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To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.
Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.
In May 2006, a CNN poll comparing Clinton's job performance with that of his successor, George W. Bush, found that a strong majority of respondents said Clinton outperformed Bush in six different areas questioned.
Chesterton said, " Modern education means handing down the customs of the minority, and rooting out the customs of the majority.
Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.
In writing the majority opinion, Franklin said, " This fellow Mesmer is not flowing anything from his hands that I can see.
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 ".
In many countries like Singapore where Muslims are not the majority, mosques are prohibited from loudly broadcasting the call to prayer ( adhan ), although it is supposed to be said loudly to the surrounding community.
There is no conclusive evidence as to who is behind it but majority of the victims are said to have been associated with the Hezb-i Islami political party.
He seems to have enjoyed a majority in the Politburo initially ( he said that Kalinin and Voroshilov betrayed the Right at the last minute ) and unlike the Left Opposition, broad mass support among the peasantry, which made up 80 % of the Russian population.
* Through the merger with Viacom, they gained U. S. rights to the majority of the Cannon Films library ( except Lifeforce, where some of said rights are owned by Sony via its initial US theatrical distribution by TriStar, once posting it on the website Crackle ), owned for other media by MGM ( who also posted Lifeforce on Hulu and Netflix ).
Langmuir said a pathological science is an area of research that simply will not " go away "— long after it was given up on as ' false ' by the majority of scientists in the field.
# be named after at least one million people of the ethnic group which should make up the majority population of said republic.
In the event, the public's discontent with the law compelled President Jacques Chirac to publicly oppose it, and his own UMP majority, who approved the law ; defying such historical revisionism, he said, " In a Republic, there is no official history.
It is said that some chief justices, notably Earl Warren and Warren Burger, sometimes switched votes to a majority they disagreed with to be able to use this prerogative of the Chief Justice to dictate who would write the opinion.
For instance, in a 1942 lecture, published posthumously, Heidegger said of recent German classics scholarship: " In the majority of ' research results ,' the Greeks appear as pure National Socialists.
Crossman, opening the debate on 19 November, said the government would reform the Lords in five ways: removing the voting rights of hereditary peers ; making sure no party had a permanent majority ; ensuring the government of the day usually passed its laws ; weakening the Lords ' powers to delay laws ; and abolishing the power to refuse subordinate legislation if it had been voted for by the Commons.
He refused to give instructions to the RPR voters but said that he supported the incumbent president " in a private capacity ", which was almost like a de facto support of the Socialist Party's ( PS ) candidate, François Mitterrand, who was elected by a broad majority.
Conversely, surveys conducted among living donors postoperatively and in a period of five years following the procedure have shown extreme regret in a majority of the donors, who said that given the chance to repeat the procedure, they would not.
In 2006, in an interview about The L Word she said more than once that she was " turned on " by the woman-woman sex scenes: " If you look at what we know about men, women and our sexuality, a great majority of people are bisexual.
The Minister for Children, Young People and Families commented that while fewer parents are using smacking as a form of discipline, the majority said they would not support a ban.
He did give an indication that it wouldn't be President Obama since Robertson said God told him Obama's views were at " odds with the majority ", but left some room for interpretation if the 2012 election expands beyond a two-person race.

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The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.
Cattle drove to the northern ranges and held for two winters to mature 'em into prime beef were said to be `` double wintered ''.
One manufacturer who held an allegedly basic patent said: `` I would readily put over $50,000 into the manufacture of the device, but it is so easy to make that we would enter immediately into a prolonged ordeal of patent litigation which would eat up all our profits ''.
Robert Snodgrass, state GOP chairman, said a meeting held Tuesday night in Blue Ridge brought enthusiastic responses from the audience.
Assistant Fire Chief Chester Cornell said gas fumes apparently were ignited by a candle which one of the three Kowalski girls present held for her mother, because the flat lacked electricity.
About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.
Henrietta held her bouquet out of reach and said it was for Doaty.
" Anaxarchus is said to have possessed " fortitude and contentment in life ," which earned him the epithet eudaimonikos (" fortunate "), which may imply that he held the end of life to be eudaimonia.
The Abencerrages ( from the Arabic for " Saddler's Son "), were a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Moorish kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.
This was the great cathedral of the Orthodox Church, whose dome was said to be held aloft by God alone, and which was directly connected to the palace so that the imperial family could attend services without passing through the streets.
In 1691, an article in the London Gazette mentioned John Lofting, who held a patent for a fire engine: " The said patentee has also projected a very useful engine for starting of beer, and other liquors which will draw from 20 to 30 barrels an hour, which are completely fixed with brass joints and screws at reasonable rates ".
Paying one's debts and telling the truth are generally held to be right things to do ; rightness may be said to be a property of certain human actions.
The elder Smith was given the " keys of the patriarchal Priesthood over the kingdom of God on earth ", the same power said to be held by the Biblical Patriarchs, which included the power to give blessings upon one's posterity.
He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating " If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
That said, the sport's scope has expanded significantly during recent years and an increasing number of Grands Prix are held on other continents.
This view of Gregory is also held by some modern theologians, such as John Sachs who said that Gregory had " leanings " toward apocatastasis, but in a " cautious, undogmatic " way.
On 22 March, Rory O ' Connor held what was to become an infamous press conference and declared that the IRA would no longer obey the Dáil as ( he said ) it had violated its Oath to uphold the Irish Republic.
" I desired a friend to draw with a pencil lines cross the image, or pillar of colours, where every one of the seven aforenamed colours was most full and brisk, and also where he judged the truest confines of them to be, whilst I held the paper so, that the said image might fall within a certain compass marked on it.
" Afterwards, Yakov is said to have committed suicide, running into an electric fence in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was being held.
And when he realized that I was determined to study in privacy in some obscure place, and saw that he gained nothing by entreaty, he descended to cursing, and said that God would surely curse my peace if I held back from giving help at a time of such great need.
In the United States, every person accused of a crime punishable by incarceration for more than six months has a constitutional right to a trial by jury, which arises in federal court from Article Three of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The Trial of all Crimes ... shall be by Jury ; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed.
The term is also used in the United States as part of American civil religion since the 1940s to refer to standards of religious ethics said to be held in common by Judaism and Christianity, for example the Ten Commandments or Great Commandment.
On May 26, 2004, Ashcroft held a news conference at which he said that intelligence from multiple sources indicated that al Qaeda intended to attack the United States in the coming months.

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