The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this title shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.

Such certification shall be final and conclusive and shall not be subject to review by any other official or department, agency, or establishment of the United States.

In a periodic review, the local board on July 30, 1953, reclassified him 1-a and upheld this classification after a personal appearance by petitioner, because of his willingness to kill in defense of his church and home.

This has necessitated a continuous review and reevaluation of the defense program in order to redirect resources to the newer and more important weapons systems and to eliminate or reduce effort on weapons systems which have been overtaken by events.

To avoid passing over quiet, unaggressive teachers as well as to decide whether others merit promotion, review of the right of faculty members to promotion or salary increases should be made periodically whether or not they have been recommended for advancement by their departments.

For almost a hundred years we relied upon state courts ( subject to review by the Supreme Court ) for the protection of most rights arising under national law.

A measure passed by Congress just before adjourning softened the ruling's impact, on prior-year returns still under review, for clay-mining companies that make brick and tile products.

a review of the philosophy of Communist leaders by Ted Slack, another real estate agent who became interested as a philosophy major at the University of Miami ; ;

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In United States appellate procedure, an appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law.

" Appellate review " is the general term for the process by which courts with appellate jurisdiction take jurisdiction of matters decided by lower courts.

It is distinguished from judicial review, which refers to the court's overriding constitutional or statutory right to determine if a legislative act or administrative decision is defective for jurisdictional or other reasons ( which may vary by jurisdiction ).

In most jurisdictions the normal and preferred way of seeking appellate review is by filing an appeal of the final judgment.

In Anglo-American common law courts, appellate review of lower court decisions may also be obtained by filing a petition for review by prerogative writ in certain cases.

This might be the proper standard of review, for example, if the lower court resolved the case by granting a pre-trial motion to dismiss or motion for summary judgment which is usually based only upon written submissions to the trial court and not on any trial testimony.

A trial de novo is usually available for review of informal proceedings conducted by some minor judicial tribunals in proceedings that do not provide all the procedural attributes of a formal judicial trial.

A literature review by Michael McCullough and Camile Farah, published in the Australian Dental Journal in 2008, focused on a possible connection between mouthwashes that contain alcohol, and an increased risk of oral cancer.

Even the book review by the editors has more significance than the readership's reception.

Rosicrucians, in the same way of those who have had near-death experiences, speak of a life review period occurring immediately after death and before entering the afterlife's planes of existence ( before the silver cord is broken ), followed by a judgment, more akin to a Final Review or End Report over one's life.

In an extensive literature review, recognition of the AKA using CT and / or MR was achieved in 466 of 555 cases ( 83. 96 %) and in 384 ( 83. 3 %) cases the AKA originated from a left intercostal artery.

In 1997, Harper's Magazine published an essay, ostensibly a book review of the DSM-IV, that criticized the lack of hard science and the proliferation of disorders.

Several well-known horror enthusiasts publicly criticized the German ban on the movie, including author Stephen King ( who gave it a rave review in the November 1982 issue of Twilight Zone ).

The biological anthropologist C. Loring Brace criticized Rushton in his 1996 review of the book, Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1996 ):

While heralded by many as outstanding colour photographs, they were harshly criticized by Susan Sontag, who claimed in a review that they were further evidence of Riefenstahl ’ s “ fascist aesthetics ”.

Although generally considered essential to academic quality, and used in most important scientific publications, peer review has been criticized as ineffective, slow, and misunderstood ( also see anonymous peer review and open peer review ).

" Dave Kehr, in his review for the Daily News, criticized the film's premise as a " tired idea, and it produces an episodic, unstrung film.

In his review of The Mismeasure of Man, Arthur Jensen, a University of California ( Berkeley ) educational psychologist whom Gould much criticized in the book, wrote that Gould used straw man arguments to advance his opinions, misrepresented other scientists, and propounded a political agenda.

In 1982 the Post criticized the Times for its negative review of the movie Inchon, which was also sponsored by the Unification Church.

Psychologism was famously criticized by Frege in his The Foundations of Arithmetic, and many of his works and essays, including his review of Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic.

This heavily criticized part of the review saw four operators replaced and the operators facing different annual payments to the treasury: Central television for example only paid £ 2000, despite holding a lucrative and large region because they were unopposed, while Yorkshire television paid £ 37. 7 million for a region of the same size and status due to heavy competition.

The teaching methods and parts of the curriculum of schools run by Livets Ord have been under review by the Swedish National Agency for Education on several occasions, but the schools have only been criticized on minor details.

In a review of the Virtual Console game, GameSpot criticized the NES version for being a poor port of the arcade version.

Despite its use being criticized in most Super Mario Advance games, a GameSpy review called the version found in Super Mario Advance 2 a blast to play in multi-player because it only requires at least two Game Boy Advances, one copy of the game, and a link cable.

Not all reviews were positive: Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, in a review subtitled " Hot Air ", criticized the film's abundance of long, preachy speeches ; Chayefsky's self-righteous contempt for not only television itself but also television viewers ; and the fact that almost everyone in the movie, particularly Robert Duvall, has a screaming rant: " The cast of this messianic farce takes turns yelling at us soulless masses.

Another review in Life criticized Carrie ’ s success, and warned “ Such girls, however, as imagine that they can follow in her footsteps will probably end their days on the Island or in the gutter ”.

An article accompanying the petition has been criticized as " designed to be deceptive by giving people the impression that the article ... is a reprint and has passed peer review.

The special effects were alternately lauded and criticized ; USA Today called them " just serviceable ", though Wloszczyna's review for the paper said the Klingon assassination sequence was " dazzling ", with " fuchsia blood spilling out in Dalí-esque blobs ".

By contrast an anonymous 1881 review in the Peoria Journal said: “ they have lost the wild rhythms, the barbaric melody, the passion …. hey smack of the North ….” Some fifty years later, Zora Neale Hurston in her 1938 book The Sanctified Church criticized Fisk singers, and similar groups at Tuskegee and Hampton, as using a " Glee Club style " that was " full of musicians ' tricks " not to be found in the original Negro spirituals, urging readers to visit an " unfashionable Negro church " to experience real Negro spirituals.

" In a mixed review, Option commended the album's " sheer listenability ", " clear recording and dynamic performances ", but criticized Dulli's subject matter and panned the band's cover of " The Temple ".

Roger Ebert, in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, criticized the film for being " a mediocre movie with a good one trapped inside, wildly signaling to be set free ".

In February 2008, Maxim was criticized by the rock band The Black Crowes for a review of their upcoming CD, Warpaint, with the band claiming that the magazine reviewed the album without hearing it.

The following day, a review of the film was featured in the El Paso Herald-Post, which described the film as a " brave experiment ", although it criticized some elements such as the attempted murder of Torgo by being " massaged to death " by The Master's wives, and Margaret's claim of " It's getting dark ", while she stands in front of a bright midday sun.

In 2009 Mary Eberstadt criticized this article in her review " How Pedophilia Lost Its Cool ".