Coupled with this is an organised programme of humiliation of Shia by "baltajiya" - thugs who come at night and smash up community gathering places and spray pro-ruling family graffiti on the walls of Shia areas with antagonising phrases like "the al-Khalifa are a crown upon your head".
More directly, the brother of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been sighted at BBS rallies, hinting at the implicit support of Sri Lanka's notably pro-Buddhist, pro-Sinhala ruling family.
This was the basis of the Fourth Circuit panel's pro-ACA ruling now under review by the Supremes.
Ms Kirchner might note that it is winning support within the traditionally pro-industry ruling Peronist party.
Strasbourg told the German court that its pro-paparazzi ruling in a case brought by Princess Caroline of Monaco struck the wrong balance between press freedom and privacy.
Bronislaw Komorowski's election as President has offered Poland's pro-business ruling party an opportunity – but also a challenge – as it prepares to govern without the obstacle of a hostile head of state.
Resentment at this in Taiwan unites both Mr Ma's relatively pro-China ruling party, the Kuomintang (KMT), and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which favours formal independence for Taiwan.
Dinko Sakic was only 22 years old when, in 1944, he was appointed commander of Jasenovac, the most notorious of the wartime concentration camps established by Croatia's pro-Nazi ruling party, the Ustashe.
For years, Taiwan has been locked in a two-party rivalry between the pro-China ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive party (DPP), which is pushing to maintain de facto independence.
That was not a very subtle threat that the United States Supreme Court could well add to the Florida justices' discomfort by flatly overruling them if a pro-Gore ruling seemed to change the law.
Roger B. Taney swore in Abraham Lincoln four years after writing the Supreme Court's opinion in the Dred Scott case, the pro-slavery ruling that Lincoln denounced and that inflamed the passions that were leading to civil war.
