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The decision was fiercely debated across the country, as perhaps best exemplified by the Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858.
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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.
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The French Directory agreed with Bonaparte's plans, although a major factor in their decision was a desire to see the politically ambitious Bonaparte and the fiercely loyal veterans of his Italian campaigns as far from France as possible.
New Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry was fiercely critical of the decision and dispatched a vaka ( traditional voyaging canoe ) with a crew of Cook Islands ' traditional warriors to protest near the test site.
This was fiercely contested by Cleveland County Council, who applied for judicial review over the decision.
At the time, his decision was fiercely criticised by 364 academic economists in a letter to The Times, who contended that there was no place for de-stimulatory policies in the economic climate of the time, remarking the Budget had " no basis in economic theory or supporting evidence ".
In a fiercely split decision, the Court ruled 5-4 against the existence of reportorial privilege in the Press Clause of the First Amendment.
When the three-headed dragon demanded the sacrifice of a young maiden, she fiercely fought against the decision to comply, and when it came time to offer her daughter to the beast she refused, standing guard by Rosella's room with a drawn sword.
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In project environments with a significant exploratory element ( e. g., research and development ), these stages may be supplemented with decision points ( go / no go decisions ) at which the project's continuation is debated and decided.
Then British Prime Minister Tony Blair was quoted as saying the issue would be fully debated in Parliament prior to a decision being taken.
Today it is a much debated problem in the philosophical branch of decision theory but has received little attention from the mathematical side.
Some aspects of the Brown decision are still debated.
This is a debated allusion to Donnie's decision to not avoid his death at the end of the movie.
To this day, Steele's decision remains controversial and hotly debated.
Hidalgo's reasoning for this decision is unclear and has been debated by historians.
According to democratic centralism, all leaders must be elected by the people and all proposals must be debated openly, but, once a decision has been reached, all people have a duty to obey that decision and all debate should end.
This area of decision making, although it is very old and has attracted the interest of many researchers and practitioners, is still highly debated as there are many MCDA / MCDM methods which may yield very different results when they are applied on exactly the same data.
The decision to go public was one that the partners debated for decades.
The decision was made by the exiled Norwegian government in London in 1944, later to be debated three times in the Parliament during the trials, and to be confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Much debated was the question whether the U. S. should pursue a rollback strategy against Communism in Eastern Europe in 1953-56 ; the decision was not to.
While the amendment was being debated, the Ministry of Welfare issued an administrative decision to establish the Commission for SCs / STs as a multi-member committee to discharge the same functions as that of the Commissioner of SCs / STs.
Rogers wrote Walker in June 1880 to offer him the Presidency and Walker evidently debated the opportunity for some time as Rogers sent followup inquiries in January and February 1881 requesting his committed decision.
The extension of Hoved Line to Hamar ( 1880 ) was built with standard gauge and caused an inconvenient break-of-gauge for transport at the Røros Line, and a change to standard gauge was debated repeatedly, however without any decision made.
The decision to award the third England goal is still debated.
The revelation of Ned's age was heavily debated between the Simpsons staff, and the decision to make him 60 years old could have been inspired from a joke by Simpsons writer Ron Hauge.
The meaning of Coke's decision is debated ; it can be construed as marking the supremacy of the common law over Parliament through judicial review, or simply as being another form of statutory interpretation.
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