Similar considerations presumably made it difficult to prescribe a general rule where the acquired and acquiring corporations have different methods of accounting ( section 381(c)(4) ) or depreciation ( section 381(c)(6) ).

as a rule, the earlier general dental treatment is started, the less expensive and more satisfactory it is likely to be.

When things got a little out of hand, they very rapidly got a lot out of hand -- it seemed to be a general rule.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

As a general rule, the higher tablelands lie to the east and south, while a progressive diminution in altitude towards the west and north is observable.

A general rule agreed upon the Tokyo Convention is that the general penalty jurisdiction towards the offenders committing the crimes included in this convention is performed by the country where the aircraft is registered.

As a general design rule, the material properties of the object need to be greater than the forces anticipated during its use.

Annuities are also subject to the same rule as general legacies.

As a general rule, more cache improves performance, but faster cache improves it further still.

Among these were the writing of the Fundamental Principles of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, introducing a general amnesty for those people imprisoned during Nur Mohammad Taraki's and Amin's rule, and replacing the Khalqist flag with a more traditional one.

Shareholder nominations can only occur at the general meeting itself or through the prohibitively expensive process of mailing out ballots separately ; in May 2009 the SEC proposed a new rule allowing shareholders meeting certain criteria to add nominees to the proxy statement.

However, this is only a general rule and many species differ.

As a general principle, the person who broke a rule should not benefit by it, and the other players should not lose by it.

In 1961 it was granted autonomous rule and, seven years after the general unrest and left-wing riots of 1968.

As a general rule of thumb, if the condition number, then you may lose up to digits of accuracy on top of what would be lost to the numerical method due to loss of precision from arithmetic methods.

There were several exceptions from the general rule of quick civil wars during this period.

The general rule for open connections is that moves of the leader's hands back, forth, left or right are originated through moves of the entire body.

As a general rule secured creditors — creditors who have a security interest, or collateral, in the debtor's property — will be paid before unsecured creditors.

As a general rule, since that time, the armed forces have not intervened in politics as a body, rather being tossed and turned as ambitious men have shaken the country.

This was contrary to the principles of the life of independence which these mountaineers had always lived, and resulted in a general uprising against Egyptian rule.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

As a general rule a statistic of N is twice as capable as a level of N-1, where this makes sense.

Exceptions to this general rule are when has repeated roots, or when contains no odd powers of.

The Head of Government under the new constitution is the Premier ( prior to the new constitution the office was referred to as Chief Minister ), who is elected in a general election along with the other members of the ruling government as well as the members of the opposition.

One month prior to the end of the 1961 season, Richards resigned as the team's skipper to become the general manager of the expansion Houston Colt 45s.

Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, a great share of prior understanding related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, has been revolutionized.

Justice Holmes cautioned that “ the proper derivation of general principals in both common and constitutional law ... arise gradually, in the emergence of a consensus from a multitude of particularized prior decisions .” Justice Cardozo noted the “ common law does not work from pre-established truths of universal and inflexible validity to conclusions derived from them deductively ,” but “ ts method is inductive, and it draws its generalizations from particulars .”

On October 17, 2007, a week before the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, the Colorado Rockies announced that tickets would be made available to the general public via online sales only, despite prior arrangements to sell the tickets at local retail outlets.

Eisenhower was the only general to serve as President in the 20th century, and the most recent President to have never held elected office prior to the Presidency.

This edict introduced a general five-year census for the whole Empire, replacing prior censuses that had operated at different speeds throughout the Empire.

This riding was formerly known as Fredericton-York-Sunbury but was redistributed prior to the 1997 general election.

In the 2005 general election the party won 9. 8 percent of the vote and 61 federal deputies, an unpredicted improvement from prior opinion polls.

" In a general sense, the title is a metaphor for the departure of a way of life that existed in the South prior to the Civil War.

This economic stagnation is argued to have commenced with the demise of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924, with trade networks being disrupted and societies torn apart with the creation of new nation states ; prior to this, the Middle East had a diverse and growing economy and more general prosperity.

While food irradiation can in some cases maintain the quality ( i. e. general appearance and " inner " quality ) of certain perishable food for a longer period of time, it cannot undo spoilage that occurred prior to irradiation.

Chilton and Evans state that the general acceptance of the authenticity of the James passage lends support to the partial authenticity of the Testimonium in that the brief reference to " Jesus, who was called Christ " in Antiquities XX, 9, 1 " clearly implies a prior reference " and that " in all probability the Testimonium is that prior reference ".

Looking for a quick turnaround, general manager Allard Baird signed several veteran players prior to the 2006 season, including Doug Mientkiewicz, Mark Grudzielanek, Joe Mays and Scott Elarton.

Soldiers follow two six-month periods of tuition in both general and military based subjects prior to taking examinations.

This is an instance of the more general strategy of dimensionality reduction, which seeks to map the input data into a lower dimensional space prior to running the supervised learning algorithm.

The lifespan of parliament is limited by the constitution to five years and, though the governor general may still, on the advice of the prime minister, dissolve parliament and issue the writs of election prior to the date mandated by the Canada Elections Act ; the King-Byng Affair was the only time since Confederation that the viceroy deemed it necessary to refuse his prime minister's request for a general vote.

In general, metals are not coated prior to imaging in the SEM because they are conductive and provide their own pathway to ground.

Substituting this definition into the prior equation, we find the general gain equation:

In general, modern professional equipment is now all-digital, and uses component-based digital interconnects such as CCIR 601 to eliminate the need for any analog processing prior to the final modulation of the analog signal for broadcast.

While Lampley was busy covering the trophy presentation, Bob Costas ( who also interviewed Dallas head coach Jimmy Johnson and Dallas owner / general manager Jerry Jones together prior to the game ) covered for Lampley at the host and anaylsts ' desk ( and signed off the broadcast for NBC ).

Among marked coins, Philadelphia coins bear a letter P, Denver coins bear a letter D, San Francisco coins bear a letter S, and West Point coins bear a letter W. S and W coins are rarely, if ever, found in general circulation, although S coins bearing dates prior to the mid-1970s are in circulation.