A number of general precepts are encoded in a separate law known as the Law on general precepts ( the Wet Algemene bepalingen ).

These precepts cover a number of varying topics ranging from applicability of different types of laws to persons or territories, to regulations mandating that judges must hear all cases brought before them.

In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction.

Microsoft says the letters instead imply a number of Windows CE design precepts, including " Compact, Connectable, Compatible, Companion, and Efficient.

His career began as one of a number of young architects who, from the 1950s onwards, questioned and subverted the compositional and theoretical precepts of the first Modern Movement.

Among that number, however, knowledge or practice of the main precepts of Islam was weak.

A small number of women choose to become Mae Ji, non-ordained religious specialists who permanently observe either the eight or ten precepts.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

The only factors that are personally set by the choreographer are the movements themselves, the number of the dancers, and the approximate total duration of the dance.

Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.

In Figure 2, the points in the network are designated by a letter accompanied by a number.

are few in number, briefly worded, all different in sound ; ;

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

Their expressed standards concerning sex roles, desirable age for marriage, characteristics of an ideal mate, number of children desired are congruent with the values and stereotypes of the preceding generation -- minus compulsive rebellion.

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.

People who take us for suckers are like the Westerner who had on exhibit his superior marksmanship in the form of a number of bull's-eye achievements.

There are a number of other considerations besides this one but it is for the Congress, not the Department of Justice, to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation.

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.

They are conscious of this state's new feeling of optimism and assurance and are definitely impressed by the number of new plants and construction projects in Rhode Island.

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.

These data are not of the precision obtainable by the methods previously mentioned, but the vast number of approximate values available will be useful in many areas.

These expenditures are estimated to be $12.1 billion, an increase of $187 million over 1960, reflecting additional longevity pay of career personnel, more dependents, an increased number of men drawing proficiency pay, and social security tax increases ( effective for the full year in 1961 compared with only 6 months in 1960 ).

Retired pay costs are increased by $94 million in 1961 over 1960, partly because of a substantial increase in the number of retired personnel.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.

Actually, the engine displacement formula is the standard formula for computing the volume of a cylinder of any type with an added factor that represents the number of cylinders in the engine.

It should be added, however, that a number of individual Orthodox theologians hold that under no circumstances would it be possible to recognise the validity of Anglican Orders.

The addition of the Plus 1 added a number of new * FX and OSBYTE calls that allowed the OS to read the values from the Analogue and parallel interfaces.

Support was added to OS X in order to provide support for the large number of existing AppleTalk devices, notably laser printers and file shares, but alternate connection solutions common in this era, notably USB for printers, limited their demand.

Hydrohalogenation gives the corresponding vinyl halides or alkyl dihalides, again depending on the number of equivalents of HX added.

The accumulator is initially set to zero, then each number in turn is read and added to the value in the accumulator.

Informally basis vectors are like " building blocks of a vector ", they are added together to make a vector, and the coordinates are the number of basis vectors in each direction.

If a user added more than one drive to a system the user had to open the case and cut a trace in the circuit board to permanently change the drive's number, or hand-wire an external switch to allow it to be changed externally.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

Thus, if n < sub > r </ sub > is the average number of times a new civilization reappears on the same planet where a previous civilization once has appeared and ended, then the total number of civilizations on such a planet would be ( 1 + n < sub > r </ sub >), which is the actual reappearance factor added to the equation.

# Any real number can be added to both sides.

The last term can also be written as μ < sub > i </ sub > dn < sub > i </ sub > ( with dn < sub > i </ sub > the number of moles of component i added to the system and, in this case, μ < sub > i </ sub > the molar chemical potential ) or as μ < sub > i </ sub > dm < sub > i </ sub > ( with dm < sub > i </ sub > the mass of component i added to the system and, in this case, μ < sub > i </ sub > the specific chemical potential ).

The number 666 had been identified in the Book of Revelation with the ultimate human despot to rule the world, but who would be replaced by the second coming of the Messiah ; this only added to the belief that the Fifth Monarchy was about to begin.

Fining agents such as sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, or antimony oxide may be added to reduce the number of air bubbles in the glass mixture.

By varying the number of particles added for heterogeneous nucleation and the rate of cooling in a hot-dip process, the spangle can be adjusted from an apparently uniform surface ( crystallites too small to see with the naked eye ) to grains several centimetres wide.

The system was a simple one in which each ship received a number which was appended to its ship type, fully spelled out, and added parenthetically after the ship's name when deemed necessary to avoid confusion between ships.

The second is two thin ' stripes ' of off-color fabric which were added to each midseam of the jersey, curling up to the neckline on the front and below the number on the back.

Within limits, an arbitrary number of twists may be added to new stitches, whether they be knit or purl.

The number of active stitches remains the same as when cast on unless stitches are added ( an increase ) or removed ( a decrease ).

However, although the number of ranks is unlimited, in practice any classification becomes more cumbersome the more ranks are added.

A later variant, Level III ACP, simply added more phase inversions, increasing the number of color stripes visible on screen.

If a text ( such as this one ) discusses multiple bases, and if ambiguity exists, the base ( itself represented in base 10 ) is added in subscript to the right of the number, like this: number < sub > base </ sub >.