The majority of the North American Bereans re-joined the main body of Christadelphians in 1952 ; though a small number continue as a separate community to the present day.

This re-united group, which now included the large majority of Christadelphians, became known as the Central fellowship named after the Birmingham Central ecclesia.

The main distinguishing doctrinal difference between Church of God General Conference ( CoGGC ) and Christadelphians and Church of the Blessed Hope ( CGAF ) is that the majority of CoGGC members believe that Satan is a literal fallen angel, although a minority do not.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

The extreme of Calvinism is hyper-Calvinism, which insists that signs of election must be sought before evangelization of the unregenerate takes place and that the eternally damned have no obligation to repent and believe, and on the extreme of Arminianism is Pelagianism, which rejects the doctrine of original sin on grounds of moral accountability ; but the overwhelming majority of Protestant, evangelical pastors and theologians hold to one of these two systems or somewhere in between.

The majority of scholars believe that the Anglii lived on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, probably in the southern part of the Jutish peninsula.

But if consciousness is subjective and not visible from the outside, why do the vast majority of people believe that other people are conscious, but rocks and trees are not?

Today, all diverse local languages under the Standard German umbrella are collectively referred to as " German dialects ", ( including Slavic, Frisian, Dutch, and Danish ones ) the vast majority of German speakers still believe, they were variations of " original " or even Standard German.

The majority of citizens ( 56 %) believe that membership of the EU has benefited their country, though a significant minority ( 31 %) believe that their country has not benefited.

A majority of scholars believe that Luke used Q as his second source.

the majority do not believe that John or one of the Apostles wrote it, and trace it instead to a " Johannine community " which traced its traditions to John ; the gospel itself shows signs of having been composed in three " layers ", reaching its final form about 90-100 AD.

A Lebanese public opinion poll taken in August 2006 shows that most of the Shia did not believe that Hezbollah should disarm after the 2006 Lebanon war, while the majority of Sunni, Druze and Christians believed that they should.

A majority of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews believe that the Hebrew calendar dates back to the time of creation ; the year 2009-2010 ( the Hebrew New Year begins during September or October ) of the Gregorian calendar corresponds to the Hebrew year 5770.

“ In one of the most telling complaints, a majority ( 54 %) of Americans believe the news media gets in the way of society solving its problems ,” Pew reported.

Justice Minister Ricardo Gil Lavedra, who formed part of the 1985 tribunal judging the military crimes committed during the Dirty War would later go on record saying that " I sincerely believe that the majority of the victims of the illegal repression were guerrilla militants ".

Heathens believe in multiple polytheistic deities, all adopted from historical Germanic mythologies ; the majority of Heathens are " polytheistic realists ", believing that the deities are real entities, whilst others view them as Jungian archetypes.

Scholars contend that Macbeth is one of the most overwhelming pieces of evidence against the Oxfordian position ; the vast majority of critics believe the play was written in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot.

As a group who believe that Mason Remey was the second Guardian of the Bahá ' í Faith, they are considered heretical Covenant-breakers by the majority of Bahá ' ís who follow the leadership of the Universal House of Justice.

The majority of Pentecostals believe that at the moment a person is born again, the new believer has the presence ( indwelling ) of the Holy Spirit.

Although the majority of sects within Judaism, Christianity and Islam do not believe that individuals reincarnate, particular groups within these religions do refer to reincarnation ; these groups include the mainstream historical and contemporary followers of Kabbalah, the Cathars, and the Shia sects such as the Alawi Shias and the Druze and the Rosicrucians.

A Globescan BBC poll on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ( 2009 ) found that 23 % of respondents believe capitalism is " fatally flawed and a different economic system is needed ", with that figure rising to over 40 % of the population in France ; while a majority of respondents including over 50 % of Americans believe capitalism " has problems that can be addressed through regulation and reform ".

Orthodox, Sephardim, a majority of Israeli Jews and other Jews, including many whom are not religious, believe that the Torah was given to Moses at Sinai.

The majority of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that this great and abominable church includes any organized group of people who fight against God and His divine purposes by means of persecution, false teachings and belief systems, and oppression.

However, a slight majority of Americans do believe that affirmative action goes beyond ensuring access and goes into the realm of preferential treatment.

