31.   A third defense strategy in such a case might be a claim that McVeigh was motivated by political opposition to some drastic government action or injustice.

32.   After all, Zedillo oversaw the electoral reforms that leveled the playing field between his ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, and the political opposition.

33.   After World War II, secular autocratic regimes in Algeria, Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia repressed political opposition, sometimes violently.

34.   All are groups that have multiple wings, some political opposition, some terrorist, Esposito said.

35.   All are groups that have multiple wings, some political opposition, some terrorist.

36.   But a man with few friends among the political opposition.

37.   But any such wholesale elimination of tax deductions would generate powerful political opposition.

38.   But as political opposition has mounted, so have efforts to lower expectations.

39.   But because of scientific problems and political opposition, it is far from clear whether that repository will ever open.

40.   But both the political opposition and human rights groups here contend that there is less to many of the changes than meets the eye.