That plausible view has attracted surprisingly energetic opposition in recent years.
Widespread irregularities in parliamentary elections in December 2011 triggered a wave of popular protest, and Putin faced a surprisingly strong opposition movement in the presidential race.
The American Medical Association, which represents doctors, also came out in opposition today and less surprisingly, so did private insurance companies.
In opposition, Mr Cameron's most metropolitan advisers built surprisingly good relations with Christian conservatives.
Running in a Moscow district, he encountered surprisingly strong opposition from a watch-factory shop foreman supported by a pro-democracy insurgent group.
Here we found that in opposition to J774 macrophage [24], p38 inhibition in RAW macrophages surprisingly reduced both bacterial uptake and viability (Fig. 7A).
Not only has it stayed together, but it has offered surprisingly effective opposition to President Vicente Fox's government, which lacks a majority in the Congress.
In the end, the head-scarf ban was enforced with surprisingly little opposition beyond some school holdouts — they were suspended and most of them returned, bare-headed — and a handful of lawsuits, backed by a federation of Islamist groups.
In opposition, the Labour Party decried this approach; in government, they are going ahead with the cuts.Not surprisingly, traditional Labour supporters have noticed and protested.
Surprisingly, opposition is strongest in Germany, not previously a bastion of anti-trade activists.
Foreign investors, who so far have encountered surprisingly little nationalistic opposition in China, may then find the going tougher.The next few years in China will certainly be more turbulent.
