Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.

Thus, a finding of conspiracy to restrain trade or attempt to monopolize was excluded from the Court's decision.

The recommendation of the Department -- as well as the decision of the appeal board -- was based entirely on the local board file, not on an FBI report.

The decision reached in 1938-39 was made after the accumulation of a large amount of data and thorough study thereof.

I was saved from making the decision as the phone rang, and the girls were upon me instantly.

Since the writer had established this democratic procedure in the beginning he had to go along with their decision -- after, of course, pointing out whether he thought their decision was a wise or an unwise one.

Although the government was probably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first decision was no doubt made more difficult as party strife multiplied.

The decision was made in Zurich by Prince Boun Oum, Premier of the pro-Western royal Government ; ;

Berger's decision to sue for the full amount of the performance bond was questioned by Wagner in the morning press conference.

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 Supreme Court decision in mid-1960 was in the case of a company making sewer pipe from clay which it mined.

Every decision was made quickly on sound grounds.

It was up to her to save Poor John, dear John, to undo the wrong she had done, but she trembled at the decision as at the brink of a cold stream.

He was a director of S. & M. and must have been in on the decision.

After the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.

* Rejection of terra nullius: The decision recognised that the indigenous population had a pre-existing system of law, which, along with all rights subsisting thereunder, would remain in force under the new sovereign except where specifically modified or extinguished by legislative or executive action.

Then, the balance sheet of the buyer will be modified and the decision maker should take into account the effects on the reported financial results.

In the aforementioned Coleman v. Miller decision, the Supreme Court modified Dillon considerably, holding that the question of timeliness of ratification is a political and non-justiciable one, leaving the issue to Congress's discretion.

shall not prevent the Party of import, in order to avoid or minimize such potential adverse effects, from taking a decision, as appropriate, with regard to the import of the living modified organism in question.

Dillon v. Gloss was later modified by Coleman v. Miller, a decision also cited as a basis for the three state strategy.

Pope Pius XII modified his predecessor's decision in 1939.

* US v. EU on GM food: The European Union expresses their disapproval over the American, Canadian and Argentinian effort to launch a World Trade Organization formal challenge against its decision to keep the policy of banning genetically modified crops.

Created by the Delaware Constitution of 1776, its membership and responsibilities have been modified by the Delaware Constitution of 1792, the Delaware Constitution of 1831, the Delaware Constitution of 1897, and Supreme Court of the United States decision in Reynolds v. Sims in 1965.

This decision was reinforced and modified, as on 21 August 1968, the Prague Spring was ended by invading troops.

The game's publisher, SCI, had a modified version created in which the pedestrians in question were replaced by green-blooded zombies, which completed a successful appeal against the BBFC to overturn their original decision.

Movements in the bulk of IWC's lower range watches and chronographs ( including the Portuguese Chronograph ) use movements delivered directly from Swatch-owned ETA, previously in line with industry practice IWC purchased ebauche kits from ETA and its subsidiary Valjoux which it heavily modified but due to ETA's decision to stop selling ebauche kits to its competitors it now delivers the movements fully completed.

A large amount of damage to a cell leaves it with an important decision: undergo apoptosis and die, or survive at the cost of living with a modified genome.

# Businesses-get businesses much more involved in regulatory-type decision making through the use of voluntary agreements ( provided competition law ( or its interpretation ) can be modified to allow it ).

He would have modified the District Court decision only to permit the use of arbitration to resolve disputes.

An early challenge occurred in November 2007 when State Labor MP Tammy Lobato publicly criticised Brumby over a decision by cabinet to allow genetically modified canola to be grown in Victoria.

In 2004, the final EIS was issued and a decision approving a modified version of the MAA plan's alternative 2 that included every major component of the original 1998 expansion proposal.

This decision was later modified so that most of the installation would be converted into a Joint Reserve Base, retaining the Air Force Reserve presence that had historically been located at Carswell AFB and relocating Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and Air National Guard flying units from nearby Naval Air Station Dallas, that was also identified for closure.

He modified Imhotep's pyramid design in a way, which is likely to have caused the collapse of the pyramid in conjunction with the decision to extend the construction plan two times in a row, while the pyramid was already under construction.

The UK Government claims that the restrictions of the MPA will be modified pending the decision of the ECHR.

However, the Legislature modified the law in a way that blunts the court's decision.

Additionally, the consensus decision making process implies that once a proposal is accepted, it has been modified to suit the needs of all members of an organization.