Morsi backers said that the constitutional court had been harming democracy, not helping it, by issuing dramatic rulings that shut down new institutions as they emerged.
The authors also claim that activists from both the political left and right have embraced apocalypse thinking, issuing dramatic warnings that everything from the traditional American way of life to the very existence of the planet is under threat.
One of the EU's most cherished freedoms is thus under growing strain.Lodewijk Asscher, the Dutch deputy prime minister, last month issued a dramatic warning.
In 2006, for example, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, who in 1993 introduced a bill to eliminate birthright citizenship, issued a dramatic apology on the Senate floor.
Immediately after the Murdochs gave evidence in July, two former News of the World executives, the paper's former editor, Colin Myler, and ex-head of legal affairs, Tom Crone, issued a dramatic statement contradicting the evidence of their former boss.
Nato's secretary-general has issued a dramatic warning to the US president-elect Donald Trump: "Going it alone is not an option, either for Europe or for the United States".
The crisis may indeed be moving from the street to the back rooms of the mosque.Aiming for a resolution of sorts, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, and the man who has the last say on all matters of state, issued a dramatic ultimatum in a sermon on June 19th.
Actor Mark Ruffalo issued a dramatic plea to the pope to use the new film Spotlight, which chronicles the investigation into widespread clerical sexual abuse in Boston, to "begin to heal the wounds sustained not just by the survivors, but all the people that lost their faith because of the revelations".
issued a dramatic, unexpected thumbs down on the floor.
At a State of the Union preview speech today at the National Press Club, Majority Leader Harry Reid issued a dramatic ultimatum to President Bush: either sign an extension of the Protect America Act (which sets conditions for the administration's warrantless surveillance) or "there will be no wiretapping".
