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.

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Supreme Court Justice Byron White wrote the decision for the majority

Supreme Court Justice Byron White wrote the decision for the majority.

Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote to Eisenhower to thank him for his actions, writing " The overwhelming majority of southerners, Negro and white, stand firmly behind your resolute action to restore law and order in Little Rock ".

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

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.

the majority do not believe that John or one of the Apostles wrote it, and trace it instead to a " Johannine community " which traced its traditions to John ; the gospel itself shows signs of having been composed in three " layers ", reaching its final form about 90-100 AD.

Lenin, who was trying to establish a permanent majority against Plekhanov within Iskra, expected Trotsky, then 23, to side with the new guard and wrote in March 1903:

* Christoph Christian Sturm ( 1740 – 1786 ), German preacher and author, who wrote the majority of his devotional works here

Polybius wrote several works, the majority of which are lost.

Justice Breyer, who dissented, wrote in his most recent book that if he could change three of his dissenting opinions ( while on the Supreme Court ) into a majority, this would be one of them.

Richard Sakwa wrote that the Russian government is undoubtedly considered legitimate by the great majority of the Russian people and seeks to deliver a set of public goods without appealing to extra-democratic logic to achieve them, but whether the system was becoming an illiberal or delegative democracy was more contentious.

James Blood and Stephen Pearl Andrews wrote the majority of the articles, as well as other able contributors.

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.

Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O ' Connor wrote the majority opinion ; they were joined by David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer, and opposed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia.

The majority wrote, " If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.

Although Jimmy McGovern wrote the majority of the early stories, Ted Whitehead contributed the fifth serial, " The Big Crunch ".

In " On Authority ", Engels also wrote of democratic workplaces that " particular questions arise in each room and at every moment concerning the mode of production, distribution of material, etc., which must be settled by decision of a delegate placed at the head of each branch of labour or, if possible, by a majority vote.

As Justice Blackmun wrote in the majority opinion:

In spite of widespread speculation that Roberts only agreed to join the court's majority in upholding New Deal legislation, such as the Social Security Act, during the spring of 1937 because of the court packing plan, Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision " in the Parrish case and that the delayed announcement of the decision created the false impression that the Court had retreated under fire.

Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.

Many of the words used by Rambling Syd were invented by the Round The Horne scriptwriters Barry Took and Marty Feldman, who wrote the majority of the songs lyrics, based upon traditional folk songs.

William O ' Brien, a professor of Georgetown University, wrote about active participation of Palestinian children in the First Intifada: " It appears that a substantial number, if not the majority, of troops of the intifada are young people, including elementary schoolchildren.

" Studying his surroundings, Audubon quickly learned the ornithologist's rule, which he wrote, " The nature of the place — whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs — generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

He also bragged about his conquests: he wrote of Babylon " Its inhabitants, young and old, I did not spare, and with their corpses I filled the streets of the city.

In 441 – 442, Saxons are mentioned for the first time as inhabitants of Britain, when an unknown Gaulish historian wrote: " Britain falls under the rule of the Saxons ".

About the inhabitants of the Nomuka islands ( in the Ha ' apai island group of present-day Tonga ), he wrote that their languages, vehicles, weapons, furniture, clothes, tattoos, style of beard, in short all of their being matched perfectly with what he had already seen while studying tribes on Tongatapu.

Steven Brust wrote the introduction for this book, which introduced readers to the world of Dragaera and its inhabitants.

In 1965, the historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote in his Preface to English History 1914 – 1945: " Some inhabitants of Scotland now call themselves Scots and their affairs Scottish.

" In 1874, however, one James Thorne wrote that the inhabitants of Yeading were " always found civil ".

Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

He wrote of William the Conqueror in Historia Anglorum: He was of just stature, ordinary corpulence, fierce countenance ; his forehead was bare of hair ; of such great strength of arm that it was often a matter of surprise, that no one was able to draw his bow, which himself could bend when his horse was in full gallop ; he was majestic whether sitting or standing, although the protuberance of his belly deformed his royal person ; of excellent health so that he was never confined with any dangerous disorder, except at the last ; so given to the pleasures of the chase, that as I have before said, ejecting the inhabitants, he let a space of many miles grow desolate that, when at liberty from other avocations, he might there pursue his pleasures.

Thus, Johann Heinrich Zedler in 1741 wrote that " even though Europe is the smallest of the world's four continents, it has for various reasons a position that places it before all others ... its inhabitants have excellent customs, they are courteous and erudite in both sciences and crafts.

In the first known description of beriberi, he wrote, " A certain very troublesome affliction, which attacks men, is called by the inhabitants beriberi ( which means sheep ).

" The distress is so great that some of the inhabitants are living on grass ," Bougainville wrote.

Lynn Margulis wrote that there is no special tendency of biospheres to preserve their current inhabitants, and certainly not to make them comfortable.

The inhabitants, he wrote, were for the most part Muslim, about 800, and some 20 " Schismatic Greek " families.

James wrote that the colonists were to act " not by agreement " with the local inhabitants, but " by extirpation of thame ".

This is supported by a physical description of the inhabitants of Thule by the Roman poet Silius Italicus, who wrote that the people of Thule were blue painted:

Eustathius of Thessalonica in his 12th century commentary on the Iliad, wrote that the inhabitants of Thule were at war with a dwarf-like stature tribe only 20 fingers in height.

Finn reported wrote in 1877 that " The majority of the inhabitants are Druses.

On November 6, 1948, Nachmani wrote: " In Safsaf, after ... the inhabitants had raised a white flag, the collected and separated the men and women, tied the hands of fifty-sixty fellahin and shot and killed them and buried them in a pit.

Thomas Macaulay observed this and wrote “ Many Christians believe that the Messiah will shortly establish a kingdom on the earth, and visibly reign over all its inhabitants .”

Benjamin Disraeli, later to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, stayed there for a month in September – October 1845 and wrote in a letter to his sister Sarah that he considered it " an extremely savage place ; few of the inhabitants, & none of the humbler classes, talk French, there is no library, bookseller's shop, nor newspaper of any sort ...

Putnam, a political scientist at Harvard University, wrote a book titled Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, in which Italy's " civic North " is defined according to the inhabitants ' civic traditions and attitudes, related to the historical emergence of the free medieval communes since the 10th century.

If this is the case, then he was the son of Exuperantius of Poitiers, of whom the contemporary pagan poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus wrote: " Even now his father Exuperantius trains the Armoric sea-board to love the recovery of peace ; he re-establishes the laws, brings freedom back and suffers not the inhabitants to be their servants ' slaves.

Agatharchides of Cnidus wrote about the " ridiculous practices " of the Jews and of the " absurdity of their Law ," and how Ptolemy Lagus was able to invade Jerusalem in 320 BC because its inhabitants were observing the Sabbath.