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.

However, demarcation has been delayed, despite intense international intervention, by Ethiopian insistence that the decision ignored " human geography ," made technical errors in the delimitation, and determined that certain disputed areas, specifically Badme, fall to Eritrea.

In his autobiography, Davis disputed this account, stating that Roach had requested that Davis play with him that night, and that the details of the incident, such as carrying his horn in a paper bag and interrupting Roach and Brown, were fictional and that his decision to quit heroin was unrelated to the incident.

On the papal side, it was conceded that the bishops should receive investiture with the sceptre, that the episcopal elections should be held in the presence of the Emperor or his representatives, that in case of disputed elections the Emperor should, after the decision of the metropolitan and the suffragan bishops, confirm the rightfully elected candidate, and lastly, that the imperial investiture of the temporal properties connected to the sees should take place in Germany before the consecration.

The referee's decision is not final and may be disputed by the five shimpan ( judges ) seated around the ring.

Their three-to-two decision, handed down in 1899, awarded 94 percent of the disputed territory to British Guiana.

This decision was disputed by the Chilean Government and has been a source of conflict until present times.

Laporte lost another disputed decision, this time to former world Jr Welterweight champion Billy Costello in 1999 and then finally retired from boxing.

Leonard was announced as winner by split decision, which remains hotly disputed to this day.

De La Hoya won a disputed twelve round unanimous decision to capture the Lineal and WBC titles.

The fight was a disputed decision, with one judge scoring the fight 115 – 113 for De La Hoya, and the other two scoring it 116 – 112 and 115 – 113 for Mosley.

The election was finally settled in favor of the Republican candidates, but the decision was disputed in certain areas.

However, Souter and Breyer favored remanding the case back to the Florida Supreme Court for the purpose of crafting specific guidelines for how to count disputed ballots, in contrast to the majority's decision to halt the recount altogether.

After twelve rounds, Holmes retained the title by a disputed split decision.

Holmes emerged with a close, and disputed, fifteen-round unanimous decision.

Spinks retained the title with a disputed fifteen-round split decision.

The decision was heavily disputed.

The January 1998 issue of Boxing Monthly listed Ali-Norton as the fifth most disputed title fight decision in boxing history.

After another win, he suffered his first setback, losing a hotly disputed decision ( which had him in tears ) to Peter Eubanks ( brother of Chris Eubank ) over eight rounds at Wembley, England.

On August 28, 2010 he lost to Marcos Maidana by unanimous decision in a fight in which was disputed, for the WBA light welterweight title.

On November 14, 2010 he lost to Serhiy Fedchenko by unanimous decision in a fight in which was also disputed, for the vacant WBO European light welterweight title.

Some disputed the decision, although a majority of people felt that Langford had won the bout, which following a decision-appealing vote, it was decided ( in a non-controversial manner ) that it would stand as a decision win for Langford.

The controversial decision of the government to award the collected funds to the Russian Union of Rights-Holders for further distribution was criticized by the public and disputed in a lawsuit.

Jimmy Young ( November 14, 1948 – February 20, 2005 ) was a Philadelphia heavyweight boxer who had his greatest success during the 1970s, when he most notably beat George Foreman and lost a disputed decision against Muhammad Ali.