His barbed allusion to a great silent majority prompted wide-ranging objections for being so casually dismissive of the thousands who had taken to the streets to make their voices heard.
Opposition to British rule had existed in Ireland for centuries, but the French example, combined with the imposition of the Penal Laws which discriminated against the Catholic majority, prompted the creation of the Society of United Irishmen, a broad non-sectarian coalition of groups seeking to create an Irish Republic in the place of the British government.
Though the Supreme Court upheld the law against assisted suicide, the marginal majority decision prompted a review of the issue by the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in a report entitled Of Life and Death [ 37].
Few were guided by sound judgment or real patriotism; the majority, prompted by foolish hope, named in their selfish gossip this man or that whose clients or friends they were; they were also moved by hatred for Titus Vinius, whose unpopularity increased daily in proportion to his power.
Opinion polls have predicted that no party will win an outright majority, prompting fears of a hung parliament and further instability in the EU's poorest country.
Last year, Bernie Ecclestone, the sport's supremo, was widely criticised for persisting in efforts to stage a race in the kingdom, after anti-government protests by the majority Shia population prompted a brutal crackdown by the Sunni-dominated regime.
In a state House vote last year on HB-192, a Georgia bill that changed the liability standard for bank executives, Abrams sided with the state's Republican majority, prompting The Intercept to publish an article titled "Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Voted With G.O.P. to Make It Harder to Hold Bank Executives Accountable".
The belief is that a landslide "election narrative" may also encourage others to back Labour and other opposition parties simply in an attempt to minimise the scale of the anticipated majority, prompting the prime minister to warn about the issue on Tuesday.
The Russian authorities have now expanded their arbitrary security checks to woman dressed in scarves or other clothing characteristic of Chechnya's Muslim majority, prompting the country's largest Muslim organization to warn of "religious and racial apartheid".
The house speaker, Eduardo Cunha – a conservative evangelical who has proved Rousseff's nemesis – oversaw the passage of the impeachment motion comfortably with 367 votes, 25 more than the necessary two-thirds majority, prompting opposition politicians, many of them draped in the national flag, to burst into the football chant "Eu Sou Brasileiro" (I am Brazilian).