The majority of intelligence officers did not believe that Golitsyn was credible in this and various other claims, but a significant number did ( most prominently James Jesus Angleton, Deputy Director of Operations for Counter-Intelligence at the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ) and factional strife broke out between the two groups.

Therefore, when a merger with a controlling stockholder was: 1 ) negotiated and approved by a special committee of independent directors ; and 2 ) conditioned on an affirmative vote of a majority of the minority stockholders, the business judgment standard of review should presumptively apply, and any plaintiff ought to have to plead particularized facts that, if true, support an inference that, despite the facially fair process, the merger was tainted because of fiduciary wrongdoing .″

Mill recognises that these ‘ competent judges ’ will not always agree, in which case the judgment of the majority is to be accepted as final.

While the majority of news reports echoed these official declarations, there were others which opined that Western critics should " suspend judgment for a time ," and despite its generally critical stance on South Africa's policies, Time magazine wrote that Bophuthatswana had " considerable economic potential " with an expected $ 30 million a year coming from mining revenues.

Except for three opening sections of the O ' Connor-Kennedy-Souter opinion, Casey was a divided judgment, as no other sections of any opinion were joined by a majority of justices.

The remainder of the decision did not command a majority, but at least two other Justices concurred in judgment on each of the remaining points.

Justice Stevens wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which was joined in part by Justice White and Justice Blackmun. Antonin Scalia | Justice Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion in R. A. V.

The majority view is that this linkage is not constructive in that it implies that children are in some way mentally defective whereas they merely lack the judgment that comes with age and experience.

These divisions were not calmed by the release of the commission's report, whose majority condemned Rutherford and Cross for poor judgment even as it concluded that there was insufficient evidence to find that they had engaged in improper behaviour.

* Vagliano v Bank of England 23 QBD 243, prepared the majority judgment of the court, held wrong in conclusion by the majority of the House of Lords

The single-winner methods of range voting, majority judgment and approval voting are also monotonic as one can never help a candidate by reducing or removing support for them, but these require a slightly different definition of monotonicity as they are not ranked voting systems.

The occasion was the development within the congregation of an Arminian majority that held to the six principles of Hebrew 6: 1-2-repentance from dead works, faith toward God, the doctrine of baptisms, the laying-on-of-hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

He also appoints as Prime Minister a Member of Parliament ( MP ) who, in his personal judgment, is likely to command the confidence of a majority of MPs.

Circuit Judge King concurred in part and in judgment with the majority decision.

He is officially appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the head of state, who in HM's judgment is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the members of that House of Representatives ( Dewan Rakyat ), the elected lower house of Parliament.

40 ( 2 )( a )), he first appoints as Prime Minister a member of the Dewan Rakyat who in his judgment is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the Dewan ; and

This case caused the Rajiv Gandhi government, with its absolute majority, to pass the Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act, 1986 which diluted the secular judgment of the Supreme Court and, in reality, denied even utterly destitute Muslim divorcées the right to alimony from their former husbands.

In 1986, the Congress ( I ) party, which had an absolute majority in Parliament at the time, passed an act The Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act 1986 that nullified the Supreme Court's judgment in the Shah Bano case.

When, in 1747, the Associate Synod, by a narrow majority, decided not to give full immediate effect to a judgment which had been passed in the previous year against the lawfulness of the Burgess Oath, Gib led the protesting minority, who broke off and formed the Antiburgher Synod ( April 10 ) in his own house in Edinburgh.

* In October 2000 again, in a 2 to 1 majority judgment in the Supreme Court, the government was allowed to construct the dam up to.

Justice David Souter, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, concurred with the plurality's judgment that due process protections must be available for Hamdi to challenge his status and detention, providing a majority for that part of the ruling.

He joined in the majority in the House of Lords in 1987 in the 3: 2 judgment imposing an injunction to prevent The Guardian, The Observer and The Sunday Times newspapers publishing extracts from Peter Wright's book, Spycatcher, saying that failing to impose an injunction would be a " charter for traitors ".

If, upon the other hand, the majority were for acquittal, the minority ought to ask themselves whether they might not reasonably doubt the correctness of a judgment which was not concurred in by the majority.