Constitutional scholars, editorial boards, and the Monarchist League of Canada have argued against any such constitutional tinkering with the viceregal appointment process, stating that the position being " not elected is an asset, not a handicap ," and that an election would politicize the office, thereby undermining the impartiality necessary to the proper functioning of the governor general.

France also suffered the handicap of the destruction and turbulence of the Napoleonic Wars and the subsequent process of rebuilding, which also hindered the development of railways.

According to one, a 9th-century wrestler named Hajikami tied a shimenawa around his waist as a handicap and dared any to touch it, creating sumo as it is now known in the process.

The schematic design process for a concrete bridge was further developed to include handicap accessibility, walkway alignment and environmental restoration.

Reality is considered not only irrelevant to the acquisition of higher knowledge, but a positive handicap.

* Bisque, half-bisque A bisque is a free turn in a handicap match.

A half-bisque is a restricted handicap turn in which no point may be scored.

Following the departure of Steve Rider from the BBC, Lineker, who is a keen recreational golfer with a handicap of four, became the new presenter for the BBC's golf coverage.

France prohibits by its penal code and by its press laws public and private communication which is defamatory or insulting, or which incites discrimination, hatred, or violence against a person or a group of persons on account of place of origin, ethnicity or lack thereof, nationality, race, specific religion, sex, sexual orientation, or handicap.

In criminal trials, the insanity defense is where the defendant claims they are not responsible for their actions due to mental health problems ( psychiatric illness or mental handicap ).

Opponents say that if it is high enough to be effective, it increases unemployment, particularly among workers with very low productivity due to inexperience or handicap, thereby harming less skilled workers and possibly excluding some groups from the labor market ; additionally it is less effective and more damaging to businesses than other methods of reducing poverty.

While there are sensory advantages present at the macroscale compared to the limited sensorium available at the nanoscale, proposals for positionally controlled nanoscale mechanosynthetic fabrication systems employ dead reckoning of tooltips combined with reliable reaction sequence design to ensure reliable results, hence a limited sensorium is no handicap ; similar considerations apply to the positional assembly of small nanoparts.

Advocates respond that it is difficult to undertake a comprehensive design effort in the absence of significant funding for such efforts, and that despite this handicap much useful design-ahead has nevertheless been accomplished with new software tools that have been developed, e. g., at Nanorex.

It is the richest " two-mile " handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races.

The race is a quality handicap for horses 3 years old and over, run over a distance of 3, 200 metres, on the first Tuesday in November at Flemington Racecourse.

The minimum handicap weight is 49 kg.

The Melbourne Cup race is a handicap contest in which the weight of the jockey and riding gear is adjusted with ballast to a nominated figure.

At the start of the game the football is placed on the central point, unless one player gives the other a handicap, in which case the ball starts nearer one player's goal.

From then on, the game spread powerfully across the country and Argentina is credited globally as the mecca of polo, mainly because Argentina is notably the country with the largest number ever of 10 handicap players in the world.

The best player on the team is usually the Number Three player, usually wielding the highest handicap.

Evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller hypothesizes that rhyme is a form of sexually selected handicap imposed on communication making poetry harder and more reliable as a signal of verbal intelligence and overall fitness.

) The two most common handicap systems are the IRC and the Portsmouth Yardstick, while the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet ( PHRF ) is very common in the U. S. A.

The CVC is meant to bring all visitors in through one handicap accessible security checkpoint, yards away from the Capitol itself, increasing security and offering visitors educational exhibits, a food court, and restrooms.

Impaired hearing is the most common physical handicap in the industrialized world.

Equitable stroke control is a sliding scale system, based on the difficulty of the course and the current handicap of the golfer.

As a trade-off, doing this prevents the player from performing critical hits, strikes, and other special effects, essentially creating a large handicap in exchange for the reduced difficulty.

The object is to outsmart the geek at their own subject ; as a handicap, the geeks are given questions of considerably greater difficulty than the contestants.

A person of substandard intelligence is held under common law to the same standard of a reasonable prudent person, to encourage them to exert an increased effort of responsibility to their community, in light of their handicap, and as a result of the practical difficulty of proving what reduced standard should apply ( Vaughn v. Menlove, 3 Bing.

" In a 2008 report, the U. S. State Department ’ s International Security Advisory Board declared that China was in the midst of a " comprehensive strategic deception campaign ," which was said to include " Psychological Warfare ( propaganda, deception, and coercion ), Media Warfare ( manipulation of public opinion domestically and internationally ), and Legal Warfare ( use of ‘ legal regimes ’ to handicap the opponent in fields favorable to him ).

* International Symbol of Access, an image of a stylized person in a wheelchair against a blue background, meant to designate handicap accessibility at a glance

He won 51 of the events, abandoned one race and lost two handicap races along with his final event ; a half-mile race at the Yankee Stadium, where he finished second to American track star Alan Helffrich.

As the French car industry switched from making large powerful cars to small utilitarian ones, French sports cars of the 1950s and early 1960s tended to be small-capacity and highly aerodynamic ( often based on Panhard or Renault components ), aimed at winning the " Index of Performance " at Le Mans and Reims and triumphing in handicap races.

The people of Abarimon had backwards feet, but in spite of this handicap were able to run at great speed.

# The board is empty at the onset of the game ( unless players agree to place a handicap ).

Within most systems and at most levels, handicap is given to offset the strength difference between players of different ranks in the game of Go.

" This placed him at an obvious handicap because many politicians running the government believed that he was attempting to implement the policies of the opposition party.

Norman began playing golf at 15, somewhat late for a world-class player, and within two years was playing to a scratch handicap.

He was a frequent visitor to Moberly throughout his career, was a member of the Moberly Rotary Club, played near handicap golf regularly at the local course and had a " Bradley pew " at Central Christian Church.

They observed over time that mutations occurred within the colony at a rate that suggested the bacteria were overcoming their handicap by altering their own genes.

Despite this handicap, he distinguished himself at school in Cahors, and in 1857 went to Paris to study law.

Between June 26 and August 7, he ran five times, each time at a stakes race, and each time he won, despite steadily increasing handicap weights ( imposts ) of up to 130 lb ( 59 kg ).

In 1998, very strong players were able to beat computer programs at handicaps of 25 – 30 stones, an enormous handicap that few human players would ever take.

On August 7, 2008, the computer program MoGo running on 25 nodes ( 800 cores, 4 cpus per node with each core running at 4. 7 GHz to produce 15 Teraflops ) of the Huygens cluster in Amsterdam beat professional Go player Myungwan Kim ( 8p ) in a nine stone handicap game on the 19x19 board on the KGS Go Server.

On March 17, 2012 Zen beats Takemiya 9p at 5 stones by eleven points followed by a stunning twenty point win at a 4 stone handicap.

The winner of this tournament was allowed to challenge young players at a handicap in a short match.

If the computer won the match, the prize was awarded and a new prize announced: a larger prize for beating the players at a lesser handicap.