Similar considerations presumably made it difficult to prescribe a general rule where the acquired and acquiring corporations have different methods of accounting ( section 381(c)(4) ) or depreciation ( section 381(c)(6) ).

as a rule, the earlier general dental treatment is started, the less expensive and more satisfactory it is likely to be.

When things got a little out of hand, they very rapidly got a lot out of hand -- it seemed to be a general rule.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

As a general rule, the higher tablelands lie to the east and south, while a progressive diminution in altitude towards the west and north is observable.

A general rule agreed upon the Tokyo Convention is that the general penalty jurisdiction towards the offenders committing the crimes included in this convention is performed by the country where the aircraft is registered.

As a general design rule, the material properties of the object need to be greater than the forces anticipated during its use.

Annuities are also subject to the same rule as general legacies.

As a general rule, more cache improves performance, but faster cache improves it further still.

Among these were the writing of the Fundamental Principles of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, introducing a general amnesty for those people imprisoned during Nur Mohammad Taraki's and Amin's rule, and replacing the Khalqist flag with a more traditional one.

Shareholder nominations can only occur at the general meeting itself or through the prohibitively expensive process of mailing out ballots separately ; in May 2009 the SEC proposed a new rule allowing shareholders meeting certain criteria to add nominees to the proxy statement.

However, this is only a general rule and many species differ.

As a general principle, the person who broke a rule should not benefit by it, and the other players should not lose by it.

In 1961 it was granted autonomous rule and, seven years after the general unrest and left-wing riots of 1968.

As a general rule of thumb, if the condition number, then you may lose up to digits of accuracy on top of what would be lost to the numerical method due to loss of precision from arithmetic methods.

There were several exceptions from the general rule of quick civil wars during this period.

The general rule for open connections is that moves of the leader's hands back, forth, left or right are originated through moves of the entire body.

As a general rule secured creditors — creditors who have a security interest, or collateral, in the debtor's property — will be paid before unsecured creditors.

As a general rule, since that time, the armed forces have not intervened in politics as a body, rather being tossed and turned as ambitious men have shaken the country.

This was contrary to the principles of the life of independence which these mountaineers had always lived, and resulted in a general uprising against Egyptian rule.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

As a general rule a statistic of N is twice as capable as a level of N-1, where this makes sense.

Exceptions to this general rule are when has repeated roots, or when contains no odd powers of.

As such, the general rule of thumb is that cold foods ( such as dairy products ) should be kept cold and hot foods ( such as soup ) should be kept hot until storage.

A general — and somewhat, but not entirely, meaningless — rule of thumb on the opening is that a good opening is one that leads to a good middlegame.

As a general rule of thumb, private schools in the UAE require a school uniform.

As a rule of thumb, any sort of construction that takes as input a fairly general object ( often of an algebraic, or topological-algebraic nature ) and outputs a compact space is likely to use Tychonoff: e. g., the Gelfand space of maximal ideals of a commutative C * algebra, the Stone space of maximal ideals of a Boolean algebra, and the Berkovich spectrum of a commutative Banach ring.

The general rule of thumb is that any encoding system that ' understands ' the underlying data structure-sufficiently to encode it in the first place-should be equally capable of easily encoding it in such a way that makes decoding it highly efficient.

The definition of “ too long ” may be changed depending on required service levels, however, a general rule of thumb is 20 % of the RT.

As a general rule of thumb, if the change in density relative to the stagnation density is greater than 5 %, then the fluid should be analysed as a compressible flow.

Rewriting sections " pays off " in these circumstances because of a general " rule of thumb " known as the 90 / 10 law, which states that 90 % of the time is spent in 10 % of the code, and only 10 % of the time in the remaining 90 % of the code.

Although not a precise number, as a general rule of thumb, logistic regression models require a minimum of 10 cases per variable.

The general rule of thumb is a 286, 386SX, 68000 or low-end 68020 / 68030 ( e. g. Atari, Mac LC ) system ( using a 16 bit wide data bus ) would require two 30-pin SIMMs for a memory bank.

* The general rule of thumb applicable to this case is " don't repeat yourself ".

The general rule of thumb is that the sound radiates in the direction of the blood flow.

In a simple manner, with respect to STP reacting systems, a general rule of thumb is:

The general rule of thumb is that the food being provided must not be larger than the space between the animal's mouth endings ; feeding anything larger could lead to fatal impaction.

A general rule of thumb is that long, thin chorizos are sweet, and short chorizos are spicy, although this is not always the case.

As a consequence we have the general rule of thumb that the functor category D < sup > C </ sup > shares most of the " nice " properties of D:

As a general rule of thumb, the primary purpose of a koryū martial art was for use in war.

However this rule of thumb is shown in later parts of the Ethics to apply mainly to some bodily pleasures, and is shown to be wrong as an accurate general rule in Book X.

A general rule of thumb is that an AA alkaline battery can deliver 700 mA without any significant heating.

When comparing the armies it is easiest to use the appearance of the army and a general rule of thumb: if the army is 95 % bone ( skeletons, bone giants, bone scorpions, etc.

The general rule of thumb is the larger the doll, the more valuable / rare they are.

A general rule of thumb for understanding a pole's brand is the manufacturer's name or logo at the top with a 2-digit date beneath ( sometimes preceded by a month ).

As a general rule of thumb, Major Colours for sporting activities are gained by those who have successfully represented their senior team or age group team, in their respective sport throughout the season of the award, while demonstrating a high level of performance and an approach which is both dedicated and a fine example to their peers.