Religious faith can be considered a necessary condition of membership in a congregation, since the decision to join a worshiping group requires some motive force, but faith is not a sufficient condition for joining ; ;

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.

The decision of the Council came to be called the Apostolic Decree () and was that most Mosaic law, including the requirement for circumcision of males, was not obligatory for Gentile converts, possibly in order to make it easier for them to join the movement.

Harvard's decision not to join the Yale-Rutgers-Princeton-Columbia association meant that they needed to look further afield to find football opponents so when a challenge from Canada ’ s McGill University rugby team in Montreal was issued to Harvard, they accepted.

Before the parliamentary decision to join the EU, a consultative referendum was held on April 16, 1994 in which 56. 9 % of the votes were in favour of joining.

In 1948, the Khan of Qalat, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, decided to join Pakistan on request of Muhammad Ali Jinnah ( founder of Pakistan ), and decision was made that defence, currency, foreign office and finance will be controlled by federal govt.

Leszek Miller ’ s government, together with President Kwaśniewski, made a decision ( March 2003 ) to join the international coalition and deploy Polish troops to Iraq, targeting at overthrowing Saddam Hussein ’ s government.

This letter, addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, reads as follows: “ In acknowledging the decision of the International Court of Justice on the independence of Kosovo, the Government of the Sultanate of Oman will welcome Kosovo ’ s membership to the United Nations, as well as to other international and regional organizations it wishes to join ”.

Thus, on November 28, 1821, the national assembly was convened and it was officially declared ( through Fábrega, who was invested with the title of Head of State of Panama ) that the isthmus of Panama had severed its ties with the Spanish Empire and its decision to join New Granada and Venezuela in Bolivar's recently founded Republic of Colombia.

In 1922, faced with the decision to join the Union of South Africa as a fifth province or accept nearly full internal self-autonomy, the white electorate cast their votes against South African integration.

In membership negotiations in 1993-1994, Sweden also had reserved the right to make the final decision on whether to join the third stage of the EMU " in light of continued developments.

When his drummer Sonny Greer was invited to join the Wilber Sweatman Orchestra in New York City, Ellington made the fateful decision to leave behind his successful career in Washington, D. C., and move to Harlem, becoming one of the figures of the Harlem Renaissance.

It was decided to leave the decision to join an Indian federation up to Bhutan when the time came.

Frederick Augustus was mistrustful of Prussia in view of the experiences of the spring and arguably disappointed as well by Austria's decision not to join the Coalition immediately, especially while the country was exposed as before to French domination.

Public debate surrounded Tennessee's decision to join the Confederacy.

Spock's decision to join Starfleet, rather than attend the Vulcan Science Academy, ran contrary to his father's wishes.

Reactions to the manufacturer's decision to join the category were mixed, with the team reportedly receiving hate mail over their decision to part company with long-time supplier Holden.

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.

Until 1938 Canaris believed that his family was related to the Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician Constantine Kanaris, which influenced his decision to join the navy.

However, Ventura announced on Larry King Live on July 14, 2008 that he would not run ; Ventura's decision not to join the race was partly rooted from a fear of a potential lack of privacy for his family, a concern that contributed to his refusal to seek a second term as governor.

The decision to join the new league was announced on February 12, 2010.

Consequently, he made the decision to allow African-American soldiers to pick up a gun and join the white military units to fight in combat for the first time.

Wright's sister Angela told Dillon that her brother's decision to join the UVF had in fact had nothing to do with the Miami Showband killings and Dillon then concluded that Wright had encouraged this version of events as he felt linking his won UVF membership to the activities of his heroes Boyle and Sommerville added an origin myth to his own life as a loyalist killer.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.

The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.

* 2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

After a decision in favor of Borland by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the case went to the United States Supreme Court.

For example, a reception statute enacted by legislation in the state of Washington requires that " he common law, so far as it is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, or of the state of Washington nor incompatible with the institutions and condition of society in this state, shall be the rule of decision in all the courts of this state.

Later courts have limited Erie slightly, to create a few situations where United States federal courts are permitted to create federal common law rules without express statutory authority, for example, where a federal rule of decision is necessary to protect uniquely federal interests, such as foreign affairs, or financial instruments issued by the federal government.

He said he was displeased with the federal government's decision to allow United States missile testing in Canada and had wanted to " graphically illustrate to Canadians " how wrong he believed the government to be.

The decision of the United States Supreme Court upheld the right to bridge navigable streams, therefore the bridge was allowed to remain.

The decision was made public shortly before Medawar took responsibility in a United States District Court for bilking $ 3. 4 million from about 50 investors.

See the decision of the United Kingdom Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in MA ( CG ).

To elect means " to choose or make a decision " and so sometimes other forms of ballot such as referendums are referred to as elections, especially in the United States.

A 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found most of the island to be part of New Jersey.

Finland's 1994 decision to buy 64 F-18 Hornet fighter planes from the United States signalled the abandonment of the country's policy of balanced arms purchases from Communist countries and Western countries.

In 1995 the Supreme Court rejected the Gun-Free School Zones Act in the Lopez decision, and also rejected the civil remedy portion of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 in the United States v. Morrison decision.

The decision affects ambassadors to the United States, the People's Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Egypt, South Africa, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Cuba, Switzerland, Serbia, Malaysia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Senegal, Nigeria, Libya, Ghana, Algeria, Morocco, Gabon, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau, comprising almost all of Guinea's foreign embassies.

During the last years of his administration, President Hoyte sought to improve relations with the United States as part of a decision to move his country toward genuine political nonalignment.

The decision to develop a continental standard eventually resulted in a unified, open, standard-based network which was larger than that in the United States.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

Thanks to funds raised by Golda Meir from sympathisers in the United States, and Stalin's decision to support the Zionist cause, the Jewish representatives of Palestine were able to sign very important armament contracts in the East.

This was the case in a famous United States Supreme Court decision in 1975, O ' Connor v. Donaldson, when Kenneth Donaldson, a patient committed to Florida State Hospital, sued the hospital and staff for confining him for 15 years against his will.