Sentence examples for opposition to represent from inspiring English sources

These reforms must address the underlying cause of unrest in Turkey, that is, the AKP's monopoly over political power and the inability of the political opposition to represent the interests of secular, nationalist, and liberal constituencies in parliament.

In 2011 during a live television forum, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong refuted claims that NCMPs were not a "real opposition" by stating that the PAP had introduced and expanded the scheme "because it acknowledged both the desire among Singaporeans for alternative voices and the need for an opposition to represent the diverse views in society".

We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics.

Last month, nearly a dozen rebel groups formed an Islamic alliance and called for the opposition to be represented by those who are fighting in Syria and for Islamic law to be the basis of a future government.

The administration is also working with a new opposition coalition to represent all Syrians and establish a transitional government to take over once Mr. Assad is gone.

The opposition umbrella group coordinating the protests, the June 30 Front, said Tuesday that it had named Mohamed ElBaradei, a prominent statesman and opposition leader, to represent it in "any possible upcoming talks with the armed forces".

It seems that urban black voters in particular – fed up with the ruling party and the country's president Jacob Zuma, but distrustful of an opposition considered to represent the interests of a small and predominantly white minority – simply stayed away.

French authorities had been asking indirectly that the opposition body had to represent the vast majority of the population before taking any further steps.

This breaks with the symmetries of the traditional square of opposition in order to represent a fundamental deontic feature of this operator, its indifference to negation, which is not tautological.

What the myriad opposition to austerity represented was something much bigger than the sum of its parts.

Mr. Gorton called the bill "a fraud" while Ms. Cantwell said opposition to it represented "what America thinks is wrong with the political system".