to curb copyright infringement.
