31.  The three main opposition factions are also using timber exports as a means of financing their activities.

32.  The nature of electoral conflict changed as the Labour party succeeded the Liberal as the main opposition party to the Conservatives.

33.  The main opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation, said a temporary name would be humiliating and would in time become permanent.

34.  It carries an aura of respect and makes the main opposition candidate look even more of an outsider.

35.  The figures were released soon after Fine Gael, the main opposition party, had identified unemployment as a key issue for the election.

36.  But the main opposition party say they may take legal action because they suspect fraud.

37.  The main opposition group, the National League for Democracy, said it expected to have an absolute majority when the final results are compiled in about three weeks.

38.  Also in November, a woman politician in the main opposition party, the Democratic Progressive Party, was killed, apparently by a taxi driver.

39.  Also, the main opposition leaders, like Sheik Ahmed Yassin of the radical Islamic group Hamas, did not accept his call for unity behind the peace effort.

40.  Although at odds with much of his party, he can count on support from reformers in both main opposition parties.