In some cases this will be a single individual but more commonly corporations are controlled by a committee or by committees.

In some countries, like Switzerland and San Marino, the head of state is not a single person but a committee ( council ) of several persons holding that office.

It also assures the independence of the judiciary, which in turn is protected by a judicial committee ; b ) a three-tier judicial system including a supreme court, a court of appeals, and courts of first instance ( either divided between district and regional courts, or a single court per region ); and c ) the laws of the civilian government which were in effect prior to the military coup d ' état that saw the Barre regime into power remain in force until the laws are amended.

The term ' an authoritarian regime ' denotes a state in which the single power holder-an individual ' dictator ', a committee or a junta or an otherwise small group of political elite-monopolizes political power.

This interdepartmental committee recommended the formation of a single unified communications system to serve the President, Department of Defense, diplomatic and intelligence activities, and civilian leaders.

Amendments were made so that a single judge could reject plainly inadmissible applications, prior to the reforms only a three judges committee could make this final decision.

It was also a major contributor to the GCC project and drove the change in the project's management from having a single gatekeeper to having an independent committee.

He persuaded the cathedral committee to let him start all over again ( a difficult decision, as some of the stonework had already been erected ) and redesigned it as a simpler and more symmetrical building with a single massive central tower instead of the original proposal for twin towers.

The standards committee introduced the 16-bit data bus to the S-100, which had up to then transferred only 8 bits at a time, by using the two separate uni-directional data buses as a single bi-directional bus.

Stone told the assembled congressmen " I come before this committee with the sense which I always feel, that we are handicapped as women in what we try to do for ourselves by the single fact that we have no vote.

In California, under Proposition 14 ( Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act ), a voter-approved referendum, in all races except for that for U. S. President and county central committee offices, all candidates running in a primary election regardless of party will appear on a single primary election ballot and voters may vote for any candidate, with the top two vote-getters overall move on to the general election regardless of party.

In a minute to the Cabinet's Defence and Overseas Policy committee the following month, Lamont set out his three objectives for the negotiations: first, to ensure Britain didn't have to join the single currency ; second, to ensure the opt-out was legally water-tight ; and third, to ensure that during the period in the run-up to the single currency, there should be no binding obligations on Britain.

A month later, on 26 November ( 6 December ), the executive committee of workers, peasants and soldiers deputies for the Western Oblast was merged with the Western front's executive committee, creating a single Obliskomzap.

He chaired a committee which recommended increased representation for Upper Canadian towns ( as opposed to rural areas ), a single day's vote and voting by ballot instead of voice.

Taking the place of the existing international committee, the Council agreed unanimously to implement the uncontroversial parts of the reform, while allowing compromises on other changes: " writing compounds separately or as a single word, the use of lower and upper case, punctuation and syllabification ".

This same committee also ruled that Roger Maris is the one and only single season home run record holder, overturning the 1961 decision of former commissioner Ford Frick that Maris and Ruth's home run totals should be listed side-by-side for 154 and 162 game seasons ( contrary to popular belief, Frick never mentioned using an asterisk ).

In the 21st Century Monthly Review has abandoned the model of a single strong editor in favor of a broad editorial committee coordinating self-managed departments.

A plan was made to erect an iron roof similar to that found at Euston station in London, ridge roofs supported by iron columns ; however, Richard Turner and William Fairburn submitted a design for a single curved roof, which won the approval of the station committee.

A single committee in each house of Congress.

Baptized Witnesses are expected to seek counsel and correction from congregation elders for even a single commission of a " serious sin "; the sinner may be formally reproved or disfellowshipped if a judicial committee considers him unrepentant.

Both awards are administered by a single committee of seven members of the Academy.

The Lectures were selected for that volume by a committee appointed on September 24, 1834 by a general assembly of the church to arrange the doctrines and revelations of the church into a single volume.

She knew also that I was unmarried and without a single known relative.

Alkanes ( also known as paraffins or saturated hydrocarbons ) are chemical compounds that consist only of hydrogen and carbon atoms and are bonded exclusively by single bonds ( i. e., they are saturated compounds ) without any cycles ( or loops ; i. e., cyclic structure ).

From this arrangement these lines of single cells came to be known as Laurae, Laurai, " streets " or " lanes ".

However, there are no known year-names or other archaeological evidence verifying any of these later kings of Akkad or Uruk, apart from a single artifact referencing king Dudu of Akkad.

Among Schoenberg's teaching was the idea that the unity of a musical composition depends upon all its aspects being derived from a single basic idea ; this idea was later known as developing variation.

The four Ämter were then consolidated under a single Confederation bailiff into what was known in the 15th century as the Waggental Bailiwick ().

They are widely known for their hit single " Deeper Shade Of Soul ", which charted at number 21 in the United States on Billboard Hot 100.

* D ' banj, Nigerian musician, known for his 2012 single Oliver Twist

It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex.

The poem is known only from this single manuscript, which is estimated to date from close to AD 1000.

As of the 2005 release, C # Builder, Delphi for Win32, and Delphi for. NET have been combined into a single IDE called " Borland Developer Studio " ( though the combined IDE is still popularly known as " Delphi ").

Other chemicals, known as DNA intercalators, fit into the gap between adjacent bases on a single strand and induce frameshift mutations by " masquerading " as a base, causing the DNA replication machinery to skip or insert additional nucleotides at the intercalated site.

When the processors and their interconnect are all implemented on a single silicon chip, the technology is known as a multi-core microprocessor.

CPU designers then borrowed ideas from commercial computing markets such as transaction processing, where the aggregate performance of multiple programs, also known as throughput computing, was more important than the performance of a single thread or program.

The Gayanashagowa, the oral constitution of the Iroquois nation also known as the Great Law of Peace, established a system of governance in which sachems ( tribal chiefs ) of the members of the Iroquois League made decisions on the basis of universal consensus of all chiefs following discussions that were initiated by a single tribe.

American caver Bill Cuddington, known as " Vertical Bill ", developed the single rope technique ( SRT ) in the late 1950s.

Coyotes ( both single individuals and groups ) have been known to occasionally kill bobcats – in most cases, the bobcats were relatively small specimens, such as adult females and juveniles.

Even single individuals, also known as sole traders may incorporate themselves and limit their liability in order to carry on a business.

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

The find in June 2010 extends the known record of copper smelting by about 500 years, and suggests that copper smelting may have been invented in separate parts of Asia and Europe at that time rather than spreading from a single source.

Eruptions forming even larger calderas are known, especially La Garita Caldera in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, where the 5, 000 km < sup > 3 </ sup > Fish Canyon Tuff was blasted out in a single major eruption about 27. 8 million years ago.

The Imperial Japanese Navy was the first to assemble a large number of carriers into a single task force, known as Kido Butai.

A dragon-like creature with wings but only a single pair of legs is known as a wyvern.

A number of additional single stranded DNA viruses are known but are as yet unclassified.