The key way characters progress is by earning experience points ( XP / EXP ), which happens when they defeat an enemy or accomplish a difficult task.

Because defining a GSSP depends on finding well-preserved geologic sections and identifying key events, this task becomes more difficult as one goes farther back in time.

The IEEE 802. 15 task group 4b was chartered to create a project for specific enhancements and clarifications to the IEEE 802. 15. 4-2003 standard, such as resolving ambiguities, reducing unnecessary complexity, increasing flexibility in security key usage, considerations for newly available frequency allocations, and others.

When a given task is appropriate for a team, task design can play a key role in team effectiveness ( Sundstrom, et al., 2000 ).

A key characteristic of an RTOS is the level of its consistency concerning the amount of time it takes to accept and complete an application's task ; the variability is jitter.

To implement a task switching or multitasking environment, it was thought that a special, separate key was needed.

His wife Matilda was sent to Kent with ships and resources from Boulogne, with the task of retaking the key port of Dover, under Robert's control.

However, he knows that he has been seen and so leaves, on pretense of finishing a task, and gives the key to his room to the abbot, who then goes to see the girl for himself.

One key task of the secretariat is to compile and transmit reports submitted to it.

Their own spiritual sacrifice is key, including the celebration of the mystery of the Holy Eucharist — the greatest task of priests — and the recitation of the Divine office ( see Breviary ), the voice of the Church, together with Christ, making intercession.

The key characteristic, however, is being dedicated to handle a particular task.

In modern times, scholars have attempted to ascertain the basic details of his biography, and have tried to define the key characteristics of his style to correct misattributions, a task that has proved difficult, as Josquin liked to solve compositional problems in different ways in successive compositions — sometimes he wrote in an austere style devoid of ornamentation, and at other times he wrote music requiring considerable virtuosity.

In addition, Harry uses his Quidditch skills to capture a golden egg from a dragon called the Hungarian Horntail ( in the first task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament ), to capture a flying key in Philosopher's Stone, and on two key occasions in Deathly Hallows — getting hold of Ravenclaw's Diadem, and during the final fight with Voldemort — the " unerring skill of the Seeker " is vitally useful to him in snatching the Elder Wand out of the air.

During the first few years of its existence, the main task of the NEPAD Secretariat and key supporters was the popularisation of NEPAD ’ s key principles, as well as the development of action plans for each of the sectoral priorities.

The Allies organized three amphibious task forces to seize the key ports and airports of Morocco and Algeria simultaneously, targeting Casablanca, Oran and Algiers.

They warn her, her task is still not done: the other mother's severed hand is in Coraline's world, attempting to steal the key which opens the door that connects the two worlds.

His wife Matilda was sent to Kent with ships and resources from Boulogne, with the task of retaking the key port of Dover, under Robert's control.

Speed was key in these maneuvers, thus infantry was ill suited to the task.

He played a key role in organizing and supervising the 1964 Great Society legislative task forces and was a principal architect of Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign.

Calvin's more audacious step, in his research monograph The Cerebral Code, comes when he suggests that the pattern of action potentials in any particular neocortical minicolumn can be replicated and spread through the cortex like a piece of software code and be " played " on the millions of other minicolumns in the same way one can play a million copies of a compact disc ( CD ) on a million CD players – the key difference being that while all CD players are designed to do basically the same task, the various cortical minicolumns can all have their own unique " ruts " and the copies of the firing patterns are not exact duplicates.

As with Drumare's original Babson task, the problem uses promoted pieces and has a capturing key, but it is nonetheless remarkable for being the first published cyclic Babson.

The key distinguishing factor between direct and collateral appeals is that the former occurs in state courts, and the latter in federal courts.

Maritime conservatism since the Second World War has been very much part of the Red Tory tradition, key influences being former Premier of Nova Scotia and federal Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield and New Brunswick Tory strategist Dalton Camp.

A key aim was to base categorization on colloquial English descriptive language ( which would be easier to use by federal administrative offices ), rather than assumptions of etiology, although its categorical approach assumed each particular pattern of symptoms in a category reflected a particular underlying pathology ( an approach described as " neo-Kraepelinian ").

