The majority left choked in anticlimax, those encouraging draws against Atlético buried beneath another avalanche of Chelsea goals, and grumbling at the perceived eccentricities of the referee, Manuel de Sousa.
It meant that for poor children with high levels of intelligence, a majority left school in the 1980s without two A-levels.
The June election, in which HDP increased its share of the vote and the AKP lost its parliamentary majority, left Turkey in limbo.
The court's majority left those rules in place, while signaling it might review them later.
[Page A18.] Justice Sandra Day O'Connor joined the Breyer majority, leaving her four longtime allies in this line of cases -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Anthony M. Kennedy -- in the unaccustomed role of dissenters.
But the Catalan Republican Left (ERC), a left-wing pro-independence party, almost doubled its vote.Neither the CiU nor the second-placed Socialists now have a majority, leaving the balance of power in the hands of the ERC leader, Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira.
The majority of occupants left in great haste, while many young demonstrators resisted the attempts to disperse them with water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets.
But if all we have to go on is today's demo (given SpinVox's refusal to give any indication of how many transcriptions involve human agents), then it's hard to escape this implication: that the vast majority of messages left in real-world conditions (like beside roads and in cafes) and containing more than "Hi Jim, can you call me back?
Last Wednesday, Jaguar Land Rover made similar remarks: if the position had been more explicit and fairly reported rather than airily dismissed as Project Fear, the wafer-thin 3,800 majority for Leave in Birmingham might have switched their vote.
