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decision and maker
However, this decision was based firmly in the older notions ( see above ) that prevailed at the time as to the mode of corporate decision making, and effective control residing in the shareholders ; if they elected and put up with an incompetent decision maker, they should not have recourse to complain.
This model allows the production of controversy to be seen as a consequence of a decision maker optimized for single-step decision making, rather than as a result of limited reasoning in the Bounded rationality of Kahneman.
He explained that price signals are the only means of enabling each economic decision maker to communicate tacit knowledge or dispersed knowledge to each other, in order to solve the economic calculation problem.
Albert Speer notes that though Himmler seemed pedantic and insignificant on the surface, he was a good decision maker, had a talent for selecting highly competent staff, and successfully inserted the SS into every aspect of daily life.
Whoever jumped highest over the broom was the decision maker of the household.
Or, alternatively, whoever landed on the ground first after jumping the broom was predicted to be the decision maker in the marriage.
Founding principles of the Canadian model of midwifery include informed choice, choice of birthplace, continuity of care from a small group of midwives and respect for the woman as the primary decision maker.
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 other words, each time the offer goes to a decision maker, that decision maker asks to add another concession in order to close the deal.
To strike from the record is for a judge to forbid a decision maker ( such as a juror ) to consider a particular piece of testimony or other evidence when deciding the case even though he or she has already learned what that evidence or testimony concerned.
In the area of decision making, the RBI approach has been used to mine knowledge that is progressively acquired from the decision maker, and then self-tune the decision method accordingly.
It is also " an explicit formal inquiry carried out to help someone ( referred to as the decision maker ) identify a better course of action and make a better decision than he might otherwise have made.
A " top-down " approach is one where an executive, decision maker, or other person or body makes a decision.
Typically, the CEO / MD has responsibilities as a communicator, decision maker, leader, manager and executor.

decision and who
Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.
Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.
Among measures in anticipation of crisis are plans to inject into the turmoil as assistants of key decision makers qualified persons who are cognizant of the corrosive effect of crisis upon personal relationships and are also able to raise calm and realistic voices when overburdened leaders near the limit of self-control.
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.
Those who have served as faculty advisers are too familiar with the useful but artificial mechanisms of student government to be taken in by `` busy-work '' and ersatz decision making.
Lincoln rarely raised objections in the courtroom ; but in an 1859 case, where he defended a cousin Peachy Harrison, who was accused of stabbing another to death, Lincoln angrily protested the judge's decision to exclude evidence favorable to his client.
Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops in defense of the capital ; McClellan, who consistently overestimated the strength of Confederate troops, blamed this decision for the ultimate failure of the Peninsula Campaign.
The appellant is the party who, having lost part or all their claim in a lower court decision, is appealing to a higher court to have their case reconsidered.
This marriage, which took place soon after the death of the Frankish ruler Theudebald in 555, is thought to reflect Audoin's decision to distance himself from the Byzantines, traditional allies of the Lombards, who had been lukewarm when it came to supporting Audoin against the Gepids.
The final conflict was provoked by Antony, who is said to have been persuaded by his lover, the queen Cleopatra of Egypt, to retire to her land and give battle to mask his retreat ; but lack of provisions and the growing demoralization of his army would eventually account for this decision.
The Supreme Court held that for the plea to be accepted, the defendant must have been advised by a competent lawyer who was able to inform the individual that his best decision in the case would be to enter a guilty plea.
Athanasius ' first problem lay with the Meletians, who had failed to abide by the terms of the decision made at the First Council of Nicaea which had hoped to reunite them with the Church.
Mies protested the decision, eventually speaking to the head of the Gestapo, who agreed to allow the school to re-open.
In addition to de facto renunciation through apostasy, heresy, or schism, the Roman Catholic Church envisaged from 1983 to 2009 the possibility of formal defection from the Church through a decision manifested personally, consciously and freely, and in writing, to the competent church authority, who was then to judge whether it was genuinely a case of " true separation from the constitutive elements of the life of the Church ... ( by ) an act of apostasy, heresy or schism.
Of visitors from outside Scotland, 15 % of those who saw Braveheart said it influenced their decision to visit the country.
Of all visitors who saw Braveheart, 39 % said the film influenced in part their decision to visit Stirling, and 19 % said the film was one of the main reasons for their visit.
Chief Richard Akinjide, a former Nigerian Attorney-General and Minister of Justice who had been a leading member of Nigeria's legal team, described the decision as " 50 % international law and 50 % international politics ", " blatantly biased and unfair ", " a total disaster ", and a " complete fraud ".
This decision was met by outrage from the Islanders who thought that it should have been their decision to make.
Bozizé, who has received much support from President Déby, immediately decided to close the C. A. R .- Sudan border ( a decision which he has no capacity at all to enforce ).
Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).
His decision to fight in the war caused a rift between him and his older brother Tom Attlee, who, as a pacifist and a conscientious objector, spent much of the war in prison.

decision and acts
The end came with a federal court decision in United States v. Motion Picture Patents Co. on October 1, 1915, which ruled that the MPPC's acts went " far beyond what was necessary to protect the use of patents or the monopoly which went with them " and was therefore an illegal restraint of trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
If a judge acts against precedent and the case is not appealed, the decision will stand.
It teaches that God's predestining decision is based on the knowledge of His own will rather than foreknowledge, concerning every particular person and event ; and, God continually acts with entire freedom, in order to bring about his will in completeness, but in such a way that the freedom of the creature is not violated, " but rather, established "
Religious beliefs can play a role in decisions about sex, or its purpose, as well ; for example, beliefs about what sexual acts constitute virginity loss or the decision to make a virginity pledge.
Additionally, if the envoys were unable to reach a unanimous decision within six weeks ( the time limit of a single session ), deliberations were declared void and all previous acts passed by that Sejm were annulled.
As a defence, offenders may plead that the other consented to the acts, and argue that any injuries sustained were accidental rather than intentional, leaving it to the jury to make a decision on their truthfulness.
The penalty of these acts of negligence which can be attributed to the fateful decision, in July 1915, to disarm the Verdun forts was estimated at a later date to have cost the French Army at least 100, 000 casualties.
" Whereas the earlier Jewish philosophers extended the omniscience of God to include the free acts of man, and had argued that human freedom of decision was not affected by God's foreknowledge of its results, Ibn Daud, evidently following Alexander of Aphrodisias, excludes human action from divine foreknowledge.
strategy forms the plan of the War, and to this end it links together the series of acts which are to lead to the final decision, that is to say, it makes the plans for the separate campaigns and regulates the combats to be fought in each.
The acts that led to the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U. S. 349 ( 1978 ), the leading American case on judicial immunity, took place in Auburn in 1971.
The doctrine was further justified by a previous Supreme Court decision in 1875, which limited the federal government's ability to intervene in state affairs, only guaranteeing Congress the power “ to restrain states from acts of racial discrimination and segregation.
The Court, in a decision by Justice Joseph P. Bradley, held that the language of the 14th Amendment, which prohibited denial of equal protection by a state, did not give Congress power to regulate these private acts.
Compounding the image problems of the band was a decision to play at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip, widely seen at the time as a mainstream venue for acts that did not engage in radical politics.
The band's arrangement of " The House of the Rising Sun ", which transmuted the song from an acoustic folk lament to a full-bore electric rock song, would go on to influence many folk rock acts but none more so than Dylan himself, who cited it as a key factor in his decision to record and perform with an electric rock band during 1965.
The appeals court agreed that the acts did indeed suggest " an intentional violation " of Rolax's rights, and that he " was detained and used for political purposes by his governor ," but upheld the trial court's decision that it was too late to sue.
The decision declared the Legislature's acts unconstitutional as interferences with the obligations of a contract, whether that contract was seen as the one that existed between College founder Eleazar Wheelock and the Crown, the one between the school's various benefactors and the Crown, or between some other combination of parties.
The head of the unit as immediate superior who acts as primary disciplinary master has the exclusive right to choose: non-judicial punishment ( such as fines, curfews, arrests up to 7 days ), forwarding the decision to the next superior officer of the unit ( arrest then can be extended up to 21 days ) or calling the military service court ( Truppendienstgericht ) which has the power for further punishment ( like degradation and shortening the salary up to five years ).
The controversy deals with the question of whether the structure of socio-political action should be viewed as a more or less centralized process of acts and decisions by a class of key leaders, representing integrated hierarchies of influence in society or whether it is more accurately envisaged as several sets of relatively autonomous opinion and influence groups, interacting with representative decision makers in an official structure of differentiated governmental authority.
Mousavi issued a statement saying, " I'm warning that I won't surrender to this charade ," and urged his supporters to fight the decision, without committing acts of violence.
" Jay Alan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice has referred to the decision as having " changed the status of homosexual acts and changed a previous ruling of the Supreme Court ... this was a drastic rewrite.
Dame Heather Steel, who gave the Appeal Court's decision, said that the court viewed Langham's explanation as " highly improbable " but could not actually reject it, although he was still guilty of encouraging " despicable acts " through downloading the pornography.
The book was banned in Boston in 1962 due to obscenity ( notably child murder and acts of pedophilia ), but that decision was reversed in 1966 by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
" This means that legal decisions are a form of political decision, but not that it is impossible to tell judicial and legislative acts apart.
A person acts intentionally in terms of a result when his purpose is to cause it and he may be held to act intentionally if he foresees that the result is a virtually certain consequence of his action and he nonetheless acts ( see R v. Woollin 4 All ER 103 ; although this decision specifically applies to the law of murder, it is generally accepted that this definition of intent applies throughout the criminal law ).

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