Religious faith can be considered a necessary condition of membership in a congregation, since the decision to join a worshiping group requires some motive force, but faith is not a sufficient condition for joining ; ;

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 use of abeyance in such instances can allow such an organization to ' settle ' with the party without officially binding its actions in the future, should a new group of decision makers within the organization choose to pursue taking the dispute to court.

A decision is an instrument which is focused at a particular person or group and is directly applicable.

It involves the group's initial reaction or interaction, influencing the individual's actual behavior towards the group or the group leader, restricting members of one group from opportunities or privileges that are available to another group, leading to the exclusion of the individual or entities based on logical or irrational decision making.

Following Lasswell he states that “ a person identifies himself with a group when, in making a decision, he evaluates the several alternatives of choice in terms of their consequences for the specified group ”.

The fundamental problem for organizations is to recognize that personal and group identifications can either facilitate or obstruct correct decision making for the organization.

As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by African-American blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Lead Belly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.

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.

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.

While the wealthy capitalists who controlled the House of Commons benefited from these monopolies, Parliament found it difficult to implement them because of the high cost of group decision making.

A new political party, the People's Party, had formed to try to block the change but was unsuccessful as was the People Against Switching Sides protest group which launched a last minute legal challenge against the decision.

It soon became apparent that Stephenson did not have the drive and belief that the rest of the group had, so the decision was made to fire her from the group.

However, Stephenson stated that it was her decision to leave the group, because of the illness of her mother, who was diagnosed with

The album Music from Big Pink, in particular, is credited with contributing to Clapton's decision to leave the super group Cream.

Subsequent authors have greatly extended Dehn's algorithm and applied it to a wide range of group theoretic decision problems.

This work described several now famous results, including Condorcet's jury theorem, which states that if each member of a voting group is more likely than not to make a correct decision, the probability that the highest vote of the group is the correct decision increases as the number of members of the group increases, and Condorcet's paradox, which shows that majority preferences become intransitive with three or more options – it is possible for a certain electorate to express a preference for A over B, a preference for B over C, and a preference for C over A, all from the same set of ballots.

To the couple's amazement, their neighbors on Hemlock Street strongly object to their decision to boycott the holiday, because their decision not to decorate their home will jeopardize their winning the coveted prize for best decorated block in the neighborhood.

On September 13, 1861, in view of the decision of the Kentucky legislature to side with the Union after the occupation of Columbus by Polk, Johnston ordered Brig.

Johnston also reinforced Fort Donelson with 12, 000 more men, including those under Floyd and Pillow, a curious decision in view of his thought that the Union gunboats alone might be able to take the fort.

Despite his decision to decline the award, the Soviet Union of Writers continued to denounce Pasternak in the State owned press.

Almost all Germans who returned or remained were expelled as the city was annexed by the Soviet Union and ceded to Poland in spring 1945, a decision by Stalin with full consent of the western Allies in the Potsdam Conference.

Implicitly the government is responsible for internal policy and decision making in the European Union.

Although Maryland remained in the Union, newspaper editorials and many Marylanders, including Booth, agreed with Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision in Ex parte Merryman that Lincoln's actions were unconstitutional.

This was rejected by the Khan of Kalat who, upset by the claim, issued a communiqué: " On the night of March 27, All India Radio, Delhi announced that two months ago Kalat State had approached the Indian Union to accept its accession to India and that the Indian Union had rejected the request … It had never been my intention to accede to India … It is, therefore, declared that from 9 pm on March 27th – the time when I heard the false news over the air, I forthwith decide to accede to Pakistan, and that whatever differences now exist between Kalat and Pakistan be placed in writing before Mr Jinnah, the Governor-General of Pakistan, whose decision I shall accept ".

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He was almost immediately in serious difficulty as a result of Arthur Scargill's decision to lead his union, the National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) into a national strike ( in opposition to pit closures ) without a members ' ballot.

In Atkins v. Virginia, for example, the majority cited the fact that the European Union forbid death penalty as part of their reasoning, while Chief Justice Rehnquist denounced the " Court's decision to place weight on foreign laws.

Since then, many jurisdictions have been swayed by Justice Traynor's arguments on behalf of the strict liability rule in Escola, Greenman, and subsequent cases — including nearly all U. S. states, the European Union, Australia, and Japan — and have adopted it either by judicial decision or by legislative act.

Other important events include the Blackheath Club's decision to leave the Football Association in 1863 and the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871.

In 1922, faced with the decision to join the Union of South Africa as a fifth province or accept nearly full internal self-autonomy, the white electorate cast their votes against South African integration.

The Constitution of Finland and Halonen's decision to take part in some European Union meetings with the Prime Minister has created the so-called " problem of two dinner plates " in Finland.

During the Civil War, the people of western Virginia rejected the state convention's decision to secede from the Union.

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.

However the decision to block Catholic Emancipation fatally undermined the appeal of the Union.

Lincoln was also alarmed at the level of casualties, and queried Halleck as to Grant's potential responsibility for them ; Grant was criticized for his decision to keep the Union Army bivouacked rather than entrenched.

In 1811, a decision was made to establish the first university in the Dano-Norwegian Union, after a successful campaign which resulted in an agreement with King Fredrik VI.

* Emperor Zeno promulgates an Edict of Union ( Henotikon ) in an unsuccessful effort to soften the decision made at the Council of Chalcedon ( 451 ) and resolve differences between the eastern and western Churches.

In 1879, the Supreme Court of the United States formally established, in its decision regarding Union Pacific Railroad vs. United States ( 99 U. S. 402 ), the official " date of completion " of the Transcontinental Railroad as November 6, 1869.

During the American Civil War, American cotton exports slumped due to a Union blockade on Southern ports, also because of a strategic decision by the Confederate government to cut exports, hoping to force Britain to recognize the Confederacy or enter the war, prompting the main purchasers of cotton, Britain and France to turn to Egyptian cotton.

On June 26, 1997, the Supreme Court upheld the Philadelphia court's decision in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, stating that the indecency provisions were an unconstitutional abridgement of the First Amendment right to free speech because they did not permit parents to decide for themselves what material was acceptable for their children, extended to non-commercial speech, and did not define " patently offensive ," a term with no prior legal meaning.

The decision to transform from a Union to Republic was narrowly decided in the referendum.