The majority avoided analyzing the case under the 14th Amendment's equal-protection guarantee, another possible basis for the decision and one that could have had broader implications, beyond the specific context of voting, for government programs that confer benefits on the basis of race.
Many other countries confer citizenship on the basis of bloodlines, what the law calls jus sanguinis.
We did not confer eligibility on the basis of formal clinical assessment of disease severity.
As I have said before, I do not believe that there is any basis in law for arguing that there is an implied condition of reasonableness which can be read into the power of veto conferred on the permanent members of the Security Council by the UN Charter.
To assess the protection conferred, the results were analyzed on the basis of clinical signs and the isolation of C. abortus from spleen.
Finally, it is important to note that elite universities are not labeled by self-declaration; rather, their status is conferred by the outside world on the basis of international recognition.
The most likely result, Mr. Berger predicted, was that Mr. Assad would return to Damascus, that Mr. Clinton would confer with Mr. Barak, and on the basis of those conversations a "serious round" of talks would begin.
Primarily, we chose a categorical outcome measure because we did not want to confer a level of precision that, on the basis of the reviewed literature, was not justified.
