Because Justice John Paul Stevens had recused himself, only eight Justices heard the case, and it ended in a 4 – 4 tie.

One possible derivation is from the proto-Germanic word * bastjan ( from Proto-Indo-European root word * b < sup > h </ sup > as ) means " binding " or " tie ".< ref > Köbler * b < sup > h </ sup > as </ ref > In this case, Bastarnae may have had the original meaning of an alliance or bund of tribes.

The mayor's duties include running city council meetings and approves or vetoes all actions taken by the council members, and can vote in case of a tie.

The competitor with the longest single legal throw ( over all rounds ) is the winner ; in the case of a tie the competitors ' second-longest throws are also considered.

In the case of a tie, there are several options:

However, if the board held A-K-Q-J-3, the players would tie, because both would play the hand A-A-K-Q-J ; in this case it is said that the players ' kickers " don't play ", or that the " kicker on the board plays ".

In the unusual case of a true tie, where the dealer's high tile would be in the same pair as the player's high tile, the dealer wins the tie.

In this case, an administrative jump-off is conducted to break the tie, but the marks are not considered valid for any other purpose than breaking the tie.

The landlord of a tied pub may be an employee of the brewery — in which case he / she would be a manager of a managed house, or a self-employed tenant who has entered into a lease agreement with a brewery, a condition of which is the legal obligation ( trade tie ) only to purchase that brewery's beer.

The goal of the game is to get half of these ( 60 or 61 ); in case of a tie, the opponents win.

There is a strong convention within the U. S. Senate that the Vice President not use his position as President of the Senate to influence the passage of legislation or act in a partisan manner, except in the case of breaking tie votes.

In the case of a tie for second, then the Senate would choose the Vice President.

In the latter case the route selection process moves to the next tie breaker.

Each case spanned several episodes and cliffhangers were quite often used, but it was not until the end of the second series that a cliffhanger was employed to tie off the series.

In 3rd edition, to tie the game into the World of Darkness line, this was the case because those were the beliefs ; other editions distance themselves from this interpretation, simply taking place in a world where those beliefs happen to be true.

As this was the former method of determining if a contestant was eliminated in case of a tie, a new tiebreaker format was developed.

In the case of another tie, the war process is repeated until there is no tie.

( In some rule sets, the bonus is only 10 or 20 points, or is not awarded in case of a tie.

This may be followed by a school tie for boys, a jumper or a blazer in the case that it is a shirt or blouse.

In case of a tie score, the contestant who had not selected their own question in the previous round made the selection in the tie-breaker round.

The same restrictions apply after local sunset in the case of class 3, stations operating on regional channels, which after that time are required to operate under nighttime restrictions in order to protect each other.

I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.

But if this is the case, then an arbitrary pencil of lines having a point, P, of **zg as vertex is transformed into a ruled surface of order Af having Af generators concurrent at P.

The multiple secants, of course, are exceptional and in each case are transformed into cones of order Af.

For if such were the case, either the plane of the two lines would meet **zg in more than K points or, alternatively, the order of the image regulus of the pencil determined by the two lines would be too high.

This circumstance in the patient's case plus the fact that his tactual capacity remained basically in sound working order constitutes its exceptional value for the problem at hand since the evidence presented by the authors is overwhelming that, when the patient closed his eyes, he had absolutely no spatial ( that is, third-dimensional ) awareness whatsoever.

The curvature of this bluntness is, in the case of the Carboloy knife employed in the Hesiometer, determined by the grain sizes of the polished grit and the tungsten carbide crystals cemented together in the knife body and is in the order of 0.1 to 0.2 mil..

The case is famous for Lincoln's use of a fact established by judicial notice in order to challenge the credibility of an eyewitness.

However, certain critical interlocutory court orders, such as the denial of a request for an interim injunction, or an order holding a person in contempt of court, can be appealed immediately although the case may otherwise not have been fully disposed of.

Later he lies freely in order to gain the confidences of other characters, either inventing his own reason for being interested in the case or a family excuse for pursuing a line of questioning.

Christie made a point of having Poirot supply false or misleading information about himself or his background in order to assist him in obtaining information relevant to a particular case.

Very little mention is made in Christie's work about this part of his life, but in " The Nemean Lion " ( 1939 ) Poirot himself refers to a Belgian case of his in which " a wealthy soap manufacturer poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary ".

We do not know whether this case resulted in a successful prosecution or not ; moreover, Poirot is not above lying in order to produce a particular effect in the person to whom he is speaking, so this evidence is not reliable.

Some arguments from moral order suggest that morality is based on rationality and that this can only be the case if there is a moral order in the universe.

It may be applied, as it is stated in article 1 of the convention in case of: offenses against penal law ; acts which, whether or not they are offenses, may or do jeopardize the safety of the aircraft or of persons or property therein or which jeopardize good order and discipline on board.

The Tokyo Convention states in Article 11, defining the so-called unlawful takeover of an aircraft, that the parties signing the agreement are obliged, in case of hijacking or a threat of it, to take all the necessary measures in order to regain or keep control over an aircraft.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

In the latter case a battery observation team can order fire to their own battery and may be authorised to order fire to their own battalion and sometimes to many battalions.

In case of a-Si: H the missing long-range order between silicon atoms is partly induced by the presence by hydrogen in the percent range.

( Expressed more technically, in each case the pair ( m, n ) decreases in the lexicographic order on pairs, which is a well-ordering, just like the ordering of single non-negative integers ; this means one cannot go down in the ordering infinitely many times in succession.

It also means that in the case of an irregularity or dispute over a hand before the cards are returned to the board, they can be reviewed and it can be determined who played which cards in what order.

However, in the case of a creditor's petition, the Statement of Affairs will rarely be filed on the same day the court order is made.

In the case of integer order n, the function is defined by taking the limit as a non-integer α tends to n: