31.   The conservative opposition party rushed to its defense.

32.   The conservative opposition quickly signaled that it would make the Syrian talks a major issue in the campaign.

33.   The dispute goes to the heart of the political battle now being fought between the Labor government and the conservative opposition coalition parties.

34.   The conservative opposition is almost certain to win.

35.   The government and the Conservative opposition have each tried to cast itself as the tougher party on asylum.

36.   The Greek Socialists are still more popular than the strife-ridden conservative opposition.

37.   The leader of the Conservative opposition, William Hague, said he expected Parliament to convene next Wednesday and Thursday.

38.   The oversight has brought charges of incompetence from the Conservative opposition and a round of finger-pointing between a defensive Labor government and the European Union.

39.   The newspaper brought in Iain Duncan Smith, the leader of the main Conservative opposition, to demand in a commentary that Blair set a date for a referendum.

40.   The old certainties of conservative opposition to government intervention, fixed since the Reagan era, are shifting on this issue.