In Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U. S. 413 ( 1966 ), a plurality of the Court further redefined the Roth test by holding unprotected only that which is " patently offensive " and " utterly without redeeming social value ," but no opinion in that case could command a majority of the Court either, and the state of the law in the obscenity field remained confused.

In Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U. S. 413 ( 1966 ), a plurality of the Court further redefined the Roth test by holding unprotected only that which is " patently offensive " and " utterly without redeeming social value ," but no opinion in that case could command a majority of the Court either, and the state of the law in the obscenity field remained confused.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

The president is elected for a five year term by the people ( absolute majority with 2nd round if necessary ).

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

By that time, the majority of black people were U. S .- born, so use of the term " African " became problematic.

He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term, and the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

In its most broad term, it refers to the world's Christian majority countries, which, share little in common aside from the predominance of the faith.

Because the size of the Central Committee expanded, the majority of members were either in their first or second term.

Since the overwhelming majority of scientists accept the modern evolutionary synthesis as the best explanation of current data, the term is seldom used in the scientific community ; to say someone is a scientist implies acceptance of evolutionary views, unless specifically noted otherwise.

The president of Guinea is normally elected by popular vote for a seven-year term ; candidate must receive a majority of the votes cast to be elected president.

However, the Coalition was only assured of another term in government when Moreton was called for Liberal Jim Killen, giving the Coalition a precarious one-seat majority.

Although many of the legal principles governing intellectual property rights have evolved over centuries, it was not until the 19th century that the term intellectual property began to be used, and not until the late 20th century that it became commonplace in the majority of the world.

A poll by Gallup showed that a " significant majority " of Muslim Indonesians define the term to mean " sacrificing one's life for the sake of Islam / God / a just cause " or " fighting against the opponents of Islam ".

In Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, and Morocco, the majority used the term to mean " duty toward God ", a " divine duty ", or a " worship of God ", with no militaristic connotations.

He was drunk for the majority of the term.

Philosophers using the term metaphilosophy being still a minority, it might be surmised that the majority does not consider the idea worth exploring.

A practitioner of midwifery is known as a midwife, a term used in reference to both women and men, although the majority of midwives are female.

All management to some degree embraces democratic principles in that in the long term workers must give majority support to management ; otherwise they leave to find other work, or go on strike.

While a majority of the commissions were delivered, it proved impossible for all of them to be delivered before Adams's term as president expired.

That meeting in 2001 also saw the successful accession to the WTO of China and Chinese Taipei, which along with Estonia, Jordan, Georgia, Albania, Oman, Croatia, Lithuania and Moldova joined during Mr Moore's term bringing in the majority of the world's population within the rules-based trading system.

As a reflection of Niger's increasing population, the unicameral National Assembly was expanded in 2004 to 113 deputies elected for a 5 year term under a majority system of representation.

The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which is listed in Webster's 1913 dictionary as a prefix denoting that something is " past " or " beyond ," signifying that either all or a majority of Bible prophecy was fulfilled by AD 70.

The term applies to the gifted people of the Renaissance who sought to develop skills in all areas of knowledge, in physical development, in social accomplishments, and in the arts, while overlooking that the vast majority of people of that age were not well educated.

The majority of the population belonged to the first category and were described as liangmin, a legal term meaning good people, as opposed to jianmin meaning the mean ( or ignoble ) people.

The executive branch is headed by the president, who is elected by a two-thirds majority of the National Assembly or, failing that twice, by a majority of the People's Assembly for a 5-year term.

The majority of electrons are thus stuck orbiting in the region of high radial magnetic field near the thruster exit plane, trapped in E × B ( axial electric field and radial magnetic field ).

* The majority of New Zealand cars will be hybrid, bio-fuel, or electric.

Since the 1970s, the overwhelming majority of professional salons now implement the use of electric nail files which are faster and yield higher quality results.

In 2009 world pumped storage generating capacity was 104 GW, while other sources claim 127 GW, which comprises the vast majority of all types of utility grade electric storage.

By the 20th century, electric cars and rail transport were commonplace, with commercial electric automobiles having the majority of the market.

For example, the majority of electricity produced in the United States comes from fossil fuels ( coal and natural gas ), so use of an electric vehicle in the United States would not be completely carbon neutral.

In the 1960s, Boise Cascade acquired a majority interest in the Cuban Electric Co., the primary electric utility in pre-Castro Cuba.

While the Fairlie locomotive has all but disappeared, the vast majority of diesel and electric locomotives in the world today follow a form not very different from the Fairlie — two power trucks with all axles driven, and many also follow the Fairlie's double-ended concept, being capable of driving equally well in both directions.

The vast majority of modern switchers are diesels, but countries with near-total electrification, like Switzerland, use electric switchers.

However, the traversing carriers hugely outnumber their opposite type in the transfer region ( in fact, the opposite type carriers are removed by an applied electric field that creates an inversion layer ), so conventionally the source and drain designation for the carriers is adopted, and FETs are called " majority carrier " devices.

The vast majority of services were branded CIÉ, although long distance provincial buses were branded " Expressway " and Dublin electric trains DART.

Fairey-designed hydraulic winches are still in production, but the large majority of manufacture is of Superwinch-designed electric drum winches.

Although the electrons penetrate only a short distance into the P-type material, the electric current continues uninterrupted, because holes ( the majority carriers ) begin to flow in the opposite direction.

These lawsuits ultimately came to the Florida Supreme Court in the fall of 1999, when a bare majority ( 4 of the 7 Justices ) found that the electric chair was constitutional in a case brought by death row inmate Thomas Provenzano.

Christmas lights were too expensive for the average person ; as such, electric Christmas lights did not become the majority replacement for candles until 1930.

The majority of the repossessed EV1s were crushed, and the rest delivered to museums and educational institutes with their electric powertrains deactivated, under the agreement that the cars were not to be reactivated and driven on the road.

By the 1920s and 1930s, the majority of light stations had electric service, reducing the number of staff necessary to operate the station.

This body was somewhat less powerful than some similar bodies in most other states in that, with the exception of the Kingsport area, it had no jurisdiction over electric rates since the vast majority of the state received its power from the Tennessee Valley Authority, which as part of the federal government was not subject to state regulation.

The electric involuntary stimulus the brain undergoes during sleep is believed to be a basis for a majority of dreaming.

While the majority of jazz and jazz fusion recordings and live performances use either the double bass ( or a related instrument such as an electric upright bass ) or the electric bass to supply the " low end ", there are some exceptions.

Competitor GE's cars used an electric transmission, and that or a hydraulic torque converter have been used on the vast majority of successful internal combustion-engined rail vehicles since.

Today the vast majority of publications no longer refer to electricity as meaning electric charge.