A longstanding religious position is that shabbat originated among the Jewish people, as their first and most sacred institution ,.

An Orthodox semicha requires the successful completion of a rigorous program encompassing Jewish law and responsa in keeping with longstanding tradition.

Canada was one of the 33 countries ( including only four Commonwealth members ) that voted in favour of the 1947 UN partition resolution that lead to the creation of the State of Israel, thus beginning a longstanding relationship with the Jewish state based on a shared commitment to democratic values, understanding, and mutual respect.

Ever since, the area has been a musical melting pot ; including Roman, Visigothic, French, Italian, Gypsy, Moorish, and Jewish influences but the most important influences are the longstanding and continuing ones from the surrounding Spanish regions as well as from Portugal to the west.

Nili's " irresponsibility " for not coordinating their operations with the Zionist leadership, thereby endangering the Yishuv, was the cause of a longstanding controversy among the Jewish community of the British Mandate of Palestine and subsequently of the State of Israel.

Moortown has longstanding Jewish and Roman Catholic communities, with schools and places of worship for both these groups, and also a Sikh community.

Some additional religious ceremonies also featured: President-elect Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh attended a prayer ceremony in a synagogue in Dublin to reflect his longstanding relationship with the Jewish Community in Ireland.

In 1918 the influential Jewish leader Chaim Weizmann sent a letter to the British Foreign Office asking for the quarter to be removed and the wall placed under Jewish ownership ; however, the British maintained the status quo ante, and the wall as well as the Moroccan Quarter remained Waqf property, while Jews retained their longstanding right to visit it.

His family had been longstanding members of the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft ( IRG ), the Orthodox Jewish community that had established its own independence from the Reform Judaism-dominated general community.

The Aventine's outlying position, its longstanding association with Latins and plebeians and its extra-pomerial position reflect its early marginal status.

Sotheby's enjoys a longstanding and intense rivalry with Christie's for the position of the world's preeminent fine art auctioneer, a title of much subjectivity.

The Treasury, however, opposed the change, following its longstanding position against commemorative coins.

The negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement and its subsequent strong endorsement by a referendum had given Alliance much to hope for, as the party whose longstanding position on the province's future most closely matched that negotiated.

The fort was a longstanding defensive position for Storstrømmen waters in wars against England and Sweden, but was also the first target in the world to be attacked by paratroopers, in 1940, when it was captured by German Fallschirmjägers.

Therefore, under our longstanding allocation rules, on some of these channels no station other than the dominant ( class 1 ) -- A ) station is permitted to operate at night, so that the 1, -- A station can render service, interference free, wherever it can be received.

The Department of Justice has published " ADA 2010 Revised Requirements: Accessible Pools-Means of Entry and Exit ", which is designed to assist pool owners and operators with understanding the new accessibility requirements, the application of the requirements and the longstanding obligations of pool owners and operators in connection with the new requirements.

Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times, and there is a longstanding debate about his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound.

The most longstanding of these is the low-l multipole controversy.

The school is also home to a variety of longstanding traditions and celebrations.

Another longstanding tradition is four-day, student-run Dartmouth Outing Club trips for incoming freshmen, begun in 1935.

A fundamental question of longstanding theoretical interest is to prove lower bounds on the complexity and exact operation counts of fast Fourier transforms, and many open problems remain.

Ireland tends towards independence in foreign military policy, thus it is not a member of NATO and has a longstanding | date = 20070423053424

It is common to find this cultivar packed in children's lunches in North America owing to its small to medium size and longstanding reputation as a healthy snack.

It is one of five countries worldwide that meets the longstanding UN ODA target of 0. 7 % ODA / GNI.

Critics William H. Patterson, Jr., and Andrew Thornton believe that this is simply an expression of Heinlein's longstanding philosophical opposition to positivism.

The reintroduction of sharia is a longstanding goal for Islamist movements in Muslim countries, but attempts to impose sharia have been accompanied by controversy, violence, and even warfare such as the Second Sudanese Civil War.

In this respect, the longstanding need in HF radio for repetitive calling on pre-determined time schedules or tedious monitoring static is eliminated.

A longstanding question in combinatorial game theory asks whether there is a game of Beggar-My-Neighbour that goes on forever.

It is also a main gateway of trade with Belarus due to its proximity to the border and its current and longstanding relationship with Hrodno, Belarus.

There is a longstanding connection with Punch and Judy street puppet performers who traditionally used Polari to converse.

'' – call, or unknown tongue " (" unknown " is a reference to the " swazzle ", a voice modifier used by Punch performers, the composition of which was a longstanding trade secret ).

Most recently, Judge Kahn dismissed several portions of UCE's complaint, including the failed theory that the IRA is unconstitutional, on the basis of longstanding and settled law on this issue.

This procurement is the latest in a series of projects, which further strengthen the longstanding relationship between the US Coast Guard and the Yemen Coast Guard.

