It is geodetic practice — contrary to the mathematical convention — to let the axis point to the North and the axis to the East.

And as the practice was anciently common of fining, imprisoning, or otherwise punishing the jurors, merely at the discretion of the court, for finding a verdict contrary to the direction of these dependent judges ; it is obvious, that juries were then no manner of security to the liberty of the subject.

This federally overruled a state law to the contrary and reinstated a practice that had been in use for more than two decades with other probate judges despite being at odds with the contested state law.

Although the Constitutional text seems to suggest to the contrary, the Senate's practice has been to elect a full-time President pro tempore at the beginning of each Congress, as opposed to making it a temporary office only existing during the Vice President's absence.

Let ρ, θ, and φ be spherical coordinates for the source point P. Here θ denotes the angle with the vertical axis, which is contrary to the usual American mathematical notation, but agrees with standard European and physical practice.

A week later, the Parliament passed three acts in one day: the first abolished the jurisdiction of the Pope in Scotland, the second condemned all doctrine and practice contrary to the reformed faith, and the third forbade the celebration of Mass in Scotland.

These incidents may be due to the practice in zoos of separating mothers and sons, which is contrary to their social organization in the wild.

The commercially advantageous location of Corcyra on the way between Greece and Magna Grecia, and its fertile lowlands in the southern section of the island favoured its growth and, influenced perhaps by the presence of non-Corinthian settlers, its people, quite contrary to the usual practice of Corinthian colonies, maintained an independent and even hostile attitude towards the mother city.

Heinlein, to the contrary, has little good to say of the cruel " centaurs ", who not only butcher and eat their " yahoos " ( and would like to add the Earth variety to their menu ) but also practice systematic euthanasia towards old and weak members of their own species.

Chroniclers have noticed the right of Ælfwynn so precisely as to leave no doubt concerning her claim ; and this fact is of considerable value in showing that, contrary to the practice of other Germanic peoples, the sovereign authority amongst the Anglo-Saxons might descend to a female ; or, according to the Anglo-Saxon expression, which the French have adopted, " fall to the spindle side ".

This interpretation was contrary to much contemporary practice elsewhere and at odds with scholars who backed the use of long and short notes related in strict durational proportion as per polyphonic singing.

With most widespread practice in the U. S, becoming the Reform Judaism, it doesn't require or see the Jews as direct descendants of the ethnic Jews or Biblical Israelites, but rather adherents of the Jewish faith in its Reformist version, in contrary to the Orthodox Judaism, the mainstream practice in Israel, which considers the Jews as a closed ethnoreligious community, with very strict procedures of conversion.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also bans the practice outright, considering fortune-telling to be sorcery and thus contrary to Islamic teaching and jurisprudence.

Some individuals and religious groups, for example, retain beliefs or practices which involve acts contrary to established law, such as the use of cannabis by members of the Rastafari movement, the religious use of eagle feathers by non-Native Americans ( contrary to the eagle feather law, 50 CFR 22 ), or the practice of polygamy amongst Mormons in the 19th century.

Moreover, in software development, legal and business practice and other environments, it has become increasingly common for a single document or snippet of code to be edited by a team, the members of which may be geographically dispersed and may pursue different and even contrary interests.

This was not a completely new idea, but it was contrary to the administrative practice in the Netherlands Indies until then and contrary to the ideas of the nationalists, who wanted a centralist Indonesia.

This unit was disbanded after a short time because segregated military units were contrary to Brazilian practice.

In 2002, such practice in England and Wales was challenged as contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights ( ECHR ), art. 6 ( 2 ) guaranteeing right to a fair trial.

In particular traffic entering the boulevard have the right-of-way over vehicle traveling on the boulevard, contrary to the usual practice on highways.

He also drew and painted numerous copies after Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and other artists of the Renaissance but, contrary to conventional practice, he usually selected from an altarpiece a detail that had caught his attention — a secondary figure, or a head which he treated as a portrait.

The monarch still ruled under the law and could only legislate in agreement with the Riksdag of the Estates ; rather, the absolutism introduced was the monarch's ability to run the government unfettered by the privy council, contrary to earlier practice.

" Thus, in debating and disagreeing over the meaning of the Torah or how best to put it into practice, no rabbi felt that he ( or his opponent ) were in some way rejecting God or threatening Judaism ; on the contrary, it was precisely through such arguments that the rabbis imitated and honored God.

Heidenstam's conception, on the contrary, was to revive the present by the memories of the past.

Recent statements by the President and Defense Department spokesmen have, to the contrary, assured us that our lead is very great.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Up to the turn of the century, contraception was condemned by all Christian churches as immoral, unnatural and contrary to divine law.

But for it to be just to attain this same result by means of the force of a boycott throughout the nation would require the verification of facts contrary to those assumed in the foregoing case.

On the contrary, even in the heart of `` the Bible belt '' itself, as can be attested by any one who is called to work there, the industrial and technological revolutions have long been under way, together with the corresponding changes in man's picture of himself and his world.

Now Teng on the contrary possesses granaries and treasuries, so the ruler is supporting himself by oppressing the people ’.

* Article 10 – All treaty states will discourage activities by any country in Antarctica that are contrary to the treaty ;

" Johnson said it was an invasion by federal authority of the rights of the states, it had no warrant in the Constitution and was contrary to all precedents.

Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes ( contrary to Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat ) and are the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the " Aryan race ".

Note: in a galvanic cell, contrary to what occurs in an electrolytic cell, no anions flow to the anode, the internal current being entirely accounted for by the cations flowing away from it ( cf drawing ).

Capp, who by all accounts was contrary and contentious by nature, was a maverick politically.

( NA Broderick and others., 2006 ) This is contrary to the common misconception that Bt toxin kills the larvae by starvation.

The report states, contrary to the previously established belief, that no stones and no petrol bombs were thrown by civilians before British soldiers shot at them, and that the civilians were not posing any threat.

This appeared to be confirmed by the exploration of the deep sea beds conducted by the Challenger expedition, 1872-6, which showed that contrary to expectation, land debris brought down by rivers to the ocean is deposited comparatively close to the shore in what is now known as the continental shelf.

< li > A variety of actions or pursuits which were thought to be injurious to public morality, might be forbidden by an edict, and those who acted contrary to such edicts were branded with the nota and degraded.

These enactments, being contrary to the custom of the Celtic monasteries, were readily rejected by Columbanus.

He directed another epistle to Pope Boniface IV, in which he prays that, if it be not contrary to the Faith, he confirm the tradition of his elders, so that by the papal decision ( judicium ) he and his monks may be enabled to follow the rites of their ancestors.

Guest is sometimes off-putting in interviews and promotional appearances ( having been described by reviewer Warren Etheredge as, " rude, condescending and intolerable "), as well as with people who have met him outside of the work environment because contrary to expectations of him as a comedian he often seems deadpan, even dour.

Nevertheless, the ICJ found that the U. S. encouraged acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law by producing the manual Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare ( Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas ) and disseminating it to the contras.

The International Court of Justice ruled on 27 June 1986 that by disseminating the manual to the contras, the United States of America had " encouraged ... acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law.

They also agreed that " we shall by all means labor to keep off from us all such as are contrary minded, and receive only such unto us as may be probably of one heart with us, such as that we either know or may well and truly be informed to walk in a peaceable conversation with all meekness of spirit, for the edification of each other in the knowledge and faith of the Lord Jesus …" The covenant also stipulated that if differences were to arise between townsmen, they would seek arbitration for resolution and each would pay his fair share for the common good.