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.

Chemical analysis is an important element of national security among the major world powers with materials measurement and signature intelligence ( MASINT ) capabilities.

Preventive conservation is an important element of museum policy and collections care.

Bronze was an important element in ceremonies and as for mortuary offerings until 100.

The focus on human history was an important element of the biblically grounded 16th century theology of John Calvin.

Either in its pure forms, or in various chemical compounds or mixtures, almost every element has at least one important human use.

Stromeyer found the new element as an impurity in zinc carbonate ( calamine ), and, for 100 years, Germany remained the only important producer of the metal.

It almost always has an element of exclusion, meaning that some people are not citizens, and that this distinction can sometimes be very important, or not important, depending on a particular society.

Diatomic elements played an important role in the elucidation of the concepts of element, atom, and molecule in the 19th century, because some of the most common elements, such as hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, occur as diatomic molecules.

An important element of the relationship between the two countries is the fact that more than 1 million individuals of Dominican origin reside in the United States, most of them in the metropolitan Northeast and some in Florida.

The Alberti bass was used by many later composers, and it became an important element in much keyboard music of the Classical music era.

The composition of the image is an important element in producing an interesting work of artistic merit.

Throughout the centuries, the Holy Rosary has been an important element among the Dominicans.

Some scholars argue that, regardless of whether one system is considered better or worse than another, experiencing a different way of education can often be considered to be the most important, enriching element of an international learning experience.

An important element in Estonia's post-independence reorientation has been closer ties with the Nordic countries, especially Finland and Sweden.

Another important element that Husserl took over from Brentano is intentionality, the notion that the main characteristic of consciousness is that it is always intentional.

It is also important that the elements be mutually exclusive, so that work is easily categorized in one and only one element of work.

A single class-B element is rarely found in practice, though it has been used for driving the loudspeaker in the early IBM Personal Computers with beeps, and it can be used in RF power amplifier where the distortion levels are less important.

Together with density it is an important element influencing the yield of the energy transmitted for both atmospheric overpressure and ground acceleration.

Some authors also require the domain of the Euclidean function be the entire ring R ; this can always be accommodated by adding 1 to the values at all nonzero elements, and defining the function to be 0 at the zero element of R, but the result is somewhat awkward in the case of K. The definition is sometimes generalized by allowing the Euclidean function to take its values in any well-ordered set ; this weakening does not affect the most important implications of the Euclidean property.

Whilst Laura Mulvey's paper has a particular place in the feminist film theory, it is also important to note that her ideas regarding ways of watching the cinema ( from the voyeuristic element to the feelings of identification ) have been very important in terms of defining spectatorship from the psychoanalytical view point.

Faith ( Pali: Saddhā, Sanskrit: Śraddhā ) is an important constituent element of the teachings of Gautama Buddha — in both the Theravada and the Mahayana traditions.

Reversing the strings therefore reverses the relative orientation of the saddle ( negatively affecting intonation ), although in Hendrix ' case this is believed to have been an important element in his unique sound.

The most important of these found him in agreement with Hough's plea for reform.

As the Governor, Hughes produced important reform legislation in three areas: improvement of the machinery and processes of government ; extension of the state's regulatory authority over businesses engaged in public services ; and expansion of governmental police and welfare functions.

Many countries have growing electoral reform movements, which advocate systems such as approval voting, single transferable vote, instant runoff voting or a Condorcet method ; these methods are also gaining popularity for lesser elections in some countries where more important elections still use more traditional counting methods.

Other important landmarks include the replacement of Hebrew by Aramaic as the everyday language of Judah ( although it continued to be used for religious and literary purposes ), and Darius's reform of the administrative arrangements of the empire, which may lie behind the redaction of the Jewish Torah.

Alexander's other important reforms included introduction of local self-government ( Zemstvo ) for the rural districts and towns, reform of the judiciary, and of the military service.

A constitutional reform process lasted from 1999 to 2002, with four constitutional amendments producing important changes.

Finally, he enacted a series of reforms that were meant to address several long neglected issues, the most important of which was his reform of the calendar.

The most important change, however, was his reform of the calendar.

He would reform taxes and attempt to break the feudal system, in order to undercut rivals, the most important of which was also named Bashir: Bashir Jumblatt, whose wealth and feudal backers equaled or exceeded Bashir II – and who had increasing support in the Druze community.

Recently, the Congress of the Union approved important tax, pension and judicial reforms, and reform to the oil industry is currently being debated.

To combat this and other practices that had corrupted the Church between the years 900 and 1050, centres emerged promoting ecclesiastical reform, the most important being the Abbey of Cluny, which spread its ideals throughout Europe.

This form of transnational policing plays an increasingly important role in United Nations peacekeeping and this looks set to grow in the years ahead, especially as the international community seeks to develop the rule of law and reform security institutions in States recovering from conflict ( Goldsmith and Sheptycki, 2007 ) With transnational police development-aid the imbalances of power between donors and recipients are stark and there are questions about the applicability and transportability of policing models between jurisdictions ( Hills, 2009 ).

As legate he presided over several synods on reform, the most important of which was held at Bourges in September 1276.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

Municipal reform in Canada West was another important achievement.

Restructuring of Korean conglomerates ( chaebols ), bank privatization, and creating a more liberalized economy with a mechanism for bankrupt firms to exit the market remain Korea's most important unfinished reform tasks.

After an economic contraction of 2. 1 % in 1993, Senegal made an important turnaround, thanks to the reform program, with a growth in GDP averaging over 5 % annually during 1995-2004.

Another very important reform of Joseph II was the abolition of serfdom.

Aufklärungsfilme ( enlightenment films ) supported the idea of teaching the public about important social problems, such as alcohol and drug addiction, venereal disease, homosexuality, prostitution, and prison reform.

One of the most zealous champions and advisers of this reform was Zephaniah, and his writing remains one of the most important documents for the understanding of the era of Josiah.

Economically and socially, land reform in 1919 was the most important step.

He thought he had learned an important lesson from the failing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, believing the Kremlin would allow him a free hand in pursuing domestic reform as long as Czechoslovakia remained a faithful ally of the Soviet Union, under Communist rule.

The most important elements of his reform were its emphases on cenobitic ( communal ) life, manual labor, and a carefully defined administrative hierarchy.

The Southern phase of the Awakening " was an important matrix of Barton Stone's reform movement " and shaped the evangelistic techniques used by both Stone and the Campbells.

* Aurelian issues an important reform of Roman currency.