On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

Dissenting in the Williams case, Justice John Paul Stevens found that the " nuance eludes me ," suggesting that the majority had resolved the case on a distinction that makes no difference.

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Therefore, though there was no clear-cut majority view on using race as a factor in general, there was a 5 – 4 split in which the majority ( the Stevens plurality and Powell ) agreed that the UC Davis Special admissions program was unconstitutional because it excluded applicants on the basis of race.

However, Stevens was favored by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, by Senator William F. Knowland of California, and by the Republican National Committee, ( Alaska itself had no Senators at this time, as it was still a territory ).

For the second trial, Stevens was up against Edgar Paul Boyko, a flamboyant Anchorage attorney who built his defense of Marler on the theory of no taxation without representation, citing the Territory of Alaska's lack of representation in the U. S. Congress.

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On January 24 Stevens turned 72 years old and showing no signs of slowing down he embarked on what he referred to as a radio call-in tour.

no: Ray Stevens

With the 2010 retirement of John Paul Stevens ( born 1920 ), the U. S. Supreme Court has no White Protestant members.

The play was not penalized during the game, however, and Stevens received no disciplinary measures from the league.

According to Byman, " there were no fewer than ninety-six " other companies in competition during that period, and included some of Hollywood's biggest names: Frank Capra, John Ford, William Wyler, Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, and George Stevens.

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" Justice Blackmun, joined by Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Stevens, dissented, citing that " his case is no more about a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy ," as the Court purports to declare, ante at 191, that Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U. S. 557 ( 1969 ), was about a fundamental right to watch obscene movies, or Katz v. United States, 389 U. S. 347 ( 1967 ), was about a fundamental right to place interstate bets from a telephone booth.

He later summed up Stevens ' approach to improvising in two basic maxims: if you can't hear another musician, then you're too loud ; and there is no point in group improvisation if what you are playing doesn't relate to what other members of the group are playing.

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For example, his opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke ( 1978 ), joined by no other justice in full, represented a compromise between the opinions of Justice William J. Brennan, who, joined by three other justices, would have upheld affirmative action programs under a lenient judicial test, and the opinion of John Paul Stevens, also joined by three justices, who would have struck down the affirmative action program at issue in the case under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Roger Stevens, the founding chairman of the Kennedy Center, asked George Stevens, Jr. ( no relation ), the founding director of the AFI, to have an event for the Center.

As a railroad engineer, Stevens had little expertise in building locks and dams, and probably realized he was no longer the best person for the remainder of the job.

no: John Frank Stevens

Similar work was previously performed around 1885 by Prof. Adolf Martens ( 1850 – 1914 ) at the same Institute and in the mid 1870s by Dr. Robert H. Thurston at the Stevens Institute of Technology in the U. S. Prof. Dr. Thurston was therefore close to establishing the “ Stribeck curve ”, but he presented no “ Stribeck ”- like graphs, as he evidently did not fully believe in the relevance of this dependency.

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Fechner's law implies that sensation is a logarithmic function of physical intensity, which is impossible due to the logarithm's singularity at zero ; therefore, S. S. Stevens proposed the more mathematically plausible power-law relation of sensation to intensity in his famous 1961 paper entitled " To Honor Fechner and Repeal His Law.

Initially billed as Thomas ( or Thos ) Stevens, he considered the stage name Thomas Terry, but fearing that this might be taken as an attempt to pass himself off as a relation of the actress Ellen Terry, he reversed this to Terry Thomas.

Douglas returned to television on the May 18 episode of Impact !, appearing on the entrance ramp as Andy Douglas ( no relation ) made the save for his tag team partner Chase Stevens after a brutal squash match against Samoa Joe.

( Stevens was later charged with contempt of court in relation to this declaration, however as governor he pardoned himself.

" Stevens notes that in Daniel 12: 1, the archangel Michael, is described as " the great prince who protects your people " ( NIV ), which " emphasizes the protective role of Michael in relation to the people of God rather than with respect to a given territory.

The direct relation between transportation and land rent is assumed, e. g., as per Stevens.

