Meanwhile, opposition voices in Congress, the diplomatic service and the press pushed war.

Authorities continued a long-standing campaign to silence independent opposition voices and movements.

It looks like a busy term in education, and the parliamentary opposition voice will need to be loud and strong.

Critics of the plan call that an attempt to eliminate opposition voices.

She has already proved effective as an opposition voice and will rise through the ranks.

In fact, Italian television is full of rigorous political debate by an abundance of opposition voices.

Since then, it broke with Chavez and became the only opposition voice in the Parliament.

"It's very worrisome this idea that opposition voices would be silenced and stripped of the ability to talk about powerful men."

Independent broadcast media, allowing opposition voices to be heard outside election periods, would also help.

During Chiang's last years, the threat of internal opposition voice was considered more taboo.