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A number of jurisdictions have laws mandating or permitting other systems of measurement in some or all contexts, such as the United Kingdom, which still uses many imperial measures, such as miles and yards for road-sign distances, road speed limits in miles per hour, pints of beer, and inches for clothes.
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Austria, in common with a number of European civil law jurisdictions, retains elements of trial by jury in serious criminal cases.
However, in many jurisdictions, the number of jurors is often reduced to a lesser number ( such as five or six ) by legislative enactment, or by agreement of both sides.
In other jurisdictions, junior medical doctors must undertake generalist ( unstreamed ) training for a number of years before commencing pediatric ( or any other ) specialization.
In the United States, the federal government has a number of police forces with their own specialized jurisdictions.
In some jurisdictions, pawnshops must give a list of all newly pawned items and any associated serial number to police, so the police can determine if any the items have been reported stolen.
English law retains a number of forms of property which are largely unknown in other common law jurisdictions such as the advowson, chancel repair liability and lordships of the manor.
Many common law jurisdictions have made similar statutory provisions, while a number of civil law jurisdictions have equivalent legislation incorporated into their civil codes.
While contributory negligence retains a significant role, an increasing number of jurisdictions, particularly within the United States, are evolving toward a regime of comparative negligence.
In the last decade of the 20th century and the first of the 21st, " outpatient commitment " laws were passed in a number of U. S. states and jurisdictions in Canada.
A number of referendums are routinely held in various jurisdictions:
In few jurisdictions, some EMTs are able to perform duties as IV and IO cannulation, administration of a limited number of drugs, more advanced airway procedures, CPAP, and limited cardiac monitoring.
A large number of jurisdictions have enacted breed-specific legislation ( BSL ) in response to a number of well-publicized incidents involving pit bull-type dogs, and some government organizations such as the United States Army and Marine Corps have taken administrative action as well.
And of course with the ever widening of the number of jurisdictions covered by the Internet, the AUP document needs to indicate the jurisdiction, meaning the laws that are applicable and govern the use of an AUP.
A number of vaccines against canine distemper exist for dogs ( ATCvet code: and combinations ) and domestic ferrets (), which in many jurisdictions are mandatory for pets.
Tampering with number plates is illegal in many jurisdictions.
In a number of countries and jurisdictions, registration or licensure of people working as social workers is required and there are mandated qualifications.
Some jurisdictions have a very high number of outstanding warrants.
Within the area of municipal powers, regional districts, which are somewhat analogous to counties in other jurisdictions, a number of municipalities, and unincorporated areas and to distinguish them from district municipalities and other kinds of district are always referred to as " regional districts ".
" A number of jurisdictions have made such suits illegal, provided that the appropriate standards of journalistic responsibility have been met by the critic.
Many jurisdictions consider multiple sources of information when determining support, taking into account the income of the parents, the number and ages of children living in the home, basic living expenses and school fees.
Most jurisdictions have only a limited number of frequencies legally available for use by wireless networks.
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Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.
Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.
To have any success in this effort, we must ourselves view it as an enterprise stretching over a considerable number of years, and we must encourage the recipients of our aid to view it in the same fashion.
For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.
There have been a number of sound plans proposed.
Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.
To provide the continuous flow of information basic to administrative decisions, a number of institutions have established offices of institutional research.
A large number of these Juniors have 7 and 8 wins to their credit and are seasoned campaigners.
As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.
Aside from the Ruger carbine, a number of hunting rifles have been introduced for the first time.
A number of them must have fallen into disfavor ; ;
Based on this phenomenon, a number of investigators have used this method to `` look through '' human organs.
In the GE plan, a number of individual contributors have positions and compensation higher than those of many managers.
`` These recent steps do not offer the possibility of extension to the great number of senior engineers who have displayed technical competence.
The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.
However, whether you arrange to have a European or American model, if you rent a car with the proper seating capacity in relation to the number of people in your party, your transportation expense will average very close to $10.00 per day per passenger.
For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.
A number of semiempirical estimates by various workers lead to the conclusion that the Af bond becomes symmetric when the Af bond length is about 2.4 to 2.5 A, but aside from the possible example of nickel dimethylglyoxime there have been no convincing reports of symmetric Af bonds.
Since practical washing procedures are both lengthy and expensive, a number of laboratory tests have been developed for the numerical evaluation of detergents.
For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.
The graph, as a set, may have a finite number of components.
Furthermore, one can find a neighborhood of Q in which the difference function is monotone, for since it is analytic it can have only a finite number of extrema in any interval.
The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.
A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.
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