On the fringes of the festive crowd gathered in Guildhall Square were a handful of republican dissidents who oppose Sinn Féin's peace strategy, some wholly through politics and others through the continuation of "armed struggle".
However critics say the "piecemeal" policy is ineffective on its own, and called for consistent application of other measures instead, including a return of the banned drinkers register and the continuation of temporary beat locations (TBLs), where police question customers.
"The Abbott government refusal to address a high-growth tax concession that largely benefits high income earners is nothing more than a continuation of its unfair budget strategy to target low- and middle-income Australians," Bowen said.
But the commitment was carefully worded to guarantee "the continuation of the Barnett allocation for resources".
No senior politician has the courage to question the continuation of the monarchy.
The Brazilian's WhoScored.com rating has soared from a modest 6.83 before Christmas to 7.84 thereafter and a continuation of that form will be key.
Despite the recent recovery, which is to be welcomed even if it is not the balanced one that is supposed to be part of George Osborne's "long-term economic plan" – which, as far as I can see, he makes up as he goes along – output in the UK is anything up to 20% below what would have been indicated by a continuation of historical trends.
For Ibrahim, the government's response was another myopic and selfish attempt to curry favour with religious right-wing elements, which represent a growing electorate base for the ruling party, and another "deliberate attempt to provoke religious tensions to give a pretext to clamp down on civil liberties and justify the continuation of the same old race-based policies of the past".
I prefer 1…h5 – the game continuation – practically forcing 2 g5.
Well, here we are, with deflation threatening the continuation of such recovery as the eurozone has seen and, although the present European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, has called for fiscal relaxation, he is powerless to initiate this, while the Germans continue to behave as though Weimar inflation were round the corner.
"We defend the act," says Stephenson, who claims 80% public support for a continuation of the ban, "but with some targeted improvements it will be a better piece of legislation".Tim Bonner, Stephenson's opposite number at the Countryside Alliance, is pleased the league at least now accepts that aspects of the act aren't working.
