MPs voted twice on Tuesday on motions to drop the health and social care bill after Labour held a three-hour opposition day debate inspired by a public e-petition signed by more than 174,000 people calling for the government to abandon the legislation.
Within hours opposition parties and independent commentators claimed the changes would make many poor workers poorer.
Within hours, opposition research was coming in waves.
Even at this dire hour, Syrian opposition people tell me about the Christians or Alawites in their movement, emphatically rejecting the label of Sunni Jihadists.
Poll hours of operation were cut short, loss of extended weekend hours despite opposition from the polling station employees themselves.
Within hours, the opposition Fine Gael Party, which is widely expected to win the election in partnership with the Labour Party, moved to hasten the election.
Still, he was far short of the record set by Strom Thurmond who went on for just over 24 hours in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Within hours of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov's murder on Friday, multiple explanations of what had gone on had been supplied to media organisations.
In a rowdy session of Parliament hours later, opposition politicians chanted, "No, Gilani, no!" Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the parliamentary leader of Mr. Sharif's party, warned that Mr. Gilani would not be allowed to return to the chamber.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Thousands of Hungarians protested outside Parliament on Friday, hours after opposition lawmakers chained themselves to barriers in an unsuccessful effort to block legislation that they said represented a blow to democracy.
Within hours journalists, opposition politicians and human rights groups including Amnesty International, had begun to question that account.