Stevens ' dissenting opinion essentially stated that, in formulating a ruling for this case, the court had to consider whether the display had any significant relation to the specific and secular history of the state of Texas or the United States as a whole.

It found: In investigating allegations of collusion in relation to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, this Inquiry faces all the problems identified by the Stevens Inquiry, with the additional complication that it has no authority or powers within the jurisdiction of Northern Ireland.

In Things Merely Are ( Routledge, 2005 ), Critchley examines the relation between philosophy and poetry through an extended meditation on the poetry of Wallace Stevens.

Mark was best known as Marianne Faithfull's accompanist for three years and for having been a member of the band Sweet Thursday ( which included pianist Nicky Hopkins and future Cat Stevens collaborator Alun Davies, also a guitarist ).

In 1973 he got together a trio of session singers, Martin Lee, Nicky Stevens and Lee Sheriden.

* Nicky Stevens ( 1973 – present )

* Nicky Stevens, member of pop group Brotherhood of Man.

* Nicky Stevens ( born 1951 ), singer with The Brotherhood of Man, lived in Abbots Road.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

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

By 1997, the phrase had entered the legal lexicon as seen in an opinion by Supreme Court of the United States Justice John Paul Stevens, ' An example of " junk science " that should be excluded under the Daubert standard as too unreliable would be the testimony of a phrenologist who would purport to prove a defendant ’ s future dangerousness based on the contours of the defendant ’ s skull.

Elena Kagan, who had presented the government's case as Solicitor General of the U. S. and who was nominated to succeed Justice Stevens, supported Kennedy's ruling in her arguments that pointed out that the ruling spelled out for prosecutors and defendants just how the right against self-incrimination applies in such cases.

" Giants ' beat writer Bob Stevens was moved to proclaim: " The catch had to rank with the greatest of all time, as well as one of the most frightening to watch and painful to make.

Within hours after taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by the commander of the army Brigadier General David Lansana, a close ally of Sir Albert Margai who had appointed him to the position in 1964.

Stevens had campaigned on a platform of bringing the tribes together under socialist principles.

Brigadier General Bangura, who had reinstated Stevens as Prime Minister, was widely considered the only person who could put the brakes on Stevens.

However, the demonstration was quickly put down by the army and Stevens ' own personal SSD security forces, which he had created to maintain his hold on power.

Siaka P. Stevens, who had been head of state of Sierra Leone for 18 years, retired from that position in November 1985, although he continued his role as chairman of the ruling APC party.

As head of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces, Major General Momoh was very loyal to Stevens who had appointed him to the position.

This European-held land had been mostly cleared for coconut production, but when they began clearing more land for coconut production, protests began in both Santo and Malekula led by Jimmy Stevens and his kastom movement called " Nagriamel ".

Garfield, who shared the opinion of Thaddeus Stevens, was not in favor of this action, because the rank was intended for Grant, who had dismissed Rosecrans.

He has had affairs with actresses Catherine Deneuve, Jill Banner, Jamie Rose, Inger Stevens, Jo Ann Harris, Jean Seberg, script analyst Megan Rose, James Brolin's former wife Jane, columnist Bridget Byrne, and swimming champion Anita Lhoest.

After the ABC Television Network cancelled producer Leslie Stevens ' science fiction series The Outer Limits in 1965, Stevens wrote a horror script to make use of the talents of the Outer Limits team he had brought together – including cinematographer Conrad L. Hall and composer Dominic Frontiere – with an eye to marketing it to art houses.

Turner was not credited on any of the Stevens releases as he still had months to run on his Sun contract and did not want to cause friction with Sam Philips.

None of the Stevens records had wide distribution and the operation ceased after a year.

The pass had been discovered by John Frank Stevens, principal engineer of the Great Northern Railway, in December 1889, and offered an easier route across the Rockies than that taken by the Northern Pacific.

Shadoe Stevens returned to announce, although he was not given a square on the panel as he had been when John Davidson was host.

Stevens intention was to make recommendations which arose from serious shortcomings he had identified in all three Enquiries.