They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

Of those who have an opinion, it seems that assessment by location is preferred.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

He emphasizes in this section, by way of warning, that philosophers with nuanced thoughts will likely be cast aside in favor of those whose conclusions more intuitively match popular opinion.

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

The classic French historiography often refers to Coalition troops three times more numerous than those of the King of France ( Philip Contamine is not of this opinion: " In front, his opponents did not have a clear numerical superiority ").

As CND did not have a national membership until 1966, the strength of public support in its early days can be estimated only from the numbers of those attending demonstrations or expressing approval in opinion polls.

Majorities seem to favor improving existing schools over providing vouchers, yet as many as 40 % of those surveyed admit that they do not know enough to form an opinion or do not understand the system of school vouchers.

The Thought Police are those who suppress all dissenting opinion.

Seneca had a lower opinion of the mob's un-Stoical appetite for ludi meridiani: " Man ... now slaughtered for jest and sport ; and those whom it used to be unholy to train for the purpose of inflicting and enduring wounds are thrust forth exposed and defenceless.

Article 31 of the " Ley sobre Libertades de Opinión e Información y Ejercicio del Periodismo " ( statute on freedom of opinion and information and the performance of journalism ), punishes with a high fine those who “ through any means of social communication makes publications or transmissions intended to promote hatred or hostility towards persons or a group of persons due to their race, sex, religion or nationality ".

In one of these lectures he was of the opinion that " invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory.

" In so doing, he did not merely denigrate the opinion of the majority but also of those who had influence or power as well.

In the words of his friend and colleague Georg Henrik von Wright: " He was of the opinion ... that his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples.

A member of Harrogate council, one of those that banned the film, revealed during a television interview that the council had not seen the film, and had based their opinion on what they had been told by the Nationwide Festival of Light, of which they knew nothing.

The quirks of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, including the turf floor and the white roof, gave the Twins a significant home-field advantage that played into their winning the World Series in both 1987 and 1991, at least in the opinion of their opponents, as the Twins went 12 – 1 in post season home games during those two seasons.

The court's opinion made explicit, in its obiter dicta, that the term " militia ", as used in colonial times in this originalist decision, included both the federally-organized militia and the citizen-organized militias of the several States: "... the ' militia ' in colonial America consisted of a subset of ' the people '— those who were male, able-bodied, and within a certain age range " ( 7 ) ...

Sometimes a pair of terms is claimed to be an oxymoron by those who hold the opinion that the two are mutually exclusive.

He clarified his idea of pantheism in a 1710 letter to Gottfried Leibniz when he referred to " the pantheistic opinion of those who believe in no other eternal being but the universe ".

As Anglicanism represents a broad range of theological opinion, its presbyterate includes priests who consider themselves no different in any respect from those of the Roman Catholic Church, and a minority who prefer to use the title presbyter in order to distance themselves from the more sacrificial theological implications which they associate with the word “ priest .” While priest is the official title of a member of the presbyterate in every Anglican province worldwide, the ordination rite of certain provinces ( including the Church of England ) recognizes the breadth of opinion by adopting the title The Ordination of Priests ( also called Presbyters ).

Following this, each judge would write an anonymous summary containing his opinion ; these would be circulated among the Court for 2 or 3 days before the President drafted a judgment containing a summary of those submitted by individual judges.

Eventually, after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević from power as president of the federation in 2000, the country rescinded those aspirations and accepted the opinion of Badinter Arbitration Committee about shared succession, and reapplied for and gained UN membership on November 2, 2000.

Historians differ in their assessments as to who was the principal player in the purchase ; the Jefferson biographer Peterson notes a range of opinion among those who credit Napoleon, or others who credit Jefferson, his secretary of state James Madison, and his negotiator James Monroe.

However, concerning children born in the United States to parents who are not U. S. citizens ( and not foreign diplomats ), three Senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no Senator offered a contrary opinion.

His fundamental opinion was that cricketers are " not born " but must be nurtured to develop their skills through coaching and practice ; in his own case, he had achieved his skill through constant practice as a boy at home under the tutelage of his uncle Alfred Pocock.

There is a large ( but not unanimous ) opinion that she was born on April 8, 1914, which means that she died on her 88th birthday.

" The idea that Canada's national identity and nationhood were born out of the battle is an opinion that is widely held in military and general histories of Canada.

* Anna Quindlen ( born 1952 ), best-selling author, journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist.

There is confusion also about his place of birth, " Megara ", which Plato for example understood to be Megara Hyblaea in Sicily, while a scholiast on Plato cites Didymus for the rival theory that the poet was born in a Megara in Attica, and ventures the opinion that Theognis might have later migrated to the Sicilian Megara ( a similar theory had assigned an Attic birthplace to the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus ).

Helen Thomas ( born August 4, 1920 ) is an American author and former news service reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and opinion columnist of Lebanese Rûm / Melkite descent.

This derives from Jackson's consideration on the case in a letter to John Coffee, "... the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate ," ( that is, the Court's opinion was moot because it had no power to enforce its edict ).

Richard John Sinclair " John " Laws, CBE ( born 8 August 1935 ), an Australian radio presenter, sometimes known as Lawsie, was from the 1970s until his retirement in 2007, the host of a hugely successful morning radio program, which mixed music with interviews, opinion, live advertising readings and listener talkback.

The common opinion was that Rudaki was born blind or was blind from his childhood.

Janet Kim Albrechtsen ( born 23 September 1966 ) is an Australian opinion columnist with the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian.

Anna Marie Quindlen ( born July 8, 1952 ) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992.

In the opinion of Wyatt and Robinson, the version presented by Marut to the police is true – B. Traven was born as Otto Feige in Schwiebus ( modern day Świebodzin ) and only later changed his name to Ret Marut, his stage name Marut being the anagram of traum ( dream in German ).

John Zogby ( born 1948 ) founder of the " Zogby Poll " and the Zogby companies, is an American public opinion pollster and author.

Contrary to popular opinion, Rossini's opera " Tancredi " is not about Tancred Prince of Galilee ; the opera story takes place in 1005 whereas Tancred was born in 1072.

* Thalia Assuras ( born February 5, 1951 ), anchor of energyNOW !, a TV news-magazine and opinion program produced by the American Clean Skies Foundation

Famous natives of the province of Ancona include the painter Gentile da Fabriano, born in Fabriano ; writer Rafael Sabatini ( Jesi ); composer Gaspare Spontini, born in Maiolati, now named after him Maiolati Spontini ; composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ( Jesi ); mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra ( Ancona ); Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor ( Jesi ); footballer Roberto Mancini ( Jesi ); Pope Leo XII ( Genga, although a minority opinion holds he was born in the Umbrian town of Spoleto ); Pope Pius IX ( Senigallia ); Maria Montessori ( Chiaravalle ), and actress Virna Lisi ( Jesi ).

He was damning of Croker's editing: " This edition is ill compiled, ill arranged, ill written, and ill printed ", and held a mixed opinion of Boswell: " Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London ...; such was this man, and such he was content and proud to be ".

Michele Santoro ( born July 2, 1951 ) is an Italian journalist, anchorman, opinion leader, television host and presenter.

However, Vickie's opinion of the object quickly changed: a born again Christian, she interpreted the object as a sign of the second coming of Jesus Christ, telling her grandson, " That's Jesus.

Though he lost the case, Otis influenced public opinion in a way that contributed to the American Revolution ; John Adams later wrote of that speech, " Then and there ... the child independence was born.

Harold Meyerson ( born 1950 ) is an American journalist and opinion columnist.