Sentences with phrase «as the minority opinion»

Yet, as the minority opinion points out, the legislature abandoned the use of restricted funds for public schools long ago.

Not exact matches

While an opinion poll on Saturday gave Fine Gael a one - point lead over Fianna Fail and suggested another minority government as the most likely outcome, Dublin City University politics lecturer Eoin O'Malley said Monday's events would also hurt them.

«For a minority long accustomed to public praise, such opinions came as a rude awakening,» write Portes and Stepick.

The impossibility of stamping «determinate sentencing» as good or bad in any given political climate points up the fact that reform measures ultimately depend on an informed, caring and articulate minority of citizens who can influence public opinion.

Steve and Brigitte are minority members on this board; but they are participating members, as is Sabio, whose minority opinion and snarky personal attacks you seem to have little or no problem with.

In the view of scientific experts, the recent findings vindicate what used to be the minority opinion of those who referred to cigarettes as «coffin nails» and who otherwise challenged what were commonly viewed as the health benefits of smoking.

I am glad we are moving towards a time where nonbelievers and people of minority religions are feeling as free to speak their opinions as freely as the privileged «Christian» masses.

Although ghetto and other poor people are being served by many centers (one condition is that they must give help to anyone within a certain geographic area), minority groups in particular have often viewed such services as being offered by an alien «university whitey» who, in their opinion, fails to consult them about the kinds of services they need.

As to good uses... the majority of history disagrees with your opinion, simply because of percentages.Atheism is by its very definition an extreme minority among peoples.There simply have not been enough of them to be a serious contributing factor to the progress of mankind.Granted even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a while.

I would love to hear that this is only a minority opinion, especially as the Watford goals were hardly his wrong - doing.

The opinions and voices of the minorities in the group were mocked and belittled and unfortunately, we had to make the decision to moderate the mob as this post (and a number of others) devolved into ugliness.

The point, as I have mentioned before, is that the mainstream, majority political opinion on Europe in the UK is a minority view across mainland Europe.

Although it is not regarded as truly proportional by campaigners for electoral reform, AV is favoured by some because it maintains the constituency link, ensures elected MPs have the support of at least 50 per cent of voters and allows supporters of minority parties to express opinion through their first vote while giving their second preference to a mainstream party.

THE EDITORS REPLY: Ijjas, Steinhardt and Loeb did raise objections to the theory of inflation, but as the authors pointed out in their February article, their view is a minority opinion.

Dr. Boslough has written a minority opinion as Appendix D.» The mysterious «Appendix D» In Appendix D Boslough, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., wrote that he disagreed with the steering committee's reasons for removing the climate data.

I'm surely in the minority here, but I've lately lost all interest in Brad Pitt, so I was bummed to see him cast here, and Sean Penn, whom I believe to be a great actor, has always annoyed me as a person, so the cast here is «Hollywood solid,» but in my opinion, it's not the best it could have been.

A recent public opinion poll conducted in Bridgeport included questions about Malloy, Mayor Bill Finch, Paul Vallas, members of the Working Family Party who serve as the outspoken minority on the Bridgeport Board of Education and Carmen Lopez, the former Connecticut superior court judge who brought the lawsuit that determined that Paul Vallas lacked the credentials necessary to serve as a superintendent of schools in Connecticut.

Alfred Jensen and Brice Marden were my 2nd, but in my minority opinion (and it is just that, no one else will agree) neither of the latter two painters can hold a candle to Thomas Nozkowski, if one doesn't use money as the yardstick of quality, which it absolutely is not.

And Exxon Mobil has been accused of backing groups that support the minority opinion, against what is seen as the main consensus.

Of course, this isn't true: those in academia are constantly debating and modifying their ideas over time as new evidence comes to light, and those who hold minority viewpoints are valued for their opinion, but only when they can provide evidence for their stance, not for their ability to sign a petition.

As someone who publicly holds the minority opinion, am I a threat to civilization?

Look at other consensus objections: as with creationism, anti-vaccines, the entire tobacco industry campaign, ozone, acid rain, and now anthropogenic global warming - a repeating pattern of minority opinions trying to convince the public that the experts are not in agreement (when they actually are).

Article 14 provides that Convention rights should be «secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status».

However, as the minority pointed out in an impressive dissenting opinion, the Grand Chamber had recently confirmed in Saadi v Italy (App No 37201 / 06)[2008] All ER (D) 432 (Feb) that in expulsion cases, there was no room for a proportionality analysis in applying Art 3.

Thereafter, she served on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and was recognized as one of the pros at bringing majority and minority opinions into line.

Deference as Respect Another interesting recent American case is Wos v. E.M.A.. Here, the minority opinion of interest is that of Justice Breyer.

After throat - clearing describing the Senate's roles as a legislative chamber of «sober second thought,» and one in which both the regions of Canada and minorities, not well represented in the House of Commons, could have a voice, the substantive part of the Court's opinion begins with a discussion of the nature of the Canadian constitution and constitutional amendment.

A case in point is the Federal Constitutional Court's OMT - decision that has, as Justice Lübbe - Wolff pointed out in her minority opinion, «incalculable consequences for the operating currency of the euro zone and the national economies depending on it».

The «hosts» or owners who are gobbling up condos and essentially creating a hotel are a real minority and, in my opinion, should be treated more as a hotel and subject to zoning.