In 1441 Pope Eugene IV merged them into one congregation called " Congregatio Sancti Ambrosii ad Nemus ", made the original house the main seat, and laid down a system of government whereby a general chapter met every three years, elected the priors who stayed in office till the next chapter.

By reductio ad absurdum, Bastiat argued that the national trade deficit was an indicator of a successful economy, rather than a failing one.

The Black and Tans () were one of two ad hoc paramilitary units employed by the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) as Temporary Constables from 1920 to 1921 to suppress revolution in Ireland, the other body being the Auxiliaries.

The dominant model in use today is the ad hoc one embedded in SQL, despite the objections of purists who believe this model is a corruption of the relational model since it violates several fundamental principles for the sake of practicality and performance.

( A chargé d ' affaires ad interim also heads the mission during the interim between the end of one chief of mission's term and the beginning of another ).

Although the number of individuals sincerely espousing solipsism has been small, it is not uncommon for one philosopher to accuse another's arguments of entailing solipsism as an unwanted consequence, in a kind of reductio ad absurdum.

On the other hand, if someone adopts a simple relativist stance as an ad hoc defense of a controversial or otherwise compromised position — saying, in effect, that " what is true for you is not necessarily true for me ," and thereby attempting to avoid having to mount any further defense of the position — one might be said to have committed a fallacy.

The full text is found in only one manuscript, which bears the title, Lucii Caecilii liber ad Donatum Confessorem de Mortibus Persecutorium.

The kilogram is one of the seven SI base units ; among these, it is one of three ( besides the second and the Kelvin ) which is defined ad hoc, without reference to another base unit, since 1889 by means of the international prototype kilogram.

To deny the existence of those universes, one needs to complicate the theory by adding experimentally unsupported processes and ad hoc postulates: finite space, wave function collapse and ontological asymmetry.

" ( The joke being that the picture was so undesirable that only one had left their office since the last ad.

Bayesian methods would suggest that one hypothesis was more probable than the other, but individual Bayesians might differ about which was the more probable and by how much, by virtue of having used different priors ; but that's the same thing as disagreeing on significance levels, except significance levels are just an ad hoc device which are not really a probability, while priors are not only justified by the rules of probability, but there is definitely a normative methodology to define beliefs ; so even if a Bayesian wanted to express complete ignorance ( as a frequentist claims to do but does it wrong ), they could do it with the maximum entropy principle.

A complaint sets forth the relevant allegations of fact that give rise to one or more legal causes of action along with a prayer for relief and sometimes a statement of damages claimed ( an ad quod damnum clause ).

To prevent the appearance of any bias in the court's makeup, if there was a judge belonging to one member state on the panel and the other member state was not " represented ", they had the ability to select an ad hoc judge of their own nationality to hear the case.

Rhetorica ad Herennium, formerly attributed to Cicero but now considered to be of unknown authorship, is one of the most significant works on rhetoric and is still widely used as a reference today.

Poor reception of the album both by the public and reviewers led the band to take out a page-sized ad in the local music press declaring " Why Don't You All Get Fu ** ed " ( title of one of their songs ) and they played their last performance on 8 June in Kalgoorlie.

An ad valorem tax is one where the tax base is the value of a good, service, or property.

The Rolling Stones refused to play it at live gigs, and Decca bought only one ad to promote the single.

Another staple of Viz advertisement parody are the adverts for public and government services which one would normally not expect to find advertised ; for example, one ad consisted of the words " Raped?

Scatological humour also featured heavily in the ads ; one ad featured " Clag-Gone ", which consisted of a stationary bicycle with no seat.

In late 1894 or early 1895, Dickson became an ad hoc advisor to the motion picture operation of the Latham brothers, Otway and Grey, and their father, Woodville, who ran one of the leading Kinetoscope exhibition companies.

The equivalent Roman name was " ad Pontes " ( plural " at the bridges ") implying that there was more than one bridge and it is believed that these bridges traversed Church Island.

The show broke new ground with Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ; on one occasion, this was performed with Macmillan in the audience, and Cook added an ad lib ridiculing Macmillan for turning up to watch.

Mackenzie married Helen Neil ( 1826 – 1852 ) in 1845 and with her had three children, with only one girl surviving infancy.

As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.

It consisted of three Italian MEPs ( Lega Nord two, Sardinian Action Party one ), two Spanish MEPs ( one each for the PNV and the Andalusian Party, PA ), one Belgian MEP ( for VU ), one French MEP ( Union of the Corsican People, UPC ), one British MEP ( SNP ) and one Irish MEP ( Neil Blaney, independent ).

Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences.

This device is used by folk musicians, " one man bands " and singer / songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Tom Harmon, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singers Jimmy Reed and John Hammond Jr ..

Writing in The New York Times in 1994, Neil Strauss referred to " Forever Changes " as " a cocktail of lush strings and innocent pop ballads, ( it ) remains one of the best pop albums of the 60's and has influenced many current bands.

Afterwards, they played one brief set with Tyler and Perry, with Jason Bonham on drums, and then a second with Neil Young, this time with Michael Lee taking the drumsticks.

When Lee made one final appeal to audition, Neil accepted and was hired April 1, 1981.

Neil Peart used the form for the lyrics of " The Larger Bowl ( A Pantoum )" on Rush's 2007 album, Snakes & Arrows ( with one difference from the format listed above ).

Buck O ' Neil was the most recent former Negro league player to appear in a professional game when he made two appearances ( one for each team ) in the Northern League All-Star Game in 2006.

Two Rocket Propelled Grenades slammed into the helicopter, shutting down one of its engines, the electric system, and the hydraulic systems and causing Petty Officer First Class Neil C. Roberts to fall out of the open ramp.

At The Beatles ' 1988 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, George Harrison at one point stated that there were only two " fifth Beatles ": Derek Taylor and Neil Aspinall ( referring to the Beatles ' public relations manager and road manager-turned-business-executive, respectively ).

Neil Gaiman also cited The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as one of the influences for his award-winning short story " A Study in Emerald ".

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, an engineer before he participated in NASA's Apollo program, personally told Doohan on stage at Doohan's last public appearance, " From one old engineer to another, thanks, mate.

Also, The Sandman and its spin-offs have won 26 Eisner Awards, including three for Best Continuing Series, one for Best Short Story, four for Best Writer ( Neil Gaiman ), seven for Best Lettering ( Todd Klein ), and two for Best Penciller / Inker ( one each for Charles Vess and P. Craig Russell ).

He is one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.

Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman.

Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.

He was one of just four of this group chosen to command their first Gemini missions, the others being James McDivitt, Neil Armstrong, and Elliot See.