Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.

In 1957 Nixon delivered a significant opinion that a majority of Senators had the power to adopt new rules at the beginning of each new Congress, and that any rules laid down by previous Congresses were not binding.

Armed with the Nixon opinion, the Senate liberals rounded up their slim majority and prepared to choke off debate on the filibuster battle this week.

However, in drafting opinions, the Chief Justice enjoys additional influence in case disposition if in the majority through his power to assign who writes the opinion.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

This calculation depends on a number of variables, such as its performance in opinion polls and the size of its majority.

When the Court renders its decision, it will generally do so in a single majority opinion and one or more dissenting opinions.

The majority opinion constitutes binding precedent on all lower courts ; when faced with very similar facts, they are bound to apply the same reasoning or face reversal of their decision by a higher court.

Washington's strong support mobilized public opinion and proved decisive in securing ratification in the Senate by the necessary two-thirds majority.

Despite the majority opinion that Luke was a gentile writing to other gentiles, a few authors have challenged this view.

A Lebanese public opinion poll taken in August 2006 shows that most of the Shia did not believe that Hezbollah should disarm after the 2006 Lebanon war, while the majority of Sunni, Druze and Christians believed that they should.

He explained why he did not accept the opinion of the majority report of the commission ( 1968, # 6 ).

In writing the majority opinion, Franklin said, " This fellow Mesmer is not flowing anything from his hands that I can see.

However, it was universally known as the Berlin Wall and the majority opinion was that its primary purpose was to keep East German citizens from escaping to the West.

" In so doing, he did not merely denigrate the opinion of the majority but also of those who had influence or power as well.

The liberalizing responsum, adopted as a majority opinion by 13 of 25 votes, was authored by Rabbis Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel Nevins, and Avram Reisner.

A responsum by Rabbi Joel Roth, adopted as a majority opinion by 13 votes, reaffirmed a general complete prohibition on homosexual conduct.

This opposition must be put in context with the second option offered by the majority opinion, which allowed that the defendant had the option of remaining silent, saying: " Had he wanted to remain silent, he could have said nothing in response or unambiguously invoked his Miranda rights, ending the interrogation ".

( However, pursuant to the majority opinion in United States v. Patane, physical evidence obtained as a result of pre-Miranda statements may still be admitted.

Executive power is vested in the cabinet led by the prime minister ; the Malaysian constitution stipulates that the prime minister must be a member of the lower house of parliament who, in the opinion of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, commands a majority in parliament.

Executive power is vested in the cabinet led by the prime minister ; the Malaysian constitution stipulates that the prime minister must be a member of the Lower House of parliament who, in the opinion of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( YDPA ), commands a majority in parliament.

In the run-up to the election, held on 9 April 1992, most opinion polls had suggested that the election would end in a hung parliament or a narrow Labour majority.

While only the majority opinion is considered precedential, an outvoted judge can still publish a dissenting opinion.

" Still, the House of Lords has remained reluctant to overrule itself in some cases ; in R v Kansal ( 2002 ), the majority of House members adopted the opinion that R v Lambert had been wrongly decided and agreed to depart from their earlier decision.

`` The majority of children in the United States could benefit by some form of orthodontic treatment '', says Dr. Allan G. Brodie, professor and head of the department of orthodontics at the University of Illinois and a nationally recognized authority in his field.

He also says that " Singulary little change followed the 1928 decree ; a fair number of slaves returned to their original homes, but the great majority remained in the villages in which their former masters had placed them or their parents.

The Tuscarora Nation of New York, says that the great majority of the tribe moved north to New York.

Powell wrote, " He says to the Sovereign: I no longer am leader of the majority party in the House of Commons ; but I am carrying on as your Prime Minister.

" Simek says that the majority of the names of the valkyries point to a warlike function, that most of their names do not appear to be very old, and that the names " mostly come from poetic creativity rather than from real folk-belief.

Nico Stehr ( 1994, 2002a, b ) says that in the knowledge society a majority of jobs involves working with knowledge.

John Wolffe says that while Zionists tend to attribute Palestinian rejection of the plan to a mere intransigence, Arabs have always reiterated that it was rejected because it was unfair: it gave the majority of the land ( 56 percent ) to the Jews, who at that stage legally owned only 7 percent of it, and remained a minority of the population.

Although the film's title card says " Tennessee Williams ' Baby Doll ", and the film is based on Williams ' one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, in his autobiography director Elia Kazan claimed that Williams was only " half-heartedly " involved in writing the screenplay, of which Kazan himself actually wrote the majority.

Poland was the location of the majority of the book, and Polish was the language of his parents and, he says, was his own mother tongue in infancy.

" He also says: " A minority may be right ; a majority is always wrong.

It binds the government to a " respect for the rights and freedoms of man and citizen "; proclaims the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Basic Freedoms an " integral component of the constitutional system "; establishes the republic as a democratic, law-abiding state, deriving its sovereignty from the people ; says that " majority decisions shall respect protection of minorities "; and enjoins the Republic " to a prudent utilization of natural resources and to protection of natural wealth ".

The preface to the ITDG publishing / FIAN paper on food sovereignty says: " The Food Sovereignty policy framework starts by placing the perspective and needs of the majority at the heart of the global food policy agenda and embraces not only the control of production and markets, but also the Right to Food, people ’ s access to and control over land, water and genetic resources, and the use of environmentally sustainable approaches to production.

The Constitution also says that the President shall be elected by the Assembly on a motion made by the Prime Minister and supported by the votes of a majority of all the members of the Assembly ; and subject to this section and section 30, hold office for a term of 5 years and shall be eligible for re-election.

Rosenberg says this culture utilizes a specialized language and system of education to allow a small minority to rule over the vast majority of the people, so that the majority is not serving their own life-needs, but serving their masters '.

The third view, which is where the majority of support is coming from at present, says that the claustrum is neither distinctly part of the cortex nor from the basal ganglia complex.

Although the majority of critics receive this book positively, the Washington Post says that this book is “ frustratingly sloppy .” They go on to say “ it doesn ’ t feel as if Tiffany has earned her victory, or as if Pratchett is doing justice to his inquisitive young heroine .”

VDARE columnist James Fulford says allegations of racism and hate are unavoidable since " the majority of Americans are white, and the majority of immigrants are non-white.

I have no intent of becoming the majority owner of Fauchon ”, says Michel Ducros to the magazine Le Figaro Entreprises.

The majority even of the pious, Bahya says, are not those who have been free from sins, but rather those who have once sinned, yet then felt regret at having done so.

The CDC says the two prongs of the Appleseed criteria that trigger inclusion, five percent and majority support, are sensible because they are rooted in democratic principles and federal law.

" Edzard Ernst says, " Good websites do exist, and the majority of those tested provided useful and reliable information.

One farmer whose place is located near the reservation has been continually bothered by the Indians cutting his fences and turning their cattle in to graze on his property .” Yet, in the very same year we hear this report in the Creston Review, June 21, 1912: “ Agent Galbraith says everything is in good condition and the majority of the Indians are at work picking berries for the ranchers who find their help useful and profitable .”

" Venezuelan professor Edgardo Lander says that the UNEP's report, Towards a Green Economy, while well-intentioned " ignores the fact that the capacity of existing political systems to establish regulations and restrictions to the free operation of the markets – even when a large majority of the population call for them – is seriously limited by the political and financial power of the corporations.