A day or two later, a throng of relatives of prisoners who had not appeared when the prison gates were opened demonstrated in Baghdad, chanting praises of Saddam, but also demanding to know where the missing men were.
Towards the video's climax, the crowd cheers Carey and begin clapping and chanting praises.
Regarding the lyrics of In the Name of Jesus, Hamlin writes that "chanting praises leaves the Basehead mastermind without his characteristic wit, and he lacks the energetic exhortations that often lift gospel performers above sameness in material".
Mr. Neal said the government should not retry the case — a call picked up by Holy Land's supporters, who packed the courtroom during the trial, and who carried some defendants around on their shoulders outside the courthouse chanting "Praise God" in Arabic.
At a recent funeral for Shia fighters in Damascus who had died fighting for the regime, the mourners wasted little breath chanting praise for President Assad in whose army the men died.
When it was over Friday night, more than half of the 20,890 fans stayed around to chant praises for their valiant though defeated warriors.
From Jastram again, describing public debate over the gold standard circa 1900: "Surely it would be difficult to find another country where torchlit parades chanted praises of a particular monetary standard above all others.
Unlike the protesters in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain who have demanded that their leaders step down, the large crowds here chanted praise for their sultan, Qaboos bin Said, who has ruled for nearly 41 years.
The event also drew several African-Americans, one of whom, Robert Johnson, 25, worked as a volunteer, using a bullhorn to guide people to a stack of box lunches, while trying to rouse them to chant, "Praise the Lord!" Afterward, Mr. Johnson said he had attended the rally in Washington in 1997, and handed out Bibles.
There were a couple of hundred young men, children, and women, dancing and chanting praise for Dadis.
O'Toole, who didn't comment on the chanting, praised his officers for their "outstanding work" on Sunday night and proclaimed the "police owned the night".
