Bush and Bill Clinton, stated that Arafat's " walking-around money " financed a vast patronage system known as neopatrimonialism.

The school was the subject of some controversy in the 1990s, but an Ofsted report published in January 2008 stated: " It is held in very high regard by the vast majority of students and their parents, and rightly so.

The " Senioral Principle " established in the testament stated that at all times the eldest member of the dynasty was to have supreme power over the rest and was also to control an indivisible " senioral part ": a vast strip of land running north-south down the middle of Poland, with Kraków its chief city.

It is also stated that " a wealth of sweet-smelling herbs and shrubs " and a vast array of tree species grew in Ithilien, some of them having been planted by men in days of peace, and that despite desolation the land " kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness ".

Wheeler stated, " In obedience to all this advice, the Southern States did secede, and almost immediately the vast Federal armies were raised.

Gaddis's influence is vast ( although frequently subterranean ): for example, postmodern authors such as Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon seem to have been influenced by Gaddis ( indeed, upon publication of V., Pynchon was actually speculated to have been a pen name for Gaddis due to the similarity of styles and the dearth of information about the two authors ; the Wanda Tinasky letters also claimed that Gaddis, Pynchon, and Jack Green were the same person ), as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, David Markson, and David Foster Wallace, who have all stated their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recognitions in particular.

The group maintained that the vast majority of people in Britain remained exploited by the ruling class and their official literature has long stated that about 75 % of the country is working-class.

In USA Today ( August 24, 1995 ), Francis Fukuyama stated, " defenses lead to a distrust of government and the belief that public authorities are in a vast conspiracy to violate the rights of individuals.

During the 2008 presidential election campaign, then-Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin stated: " I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

It is also stated that " a wealth of sweet-smelling herbs and shrubs " and a vast array of tree species grew in Ithilien, some of them having been planted by men in days of peace, and that despite desolation the land " kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness ".

In response, CEO Dave Hackett stated that " the airline does not have safety violations " and " the vast majority of findings were not violations at all ".

In its favor, Variety called the film “ a big, powerful moving picture demonstrating vast cinematic resource .” The Hollywood Reporter stated: “ George Stevens has created a novel, reverent and important film with his view of this crucial event in the history of mankind .”

Its impact was enormous: one source stated, " Linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes, the canal was an act of political will that joined the regions of the state, created a vast economic hinterland for New York City, and established a ready market for agricultural products from the state's interior.

The pangalactic statisticians ( a neutral organization of observers ) have stated that 21 % of all cosmological manipulations are executed by cosmocrat-servants, 16 % are executed by chaos-servants and 63 % are executed by the vast uncontrollable life itself.

However, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee stated that the vast majority of the Slavic population in Pirin Macedonia has a Bulgarian national self-consciousness and a regional Macedonian identity similar to the Macedonian regional identity in Greek Macedonia.

Muhammad Ali professed his willingness to obey the commands of the Porte, but stated that his troops, to whom he owed a vast sum of money, opposed his departure.

In July 1964, Mao Zedong, in a meeting with a Japanese socialist delegation, stated that Tsarist Russia had stripped China of vast territories in Siberia and the Far East as far as Kamchatka.

IGN reviewed this version of Master of Magic in 2002, and stated that the ability to customize the player's character, random maps, and vast variety of spells and creatures give an immense replayability to the game.

Kosmos and Kubik – beings who wield vast but undefined energy, matter, and reality manipulation powers in their own right – stated that a single Celestial possesses " power many orders of magnitude beyond our own ".

However, the Declaration was later criticized by Hanfried Helmchen, who found its ethical guideline No 1 to be misleading and stated that when health, personal autonomy and growth — without referring to mental illness — are to be formulated as the direct aim of psychiatry, the menace of vast expansion of psychiatry will increase and that the renunciation of an illness concept appeared to be an essential source for the ' total psychiatrisation of everybody and everything ' which was also deplored by Blomquist in his commentary.

In the June 19, 1995 issue of Business First — Louisville, however, Ernest Renaud stated that the vast majority of new units in the coming years would be operated by franchisees.

IGN's positive side of their review called the game " a very solid, well-produced first-person shooter ", but their complaints stated that: " Volition still shows some room for improvement when it comes to level design, spots of AI, and implementing the vast potential of the Geo-Mod concept ".

