In the practice of ahimsa, the requirements are less strict for the lay persons who have undertaken anuvrata ( Lesser Vows ) than for the monastics who are bound by the Mahavrata " Great Vows ".

There is a tendency to use the term in a less strict way, to mean approximately the same thing as " culture " and therefore, the term can more broadly refer to any important and clearly defined human society.

Some less strict versions of Judaism have made this process somewhat easier but it is still far from common.

In order to preserve their settlement and spread their ideology, they waged bloody wars ; in the beginning they observed a strict regime, inflicting the severest punishment equally for murder, as for less severe faults as adultery, perjury and usury, and also tried to apply rigid Biblical standards to the social order of the time.

Some observers suggest Islamism's tenets are less strict, and can be defined as a form of identity politics or " support for identity, authenticity, broader regionalism, revivalism, revitalization of the community ".

Some of the less formal kinds of foods that foreigners typically associate with Japanese food may not fall under this washoku definition in this strict sense.

In the 7th and 8th centuries some extraordinary women dressed in male attire when gender roles were less strict, but the sexual roles that accompanied European women were not associated with Islamic women.

The sequences of length N or less are clearly a strict superset of the sequences of length N − 1 or less.

The " old style " verse ( gushi ) is less formally strict than the jintishi, or regulated verse, which, despite the name " new style " verse actually had its theoretical basis laid as far back to Shen Yue, in the 5th or 6th century, although not considered to have reached its full development until the time of Chen Zi ' ang ( 661-702 ) A good example of a poet known for his gushi poems is Li Bai.

Repeats on multi-channel television are cheaper, as are re-showings of newer programs covered by less strict repeat clauses.

The hardcore skinhead style that originated in the United States 1980s hardcore punk scene is also less strict than that of the first generation of skinheads.

On web forums, the rules are often less strict on how a signature block is formatted, as Web browsers typically are not operated within the same constraints as text interface applications.

Unitarian Universalists tend to promote beliefs of a person that are based on their individual thoughts, and can range from strict monotheistic belief to less credal or more inclusive views.

Some scholars see Willow as Buffy's sister-figure or the anti-Buffy, similar to Faith, another Slayer whose morals are less strict.

With strict implementation and enforcement of these Data Integrity Rules, data error rates could be much lower so less time is spent on trying to troubleshoot and trace faulty computing results.

Using a less strict definition of the electro-optic effect allowing also electric fields oscillating at optical frequencies, one could also include nonlinear absorption ( absorption depends on the light intensity ) to category a ) and the optical Kerr effect ( refractive index depends on the light intensity ) to category b ).

He speculates she would have preferred to serve with the Lady Senshi, whose household seems to have been less strict and more light-hearted.

The Wassenaar Arrangement is considerably less strict than COCOM, focusing primarily on the transparency of national export control regimes and not granting veto power to individual members over organizational decisions.

This ruling is still followed in traditional and orthodox circles but has been relaxed in branches like Conservative and Reform Judaism that are less strict in their adherence to traditional Jewish law.

Recently, the standards of weight gain are becoming less strict, in an effort to improve the overall health of the wrestlers.

Traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo era ( 1603 – 1867 ), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the paper or using nonsquare shapes to start with.

Clubs may choose to advertise their dances as requiring less strict dress codes known as " proper " or " casual " ( no dress code ).

Though state banks were no longer allowed to issue notes, local bankers took advantage of less strict capital requirements ($ 10, 000 for state banks vs. $ 50, 000-200, 000 for national banks ) and opened new branches en masse.

The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.

Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

About one-third as long, it is less intimate and detailed, but better coordinated, more concise and more dramatic.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

So we see that a specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less as he develops, as contrasted to the generalist, who knows less and less about more and more.

`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

It omits, for example, practically the whole line of great nineteenth century English social critics, nearly all the great writers whose basic position is religious, and all those who are with more or less accuracy called Existentialists.

Some of those designs proved a success, whilst others fared less well when practically tested.

It is algebraically simpler though practically less robust than the average absolute deviation.

By 1995, practically every ski produced had more or less " shaping ", and for a time, carving became a sport onto its own.

His investors were practically wiped out, receiving less than 30 cents to the dollar.

Over the 10 years prior to the review, the overall objection rate was so low as to be practically negligible, at less than 0. 1 percent.

Some amount ( kilobytes or less ) is also embedded in practically all modern appliances, toys, etc.

In some countries with a dense rail network, large territory, or less air and car transport, such as China, India, and Russia, overnight long-distance train services are provided and used practically.

Sclerites may occur practically isolated in an organism, such as the sting of a cone shell or they can occur more or less scattered, such as tufts of defensive sharp, mineralised bristles as in many marine Polychaetes or they can occur as structured, but unconnected or loosely connected arrays, such as the mineral " teeth " in the radula of many Mollusca, or the valves of Chitons.

The fiery impulse, the rolling music, the vivid illustration of thought by jets of insuppressible passion, the perpetual sustenance of passion by the implacable persistency of thought, which we recognise as the dominant and distinctive qualities of such poetry as finds vent in the utterances of Hamlet or of Timon, we recognise also in the scarcely less magnificent poetry, the scarcely less fiery sarcasm, with which Tourneur has informed the part of Vindice -- a harderheaded Hamlet, a saner and more practically savage and serious Timon.

If muon-catalyzed d-t nuclear fusion were able to be realized practically, it would be a much cheaper way of generating power than conventional nuclear fission reactors because muon-catalyzed d-t nuclear fusion ( like most other types of nuclear fusion ), produces far fewer harmful ( and far less long-lived ) radioactive wastes, and hardly any greenhouse gases.

TDB is now ( since 2006 ) defined as a linear scaling of Barycentric Coordinate Time ( TCB ), and a feature that distinguishes TDB from TCB is that TDB, when observed from the Earth's surface, has a difference from Terrestrial Time ( TT ) that is about as small as can be practically arranged with consistent definition: the differences are mainly periodic, and overall will remain at less than 2 milliseconds for several millennia.

McCarten advocated a policy which would see the Alliance focus less on electoral activity and more on playing a co-ordinating role — he has been a particularly strong advocate of working with the new Māori Party, which the Alliance had been involved with and practically supported during Tariana Turia's by-election campaign and the Maori Party launch.

In this manner, the attacker can be practically restricted to attacks that cost less than the expected return from compromising a single device ( plus, perhaps, a little more for kudos ).

Its unpopularity first of all came from the fact that the new system provides much less guarantee for students to get a practically useful master's degree because many of them will finish their education after the three years ' bachelor's education.

It is less soluble in non-polar solvents such as benzene, toluene and xylene, and practically insoluble in petroleum ether.

The extra indirection may cause PIC to be less efficient, although modern processors make the difference practically negligible.

Despite being less susceptible to interference, these models are no longer in production and are considered obsolete because these frequencies are easily heard on practically any radio scanner.

In the digital age, a " true " macro photograph can be more practically defined as a photograph with a vertical subject height of 24 mm or less.

However, practically all objects have instrumental conditionality, more or less.

Most of the park is natural environment ; the cottage community takes up less than 1 % of the Park area and is practically invisible from the air.

For the most competitive courses, less than 10 % of applications may result in admission, whereas at the less competitive universities, practically all applicants may receive an offer of admission.