Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extend the same right to religious groups. In a case involving the Afro-Cuban religion called Santeria, they also ruled that religious groups have a constitutional right to sacrifice animals in worship services. The Justices also unanimously backed the right of states to impose harsher sentences on assailants who commit hate crimes in which they choose their victims based on race, religion or other biases. "A physical assault," wrote Chief Justice William Rehnquist, "is not by any stretch of the imagination expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment...
...transept, which serves as the Sanders Theatre Jobby, will remain largely intact except for a few issued more quickly once a commit-improvements in lighting and the elimination of the wind tunnel effect which plagues the chamber...
...tests, said Weinberger in 1984, were: "The United States should not commit forces to combat overseas unless the particular engagement or occasion is deemed vital to our national interest;" an engagement should only be undertaken "with the clear intention of winning" and carried out with "clearly defined political and military objectives;" an involvement "must be continually reassessed and adjusted if necessary" and "have the support of the American people and...Congress;" and engagement should be "a last resort...
Whether to commit to the draft in football and basketball or to play for one's draftee out of baseball and hockey, more and more juniors, sophomores, and even freshmen leave school early every year...
...where movement and thought are first processed, then sent to the frontal lobes, where decision-making begins. Patients commonly imagine that people on television and in magazines are talking to them directly and personally. They become antisocial and depressed and hear aggressive voices that can sometimes command them to commit suicide -- or, on rare occasions, to kill someone. Pincus is convinced that homicidal violence only occurs when child abuse and brain damage are also part of the picture...