Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called jurists," harking back to the time when Governor George Wallace recommended "barbed-wire enemas" for federal judges. More substantively, James introduced a long-shot bill that would allow the legislature and the Governor to overturn rulings of the Alabama Supreme Court from which three or more judges dissent. Says Flynt: "He's arguing philosophical points that have not been debated in 200 years...
...adequate instruction in moral reasoning. As part of the large, watered-down Core, the Moral Reasoning requirement cannot accomplish that goal in its current form. Administrators may disagree on the effectiveness of the Core, but moral reasoning is simply too important to leave so much room for dissent...
...Without dissent, the London conference agreed to keep the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia as long as possible. The ministers also said they would use a new U.N. rapid-reaction force now taking shape to secure a land supply route into Sarajevo, where relief shipments have been cut off for weeks. But Rifkind warned that if the U.S. lifts the arms embargo against Bosnia, the situation would become too dangerous and "unprofor would have to withdraw...
...time to the other side. It was Kennedy who provided the majority in the term-limits case, in which the court decided that states could not limit the terms of members of Congress because the framers of the Constitution established the exclusive qualifications. And O'Connor wrote the strong dissent when the court ruled that public high schools can require drug tests for student athletes without prior suspicion of drug use. Moreover, Kennedy and O'Connor often wrote separate opinions this term to distance themselves from the three other conservatives with whom they voted. In the University of Virginia ruling...
...article also leaves the impression that RCS members welcomed the arrangements with little, if any, dissent. Some of us (myself included) have received very different impressions from sources we consider reliable and close to the people involved. The matter is, at the very least, highly debatable. But even more damaging to Beverly is that the undergraduate leadership of the chorus seems to have succumbed to a kind of watered-down "feminism" that can all-too-easily be deployed to perpetuate male dominance. To devalue a talented woman because it feels more empowering...