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PERHAPS THE MOST common examples of the courts ruling this way with regard to normal children are those in which Jehovah's Witness parents refuse consent because their religion forbids transfusions. The courts have traditionally overridden the parents' religious scruples and ordered the operation in the best interest (and to protect the right) of the innocent child. The court would not rule in the case of an adult of sound mind refusing consent to an operation on himself...
...least-managed company in the world. My colleagues have as much say as I do, and sometimes more. I make marvelous decisions that are promptly overridden by them, and they do it without bashfulness or shame, but with reason. Seventy-five percent of the time they are right. That's a high batting average, and it comes from having good people who are participating and having fun. As a result, we've got a hell-on-wheels management...
...National parties, passed a constitutional reform bill that would prohibit the President from nationalizing any more private firms without congressional approval. If it should become law, the ban would be retroactive to October 1971. Last week Allende angrily vetoed the bill. He further declared that if his veto were overridden, he would introduce a measure to dissolve the Congress, and if Congress refused to accept that, he would take the matter to the people in a plebiscite...
...service organizations took the lead in marshaling the more naive and confused participants. Said the preamble of the conference's report: "We are not motivated by hatred, but by disappointment over and love for the unfulfilled potential of this nation." Republican Senator Bill Brock. 40, one of two overridden adult members of the task force that drafted the preamble, immediately called the rhetoric "masochistic, negative, nonproductive and not representative of American youth...
...political views held by him and his wife Joanne. Their social awareness is admirable, but it has led their moviemaking astray. As two of the screen's most talented artists, they could have brought strength to Stone's closely stitched characters. Instead, personality and plot are overridden by politics...