Sir Nicolas Bratza and the two other judges in the minority thought this was going too far.
As Derk Jan Eppink, a Dutch journalist who writes on Belgian politics, remarks: "In Belgium the majority has a minority mentality and the minority thinks like a majority .To this day language continues to embitter relations between the two groups.
"It reaches the point where that minority thinks, 'uh oh, I'm the only one here' and leaves," explains Jennifer Hawthorne, of Northern Ireland's state housing executive.
The Republicans' edge is that a substantial minority think the Democrats are what Ramesh Ponnuru, a conservative zealot and author, calls "the party of death", favouring "unrestricted abortion, lethal research on human embryos, and euthanasia".
"There's [been] a lot of comments about how we're doing things for the minority – 'Oh, you know, this is because of a small minority; think about us, the majority' – but I think that sometimes the majority has to stand up for the minority," Wards said.
A minority think it is the consequence of two different but equally defensive approaches.
Insurgents have struck Sunni and, more often, Shia mosques, killing some 250 worshippers in just three attacks against the holiest Shia shrines.The more chauvinist of Iraq's Sunni minority think Shias and Christians have much in common.
Conclusion: this survey indicates that older people in England wish to continue to be actively invited for cancer screening, although only a minority think that they would ultimately take up the offer.
"I don't think we should keep trying the same thing over and over again, and think only a minority think that".
He adds that such symbols "celebrate a part of our history that just a small minority think is honourable.
While most of those questioned thought Britain is a good country to grow up in, only a minority think children are happier now than they were a decade ago.
