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Among and policy
Among the official changes to the organization during the modern area include the ordination of black men to the priesthood in 1978, reversing a policy originally instituted by Brigham Young.
Among the goals of this policy were to bring about adherence to a specific doctrine and way of thinking and to control as many aspects of life as possible.
Among the books he authored are Guilty Men ( an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement ), a biography of Jonathan Swift ( The Pen and the Sword, 1957 ) and a biography of Aneurin Bevan.
Among other things, limited scope of the EITI involving disparity in terms of knowledge of the industry and negotiation skills, thus far flexibility of the policy ( e. g. liberty of the countries to expand beyond the minimum requirements and adapt it to their needs ), creates another risk of unsuccessful implementation.
Among other policy recommendations the US team advised that " in order to shield the interests of both Colombian and US authorities against ' interventionist ' charges any special aid given for internal security was to be sterile and covert in nature.
Among the private think tanks the most important are: the Center for Social and Economic Research ( CASE ) and Institute for Structural Research ( IBS ) on economic policy, The Casimir Pulaski Foundation on foreign policy, demosEUROPA on EU affairs, the Institute of Public Affairs ( ISP ) on social policy, the Center for International Affairs ( CSM ) and The Sobieski Institute.
Among developed countries, for example, business partnerships are often favored over corporations in taxation policy, since dividend taxes only occur on profits before they are distributed to the partners.
Among the more widely circulated and popular defining parameters is the concept of food miles, which has been suggested for policy recommendations.
Moreover, these subjects are generally those in which your position is most emotional, i. e. precisely those on which you would have great interest in being tested against other people's reactions (...) Among your entourage, the not-so-good only go after your approval ; the worst make a policy of coaxing you ; the best soon cease to readily offer themselves to discussion.
The choice between the negligence principle ( defendants should be liable only if they were at fault ) and the strict liability principle ( defendants should be liable even if blameless ), he now insisted, “ is a concealed, half conscious battle on the question of legislative policy, and if any one thinks that it can be settled deductively, or once for all, I only can say that I think he is theoretically wrong, and that I am certain that his conclusion will not be accepted in practice .” Among the policy questions upon which the choice turned was the degree to which the losses associated with the myriad injuries caused by modern industries (“ railroads, factories, and the like ”) should be borne by the public at large ( through increased prices for the goods and services provided by those industries ).
Among his other post-presidency activities, Zedillo is a member of the editorial board of Americas Quarterly, a policy journal that explores relations and development in the Western Hemisphere.
Among applications of the utilitarian bioethic in policy are the Groningen Protocol in the Netherlands and the Advance Directives Act in the American state of Texas.
Among the justifications for this policy were the predominance of the radio, and the fact that the technical instruction was only available in English.
* 2008 In preparation for the 34th G8 summit, the national science academies of the G8 + 5 nations issued a declaration reiterating the position of the 2005 joint science academies ’ statement, and reaffirming “ that climate change is happening and that anthropogenic warming is influencing many physical and biological systems .” Among other actions, the declaration urges all nations to “( t ) ake appropriate economic and policy measures to accelerate transition to a low carbon society and to encourage and effect changes in individual and national behaviour .” The thirteen signatories were the same national science academies that issued the 2007 joint statement.
Among farmers ' organizations of the period the Wheel was remarkable for refusal to hold segregated meetings, a policy it held until merger with the Farmers ' Alliance.
Among the more influential scientists have been Harold Gulliksen ( whose book, " Theory of Mental Tests ," helped codify classical test theory ); Frederic Lord ( Item Response Theory ); Samuel Messick, ( modern validity theory ); Robert Linn ( currently known for testing and educational policy ); Norman Frederiksen ( performance assessment ); Ledyard Tucker ( test analysis, including inventing the " Angoff Method " of standard setting ); Donald Rubin ( missing data and causal modeling from observational data ); Karl Joreskog ( structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis ); Paul Holland ( differential item functioning, test equating, causal modeling ); John Carroll ( language testing and cognitive psychology ); Michael Lewis ( infant cognitive, social, and emotional development ); Irving Sigel ( children's cognitive development ); Herman Witkin ( cognitive and learning styles ); K. Patricia Cross ( adult education ); Samuel Ball ( an evaluation researcher who documented the positive educational effects of Sesame Street ); and David Rosenhan ( known for the Rosenhan experiment, which challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis ).
Mao Zedong expressed his views on the policy in his famous February 1957 speech " On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People.
Among its other policy objectives were free education and free healthcare, four weeks of annual leave from work, an " anti-drugs " policy, and cutting the corporate tax rate to 30 %.
Among his duties were planning the government's foreign policy and representing the president in Japan, Africa and Europe, including the Second Vatican Council in 1965.
Among these were Danish ambassador to the U. S. Henrik Kauffmann who had conducted his own foreign policy throughout the war and refused to follow orders from Copenhagen as long as Denmark remained occupied by a foreign power.

