Consider, for example, the string of 5-to-4 decisions in which a determined conservative majority has begun to weaken Congress's power to protect basic civil rights.
But even if he steps aside and elections are held, Thailand's crisis is bound to continue, the product of a tectonic shift in which the country's poor majority has begun to stir and to challenge an entrenched hierarchy of power that has dominated over the years.
Aquino, 48, said that the current school board majority has begun to micromanage everyday functions and that the efforts of senior staff are being routinely greeted with mistrust.
Democratic candidates in this year's elections and their backers, including the Senate Majority PAC, have begun fierce attacks directly aimed at the publicity-shy brothers in recent weeks, portraying them as un-American villains whose massive spending is ruining the political process.
Now, however, as a majority of states have begun collecting tax revenues that are on par with or even above expectations, they face some measure of Michigan's situation — trying to sort out whether the worst is really over, whether it is safe to start spending again, or whether a rainy day fund may be the prudent course.
To go back a little, to remind people of what the president promised and what has been achieved and what has not been achieved and why (transparency here is very important because the majority of people have begun to lose confidence in the state).
Germany has also changed its attitude towards immigrants; since the mid-1990s, the government and the majority of Germans have begun to acknowledge that controlled immigration should be allowed based on qualification standards.
And marketing the failed chain after a mathematically significant majority of miners have begun mining on the new dominant chain -- again, after a month of discussion and debate -- is quite different from marketing or launching an "altcoin".
