Soft euroscepticism is support for the existence of, and membership of, a form of European Union, but with opposition to specific EU policies, and opposition to a federal Europe.

The ownership and purchase of firearms requires a specific reason: if one wants to have a gun for hunting or target shooting, a person must obtain a proof of their membership in a shooting sports organization.

DNA testing is not sufficient to qualify a person for specific tribal membership, as it cannot distinguish among Native American groups.

The only way for a General Secretary to alter the Politburo membership in any specific way was through the Party Congress.

Most clubs have a limited membership based upon specific criteria, and limit the events to members to increase the security of the members, thus creating an increased sense of cameradery and belonging.

According to essentialism, a member of a specific group may possess other characteristics that are neither needed to establish its membership nor preclude its membership, but that essences do not simply reflect ways of grouping objects ; they also result in properties of the object, as the object can be subjugated to smaller contexts.

But there is another sense of group rights in which people who are members of a group can be thought of as having specific individual rights because of their membership in a group.

For example, workers who are members of a group such as a labor union can be thought of as having expanded individual rights because of their membership in the labor union, such as the rights to specific working conditions or wages.

Other princes derive their title not from dynastic membership as such, but from inheritance of a title named for a specific and historical territory, although the family's possession of prerogatives or properties in that territory may be long past.

The majority of its membership are lay people, with secular priests under the governance of a prelate ( bishop ) elected by specific members and appointed by the Pope.

The United States Congress has not provided a specific reason for failing to pay membership.

" Child " may also describe a relationship with a parent ( such as sons and daughters of any age ) or, metaphorically, an authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion ; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in " a child of nature " or " a child of the Sixties ".

Unlike most other collection types, rather than retrieving a specific element from a set, one typically tests a value for membership in a set.

For information specific to membership in the Arab League see Member states of the Arab League.

Most definitions of class structure group people according to wealth, income, education, type of occupation, and membership in a specific subculture or social network.

Some clubs, though not all, have exclusivist membership criteria: reputation and business or professional leadership may be a specific evaluation criterion for issuing invitations to join, and representation from a specific profession or business may be limited to a percentage of a specific club's membership.

", noting in specific his membership with Scholars for 9 / 11 truth and and comparison of Nazism and Bush's Administration.

NDSU presently has 15 national fraternities and sororities, 12 of which are open to individuals in any field of study and 3 that restrict membership to students in specific professional disciplines and / or areas of career interest.

The actual ratio of membership dues among the total amount is less than 1 / 11.

Holding membership among Division 15 of the American Psychological Association and / or multiple divisions of the American Educational Research Association is common among educational psychologists.

Thus, union density provides a rough picture of union membership only ; it does not account for the circumstance that in some countries, also many persons under education, many unemployed persons, many retired persons and / or many persons who had to leave work due to occupational injuries may also be union members.

If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

The Fraternity / Sorority have no affiliation with the University of Victoria itself, however, they continue to thrive with membership growing yearly.

Some people feel that the deletion of homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM-III and the ensuing creation of the GID diagnosis was merely sleight of hand by psychiatrists, who changed the focus of the diagnosis from the deviant desire ( of the same sex ) to the subversive identity ( or the belief / desire for membership of the opposite sex / gender ).

If the error ranges from-1 to + 1, with the analog-to-digital converter used having a resolution of 0. 25, then the input variable's fuzzy set ( which, in this case, also applies to the output variable ) can be described very simply as a table, with the error / delta / output values in the top row and the truth values for each membership function arranged in rows beneath:

Provincial regulatory bodies are members of a national organization, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects / L ' Association des Architectes Paysagistes du Canada ( CSLA-AAPC ), and individual membership in the CSLA-AAPC is obtained through joining one of the provincial or territorial components.

Points of order with regard to the Budget Act or annual budget resolution may be waived by 3 / 5 of the Senate's entire membership.

The FBI ’ s 2007 report on gang membership in the military states that the military's recruit screening process is ineffective, allows gang members / extremists to enter the military, and lists at least eight instances in the last three years in which gang members have obtained military weapons for their illegal enterprises.

