Uncertainty overcoming itself is the precondition of the quest for new and more precise information about the world.

An arbitrage equilibrium is a precondition for a general economic equilibrium.

The instability in the Balkan region in the early 1900s quickly became a precondition for a new war.

A fundamental principle is the long-term sustainability of the production of goods and services by the ecosystem ; " intergenerational sustainability a precondition for management, not an afterthought ".

In a communique dated 28 November but released publicly on 3 December, the FARC-EP declared that they were no longer insisting on the demilitarization of San Vicente del Caguán and Cartagena del Chairá as a precondition for the negotiation of the prisoner exchange, but instead that of Florida and Pradera in the Valle department.

There is tool support for some programming languages ( e. g., the SPARK programming language ( a subset of Ada ) and the Java Modeling Language — JML — using ESC / Java and ESC / Java2, Frama-c WP ( weakest precondition ) plugin for the C language extended with ACSL ( ANSI / ISO C Specification Language ) ).

Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia, were required to ratify the amendment as a precondition for having congressional representation.

* Expect a certain condition to be guaranteed on entry by any client module that calls it: the routine's precondition — an obligation for the client, and a benefit for the supplier ( the routine itself ), as it frees it from having to handle cases outside of the precondition.

This distinguishes it markedly from a related practice known as defensive programming, where the supplier is responsible for figuring out what to do when a precondition is broken.

The precondition for any routine defines any constraints on object state which are necessary for successful execution.

He argues that social capital is a necessary precondition for successful development, but a strong rule of law and basic political institutions are necessary to build social capital.

" It provides security, a precondition for the formation of expectations.

Scientists tend to use thought experiments in the form of imaginary, " proxy " experiments which they conduct prior to a real, " physical " experiment ( Ernst Mach always argued that these gedankenexperiments were " a necessary precondition for physical experiment ").

A unified Germany represented the absolute precondition for the re-establishment of sea power, which of course assumed overcoming the conditions of the Versailles treaty.

Removing the causes of chronic inflation, the reform architects argued, was a precondition for all other reforms: Hyperinflation would wreck both democracy and economic progress, they argued ; they also argued that only by stabilizing the state budget could the government proceed to dismantle the Soviet planned economy and create a new capitalist Russia.

In Scotland, some local councils ( that have responsibility for delivering state education ) do not insist on students wearing a uniform as a precondition to attending and taking part in curricular activities.

In many places a mortgage survey is required by lending institutions as a precondition for a mortgage loan.

In the 1608 Council of monastery Morača on a gathering of the representatives of the Serb clans and the Serbian Church, Charles was elected King of Serbia and invited to switch to Eastern Orthodoxy as a precondition for getting crowned by Patriarch John, as well as vow himself for the protection of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

One Soviet precondition for a declaration of war against Japan was an American recognition of Mongolian independence from China, and a recognition of Soviet interests in the Manchurian railways and Port Arthur ; these were agreed without Chinese representation or consent.

It is a precondition for members of a tribe to possess a strong feeling of identity for a true tribal society to form.

Some scholars argue for refocusing the term on community-based activity within the domain of civil society, based on the belief that a strong non-governmental public sphere is a precondition for the emergence of a strong liberal democracy.

Kokoity has taken a strong position against reunification with Georgia, although he has expressed a willingness to negotiate a peace settlement on the basis of South Ossetia being treated as an independent state ( a precondition rejected by the Tbilisi government ).

It has been observed that the Great Spotted Cuckoo repeatedly visits the nests that it has parasitised, a precondition for the Mafia hypothesis.

* If the class invariant AND precondition are true before a supplier is called by a client, then the invariant AND the postcondition will be true after the service has been completed.

In computer programming, a precondition is a condition or predicate that must always be true just prior to the execution of some section of code or before an operation in a formal specification.

If a precondition is violated, the effect of the section of code becomes undefined and thus may or may not carry out its intended work.

The caller then is obligated to ensure that the precondition holds prior to calling the routine.

As it relates to the routine's contract, the postcondition offers assurance to potential callers that in cases in which the routine is called in a state in which its precondition holds, the properties declared by the postcondition are assured.

The TAG is a transcendental argument that attempts to prove that God is the precondition of all human knowledge and experience, by demonstrating the impossibility of the contrary ; in other words, that logic, reason, or morality cannot exist without God.

# As the essential precondition of being able to claim defamation ; that is, the alleged libel must have been published, and

IPD is a combination of research efforts and validation testing to provide new, more efficient portions of the rocket engine that precondition and pump liquid fuels and oxidizers into the main engine.

Functionality is typically described through operations which may have side-effects on the state and which are mostly specified implicitly using a precondition and postcondition.

A precondition for such a tolerable relationship is the hope that the Jews and Jewish communities of Germany will be enabled to keep a moral and economic means of existence by the halting of defamation and boycott.

an opportunity to gain recognition in UK court as the legitimate continuation of Crowley's O. T. O., since that is a precondition to being found the rightful beneficiary of his will.

However, positive identification is a necessary precondition to the consumption of any wild plant.

Indeed, Boyd noted that radical uncertainty is a necessary precondition of physical and mental vitality: all new opportunities and ideas spring from some mismatch between reality and ideas about it, as examples from the history of science, engineering and business illustrate.

In concurrent programming, guarded suspension is a software design pattern for managing operations that require both a lock to be acquired and a precondition to be satisfied before the operation can be executed.

The guarded suspension pattern is typically applied to method calls in object-oriented programs, and involves suspending the method call, and the calling thread, until the precondition ( acting as a guard ) is satisfied.

Being an information processing system dealing with the personal data, the preoccupation of protection of the private life existing in the countries founders on the matter is transposed naturally in the text of the convention, which enacts that the existence of a data law is a precondition to the implementation of convention in the countries.

( For example, all women could be tested as a part of their pregnancy management regime ; in this context, note that some life insurance companies already require disclosure of HIV-relevant information as a precondition of the validity of the policies issued.

Another way of saying the same thing, is that " sale at production prices becomes the normal precondition of supply " for new outputs produced ( although in particular cases, fluctuating market prices might be above or below the production price ).