Sentences with phrase «minority opinions on»

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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.

In an opinion published on Thursday, Delaware Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard ruled that the social network's minority shareholders are entitled to their day in court over the salaries that Facebook's directors received.

Akbar believed that he needed closer social contacts with the Hindus, for he was of the opinion that Mughal rule in India could not rest for long on the strength of the Muslim minority unless it had the active support of the Hindus.

Sorry — your opinion is in the minority on this.

At the September 1933 World YMCA conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bonhoeffer warned of the «growing persecution of minorities» in Nazi Germany and successfully influenced the delegates to pass a strongly worded resolution condemning the violence against Jews: «We especially deplore the fact that the State measures against the Jews in Germany have had such an effect on public opinion that in some circles the Jewish race is considered a race of inferior status.»

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.

You Said ----» Also most Sikhs have a problem with so many checks or more checks than the rules dictate because they are a visible minority and it is based on a persons (airport security) opinion and ppl are generally bias, it's like dirty cop syndrome in a way.

Also most Sikhs have a problem with so many checks or more checks than the rules dictate because they are a visible minority and it is based on a persons (airport security) opinion and ppl are generally bias, it's like dirty cop syndrome in a way.

The most drastic example of the application of this principle is to he seen in the view of religion which underlies the recently published report of the Laymen's Appraisal Commission on Missions.4 In agreement with the opinions of a minority group among the missionaries, it implies the abandonment of the old methods leading to conversion, which are based upon the conviction of Christianity's possession of absolute religious truth.

Next Sunday, in the First Church of Nixie, New York, or the Saint Waldemar's Church of Proxie, Alabama, I am sure the respective ministers will declare that love is a wonderful thing, that Jesus agreed with their opinions; so why doesn't everybody get on the bandwagon and love one another — taking it easy, of course, with Negroes, minority groups, homosexual persons, criminals, the mentally ill, and many others?

But while a Southern Baptist youth pastor may in fact be in the minority in his opinion on marriage and women's roles in the broader culture, he is likely in the majority in his more immediate church culture where he has the most influence and where women and LGBT people may be disadvantaged.

Differences of opinion regarding strategy, timing, and so on may exist among the members, but each minority is in basic agreement about the nature of the wrong it intends to correct.

«We feel good about the people we have on offense, and if we can get a little better on defense, we'll be competitive,» says Jones, who is of the minority opinion that a team with an exceptional offense can overcome the handicap of a mediocre defense.

Pete Willett's incendiary opinions about Ugly American behavior proved to be on the money — for a very vocal minority.

And the law is on your side, whatever the minority opinions of anyone or any antiquated establishment may be.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

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.

In the light of what is happening, the slant of the newspapers, and just by gauging the feel of current public opinion «on the streets» I can not see how Ed Miliband can now shrug off the dire warnings (and fears) of a minority Labour government in hock to the ScotNats, and become Prime Minister.

«The Democrats agreed with us that their proposed resolution didn't adhere to guidelines, agreed on by the Majority and Minority, because it was based on opinions, not facts.

Amongst the minority who expressed an opinion, Andy Burnham, led on 15 %, followed by Yvette Cooper on 14 %, Liz Kendall on 11 %, Jeremy Corbyn on 5 % and a dummy candidate («Stewart Lewis») on 3 %.

I said that in my opinion, the people of the UK were receiving a mixed message from the Labour party because a minority of our MPs had chosen to appear on platforms with the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, prominently on TV hustings, and one even on a boat with Nigel Farage during the ridiculous Thames flotilla.

The distraction is unfortunate, Boslough says, adding that he only insisted on the minority opinion because it was more important to include the climate change information than to avoid the potential for distraction.

I recognize that my opinion of this film is in the minority and that people who like it may want to know it's on Blu - ray and DVD.

There are a few minorities I don't care if I'm in, I will stand on a mountain and scream with my deepest, most boisterous breath that a certain film is outright terrible regardless of others» opinions: this is one of them.

