Sentence examples for opposition challenge from inspiring English sources

A ruling on an opposition challenge of a recount is expected Tuesday in the same court system that rejected the opposition's case on Monday.

The incumbent prime minister, Najib Razak, has voiced confidence that the National Front coalition will remain Malaysia's dominant political force despite facing its most unified opposition challenge since independence from Britain in 1957.

The Movement for Democratic Change is the strongest opposition challenge mounted against President Mugabe since shortly after he took power in 1980, and it hopes to unseat him when the election is held, probably early next year.

If they turn against him, he has no hope of surviving an opposition challenge when the Knesset returns from its summer recess, at the end of this month.His alternative survival option assuming that peace talks are now off the agenda was thought to be a unity government with Mr Sharon's Likud.

Patrick E. Tyler (NYT) IRELAND: OPPOSITION CHALLENGE -- Former Prime Minister John Bruton, 53, will face his most serious challenge today as leader of Fine Gael, the main opposition party, in the second no-confidence motion in two months by party members.

In Banja Luka, most veteran observers of the political scene believed the Russians' arrival was connected to the Bosnian elections last Sunday, in which the Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik was fighting to hold on to the presidency of the Serb half of the country in the face of an unprecedentedly strong opposition challenge.

The opposition challenged the result in the supreme court on different grounds.

The opposition challenged the constitutionality of the decree, but in Sunday's ruling the court found that it was valid.

The court threw out the opposition challenges and ordered a new vote under the new system that must take place within two months.

The new Labour leader, Harold Wilson, turned out to be an excellent leader of the opposition, challenging, mocking and puncturing Tory pretensions on every front.

The ruling elites in Ethiopia ordered the police to fire on demonstrators after the opposition challenged the outcome of the country's general election in 2005.