The Alaska Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that a " conviction based on a no contest plea will collaterally estop the criminal defendant from denying any element in a subsequent civil action against him that was necessarily established by the conviction, as long as the prior conviction was for a serious criminal offense and the defendant in fact had the opportunity for a full and fair hearing ".

The contest between the two men was just one element of a long-running rivalry that encompassed business, politics, and religion, and was apparently deeply personal.

This practice of releasing a prisoner is said by Magee and others to be an element in a literary creation of Mark, who needed to have a contrast to the true " son of the father " in order to set up an edifying contest, in a form of parable.

Rules describe the contest as in classical Game Theory but for evolutionary games rules include the element of replicator dynamics, in other words the general rules say exactly how the fitter players will spawn more replicas of themselves into the population and the less fit will be culled out of the player population ( expressed in a Replicator Equation ).

One of the key elements of a Jack & Jill contest in the US West Coast Swing and Lindy Hop communities is the element of improvisation, which is why choreography is not allowed.

At the end of hackathons, there is usually a series of demonstrations in which each group presents their results. There is sometimes a contest element as well, in which a panel of judges select the winning teams, and prizes are given.

Yet, the object of the element of achieving through the process of goal attaining for this population appears to have been changed by circumstances brought about by the war.

This is not the most general situation of a Cartesian product of a family of sets, where a same set can occur more than once as a factor ; however, one can focus on elements of such a product that select the same element every time a given set appears as factor, and such elements correspond to an element of the Cartesian product of all distinct sets in the family.

The element air also appears as a concept in the Buddhist religion which has an ancient history in China.

The element, as with other rare earths, appears to have a low degree of acute toxicity.

any base ) centered at-50 ; the presence of the-35 element appears to be unimportant for transcription from the UP element-containing promoters.

* Scrollwork, an element of graphic design that appears in a variety of artistic media

As well as the bridge ploy, Wallace's use of a spear appears to be a fictional element.

He said the Roman consulate corresponded to Poitiers ' mayor, the senate to the town's peers and échevins, and the democratic element in Rome corresponded to the fact that most important matters " can not be decided except by the advice of the Mois et Cent ( broad council ).< sup > 1 </ sup > The mayor appears to have been an advocate of a mixed constitution ; not all Frenchmen in 1595 would have agreed with him, at least in public ; many spoke in favour of absolute monarchy.

The element arnach is stated to have been pre-Númenórean and thus of an unknown meaning, while loss was apparently intended to derive from an Elvish stem for " snow ", since in early Tolkien's drafts the name appears as Glossarnach .</ div >

Ununseptium is the second-heaviest element of all created so far and is radioactive, having a half-life that appears to be less than one second.

This is the element in the Y chromosome that appears to be a signature element for the Kohanim or Jewish priesthood.

The element k ' inich, usually assumed to mean ' sun-eyed ', appears to have been in general use as a royal title during the Classic Period.

He attacked the doctrine of the four classical elements and challenged whether fire could be called a primary element when it appears to be compound, requiring, as it does, another material for its own nutriment.

A piece of jadeite found on San Salvador Island appears to have originated in Guatemala, based on a trace element analysis.

The latter stereotype is a central plot element of The Paper Chase and appears in Legally Blonde.

Paul Bauschatz appears to accept sum, sam " together ", but proposes that the word represents a compound with alu " ale " as its second element ( rather than a suffix ).

However, on the engraving entitled North Prospect of the City of Edenburgh the detail of the flag, when compared to the aforementioned engravings, appears indistinct and lacks any element resembling a saltire.

From the perspective of each ensemble member's measuring device, the system appears to have irreversibly collapsed onto a state with a precise value for the measured attributes, relative to that element.

A telephoto lens works by having the outermost ( i. e. light gathering ) element of a much shorter focal length than the equivalent long-focus lens and then incorporating a second set of elements close to the film or sensor plane that extend the cone of light so that it appears to have come from a lens of much greater focal length.

This regulator is classified as " series " because the regulating element, viz., the transistor, appears in series with the load.

