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.

Thus, moral decision must be entirely deduced backward from the likely eventuality ; ;

Following the decision, the Alphonsus site was considered the most likely candidate for Apollo 17, but was eventually rejected.

* the likely consequences of any decision in the long term

MP Diane Abbott called the decision to withdraw the advert ' ill-considered ' and ' likely to offend the gay community ' in an Early Day Motion on June 25.

A look at the UDRP decision patterns has led some to conclude that compulsory domain name arbitration is less likely to give a fair hearing to domain name owners asserting defenses under the First Amendment and other laws, compared to the federal courts of appeal in particular.

Determining if the customer is likely to return to reclaim an item is a subjective decision, and wily customers may attempt to persuade the pawnshop owner that the item in question is important to them (" that necklace belonged to my grandmother, so I will certainly return for it "), and they will claim that they will return to recover it.

His decision to try a different approach in his dealings with the Welsh was influenced by the events in Ireland, although Warren suggests that " it seems likely that Henry began rethinking his attitude to the Welsh soon after the débâcle of 1165 ".

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.

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.

# Redressability: It must be likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that a favorable court decision will redress the injury.

While this decision process was made no less complex by being informal, common factors included the local power structure ( archbishops and nobles being the most likely recipients of a charter to collect tolls ), space between toll stations ( authorized toll stations seem to have been at least five kilometres apart ), and ability to be defended from attack ( some castles through which tolls were collected were tactically useful until the French invaded in 1689 and levelled them ).

The decision is left ambiguous ( though likely a ' Yes ') as it is also implied that the melding of the minds may be to the child's benefit and that she may have sinister intentions about it.

However, the popular support for the decision was more likely a result of the racist beliefs held by many whites at the time.

Advocates of counterfactual history often respond that all statements about causality in history contain implicit counterfactual claims — for example, the claim that a certain military decision helped a country win a war presumes that if that decision had not been made, the war would have been less likely to be won, or would have been longer.

Salvatore Broschi died unexpectedly on 4 November 1717, aged only 36, and it seems likely that the consequent loss of economic security for the whole family provoked the decision, presumably taken by Riccardo, for Carlo to be castrated.

Perceptions that the Massachusetts militia was well organized and armed at the beginning of the Civil War likely played a role in the appointment decision, as Banks had also been considered for quartermaster general.

The final to Over falls by, and includes the Oxenhall tunnel, which was not destroyed by the construction of the railway, as the railway company took the sensible decision to avoid the likely problems of enlarging it, and built a diversion to the south-west.

This provides a neural explanation for why youth with conduct disorder may be more likely to repeat poor decision making patterns.

Wiencek believes this relationship was among the factors that led George Washington to call slavery " repugnant ," and likely influenced Washington's decision late in life to free all his slaves.

This was likely to be a factor in Central Television's decision not to bring the programme back for a ninth series.

The key decision for the perforator is the spacing of the holes ; if too far apart, the stamps will not separate easily, and the stamps are likely to tear, but if too close, the stamps will tend to come apart in normal handling.

McGee offers the example of Richard Nixon ’ s attempt to defend his decision not to turn over documents to Congress during the Watergate investigation by invoking “ the principle of confidentiality .” Recognizing that his refusal to submit to Congress could be seen as a violation of the “ rule of law ,” Nixon pitted “ the principle of confidentiality ” against the “ rule of law ,” despite the fact that these two ideographs would, in the abstract, not likely be seen as in conflict with one another ..

Although the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) and Duke Energy expressed interest in using MOX reactor fuel from the conversion of weapons-grade plutonium, TVA ( currently the most likely customer ) said in April 2011 that it would delay a decision until it could see how MOX fuel performed in the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi.