South Africans have voted resoundingly to extend the ANC's 20-year rule, ignoring leadership scandals and economic malaise in a wholesale display of loyalty to the party once led by Nelson Mandela.
It's the morning after the night before, when opponents to replacing first-past-the-post with the alternative vote to elect MPs to Westminster resoundingly won the day in the referendum.
Michael White writes: To stay in public life for 26 years after being rejected resoundingly by the electorate and one's own party suggests either implacable determination or bloody-minded stubbornness.
Even the flimsy pretext of concern for children rings resoundingly hollow: despite the odious insinuations of conservative groups, homosexuality itself is not psychologically unhealthy.
Even Mr Jenkin, an evangelist for his committee, noted he had been waiting over a year for the government to respond to one of its reports.A symptom of coalitionThe new activism of the committees is resoundingly good news: government needs ever more scrutiny.
Since then it has positioned itself as a right-of-centre party and worked hard to distance itself from its origins.It has been resoundingly successful.
Some of Mr Mubarak's modest achievements, such as improving literacy, keeping peace with neighbours, extending communications networks and fostering the emergence of a large urban middle class, have also sharpened tensions.This is one reason why the unrest in Egypt and Tunisia echoes resoundingly across the region.
See articleIn a verdict condemned by human-rights groups abroad, a court in Vietnam convicted four activists of trying to overthrow the communist government and sentenced them to up to 16 years in prison.Vanquished ViktorViktor Yushchenko, the winner of Ukraine's "orange" revolution five years ago, was resoundingly voted out in the first round of the Ukrainian presidential election.
The tea-party-led strategy of shutting down the government and refusing to raise the debt ceiling as a means of defunding Obamacare has just failed as resoundingly as any strategy could fail, dragging the party's popularity down to unprecedented lows.
In 2012 Mr Obama lost big in counties with coalmines (see map).But his unpopularity in the region predates his presidency: in the 2008 primaries Hillary Clinton beat him resoundingly.
Yet he is a resoundingly positive force in British politics, whose significance greatly exceeds his influence.His welfare expertise makes Mr Field a crucial reference point in a debate riven with half-truths and prejudice.
