1.  But the legislation still faces big opposition in the Senate, which rejected a similar measure last year.

2.  The obstacles to a partnership between the two big opposition parties were legion.

3.  The PRI faced the specter of a possible alliance between the two big opposition parties.

4.  Hun Sen orders the capture of the last big opposition base.

5.  Several bombs landed in the camp located north of Mazar-e-Sharif, the last big opposition stronghold in northern Afghanistan.

6.  Within the two big opposition parties, the rank and file were deeply divided over an LDP-SDP-Sakigake coalition, party sources said.

7.  PAP leaders have argued that a big opposition presence in parliament would complicate governance, with valuble time and energy lost in endless debate, and retard economic progress.