Marcello Durante links " Homeros " to an epithet of Zeus as " god of the assemblies " and argues that behind the name lies the echo of an archaic word for " reunion ", similar to the later Panegyris, denoting a formal assembly of competing minstrels.

This led to a formal reunion of the original Jefferson Airplane, featuring nearly all the main members, including founder Marty Balin, but without Spencer Dryden.

Although not a formal FSM reunion, many FSM leaders were on the panels and other participants were in the audience.

However, formal reunion with Rome never happened, and the Church remained faithful to Eastern Orthodoxy.

There have, however, been two partial reunions, both featuring between two and four of the band members and with neither event being identified as a formal reunion of Gentle Giant.

An adoption reunion registry is a formal mechanism where adoptees and their birth family members can be reunited.

The final segment would consist of the formal reunion of the band in the rehearsing studio, and a joint interview about why the group parted ways.

Presumably those who did not have a formal church connexion had also felt the influence of Christianity to a greater or lesser extent.

Curule Aediles, as formal magistrates, held certain honors that Plebeian Aediles ( who were not technically magistrates ), did not hold.

The Roman Catholic Church likewise treats it as any other act of renunciation of the Catholic faith, although for a few years, from 2006 to 2009, it did note in the baptismal register any formal act of defection from the Catholic Church, a concept quite distinct from that of presentation of such a certificate.

Gottlob Frege did explicitly axiomatize a theory in which the formalized version of naive set theory can be interpreted, and it is this formal theory which Bertrand Russell actually addressed when he presented his paradox.

Although he did not hold a formal executive position in the government, Chiang continued to issue orders to the army, and many officers continued to obey Chiang rather than Li.

He also promised not to change the ROC state symbols or declare formal independence as long as the People's Republic of China did not attack Taiwan.

On average, the scores of African-American children who did not receive formal education during that period decreased at a rate of about six IQ points per year.

In the Late Renaissance and Baroque the painting of actual history tended to degenerate into panoramic battle-scenes with the victorious monarch or general perched on a horse accompanied with his retinue, or formal scenes of ceremonies, although some artists managed to make a masterpiece from such unpromising material, as Velázquez did with his The Surrender of Breda.

Others, notably former State Secretary Prince Bernard von Bülow, shared Neurath's contempt: " Bülow could not regard as a serious competitor a man who had no formal training in diplomacy, who could not write a report in correct German, who did not listen carefully enough to the remarks of foreign statesmen to interpret them correctly, and who insisted upon seeing possibilities of alliance Britain where none existed ".

He liked the informality of manners, the food, even the fact that one did not have to wear a kimono for a formal dinner and could leave shoes on all day.

Though during her years in the Governor's Mansion, she did not hold a single formal event, Laura worked for women's and children's causes including health, education, and literacy.

" While he did not graduate from George Washington, his time there subsequently became important because, as George Malko puts it, " many of his researches and published conclusions have been supported by his claims to be not only a graduate engineer, but ' a member of the first United States course in formal education in what is called today nuclear physics.

Since he lacked formal education in Latin and mathematics, contemporary scholars mostly ignored Leonardo the scientist, although he did teach himself Latin.

He did have formal training either by his father until he was 7 years old or from his uncle beginning at the age of 7.

In Mere Christianity, he aims at avoiding controversies to explain fundamental teachings of Christianity, for the sake of those basically educated as well as the intellectuals of his generation, for whom the jargon of formal Christian theology did not retain its original meaning.

In 1972, the first formal summit meeting between Pyongyang and Seoul was held, but cautious talks did not lead much of anywhere and relations between the two Koreas continued down the path of hostility.

The McDonnell laboratory did not make any formal statements or publications suggesting that the effects demonstrated by the two magicians were genuine.

He did not want his relatives descending on Rome, nor did he want them to be enriched beyond the station of a member of the nobility, and he did not allow his two nephews, Riccardo and Herennius ( sons of his half-brother Alexander ), who lived in Rome under his care, to have formal visits.

The title was first referred to on government documents during the administration of Benjamin Disraeli but did not appear in the formal British Order of precedence until 1905.

In 2010, the prime minister's office reported that he did not receive a formal salary, but was entitled to monthly allowances.

They did not have a precise formal organization or formation.

In 1998, the American Psychiatric Association issued a statement opposing any treatment which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder or that a person should change their orientation, but did not have a formal position on other treatments that attempt to change a person's sexual orientation.

