Inside the city, residents say, the Sunni majority has thrown its weight behind the uprising, while in other cities the government still enjoys substantial support.
Addressing process rather than outcome, Justice Stevens said that in bypassing "judicial restraint, the majority had thrown the Supreme Court into the 'political thicket' " that Justice Felix Frankfurter, a conservative judicial hero, had warned against in a different context long ago.
If the usual 5-4 "conservative" majority had thrown out the individual mandate, there would now be unsavory scenes of ecstatic delirium in the offices of Capitol Hill Republicans, at think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, on the right-wing radio dial, and throughout the winger blogosphere.
Whatever you wear, you'll probably find that it costs more than last year, because a majority of American merchants, having thrown in the towel in their price wars with discounters, are discovering they can charge more.
The jury at the inquest into his death decided that he had a gun with him in the minicab before it was stopped by police – a majority also concluded that he had thrown it behind the fence – but also that he had not been holding a gun when he was shot.
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, has thrown his weight behind the latest effort.
The jury agreed the 29-year-old had a gun - and concluded by a majority that it was likely that he had thrown it away himself as his minicab was stopped and surrounded by armed police.
It has thrown an equally embarrassing spotlight on the backward and disorganized state of medical care, especially in the countryside, where a majority of China's people live.
Lester had thrown 95 pitches.
