According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

During that period counties followed the traditional practice of requiring all decisions be made by at least twelve of the grand jurors, ( e. g., for a twenty-three-person grand jury, twelve people would constitute a bare majority ).

King's Liberals originally had a bare majority position, however, since they had won 118 out of 235 seats, exactly the minimum for a majority.

This arrangement, with a bare parliamentary majority, held for a few months and was one of the few periods in Israel's history where the religious parties were not part of the coalition.

Nevertheless, the federalists managed to retain control of the new constitutional commission by a bare majority.

( A motion was made to change the rule, but it obtained only a bare majority, not two thirds.

Although Fujimori had won the runoff with only a bare majority, rumors of irregularities led most of the international community to shun his third swearing-in on 28 July.

The majority of Dorthonion consisted of a high plateau with bare and rocky peaks rising to higher altitudes than the mountains of the nearby Ered Wethrin ( the Shadowy Mountains ).

However, due to the Quran's timely process of story-telling, a majority of scholars agree that all references to Jews or other groups within the Quran refers to only certain populations at a certain point in history and bare any racial profiling or religious profiling, it also gives some legitimacy to their religion in

The party managed a bare majority win in the 1920 election and only managed to govern after the 1924 election with the support of 2 independent Liberals.

* Multi-member " superdistricts " is another strategy which " modifies winner-take-all majority rule to require that something more than a bare majority of voters must approve or concur before action is taken.

The arrangements worked better than expected in 1980, when a bare majority of Council voted for the imposition of a ceiling on the number of tickets sold.

While Labor scored a 15-seat swing and a bare majority of the two-party vote, Democratic Labor preferences left Calwell two seats short of toppling the Coalition.

The humidity made a large difference for the heat in this heat wave when compared to the majority of those of the 1930s, 1988, 1976 – 78 and 1954 – 56, which were powered by extremely hot, dry, bare soil and / or air masses which had originated in the desert South-West.

Popular opinion was divided about the merits of changing the flag ; a survey carried out before the Assembly's vote found that a bare majority of the population, 56. 33 percent, supported the adoption of a new flag.

Despite the fact that King's party won a bare majority of seats at the election, this is in fact correct as, due to the close numbers, resignations occasionally changed the parliament from a bare majority to bare minority.

A set of general principles on acquisitions was then developed to ensure that, though it was impossible to collect everything, the Library of Congress would acquire the bare minimum of canons to meet its mission.

The third feature helps to boost the light emission from the semiconductor by acting as a diffusing lens, allowing light to be emitted at a much higher angle of incidence from the light cone than the bare chip is able to emit alone.

The " The Cat in the Hat ", acting as narrator, sits on a bare stage, save for an odd multi-colored circle background (" Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Other parts of speech occur as bare roots, without special suffixes.

Until 1964, offending boys could be summoned to the Head Master or the Lower Master, as appropriate, to receive a birching on the bare posterior, in a semi-public ceremony held in the Library, where there was a special wooden birching block over which the offender was held.

Scythian élites had kurgan tombs: high barrows heaped over chamber-tombs of larch-wood – a deciduous conifer that may have had special significance as a tree of life-renewal, for it stands bare in winter.

After a week of Los Angeles Times ads, and special excursion trains from Los Angeles to a bare townsite, lot sales began at the new town of Van Nuys on Washington's Birthday, February 22, 1911.

A special white paint had to be developed to cover high-temperature metals, replacing the bare metal paint scheme of past planes.

In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved or bare hands as though they were a racquet.

In a 1988 TV special, series creator Gene Roddenberry said that, as with the first pilot, this one still had a lot of science-fiction elements in it, but at least it ended with Kirk in a bare knuckle fistfight with Mitchell and that's what sold NBC on Star Trek.

Often the patch consists of bare binary data and a special program that replaces the previous version with the new version is provided.

The cars at the show were priced at £ 575 for a special coupé, £ 435 for a 4-seat tourer, £ 425 for a 2-seater with dickey and £ 375 for a bare chassis.

