But it aroused such hostility from a swathe of people aghast at its sweeping nature that on November 11th the senate roundly rejected it.Until recently Mr Suthep was an MP for the opposition Democrat Party, and he was once a deputy prime minister.
UNTIL recently, they were rivals.
UNTIL recently, Serbia was an authoritarian state.
Likewise, the N.B.A. and the N.H.L. allow only limited incursions, while international soccer, despite pressure to implement goal-line technology, had rejected it altogether until recently.
Belgium is the descendant of parts of the Low Countries which rejected the Reformation; until recently, a strong Catholic identity has been something shared by both Flemish and Walloon communities.
The ends of the street symbolise the two communities' fates since partition: Greek Cypriots have grown wealthy on the back of trade and tourism, eventually joining the EU; while their Turkish counterparts have been mired in poverty and isolated from the outside world by political leaders who, until recently, rejected talk of reunification.
Although 9percentt of Germany's 82 million residents are noncitizens, the country has until recently rejected the notion that it could be a land of immigration rather than a country that allows foreigners -- including 2.7 million Turks -- to live here as "guest workers" or political refugees.
Meanwhile, the faction that supports Riyadh as the capital of Sunni decision is now speaking with the language of accord with moderate Iran -- if moderation there represented by President Hassan Rohani prevails -- when until recently, this faction rejected anything that could lead to legitimizing the Iranian role in any Arab country.
Until recently, European leaders have rejected any chance of Greece defaulting, but are moving to allow for the possibility of this happening.
Until recently, a designer might have rejected a reference like a Navajo blanket as too recognizable — and too much the province of its master, Ralph Lauren.
