Sentence examples for plurality's from inspiring English sources

Providing a fifth vote for the result, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor disagreed with the plurality's basic constitutional analysis.

"This is truly a watershed case," Justice Stevens said, adding, "The plurality's policy judgment does not justify the evisceration of a constitutional right".

In sum, even if I accept for present purposes the plurality's analytical framework, Ewing's sentence (life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years) is grossly disproportionate to the triggering offense conduct -- stealing three golf clubs -- Ewing's recidivism notwithstanding.

Stevens, an establishment clause "separationist," argued in his dissenting opinion that "[t]his Nation's resolute commitment to neutrality with respect to religion is flatly inconsistent with the plurality's wholehearted validation of an official state endorsement of the message that there is one, and only one, God".

Thomas further disagreed with the plurality's assumption that the date of the enactment of the AUMF constituted the start of war, suggesting that Osama bin Laden's declaration of jihad in August 1996 could be considered a declaration of war.

Thomas likewise disagreed with the plurality's holding that even if the government had charged Hamdan with a crime that was clearly cognizable by military commission, the commission would still lack power to proceed because it does not comply with the terms of the UCMJ and the four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949.

And the final split decision -- Mr. Gore's plurality, Mr. Bush's electoral lead -- constitutes narrative genius.

As Taiwan's party of power bows to the will of a victorious plurality, Russia's party of power perpetuates a fraud on the Russian people.

In Congress, where the PRI still holds a plurality, Mr. Fox's foes are quashing almost all of his proposed economic and political reforms, and bashing him for favoring the United States.

The Supreme Court's plurality ruling said that the prosecutor's damaging remark was perfectly fine because Mr. Salinas "did not expressly invoke the privilege against self-incrimination" during the police questioning.

Bill Clinton's plurality win in 1992, and Al Gore's majority defeat in 2000, may prove but a foretaste of the distortions and frustrations to come.