In its website FAQs, Five's stated reason for its use of a DOG is that " the vast majority of channels carry them, most permanently and virtually every channel at some point has one during the day.

" And an editorial in the Rutland Herald stated, " the effect of the speech was to hearten that vast majority of Americans who hate communism but who also revere the Constitution.

Their impolitic occupation of Columbus, Kentucky on September 3, 1861, two days before Johnston arrived in the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, Virginia, after his cross – country journey, drove Kentucky from its stated neutrality and the majority of Kentuckians into the Union camp.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the majority, stated that " The incidental advancement of a religious mission, or the perceived endorsement of a religious message, is reasonably attributable to the individual aid recipients not the government, whose role ends with the disbursement of benefits.

Louis Feldman has stated that in the period from 1937 to 1980 at least 87 articles had appeared on the topic, the overwhelming majority of which questioned the total or partial authenticity of the Testimonium.

In 1998, an ad hoc CCAR committee on Human Sexuality issued its majority report ( 11 to 1, 1 abstention ) which stated that the holiness within a Jewish marriage " may be present in committed same gender relationships between two Jews and that these relationships can serve as the foundation of stable Jewish families, thus adding strength to the Jewish community.

In order to keep Arabs, whom he stated would never accept Israel as a Jewish state, from becoming a numerical majority in Israel, he proposed a plan allowing Arabs to voluntarily leave Israel and receive compensation for their property, and forcibly removing Arabs who refused.

In the aftermath of the Ogaden war, although Barre stated at the March 1983 Nonaligned Movement summit in New Delhi that Somalia had no designs on the Ogaden and was willing to negotiate with Ethiopia, the government of Somalia continued to call for self-determination for the ethnic Somali majority living in the Ogaden.

Eusebius ( c. 275 – 339 ) professed his own doubts, see also Antilegomena, and is the earliest direct testimony of such, though he stated that the majority supported the text, and by the time of Jerome ( c. 346-420 ) it had been mostly accepted as canonical.

" The majority opinion of the board stated that the inclusion of additional material on the DVD " facilitates wider consideration of the context of the film which results in the impact being no more than high.

Indeed, in initiating his columns, Mbeki stated his view that the bulk of South African media sources did not speak for or to the South African majority, and stated his intent to use ANC Today to speak directly to his constituents rather than through the media.

The majority in Coker stated that " rape by definition does not include the death of or even the serious injury to another person.

Douglas joined the majority opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Roe, which stated that a federally enforceable right to privacy, " whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

As Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a five Justice majority, stated in Alden v. Maine,:

He also stated that the institutions decisions could be by majority vote, but that unanimous decisions were preferred, and that it would be elected by the members of the secondary Houses of Justice.

" Mark L. Strauss has stated that the majority of changes are " based on advances in biblical scholarship, linguistics, and archaeology ".

On the other hand, during discussions inside the Liberal Party Jean Rey stated on 13 March 1950: if the Catholics considered important the majority in favour of Leopold III ( 57, 68 % in Belgium as a whole ), the Walloons may also considered important their own opinion ( i. e. In Wallonia only ) against Leopold which had the same percentage.

This happened despite the fact that General Klaus Naumann ( Chairman of NATO Military Committee ) stated that Ambassador Walker stated in the NAC ( North Atlantic Council ) that the majority of violations was caused by the KLA.

* A majority in the years 1945-49 stated National Socialism to have been a good idea but badly applied.

In reaching that decision, the Supreme Court stated in its majority opinion ( though in dicta ), " that the Tenure of Office Act of 1867, insofar as it attempted to prevent the President from removing executive officers who had been appointed by him by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, was invalid ".

Currently the Portuguese military forces number 44, 900 with the majority of the manpower allocated to the Army although its Chief of Staff, General José Ramalho, has already stated that more men are needed.

Microsoft's stated aim for NGSCB is to increase the security and privacy of computer users, but critics assert that the technology will not only fail to solve the majority of contemporary IT security problems, but also result in an increase in vendor lock-in and thus a reduction in competition in the IT marketplace.

There are times in which Cherry tends to be controversial ; for example, in 2003, Cherry stated that the majority of players wearing facial protection in the NHL are French-Canadians and Europeans ( though a study done by a lawyer confirmed Cherry's assertion ).