One reason for avoiding this usage is that people may generally now refer to some other part of a character as the radical ( e. g., 扌rather than 采 in the above example ), based on the use of " radical " to mean " any semantic element " or the section header under which the character appears in a Chinese dictionary, as described below.

While the definitions of the various types of health care vary depending on the different cultural, political, organizational and disciplinary perspectives, there appears to be some consensus that primary care constitutes the first element of a continuing health care process, that may also include the provision of secondary and tertiary levels of care .. Healthcare can be defined as either public or private healthcare

Steven Harper states " Wesley does not place the substitionary element primarily within a legal framework ... Rather doctrine seeks to bring into proper relationship the ' justice ' between God's love for persons and God's hatred of sin ... it is not the satisfaction of a legal demand for justice so much as it is an act of mediated reconciliation.

After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.

In most contexts, an essential element of laches is the requirement that the party invoking the doctrine has changed its position as a result of the delay.

However, it is exactly the element of truthfulness in Christian doctrine that is its undoing: in its drive towards truth, Christianity eventually finds itself to be a construct, which leads to its own dissolution.

In some states, the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is also used as a method of proving the intent or mens rea element of the inchoate crime of attempt.

Boullée promoted the idea of making architecture expressive of its purpose, a doctrine that his detractors termed architecture parlante (" talking architecture "), which was an essential element in Beaux-Arts architectural training in the later 19th century.

The final element of courtly love, the concept of " love as desire never to be fulfilled ", was at times implicit in Arabic poetry, but was first developed into a doctrine in European literature, in which all four elements of courtly love were present.

It is therefore outside of the uniform terminology and systematics of the renewed constitution: some elements of Article 23 are absolute rights, others can be limited by law, for some this limitation can be delegated to lower administrative bodies — but it is impossible to understand from the article itself what is the situation for each element ; this can only be learned from case law and doctrine.

Another element of dispute is the doctrine of the Three Treasures, with the treasure of the Priest seen by SGI as the Treasure of Sangha or Community of Believers.

An important element of Tendai doctrine was the suggestion that enlightenment was accessible to " every creature ".

The Jewish element is shown in verbal agreement with passages of the Old Testament ( especially the Wisdom of Sirach ); the Christian by the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body.

Vitalism is the doctrine, often advocated in the past but now rejected by mainstream science, that " living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things ".

Emptiness (" positively " interpreted ) is also an important element of the Buddha nature literature, which played a formative role in the evolution of subsequent Mahāyāna doctrine and practice.

At the founding convention Hagerty served as secretary of the Constitution Committee, and as such wrote the preamble to the IWW Constitution — a short and effective manifesto which became a fundamental element of the organization's official doctrine for decades to follow.

The doctrine of legitimate expectation, which has its roots in the principles of legal certainty and good faith, is also a central element of the general principle of legal certainty in European Union law.

The concept of executive privilege is not mentioned explicitly in the United States Constitution, but the Supreme Court of the United States ruled it to be an element of the separation of powers doctrine, and / or derived from the supremacy of executive branch in its own area of Constitutional activity.

‘ And I do solemnly promise and engage not to inculcate, sanction, teach or insinuate anything which shall appear to me to contradict or contravene, either directly or implicitly, any element of that system of doctrine.

The Copyright Office took the position that the doctrine should not apply to digital copies by stating that " he tangible nature of a copy is a defining element of the first-sale doctrine and critical to its rationale.

According to 18th century military doctrine, this was not enough men to take a well-prepared defensive position, but in addition to the element of surprise, Washington's plan exploited a fatal flaw in the fortifications.

The Saiva element in the cult of Jagannath are co-related with the doctrine of Tantricism and Shakta Dharma.

Many incidents and characters of the Old Testament were commonly understood as having a direct symbolic link to some particular aspect of the life of Jesus or to an important element of Christian doctrine or to a sacrament such as Baptism or the Eucharist.

The generals of the newly formed air force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor-like surprise attack or war against the United States.