The victory was a resounding rejection of the old, corrupt, mismanaged and fragmented Turkish political order.

In a resounding rejection of Reagan Administration policy, a Federal district judge here ruled late Friday that the Government had coerced Salvadorans seeking asylum into leaving the country, and must stop the practice.

No political leader in Europe can afford to ignore the resounding rejection of the new European Union constitution by French voters last Sunday.

But the resounding rejection of the measure by upstate voters - 64 percent opposed it - resulted in its defeat, with 1,407,993 voters in favor and 1,460,836 against, with 99 percent of polling places reporting.

"It was a resounding rejection of NTP's position," James L. Balsillie, R.I.M.'s chairman and co-chief executive said on a telephone interview from the company's headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario.

To that end, he pushed (and spent) to put the 1995 agreement to a public vote in November, with the hope that it will receive a resounding rejection.

In their view, Tuesday's vote was a resounding rejection of the Democratic philosophy of governing, writ large, and of a President who promised to change that culture and is seen as having failed.

"It was a resounding rejection of NTP's position," James Balsillie, Research In Motion's chairman and co-chief executive, said by telephone.

If it isn't a resounding rejection, Lord Rahl may feel he has cause to press his case.

Prosecutors often have difficulty winning rape cases, as shown last month by a Queens jury's resounding rejection of accusations that three St. John's University students assaulted another student after getting her drunk.