Although it did not become a constitutional requirement until 1977, it had been longstanding convention that a Senate casual vacancy be filled by a person from the same political party.

In the longstanding tradition of many Native American tribes, " speaking with a forked tongue " has meant lying, and a person was no longer considered worthy of trust, once he had been shown to " speak with a forked tongue ".

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.

Tchaikovsky wrote various letters to friends expressing his longstanding desire to work with this type of music, and his excitement concerning his current stimulating, albeit laborious task.

Milken's task was perhaps made easier by the fact that the top-tier Wall Street investment banks were unwilling to compete with him for fear of jeopardizing their longstanding and lucrative relationships with many of the blue-chip companies who were potentially his targets, although companies such as Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and First Boston later entered the high-yield market.

The colour of light emitted by vehicle lights is largely standardised by longstanding convention, first codified in the 1949 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic and later specified in the 1968 United Nations Convention on Road Traffic.

A small number of the Deaf in and around Bangalore are often said to use American Sign Language ( owing to a longstanding ASL deaf school there ); however it is probably more correct to say that they use a lexicon based largely on ASL ( or Signed English ), while incorporating also a not inconsequential ISL element.

Beginning in February 1970, Lê Duẩn's prominence in the official media increased, suggesting that he was again top leader and had regained the upper hand in his longstanding rivalry with Trường Chinh.

The annual College Ball, organised primarily by the JCR, has a longstanding reputation for both the quality of the event itself but also the prominence of its headline acts: in 2010, this was the drum and bass artist Pendulum.

But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).

" There had been a longstanding wariness between radio and the newspapers as well ; the papers had rightly concluded that the upstart radio business would compete with them on two counts — advertising dollars and news coverage.

In his pamphlet Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum ( The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism, 1879 ) he introduced the idea that Germans and Jews were locked in a longstanding conflict, the origins of which he attributed to race — and that the Jews were winning.

Agriculture, which had had disappointing results in the First Programme, was understated in the second — a clear break in the Lemass policies from de Valera's longstanding courting of rural voters.

* The College of Engineering, founded in 2003, inherited longstanding programs ( i ) Computer Science and ( ii ) Information Technology, and launched ( iii ) Computer Engineering, ( iv ) Electrical Engineering, ( v ) Engineering Technology — with majors in ( a ) Construction Engineering Technology, ( b ) Electrical Engineering Technology, ( c ) Manufacturing Engineering Technology, ( d ) Mechanical Engineering Technology, and ( e ) Nuclear Engineering Technology — and ( vi ) Materials Science and Engineering, and ( vii ) Mechanical and Energy Engineering.

In the wake of Disney's inarguable triumph with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, Paramount top brass finally acquiesced to Fleischer's longstanding appeals to produce feature-length animated films — and now they wanted one for a Christmas 1939 release.

The Cathedral is a monumental neoclassical-style building designed in conformity to a Latin cross basilica plan — a departure on Latrobe ’ s part from previous American church architecture, but in keeping with longstanding European traditions of cathedral design.

Steranko introduced or popularized in comics such art movements of the day as psychedelia and op art, built on Kirby's longstanding work in photomontage, and created comics ' first four-page spread — again inspired by Kirby, who in the Golden Age had pioneered the first full-page and double-page spreads.

Gordon IN Aix continues its longstanding collaboration with the Institut d ' études de français pour étudiants étrangers ( a sector of the University of Aix-Marseille ), and enjoys close association with the John Calvin Seminary — one of only two seminaries in the tradition of French Protestantism.

Technology — Bancroft School has a longstanding commitment to technology and digital media in the classroom.

Cleary faced the most difficult re-election battle of his career in the provincial election of 1999, in which redistribution forced him to face longstanding Progressive Conservative MP Noble Villeneuve in the riding of Stormont — Dundas — Charlottenburgh.

The Liberal-Labour label was a reflection of a longstanding tradition in the riding of Kenora — Rainy River aimed at deflecting votes from the New Democratic Party, rather than as a mark of political dissent.

