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.

The Tax Court decision and a similar earlier finding by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenges a year-old I.R.S. ruling on the subject.

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.

" Caplan comments on the impact of the Supreme Court's decision making it necessary for there to be evidence of guilt in such a plea, " By requiring that there be some evidence of guilt in such a situation, the decision attempts to protect the ' really ' innocent from the temptations to which plea-bargaining and defense attorneys may subject them.

As some denominations do not have a hard-line stance on the subject, Christians of such denominations are free to make a personal decision.

The experimenters then present the subject rat with a decision between two food options ; the food previously eaten by the demonstrator, and a novel food.

A review of fourteen studies on the subject in sub-Saharan Africa, covering insecticide-treated nets, residual spraying, chemoprophylaxis for children, chemoprophylaxis or intermittent treatment for pregnant women, a hypothetical vaccine, and changing front – line drug treatment, found decision making limited by the gross lack of information on the costs and effects of many interventions, the very small number of cost-effectiveness analyses available, the lack of evidence on the costs and effects of packages of measures, and the problems in generalizing or comparing studies that relate to specific settings and use different methodologies and outcome measures.

Some of the oldest such data is the Bereitschaftspotential or " readiness potential " in which electrical activity related to voluntary actions can be recorded up to two seconds before the subject is aware of making a decision to perform the action.

Their jurisdiction can be illustrated with an example: Parents unsatisfied with the school placement of their child would appeal against the board of education in an administrative court as the school placement is subject to an administrative decision.

The power delegated to the federal government was significantly expanded by the Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland ( 1819 ), amendments to the Constitution following the Civil War, and by some later amendments — as well as the overall claim of the Civil War, that the states were legally subject to the final dictates of the federal government.

By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other media.

A subject who has neither ability nor expertise to make decisions, especially in a crisis, will leave decision making to the group and its hierarchy.

This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent ; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion ; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him / her to make an understanding and enlightened decision.

This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment ; the method and means by which it is to be conducted ; all inconveniences and hazards reasonable to be expected ; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.

Applications from other interested States are subject to a consensus decision by the Open Skies Consultative Commission ( OSCC ), the Vienna-based organization charged with facilitating implementation of the treaty, to which all States Parties belong.

For instance, if immigration has become more and more restricted under the law, then the next legal decision on that subject may serve to restrict it further still.

The concordat of 1933, with which the Vatican sought to protect the Church in Germany, and Hitler sought the destruction of ' political Catholicism ', and Pius ' leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II, including his " decision to stay silent in public about the fate of the Jews ", remain the subject of controversy.

Charles Thomas, one of Marshall's biographers, wrote that although Marshall's assumption of the presidency would have made World War II much less likely, modern hypothetical speculation on the subject was unfair to Marshall, who made the correct decision in not forcibly removing Wilson from office, even temporarily.

In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad,, the Supreme Court ruled that ( 1 ) the Sixteenth Amendment removes the Pollock requirement that certain income taxes ( such as taxes on income " derived from real property " that were the subject of the Pollock decision ), be apportioned among the states according to population ; ( 2 ) the federal income tax statute does not violate the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against the government taking property without due process of law ; ( 3 ) the federal income tax statute does not violate the Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 requirement that excises, also known as indirect taxes, be imposed with geographical uniformity.

More casual games may only bear a passing resemblance to the subject, although many still try to encourage the same types of decision making as the player's historical counterparts, and thereby bring forth the " feel " of the conflict.

Royal justices supervised trials, answered questions as to law and announced the court's decision which was subject to appeal.

Under this procedure, A Party must inform other Parties through the Biosafety Clearing-House, within 15 days, of its decision regarding domestic use of LMOs that may be subject to transboundary movement.

In 1958, Laker announced his decision to sell both ATL and Air Charter to Airwork for £ 600, 000 cash plus a further £ 200, 000, subject to the valuation of stock.

* While Disclosure requires the researcher to supply the subject with the information necessary to make an autonomous decision, the investigators must ensure that subjects have adequate comprehension of the information provided.

* Capacity pertains to the ability of the subject to both understand the information provided and form a reasonable judgment based on the potential consequences of his / her decision.