Sentence examples for main opposition rival from inspiring English sources
His main opposition rival, Kizza Besigye, protested the results.
Ms. Park defeated her main opposition rival, Moon Jae-in, by roughly a million votes in the election and took office in February.
No evidence has emerged that Ms. Park — who defeated her main opposition rival, Moon Jae-in, by one million votes — was involved in the operation.
Diplomats and Afghan election monitoring groups said they did not believe that either Mr. Karzai or his main opposition rival, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, would be able to command consistent loyalty even from those candidates they helped to win election.
Earlier, Mr Musharraf, who is in the midst of a constitutional crisis, firmly ruled out allowing his two main opposition rivals, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, to return from exile before elections that are due to be held later this year.China backed down from plans to force the estimated 20m Chinese bloggers to register their real names with the government.
It was the first opposition rally since 1997 to bring together the two rival leaders of the main opposition parties.
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader and President Robert Mugabe's chief rival for the past 17 years has announced he is undergoing treatment for colon cancer.
A group of rival parties, including the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party, boycotted the election after Hasina refused to heed their demands.
See articleIn a so-far-peaceful presidential election in Ghana the candidate of the ruling party, Nana Akufo-Addo, got just over 49% of the vote, while his rival, John Atta Mills of the main opposition party, got nearly 48%.
It was the first opposition rally in many months, and the first since 1997 that brought together the two rival leaders of the main opposition parties, Vuk Draskovic of the Serbian Renewal Movement and Zoran Djindjic of the Democratic Party, who even shook hands on stage, although gingerly.
It seems increasingly unlikely that Sheikh Hasina will be the first ever Bangladeshi prime minister to pull off successive election victories.Instead the Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNPP), the main opposition, led by Sheikh Hasina's arch-rival, Khaleda Zia, sees its chances improving.