He did not, however, make a formal argument for the existence of God ; rather, God's existence is already presumed and Augustine is giving a proposed view of God's teleology.

In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

Cultural imperialism can take various forms, such as an attitude, a formal policy, military action, so long as it reinforces cultural hegemony.

In American English, collective nouns almost invariably take singular verb forms ( formal agreement ).

Even if the formal transfer of sovereignty would not take place until the signature of the Treaty of Utrecht, the British Governor and garrison become the de facto rulers of the town.

Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of the revolutionary chaos in Iran and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and were quickly repelled by the Iranians, who regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982.

Be it known to all people: That on the tenth of May, A. D. 1922, the undersigned agent of the Island of Palmyra Copra Co., Ltd., landed from the motorship Palmyra doth, on this tenth day of May, A. D. 1922, take formal possession of this island, called Kingman Reef, situated in longitude 162 degrees 18 ' west and 6 degrees 23 ' north, on behalf of the United States of America and claim the same for said company.

There does not have to be a formal agreement for collusion to take place ( although for the act to be illegal there must be actual communication between companies )– for example, in some industries there may be an acknowledged market leader which informally sets prices to which other producers respond, known as price leadership.

Students are also required to demonstrate proficiency in writing and in a foreign language and take courses in the fine arts and in the sciences, mathematics, or other courses that address formal methods of reasoning.

The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed a take off in the use of deductive, game theoretic formal modeling techniques aimed at generating a more analytical corpus of knowledge in the discipline.

When language is used, prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, formal creed, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person.

Other linguists ( e. g. Gerald Gazdar ) take a more Platonistic view, since they regard syntax to be the study of an abstract formal system.

Lay judges had to give formal warnings to known troublemakers, issue warrants, and take part in executions.

" No formal Purchase, -- no tedious negotiations ,... A firman insistently issued to Sir F. Maitland authorizing him to take & retain possession is all that is necessary, & the Squadron under his Command is quite competent to do both ,... until an adequate naval and military force ... could be sent out from the mother Country.

The first to take formal notice of this was his former fellow student Adelmann, who begged him to abandon his opposition to the Church's teaching.

The Métis became more fearful when the Canadian government appointed the notoriously anti-French William McDougall as the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories on September 28, 1869, in anticipation of a formal transfer to take effect in December.

Lord Crewe announced publicly that the government's wish to create peers should be treated as formal " ministerial advice " ( which, by convention, the monarch must obey ) although Lord Esher argued that the monarch was entitled in extremis to dismiss the government rather than take their " advice ".

In countries without a formal female monastic lineage, women may take other religious roles, but they are generally not granted the same rights and privileges as recognized male monastics.

Turner convinced his mother to pay for him to have piano lessons with a teacher ; however he did not take to the formal style of playing, instead spending the money in a pool hall, then learning boogie-woogie from Perkins.

In an attempt to obtain international acceptance for the legal recognition of traditional use of coca in their respective countries, Peru and Bolivia successfully led an amendment, paragraph 2 of Article 14 into the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, stipulating that measures to eradicate illicit cultivation and to eliminate illicit demand “ should take due account of traditional licit use, where there is historic evidence of such use .” Bolivia also made a formal reservation to the 1988 Convention, which required countries to adopt measures to establish the use, consumption, possession, purchase or cultivation of the coca leaf for personal consumption as a criminal offence.

In normal circumstances the prosecutorial powers of the Attorney-General are exercised by the Director of Public Prosecutions and staff ; however, the Attorney-General maintains formal control, including the power to initiate and terminate public prosecutions and take over private prosecutions.

A self-taught musician, he began to play the piano when he was eleven or twelve years old, and he did not take any formal piano lessons.

Otherwise, they normally only take modifiers that add emotive coloring, such as old Mrs Fletcher, poor Charles, or historic York ; in a formal style, this may include the ( the inimitable Henry Higgins ).

An approach is to take a somewhat formal taxonomic approach to classify the Turing equivalent abstract machines.

The possible reasons for her breasts not being emphasized in the most formal statues were debated among some early Egyptologists, who failed to understand the ritual religious symbolism, to take into account the fact that many women and goddesses portrayed in ancient Egyptian art often lack delineation of breasts, and that the physical aspect of the gender of pharaohs was never stressed in the art.