Sentence examples for the majority judges from inspiring English sources

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the majority judges

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More than half (50%) of some group

  • The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.

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"The majority judges don't seem to grasp this point," he said.

Under the constitution punitive powers are the preserve of the courts, yet the majority judges dodged that by saying that nothing punitive is happening in Nauru with our asylum seekers because they are bring processed for resettlement elsewhere.

The majority judges decided that the constitution contained a "right to privacy" which, though not mentioned anywhere in the text, allowed any woman to abort her foetus in the first trimester.The Kelo ruling was less convoluted, but its opponents think it equally unconstitutional.

Another two judges from the five-member bench again dissented, but this time they were blunt with their disapproval: Gibbs Salika, the deputy chief justice, said the court's deliberations had been compromised by the circulation of an e-mail from one of the majority judges which called the O'Neill administration an "illegal regime".

In academic circles the case is generally seen as an example of the court taking two different approaches to statutory interpretation, with the legalistic approach of the majority judges in contrast with the purposive approach of the minority judges.

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Writing for the majority, Judge Howard A. Levine did not say whether that process was right or wrong.

Writing for the majority, Judge Dolores K. Sloviter said the judge could demand a warrant "sparingly," and sent the case back to a magistrate court.

Writing for the majority, Judge Sharon Keller concluded that the DNA evidence did not cast enough doubt on his conviction to merit a new trial.

While there may be some women out there who would be delighted at this approach and immediately request marriage, the majority (judging from the response on Twitter), might find it annoying, scary, entitled, or just downright rude.

Writing for the majority, Judge R. Guy Cole Jr. argued that a black student seeking a race-conscious admissions policy would have to undertake the "long, expensive and arduous process" of amending the state constitution all over again.

Writing for the majority, Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw said, "It does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights".

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