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:

He wrote that " the majority of the inhabitants of Southern Serbia are Orthodox Christian Macedonians, ethnologically more akin to the Bulgarians than to the Serbs.

* 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.

The chancellor of the Exchequer wrote on the petition: `` in myn opinion it is very resonable and conscionable for hir maiestie to graunt in relief of this towne twise afflicted and almost wasted by fire ''.

The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action: `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by mutual inspections and what is called public sentiment.

For example, Justice Harlan in 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson landmark Supreme Court opinion, wrote, ' There is no caste here.

In a June 1993 Washington Post opinion piece, Goldwater wrote: " You don't have to be straight to shoot straight.

In December 2009, after the release of thousands of e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit — a controversy that came to be known as " Climategate "— Singer wrote an opinion piece for Reuters in which he said the scientists had misused peer review, pressured editors to prevent publication of alternative views, and smeared opponents.

Farr, already of the opinion that the London temple should be closed, wrote to Mathers expressing her wish to resign as his representative, though she was willing to carry on until a successor was found.

He wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled " China Won't Ever Be the Same ", in which he said that the killings " tore the heart out of a generation that carries the hope for the future of the country ".

He got the assurances he wanted: " The Führer is of the opinion ," he wrote, " that the Jews eventually have to be removed from the whole of Germany.

He wrote Hamilton at the New York ratifying convention, stating his opinion that " ratification was in toto and ' for ever '".

The British historian Victor Rothwell wrote that the newspapers that Ribbentrop used to provide his press summaries for Hitler, such as the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, were out of touch not only with British public opinion, but also with British government policy in regard to Poland.

And on 29th June 1933, i. e., several months after Hitler was made Chancellor and the Nazis were given full police power over Germany, and while the Nazis were still busy terrorizing and murdering Communists, Social Democrats, and Labor Union officials, Adenauer wrote in a letter: " In my opinion the only salvation is a monarch, a Hohenzoller [...], even Hitler in my opinion, a lifetime Reichpresident [...]“.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the opinion and was joined by Justices Scalia, Alito, and Thomas and by Chief Justice Roberts.

Chief Justice Marshall wrote the opinion of the court.

Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal wrote to organisers of a Swedish book fair to which Singer was invited that " A professor of morals ... who justifies the right to kill handicapped newborns ... is in my opinion unacceptable for representation at your level.

Kenney's deputy, Maj. Gen. St. Clair Streett, wrote in July 1946: " No major strategic threat or requirement now exists, in the opinion of our country ’ s best strategists nor will such a requirement exist for the next three to five years.

Justice Samuel Nelson wrote the opinion of the Supreme Court in The Justices v. Murray, 76 U. S. 9 Wall.

Bruce R. McConkie, who was later ordained an apostle of the LDS Church, originally wrote his opinion that the Catholic Church was the great and abominable church, but very few in the LDS Church share his view today.

Anning's correspondents included Charles Lyell, who wrote her to ask her opinion on how the sea was affecting the coastal cliffs around Lyme, as well as, Adam Sedgwick — one of her earliest customers — who taught geology at the University of Cambridge and who numbered Charles Darwin among his students.

In 1954, he wrote an article on the history of the H-bomb, which presents his opinion that both men contributed very significantly to the breakthrough.

Czech cultural historian and ethnographer Čeněk Zíbrt, who wrote in detail about the origin of the dance, in his book, Jak se kdy v Čechách tancovalo cites an opinion of František Doucha ( 1840, Květy, p. 400 ) that " polka " was supposed to mean " tanec na polo " ( n. b. the absence of diacritics ), i. e., " a dance in half ", both referring to the half-tempo 2 / 4 and the half-jump step of the dance.

Sydney Smith wrote, " Never was any administration so completely and so suddenly destroyed ; and, I believe, entirely by the Duke's declaration, made, I suspect, in perfect ignorance of the state of public feeling and opinion.