On February 25, 2012, the International City / County Management Association ( ICMA ) censured University City's City Manager Lehman Walker and barred him from future membership.

Unlike conventional membership recruiting / acceptance methods, the department recruits and restricts new member acceptance to bi-annual " recruit classes " in tandem with the academic semesters.

After having the Saviour's Letter reviewed, and approved by the NOI's headquarters in Chicago in July 1955, Wolcott received a letter of approval from the Nation of Islam acknowledging his official membership as a registered Muslim / registered believer / registered laborer in the NOI.

Delta Cephei is also of particular importance as a calibrator of the Cepheid period-luminosity relation since its distance is among the most precisely established for a Cepheid, thanks in part to its membership in a star cluster and the availability of precise Hubble Space Telescope / Hipparcos parallaxes.

In the G8, the EU has the rights of membership besides that of chairing / hosting summit meetings.

An individual may commit to the organization because he / she perceives a high cost of losing organizational membership ( cf.

The records also show that in 1796, membership had risen by 1 / 3 to 198 subscribers ( of whom 5 were women ) and the titles increased five-fold to 4, 987.

AICPA members approved a proposed bylaw amendment to make eligible for voting membership individuals who previously held a CPA certificate / license or have met all the requirements for CPA certification in accordance with the Uniform Accountancy Act ( UAA ).

To sustain its operations, a trade association generally receives an initiation fee and / or a yearly membership fee ( collectively " dues ") from its members, and it may collect rebates or commissions from the purchasing plan suppliers.

The title is also used within the Moorish American community / membership of the Moorish Science Temple of America as a tribal honourific which denotes an Islamic governor along with the pre-word El.

It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.

They are violating their Charter obligation, the prescribed penalty for which is suspension of membership or expulsion ''.

structurally, the U.N. is still fluid, vulnerable to the pressures that its new and enlarged membership are bringing to bear upon it.

Occasional meetings are held for the whole membership, usually with a guest speaker, while smaller discussion groups meet more frequently.

This seems somewhat shortsighted since if the absolute educational qualifications for membership which the organizations profess are ever enforced, the educator will have the molding of the entire profession in his hands.

These have an upper-middle-class leadership and a middle-class membership, with rare exceptions, where working-class parents are active in local P.-T.A. matters.

the outer life of congregations -- the suitability of the environment to their survival -- will be propitious so long as the people in the area are of the same social and economic level as the membership.

The Protestant themselves are the first to admit the great falling off in effective membership in their churches.

In this session the persons seeking membership are provided information concerning the work of the denomination as well as the program and activities of the local church.

Those who transfer their membership are no exception to the rule.

These figures indicate that we are losing almost as many as we are receiving into membership.

Hence, the axiom of regularity is equivalent, given the axiom of dependent choice, to the alternative axiom that there are no downward infinite membership chains.

There are three levels of corporate membership totaling more than 13, 000 members, and individuals from member companies may also participate.

The membership in P of the satisfiability of 2CNF, Horn, and XOR-SAT formulae are special cases of this theorem.

In a non-stock corporation with no general voting membership, e. g., a typical university, the board is the supreme governing body of the institution ; its members are sometimes chosen by the board itself.

A board-only organization is one whose board is self-appointed, rather than being accountable to a base of members through elections ; or in which the powers of the membership are extremely limited.

At its core, the term " Balkans " are States that have been shaped by membership of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire.

The team is bound by place of residence ( membership boundaries are set ) and spends time together in practice ( the contact hypothesis ).

Following this sentiment, congregationalism has evolved over time to include even more participation of the congregation, more kinds of lay committees to whom various tasks are apportioned, and more decisions subject to the vote of the entire membership.

Although no official membership figures are published, the Columbia Encyclopedia gives an estimated figure of 50, 000 Christadelphians, who are spread across approximately 120 countries ; there are established churches ( or ecclesias, as they are often called ) in many of those countries, along with isolated members.