In Congress, the combined opposition will come close to a majority in the new lower house.

The PRI has 239 seats in the new lower house and the combined opposition has 261.

But the combined opposition has the power to bring down the government any time it wants to.

Churchill was very disappointed, but faced the combined opposition of his naval advisers as well as the heads of the army and air force.

The government bowed to the combined opposition of Unionists who never had favoured partition, and the Irish party.

And that combined opposition would be a formidable one indeed.

As a result of this combined opposition the Senate declined to ratify the treaty.

But there was never any consideration that the combined opposition to the missile defense plans would deter the administration from its overriding foreign policy goal, officials said.

Three years ago the combined opposition won a congressional majority.

Addington, unable to face the combined opposition of Pitt and Fox, saw his majority gradually evaporate.