His uncertain fate, working inside a government he opposes, offers a view into the bizarre, discordant world of Iraqi politics at a moment of deep upheaval.
For example, the public support of some groups of Catholic sisters for Obama's health-care reform, which bishops mainly opposed, offered decisive cover to Catholic legislators voting yes.
They were so successful that the Obama administration — while negotiating the Iran deal that the Saudis opposed — offered Saudi Arabia $115 billion in arms sales, far more than any administration in U.S. history.
Delta is opposing the offer and wants to remain independent.
Sometimes opposing sides offer the logic-defying claim that only their preferred outcome would be good for jobs.
In the first half, Brodkin moderates four head-to-head quarter finals, in which opposing punners offer up their best and worst puns, plus three one-liners each in prepared response to a topic drawn from a customised dustbin.
The opposing sides offered up details startling in their exactitude.
Nelson's Florida colleague, Marco Rubio, voted for the Republican amendments while opposing those offered by Democrats.
But in closing arguments in State Superior Court here today, the opposing lawyers offered starkly different explanations of what exactly he was doing in the parking lot.
Because Ortiz is such a popular player, Magadan said, teammates and even opposing players offered him advice to help him emerge from his funk.
As has come to be the norm in such cases, the opposing sides offered wildly divergent accountings of fair value, with the petitioners' expert proffering an estimate of $28.61 per share and the respondent's expert countering with $12.68.
