The plan proved controversial, but a referendum in 1992 produced a respectable majority in favour.
If this carries on, the police will find that their job is much more difficult than it ever has been, because they cannot rely on the co-operation of the respectable majority.
But its real operation is to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junto, to the regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority.
In practice, Hamilton charged, the "real operation" of the filibuster is to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junto, to the regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority.
Why? Because, he writes in Federalist No. 22, its real operation is to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junto, to the regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority.
But by Election Day, few believed it would happen, and the only questions appeared to be how badly H. Carl McCall, the state comptroller and the Democratic challenger, would lose and whether the Democrats could muster a respectable majority in New York City.
It's through this sort of rigging that the BN is able to still pile up respectable majorities in parliament on a decreasing share of the popular vote.
The Conservatives have not one councillor in Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.But some way to surmount the problem has to be found if either party is to get a respectable absolute majority.
But, as it often is the case, there was a difference between the respectable view and what a majority actually believed and said in private, which was that the demolition of the mosque was a sign that India was changing and that in this new nation Hindus would become increasingly assertive and intimidating enough to protect themselves against other religions, especially Islam.
Her parents wanted Maydanova to become a doctor, a profession considered more respectable for a woman in this traditional, majority Shia Muslim country.
Parma recovered well in the 2005 06 season with Bresciano playing the majority of games, finishing a respectable 10th by season's end in May 2006 (later rising to seventh and a UEFA Cup place after the Calciopoli findings).