Sixty Four Percent of Americans Support Affirmative Action The public opinion polling on behalf of AFC found that 64 percent of Americans support overall affirmative action for women and minorities.

Though it should be noted that the difference between Bair's and Mrs. Blake's opinion on minority student representation is that while Bair simply acknowledges that these students, especially the Puerto Rican children, will face hardships during their students careers, Mrs. Blake advocates for the language accommodation of Puerto Rican students.

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.

I come down on the side of an eventual inflation, monetizing the debts of the US Treasury, though that is a minority opinion at present.

I loved Quantum Break, but based on opinions from other gamers and sites, it appears I'm in the minority, which is reinforced in the Honest Game Trailer above.

The decision of include again the gray wolf on the endangered list it is another example of judicial activists trying to impose the opinions of a minority overt everybody else.

The judge accepted the proposition that ``... in any event, nothing in the 1996 Act (or elsewhere) obliged teachers to adopt a position of studied neutrality between, on the one hand, scientific views which reflect the great majority of world scientific opinion and, on the other, a minority view held by a few dissentient scientists.»

Now, that «belief» might be a minority opinion, but that does not mean it is invalid or based on ignorance.

What scientist is willing to testify under oath before a grand jury that expressing a minority opinion based on less - cited data constitutes a «crime»?

On the one hand he was well aware that his was a minority opinion, on the other he remained convinced that ultimate truth had given way to expediencOn the one hand he was well aware that his was a minority opinion, on the other he remained convinced that ultimate truth had given way to expediencon the other he remained convinced that ultimate truth had given way to expediency.

Oreskes» opinion piece became the basis of her book, Merchants of Doubt — in which she falsely claimed scientists who doubt catastrophic human impact on the climate represent a tiny minority of «deniers.»

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».

Torts — Negligence — Medical malpractice — Causation — Trial judge finding respondent obstetrician liable for applicant infant's injuries — Whether, under principles described in Snell v. Farrell, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 311, it is open for a trier of fact to find causation by drawing an inference based on all the evidence led at trial, notwithstanding the fact that the defence has led some evidence to the contrary — Whether, in an informed consent case, the causation issue is decided in accordance with the majority or the minority opinions of the House of Lords in Chester v Afshar, [2005] 1 A.C. 134.

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

The minority opinion in the court said patients don't have the right to be kept on life support indefinitely — to insist on treatment that doctors consider no longer to be effective or no longer to be «consistent with the professional standard of care.»

Baroness Hale may have been in the minority in Kehoe; but her opinion on this point is surely entitled to a nod of deference — from advocates and judges alike — in the Court of Appeal.

Counsel need to present the expert evidence in ways that allow adjudicators to better assess when an expert is basing an opinion on a set of facts or principles on which there is a strong consensus and when the expert is expressing a minority or dissenting opinion that is not widely supported.

Nevertheless, the minority opinion, which provided much of the analysis on this issue, and with which the majority opinion concurred, went on to analyse the reasonableness of the monetary amount.

The Court of Appeal rejected the argument, finding that the trial judge considered the expert evidence favouring the physician to suffer from frailties such that the court could not rely on it to establish the existence of a respectable minority opinion.

Finally, I always find something so satisfying about marking up a physical document; crossing out chunks of text that offer no value, and writing my own opinion on the minority's decision in the margin (don't tell my firm's librarian, at least I use a pencil).

Although Justice Wilson was in the minority in Debot, the majority opinion of Justice Antonio Lamer did not diverge on this point.

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».

But taste is subjective, and based on many of the impressions I've read on both devices, I seem to stand in the minority in my opinion on this one.

I know I am in a minority with this opinion, but I really do miss physical keyboards on phones.

His research centers on several main issues: (1) the implications of religion and spirituality for mental and physical health and mortality risk; (2) religious variations in family life, with particular attention to intimate relationships and childrearing; (3) the role of religious institutions, practices, and values among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States; (4) the influence of religious factors on political attitudes and policy preferences; and (5) public opinion surrounding issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the contemporary United States.