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A favourable decision would have given a powerful signal of political intent, for which we have waited too long.

It would exert its extrasensory influence on them, coaxing out a favourable decision.

It is designed to encourage the parties to moderate their initial positions so as to make it more likely they receive a favourable decision.

Following a favourable decision by the council regarding planning usage, this issue eventually culminated in racist arson attacks against the church.

Appeals before the Environment Court were concluded in 2010, with a favourable decision released in February 2011.

Parliament has repeatedly called upon the Commission to give impetus to policies which come under the third pillar, and therefore cannot take a favourable decision on this.

I will be working closely with Brian Eyre over coming months to help to create the climate that will lead to favourable decisions about our future.

We therefore hope that a favourable decision will soon be reached regarding HMS Polar Circle.

He served as a judge (naka-aratame, modern shimpan) but this gave him many opportunities to give favourable decisions to his own pupils.

At the same time, Henry's wife Eleanor of Provence-who was Louis' sister-in-law-had worked hard to procure a favourable decision for her husband.

One of the hearing's key witnesses, Dame Josephine Barnes, has estimated that - several thousand' British women could benefit from a favourable decision for Depo-Provera.

When it failed to bring forth a favourable decision, some of the monks (not Maxentius, however) proceeded to Rome to lay the case before Pope Hormisdas.

A favourable decision would have almost certainly provoked parliamentary uproar given Sir Jeffrey's position and the time lag between the formation of the joint service and the tunnel's opening.

In his "Promemoria" (1751) he submitted his views and method to his former teacher, Benedict XIV, and obtained a favourable decision.

It is said to have been chiefly due to the researches of Crawfurd that Fraser obtained a favourable decision; but he declined to pay Crawfurd anything.

The ACLU, representing Wiener, won a favourable decision in their suit against the FBI in the Ninth Circuit in 1991.

M. Daru, the Intendant-General, whose business it was to collect this sort of levy, which Napoleon had learned to make in Egypt, wrote to urge me to obtain a prompt and favourable decision.

Dordain concluded that he was convinced that European support for Kliper was vital for ESA's future involvement in space transport and that a favourable decision can be achieved until June 2006.

The joint decision was made possible by the courageous and constructive efforts of the Greek Prime Minister, Costas Simitis, in particular, while the Presidency was trying to establish the chances of achieving a favourable decision.

Besides, there is often no such formal deal but only a mutual understanding, for instance when it is common knowledge in a municipality that to obtain a building permit one has to pay a "fee" to the decision maker to obtain a favourable decision.

Malik Riaz's 'Media Gate' in which the son of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is said to have taken money from Malik Riaz to give favourable decisions from the Supreme Court.

The imbalance of supply and demand in popular fields results in Chairs setting guideline conditions to be met - for example, in order to get a favourable decision the student must not merely pass the field's compulsory modules but should achieve grades of say, B, B, and B+.

He took kickbacks from industrialists for favourable decisions as Four Year Plan director, and money for supplying arms to the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War via Pyrkal in Greece (although Germany was supporting Franco and the Nationalists).

I hope that nine old Member States will realise this, and that in April 2006, at the end of the two-year transitional period, the remaining nine Member States will also make a favourable decision, joining Finland, Spain and Portugal, who are opening up their market now.

I sincerely hope that, on this basis, with the determination of the Irish presidency, which has made this matter one of its priorities, and also with the support of the European Parliament - I know the importance you attach to the completion of the networks - a favourable decision may be reached before the end of the year.

A favorable decision was expected this spring, and the first pills were to become available by the summer.

"If the state doesn't make a favorable decision now, I believe the team will move away," he said.

A more favorable decision was made by the justices the following year, but Jackson ignored it.

The 10 favorable decisions matched the clubs' total of a year ago, when players won 14 cases.

He had hoped for a quick and favorable decision.

At best, a favorable decision wouldn't come for weeks.

The decision is contingent upon favorable decisions in a lawsuit and possible federal regulations.

Even those in the "registration postponed" category may receive a favorable decision soon.

Folha won a favorable decision in May 2012 when the 3rd.

Military contractors and aerospace companies are already anticipating a favorable decision from the intelligence agency.

How was Elmer Cunningham able to get such a favorable decision?

"We're waiting for a favorable decision in court, but we plan on reinstating service in spring, at either 3 or 12 miles."

Accepting remunerations for favorable decisions, that sort of thing.

But proponents of sampling said today they still hoped for a favorable decision from the Supreme Court.

The only more successful year in terms of favorable decisions for the clubs came in 1978, when they won seven of nine cases.

In several District Court decisions, the civil rights groups have won favorable decisions, and the government has appealed.

My office contacted the Medicaid Service Center and worked with a supervisor who was able to give me the review team's favorable decision.

He stated, "if this sports drama was a pugilistic bout, it would have to go to the scorecards just to get a favorable decision."

The favorable decision by the Superior Court of Justice only solidified the cases which were already approved.

My office cannot, however, order a CIS officer to make a favorable decision on your application.

However, he added that it would be "astute" to note that earlier monthly meetings have never produced this volume of favorable decisions.

A success with RHIC may make a favorable decision easier.

Third, it must be "likely", as opposed to merely "speculative", that the injury will be "redressed by a favorable decision."

In the last four months, free-trade advocates landed the favorable decisions in North Carolina and Texas.

He never forgot--and neither did I--that the favorable decisions were written by white judges.