NOUN
- the opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as `the opinion')
How To Use majority opinion In A Sentence
- Should he bow to majority opinion or retreat into his own private moral code?
- However, minorities do not enjoy the benefit of majority opinion.
- I can't imagine the audience is representative of majority opinion over there.
- Since the parties do not dispute that the Ohio courts 'adjudicated' this claim, i.e., they considered it and rejected it 'on the merits,' the law permits federal court to reach a contrary decision only if the state-court decision 'was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law,'" Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote in the majority opinion. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
- Data from a later period supports the favorable majority opinion of the influential Lohani chief formed during the first war, and indicates the relationship between Sarwar Khan and colonial authorities may have been more extensive than indicated in contemporaneous documents. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
- In a majority opinion that could be charitably described as a harangue, Justice Earl Warren cited multiple irrelevant cases in which criminal suspects were forcibly deprived of their rights, and then conceded that Miranda was not alleged to have received any such treatment. The Reality Check
- We are told that he is being brave in his deafness to majority opinion in Britain and the world.
- I hope I never see the day when science is dictated by majority opinion and force of personality.
- A judge may dissent ( disagree with the majority opinion ) and write a " dissenting opinion.
- Most issues do not involve a clear choice between riding and party and it is not easy to determine majority opinion in a riding, even if its MP wanted to.