Among and makers
Among measures in anticipation of crisis are plans to inject into the turmoil as assistants of key decision makers qualified persons who are cognizant of the corrosive effect of crisis upon personal relationships and are also able to raise calm and realistic voices when overburdened leaders near the limit of self-control.
Among the earliest documented working rifle makers are Adam Haymaker, who had a thriving trade in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and the Moravian gunshops at Christian's Spring in Pennsylvania and in the Salem area of North Carolina.
Among other admired makers were the Ward brothers, Lemuel ( 1896 – 1984 ) and Steven, of Crisfield, Maryland.
Among several regional makers of replica black powder firearms ( A. Uberti, Srl., Chiappa Firearms ) the Davide Pedersoli company leads in production of over 75 types of historical black powder muzzle loading and breech loading firearms and is also known as the dominant brand in black powder shooting competitions world wide.
Among them are Longobard graves on display in front of the City Hall and Europe's finest Scooter and Lambretta Museum which offers a range of mopeds and scooters dating back to the beginning of the 20th century and the full historical archive of Innocenti, makers of the world-famous Lambretta.
Among this group of critic / documentary film makers was Lindsay Anderson who was a prominent critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ( later a prominent director ); writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.
Among the reasons why these things are not widely acknowledged, according to York, is that extraterrestrials plant ideas and images in the minds of the makers of Hollywood movies about extraterrestrials so that these fictional stories can be used to discredit people who know the truth.
Among the industries represented ATCC ’ s customer base are the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural and diagnostics industries, as well as food, beverage and cosmetics makers and reference and testing laboratories.

Among and generals
Among the first generals to recognize that artillery was not being used to its full potential, Napoleon often massed his cannon into batteries, and introduced several changes into the French artillery, improving it significantly, and making it among the finest in Europe.
Among notable natives of the township was Johnson K. Duncan, one of a handful of Northern-born Confederate generals in the American Civil War.
Among their collaborations are a series of mysteries featuring Victoire Vernet, fictional wife of one of Napoleon's generals, a series featuring Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft, and a series fictionalizing the espionage experiences of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
Among Russian generals Kutuzov is held second only to his teacher Suvorov.
Among the dead are the Estonian table-tennis player Alari Lindmäe, two Soviet Army generals, and Nikolai Dmitrijev, a Hero of Socialist Labor and one of the Soviet Unions most decorated civil airline pilots who had been the captain of the Tu-134.
Among these generals were men who would later become some of Hideyoshi's closest retainers, such as Katō Kiyomasa.
Among the most famous were Thargelia, a renowned Ionian hetaera of ancient times ; Aspasia, companion of Pericles ; Archeanassa, companion of Plato ; the famous Neaira ; Thaïs, a concubine of Ptolemy, who was one of the generals on the expeditions of Alexander the Great and later became king of Egypt ; Lais of Corinth, the famed beauty who lived during the Peloponnesian War ; Lais of Hyccara, a courtesan who is said to have provided her services to the philosopher Diogenes free of charge ; and the famously beautiful Phryne, the model and muse of the sculptor Praxiteles.
Among the generals Count Józef Hauke-Bosak distinguished himself most as a commander of the revolutionary forces and took several cities from the vastly superior Russian army.
Among Yu Di's ancestors were generals and officials of Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui Dynasty, and Tang, including the prominent Northern Zhou general Yu Jin ( 于謹 ).
Among LaGrange's alumni were several generals, Alabama governors Edward A. O ' Neal and David P. Lewis, Alabama Supreme Court justice William M. Byrd and U. S. Senator Jeremiah Clemens, who wrote the first American Civil War novel and the first western novel.
Among the clergy were the representatives of 100 absent bishops, 87 abbots with the proxies of those who could not come to Pisa, 41 priors and generals of religious orders, and 300 doctors of theology or canon law.
Among his constitutional duties are signing the bills into the law, appointing the ministers on the recommendation of the prime minister and appointing various other state officials: generals, professors, judges, rectors, procurators and such.
Among the most notable members were generals Wojciech Jaruzelski, Florian Siwicki, Michał Janiszewski and Czesław Kiszczak.
Among those interred in the cemetery are two of Nashville's founders, four Confederate generals, one Tennessee Governor, and twenty-two mayors of Nashville.
Among his classmates were future Civil War generals Alfred Pleasonton and Winfield S. Hancock.
Among the French casualties were 3 generals and 4 colonels, killed during this battle.
Among these highly-ranked officials mentioned in the inscription, there is a title Senapati Sarwwajala, or laksmana, a title reserved for navy generals, which means that Kediri had a navy during his reign.
Among the prominent Confederate generals imprisoned on Johnson's Island were Isaac R. Trimble and James J. Archer ( both captured at the Battle of Gettysburg ), William Beall, Thomas Benton Smith, Edward " Allegheny " Johnson and Missouri cavalryman M. Jeff Thompson.
Among his classmates were future Civil War generals William T. Sherman and George H. Thomas of the Union Army and Richard S. Ewell and Bushrod R. Johnson of the Confederate States Army.
Among his West Point classmates were future Civil War generals George B. McClellan and Thomas J. Jackson.
Among Pendleton's classmates at West Point were future Confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, and John B. Magruder ( with whom he was roommates ) as well as future statesman Jefferson Davis.
Among the Shanghai High School alumni, there are 53 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 31 generals and more than 100 provincial and ministry leaders.

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