Its chiefly male membership of clerics and scholars has rejected proposals to change Muslim personal law, and is opposing a demand by women's groups that marriages be legally registered, as is mandatory for non-Muslims.
Tsipras' leftist government wants to restore collective bargaining rights scrapped under previous bailout-driven reforms, and opposes a demand to make collective layoffs easier in the private sector.
And in November 2014, the United States opposed a draft resolution demanding Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank within three years.
Hallie E. Ford, divorced wife of Kenneth W. Ford, the late Oregon timber baron who graced The Forbes 400 list in the 1980s, is also suing in Tax Court, opposing an IRS demand for $3 million in extra taxes for 2000 and 2001.
Mr Jagland has expressed his "concern", but opposes a Eurovision boycott demanded by human-rights organisations.
Mr. McCall has made education the centerpiece of his campaign, assailing the governor for, among other things, opposing a lawsuit that demanded more money for New York City's schools, and blocking the expansion of prekindergarten programs.
Savigny opposed this demand for an immediate codification of German law in a famous pamphlet, "Vom Beruf unserer Zeit für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft" (1814; "Of the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence"), that started juristic thought along a new path.
Despite the growing amount of evidence showing the benefits of managing seemingly diametrically opposed demands, a limited amount of empirical research connects the management of paradoxical tensions to strategic innovation.
CODESA 2 was held in May 1992, in which de Klerk insisted that post-apartheid South Africa must use a federal system with a rotating presidency to ensure the protection of ethnic minorities; Mandela opposed this, demanding a unitary system governed by majority rule.