For example, Shigella is a longstanding World Health Organization ( WHO ) target for vaccine development, and sharp declines in age-specific diarrhea / dysentery attack rates for this pathogen indicate that natural immunity does develop following exposure ; thus, vaccination to prevent this disease should be feasible.

There is a longstanding friendly rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne for the title of ' Australia's arts capital '.

Less longstanding but equally memorable is the ' cladding ' common on the doors and fenders of Pontiacs produced in the 1980s and 90s.

A longstanding unsubstantiated rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is composed entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand.

Because thought underlies almost all human actions and interactions, understanding its physical and metaphysical origins, processes, and effects has been a longstanding goal of many academic disciplines including, among others, biology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Conflicts between the Pharisees and the Sadducees took place in the context of much broader and longstanding social and religious conflicts among Jews dating back to the Babylonian captivity and exacerbated by the Roman conquest.

Taller de Arquitectura is unusual among prominent global architecture firms for its longstanding focus on large housing projects, including some for lower-income families.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is continuing its longstanding efforts of identifying remaining munitions, preventing environmental contamination, and protecting several endangered species in the area, including jaguars, spotted owls, among others.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is continuing its longstanding efforts of identifying remaining munitions, preventing environmental contamination, and protecting several endangered species in the area, including jaguars, spotted owls, among others.

Perceived relations among the Mithraic mysteries, the Dies Natalis of Sol Invictus ( the " Birthday of the Unconquered Sun ") on December 25, and the Christian Nativity as celebrated in December are a matter of longstanding and complex scholarly debate.

Among the things Muhammad did in order to settle down the longstanding grievances among the tribes of Medina was drafting a document known as the Constitution of Medina.

The government also exploits a longstanding hierarchical relationship among Chinese print and broadcast entities in seeking to maintain some control over the media.

Dialogue among the groups ' representatives has resulted in statements that their longstanding differences have been of phraseology all along, and a simple misunderstanding by each side of what each church represents.

In large areas of the countryside where resistance is active, wartime conditions and longstanding animosities among competing tribal groups have led to multiple taxation, arbitrary detention, and outright banditry.

A longstanding issue among members of the church is whether it is permissible to ingest drinks containing caffeine that are not coffee or tea.

Like the two prior contracts, the Edexcel contract has encountered significant quality problems and the tests themselves, the focus of longstanding controversy in the English education community and among the public, have been subjected to a massive boycott by schools.

He embraced Rome to his family ’ s longstanding gain, and through his machinations in the Hasmonean court, Antipater began to make a name for himself among the Roman rulers.

Venrock was a limited partnership investment company financed by members of the Rockefeller family and a number of the institutions with which the family had longstanding philanthropic ties, among them the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

In Heroes ( 2008 ), Johnson returned to his longstanding claim that criticism of Pinochet's regime ( on human rights grounds ) came from " the Soviet Union, whose propaganda machine successfully demonised among the chattering classes all over the world.

The label's output is often controversial even among longstanding fans of free jazz and free improvisation, partly because some recent releases feature significant editing and overdubbing ( both were often looked down upon by earlier experimental musicians who thought that such recording studio antics somehow betrayed the ideal of live improvised music ), and also because much of the music released on Erstwhile has left behind most resemblances to earlier generations of free jazz and free improvisation.

Australian Art Collector states that “ Pizzi stands alone among commercial dealers in her longstanding efforts to take Aboriginal art to the world .” and describe her as being “… instrumental in securing its international profile …”.

It will begin from confidence and pride in America, from a sense that our challenge is to build on our strengths to address our weaknesses, and from the conviction that chief among those strengths are our democratic capitalism, our ideals of liberty and equality under the law, and our roots in the longstanding traditions of the West.

Today, there is little evidence of any regionally coordinated political effort by the Southern Party – a lack often attributed to a longstanding reluctance among Southern movement activists to empower a " national " coordinating body.

In addition to a longstanding collaboration with drummer Mark Nauseef, Mr. Tadić has performed and recorded with Terry Riley, The Los Angeles Opera with Plácido Domingo, Howard Levy, Joachim Kühn, Dusan Bogdanovic, Vlatko Stefanovski, Theodosii Spassov, Kudsi Erguner, Djivan Gasparyan, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, L. Shankar, Markus Stockhausen, Maria João, David Torn, Jack Bruce and The Grande Mothers Reinvented, among others.

Since 1929, the organization has fostered a unique bond among fellow aviators and aviation enthusiasts, and has aspired to uphold our longstanding motto of " Collegiate Aviation Leaders of Today ... Aviation Industry Leaders of Tomorrow.

These claims also are fairly typical: despite a longstanding admission among experts that there is a " productivity paradox ", the introduction of new information technology and more automated work processes are always assumed to be " more efficient " than what they replace.