They formed a syndicate including steelmakers Andrew Carnegie, Henry Oliver, Henry Clay Frick, Pennsylvania career politician J. Donald Cameron, and — paradoxically, given Gowen's longstanding litigious hostility to Standard Oil — John D. and William Rockefeller.

Although the Church's teachings on sexuality are not present in a literal reading of the biblical text, John Paul gives examples of how they are part of longstanding Church tradition — a tradition that was created in the context of scriptural teachings.

Robert R ." Red " Hansel, a former chaplain at St. George's School, was brought in by the trustees to effect radical institutional change — including a more streamlined administrative structure, complete re-organization of the student living arrangements into smaller " house " units, and other initiatives which were meant to evolve the traditional and longstanding institutional culture.

At the same time, Horace Stoneham moved his New York Giants to the San Francisco Bay Area, ensuring that there would be two west coast NL teams and preserving the longstanding rivalry with O ' Malley's Dodgers that continues to this day.

The NFC deal, in fact, was the impetus for the affiliation deal with New World ; many of New World's stations were longstanding CBS affiliates.

New Rome also had longstanding problems with internal corruption.

The Ramapough Lenape Nation, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, and the Powhatan Renape Nation have a longstanding history of working together to care for members in the State of New Jersey.

Garrett G. Fagan expanded on this, noting how in the academic archaeological community, " New evidence or arguments have to be thoroughly scrutinised to secure their validity ... and longstanding, well-entrenched positions will take considerable effort and particularly compelling data to overturn.

Peters himself narrowly lost his longstanding hold on Tauranga to National MP Bob Clarkson, but New Zealand First did well enough to receive seven seats ( down from 13 in 2002 ), allowing Peters to remain in Parliament as a list MP.

In a May 2010 article, Jonathan Rosa, professor of Social and Cultural Studies at New York University, criticized these reports from the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times as " deceitful " and " part of a larger, longstanding effort to discredit Luis Gutierrez.

Dixville Notch is best known in connection with its longstanding middle-of-the-night vote in the U. S. presidential election, including during the New Hampshire primary ( the first primary election in the U. S. presidential nomination process ).

Fisk was known for his longstanding feud with New York Yankees counterpart Thurman Munson.

This fact has been an issue in longstanding land claims by the Iroquois nations in New York.

Since leaving the anchor desk at CBS Evening News in 2006, Schieffer has entertained his longstanding interest in songwriting by collaborating with musicians in New York and Washington, D. C. His latest efforts have resulted in four songs with the Washington area band Honky Tonk Confidential, all of which appear on their CD, Road Kill Stew and Other News ( with Special Guest Bob Schieffer ).

The theory that syphilis is of New World origin and that it was first brought back to Europe by Columbus's crew has been longstanding, and long controversial.

In addition to the Mexican consulate, France maintains a consulate in downtown New Orleans, a reflection of the longstanding ties between that nation and Louisiana, and of France's role as the founder of the city, in 1718.

In Japan, there is a longstanding tradition of a New Years stamp.

Through his longstanding service and devotion to music, Graffman has received honorary doctoral degrees, was honored by the cities of Philadelphia and New York, and received the Governor's Arts Award by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Matthew J. Lindsay, writing in the Harvard Law Review, recounts the longstanding " progressive " view which became dominant in the decades following the New Deal:

Although Mr. Kramer's death in 2008 occurred over two years after the policy's issuance in 2005, Lincoln unsuccessfully sought to overturn longstanding precedent in New York that requires insurance companies doing business in New York to pay death benefits once a policy has been in force for two years even if an insurable interest violation may have occurred at the time of policy inception.

Also found was a list of several men who were inducted into other families in 1991 and 1992 ; a longstanding rule in the New York Mafia calls for prospective wiseguys to be vetted by the other families before being inducted.

The then name distinguished the gardens from the Old Spring Gardens at Charing Cross ; however Pepys implies that there were both Old and New Spring Gardens at Vauxhall ; and indeed Spring Gardens appears to have been a longstanding appellation for a variety of entertainment enterprises.

The game centers around a longstanding war between Earth and Mars, more specifically between two organizations, the Earth-based New Earth Organization ( NEO ), and the Mars-based Russo-American Mercantile ( RAM ).