Which led to demands for a new vote, snowballing anger, mounting divisiveness, whispers of treachery, a heated protest, mutiny and talk of a lawsuit.
As anger mounted, thousands of farmers marched on the capital, letting sheep loose on government lawns and buzzing Parliament with crop dusters.
With anger mounting over French deportations of Roma to Romania and Bulgaria, top officials in the Sarkozy government met Wednesday with officials from Romania to coordinate strategies to aid the Roma there.
The tough statement by the Foreign Office came as anger mounted on Capitol Hill about Bin Laden being found in a garrison city in Pakistan after more than $10 billion dollars in assistance to Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies over the last decade.
But by 1971, with anger mounting over the Vietnam War, it had attracted so many student protests that the Faculty Senate voted to abolish the program, as did many other colleges during the same period.
Protests spread across the Middle East and North Africa on Thursday, most of them directed at American Embassies and offices linked to United States diplomatic activities, as anger mounted over a video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad.
Demonstrators armed with flares and fire extinguishers battled with riot police on the streets of Kiev on Sunday night as anger mounted among the tens of thousands of Ukrainians rallying against their government in defiance of new anti-protest laws.
Water cannons and pepper spray have been used to push back more than a thousand anti-immigration protesters in Cologne as anger mounted in a demonstration following attacks on New Year's Eve.
With public anger mounting, Prime Minister Koizumi met Tuesday with Ms. Arimoto's parents and with family members of Megumi Yokota, who disappeared at age 13, in 1977, from a beach facing North Korea.
But with public anger mounting about rapidly rising gasoline prices -- and Democrats intent on scoring political points -- the White House is beginning to weigh quicker fixes as well, according to industry experts close to the administration.