The electrical installation on these vehicles was a special order and kept " luxury " fittings and fixtures to a bare minimum.

especially Trosborg 1995 and Cenoz / Valencia 1996 ), the bare imperative is normally avoided in favor of devices such as questions, modal auxiliaries, subjunctive, conditional, special adverbs.

A torture session usually begins with one partner allowing the other to tie them up in a position that lays bare parts of the body particularly that are sensitive to tickling.

Other gender-free dance groups started up in the area after that, and in 1989, at the gender-free dance group in Jamaica Plain, MA, a group of dancers led by Janet Dillon protested the use of these terms, and the armband system was devised: the traditionally male-role dancers would wear armbands and be called " armbands " or just " bands ," and the traditionally female-role dancers would be called " bare arms " or just " bares.

They found the sequence in the cliff below St. Helens, then just to the east at Siccar Point found what Hutton called " a beautiful picture of this junction washed bare by the sea ".

This is also called a bare trust.

The rite climaxed in a performance of frenzied feats of strength and madness, such as uprooting trees, tearing a bull ( the symbol of Dionysus ) apart with their bare hands, an act called sparagmos, and eating its flesh raw, an act called omophagia.

He learns about an influential religious movement in San Lorenzo, called Bokononism, a strange, postmodern faith that combines irreverent, nihilistic, and cynical observations about life and God's will with odd, but peaceful rituals ( for instance, the supreme act of worship is an intimate act consisting of prolonged physical contact between the bare soles of the feet of two persons, supposed to result in peace and joy between the two communicants ).

Here the god is called Cenncroithi, interpreted as " the head of all gods ", and when his image falls the silver and gold covering it crumble to dust, with the imprint of the crozier left on bare stone.

* Dasarnas, where the king called Sudharman with his bare arms fought a fierce battle with Bhima, who later appointed the mighty Sudharman as the first-in-command of his forces.

: And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice, invoking the Mother of Dindymum, Most Venerable, Dweller in Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean Mother, – the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.

Food researcher Tekishū Motoyama has pointed out that a sort of thin crepe-like confection called may be an early precursor, though it hardly includes the bare elements that makes it identifiable as okonomiyaki.

When the bishop is not holding the crosier, it is put in the care of an altar server, known as the " crosier bearer ", who may wear a shawl-like veil around his shoulders called a vimpa, so as to hold the crozier without touching it with his bare hands.

The Bible offers two explanations of name Yosef: first it is compared to the word asaf from the root /' sp /, " taken away ": " And she conceived, and bare a son ; and said, God hath taken away my reproach "; Yosef is then identified with the similar root / ysp /, meaning " add ":" And she called his name Joseph ; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.

Commoners were allowed a rectangular leather shield and could be armed with a suit of leather armour, bare to the knees and elbows and covered by a red surcoat of a light type of silk called sendal.

Small rubber tori, called donuts, can be threaded onto a bare run of the inner cable to prevent it from striking the bicycle frame causing rattles or abrasion.

# Nudation: Succession begins with the development of a bare site, called Nudation ( disturbance ).

They then took a boat trip from Dunglass Burn east along the coast with the geologist Sir James Hall of Dunglass and at Siccar Point found what Hutton called " a beautiful picture of this junction washed bare by the sea ", where 345 million year old Devonian Old Red Sandstone overlies 425 million year old Silurian greywacke.

The version which runs on bare PC hardware is called Native Oberon.

In 2011 a film about bare knuckle boxing was made called Knuckle.

Tortures included roasting the bare back, tearing flesh with iron hooks, and crushing feet in wooden presses called butuks ; executions included being broken on the wheel and being buried alive.

The north of the island is covered by forest, and includes Mount Olympus ( 403 m ), while the south, dominated by the highest mountain, called Kochila, ( 792 m ), is bare and rocky.

In ancient couture the lower garment was called ' nivi ' or ' nivi bandha ', while the upper body was mostly left bare.

Big Pinnacle ( also called " The Knob ") has high and colorful bare rock walls, with a rounded top covered by vegetation, reaching approximately above the surrounding terrain.

The last work produced by the firm in London was an office block called Milton Gate near the Barbican Estate, which in its use of green-tinted glazing represented a departure from his familiar bare concrete style.