In the United States, variances in the insanity defense between states, and in the federal court system, are attributable to differences with respect to three key issues: ( 1 ) Whether to provide the insanity defense, ( 2 ) how to define " insanity ," and ( 3 ) the burden of proof.

The breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991 deprived the Economy of the Republic of Macedonia, then its poorest republic ( only 5 % of the total federal output of goods and services ), of its key protected markets and large transfer payments from the center.

Indeed, in the lead up to the 1949 federal election, Fadden played a key role in the defeat of the Chifley Labor government, frequently making inflammatory claims about the " socialist " nature of the Labor Party, which Menzies could then " clarify " or repudiate as he saw fit, thus appearing more " moderate ".

The Fifth Amendment issue has been opened again as the case was appealed and the federal judge again ordered the defendant to provide the key.

Although his political party, the Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) ( in electoral cartel with Mirjana Markovic ' Yugoslav Left ), did not enjoy a majority in either the federal or Serbian parliaments, it dominated the governing coalitions and held all the key administrative posts.

Webster took part in several key U. S. Supreme Court cases which established important constitutional precedents that bolstered the authority of the federal government.

C-SPAN has also carried CBC ’ s coverage of major events affecting Canadians, including: Canadian federal elections, key proceedings in Canadian Parliament, Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the power outage crisis in summer 2003, U. S. presidential elections ( e. g. in 2004, C-SPAN picked up The National the day after the election for the view from Canadians ), state visits and official visits of American presidents to Canada, and Barack Obama inauguration in 2009.

Louis Riel | Riel speaks at his trial, which took place in July 1885 and lasted only five daysThe Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) played a key role in the government's response to the Rebellion, as it was able to transport federal troops to the area quickly.

Abolition of the organization was not pursued under the George W. Bush administration, which made reform of federal education a key priority of the President's first term.

As the opposition of the federal army and police detachments slowly dissipated, the army would be able to eventually gain powerful control over key locations in the Interoceanic Railway from Puebla City to Cuautla.

This arrangement arose from the inception of OASDI, when some key members of Congress considered the Social Security Disability program should be administered employing federalism, fearing expansion of the federal government.

Under his leadership, some supporters of the federal Reform Party of Canada and former Social Credit members became attracted to the BC Liberals, winning key by-elections against the remnants of the Social Credit in the Fraser Valley region, solidifying the BC Liberals ' claim to be the clear alternative to the existing BC NDP government.

Working with state CPA societies and other professional organizations, the AICPA provides information to and educates federal, state and local policymakers regarding key issues.

And although his political party, the Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) ( in electoral cartel with Mirjana Markovic ' Yugoslav United Left ), did not enjoy a majority in either the federal or Serbian parliaments, it dominated the governing coalitions and held all the key administrative posts.

The division of powers between the federal and provincial governments was initially outlined in the British North America Act, 1867 ( now the Constitution Act, 1867 ), a key document within the Constitution of Canada.

As the Privy Council came to be viewed as being more sympathetic to provincial interests, and appeals from the SCC to the Privy Council required leave, that option encouraged forum shopping to be practiced in many key cases, whether arising from stated reference questions from federal or provincial governments or by intervention in certain appeals. The Canadian Parliament would not receive the authority to bar such appeals until 1931.

:* In Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act, the federal use of the criminal law power was found in certain key aspects to overreach too far into the provincial hospitals power, as well as into the more familiar sphere of property and civil rights.

* In 2007, leadership at Raytheon organized the Creating Pathways to Work retreat, a daylong strategic-visioning event bringing together key representatives of federal and state government, educators, members of the business community and advocates for people with disabilities, along with Rhode Island Congressman Jim Langevin, the first quadriplegic elected to Congress.

After George Washington was elected President, he asked Stoddert to purchase key parcels of land in the area that would become the nation's capital, before the formal decision to establish the federal city on the banks of the Potomac drove up prices there.

The federal Auditor General's report released publicly on February 10, 2004, showed what appeared to be a criminal misdirection of government funds intended for advertising to key Quebec-based supporters of the Liberal Party of Canada.

The crisis eventually spread to the national level, becoming one of the key issues in the federal election of 1896 and resulted in the defeat of the Conservative government, which had been in power for most of the previous thirty years.