NOUN | an oppositionist | oppositionists | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Gil started his political career as a rabid oppositionist.
- During 1927, he organised strong arm squads to break up oppositionist meetings in the Krasnaya Presnya district.
- In his youth he worked as a day labourer, driver, he also worked in a bakery for a long time and construction worker and suffered imprisonment for leftist political views and oppositionist activities.
- It follows a strongly liberal line in economic terms, having been a stubborn oppositionist to the progressive governments of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.
- Joffe's wife Maria Joffe was arrested as a left-oppositionist Trotskyist by Stalin's security forces, yet she survived to write her memoirs "One Long Night – A Tale of Truth".
- He was a member of the oppositionist group Otpor! in 2000 and took part in protests against Slobodan Milošević's administration.
- He was at various times a member of the Socialist Party of America, a leader of the Communist Party USA, leader of a small oppositionist party, an anti-Communist and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helper, and foreign policy advisor to the leadership of the AFL–CIO and various unions within it.
- In 1979 he was able to return to Brazilian soil due to the Amnesty Law, that pardoned the oppositionist political militants.
- Being an open critic and oppositionist to Russian President Vladimir Putin from early 2000s, Danilochkin fled to the United States in 2010 by seeking political asylum after being persistently prosecuted in Russia for his political believes and facing a politically fabricated 10-year prison sentence.
- He joined the oppositionist Union First Group, and left the party in 2003 to join the rival Democratic Unionist Party.
- Ablaß (born 11 December 1946) is a German politician who was a Christian oppositionist in East Germany (GDR).
- Mayor Jean Drapeau was re-elected without difficultyshutting out the oppositionist Front d'action politique (FRAP) party.
- Mjalli, a long-time oppositionist, was appointed to the position as a result of the 2011 Jordanian protests, part of the larger Arab Spring against the region's established regimes.
- Inside the party leadership, there was a division between those who supported the 'oppositionist' positions of the Indonesian National Party and Murba Party, and another sector of intellectuals who were closer to the Socialist Party of Indonesia.
- The Lovestoneites, led by former General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Jay Lovestone, were a small American oppositionist communist movement of the 1930s.
- Some oppositionist students who were active in the fight against the Marcos administration recount that at the time they had originally thought of Aquino as just another "traditional politician," but began to acknowledge he was more than that when he took the risk of returning to the Philippines, and ultimately paid for his choice with his life.
- Jérôme Besoigne (1686 in Paris – 1763) was a prominent Jansenist apologist and oppositionist to the Bull "Unigenitus."
- Edward Ryszard Müller (born 13 October 1958 in Gdańsk) is a Polish politician, a trade union activist; he was an oppositionist in the People's Republic of Poland and from 1989 to 1993 a deputy of the Contract Sejm and the First Term Sejm.
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