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.

With over four million American men away at war, Protestants forced their distinctive theological belief upon the general public.

In spite of the increase in numbers and prestige brought about by the conversions of Newman and other Tractarians of the 1840's and 1850's, the Catholic segment of England one hundred years ago was a very small one ( four per cent, or 800,000 ) which did not enjoy a gracious hearing from the general public.

But Minsky shows ( as do Melzak and Lambek ) that his machine is Turing complete with only four general types of instructions: conditional GOTO, unconditional GOTO, assignment / replacement / substitution, and HALT.

After four years, however, the Egyptian rebellion was defeated by the Achaemenid general Megabyzus, who captured the greater part of the Athenian forces.

There is a general belief amongst Hindus that no pilgrimage to the four principal pilgrim centres ( Char Dham ) namely, Badrināth, Jagannāth, Rāmeshwaram and Dwarka, would be complete without a blessing that comes from bathing in the holy Pushkar Lake.

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

The " general consensus " of scholars is that Daniel four ultimately draws upon the traditions and legends of Nabonidus.

The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was not fully appreciated for another four decades.

" The four National Gendarmerie legions each had a general staff, detached companies that were deployed in and around the major towns and population centers in their respective prefectures, and a small number of mobile squads for rapid reaction and general support.

Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents.

The judicial branch's general structure is composed of four distinct jurisdictions ( civilian, administrative, constitutional, and special ).

The four definitions given above are special cases of a more general definition.

The Delaunay triangulation of a discrete point set P in general position corresponds to the dual graph of the Voronoi tessellation for P. Special cases include the existence of three points on a line and four points on circle.

It is known that there exists a unique Delaunay triangulation for P, if P is a set of points in general position ; that is, there exists no k-flat containing k + 2 points nor a k-sphere containing k + 3 points, for 1 ≤ k ≤ d − 1 ( e. g., for a set of points in < big > ℝ </ big >< sup > 3 </ sup >; no three points are on a line, no four on a plane, no four are on a circle, and no five on a sphere ).

Euler discussed a generalization of Euclidean geometry called affine geometry, which retains the fifth postulate unmodified while weakening postulates three and four in a way that eliminates the notions of angle ( whence right triangles become meaningless ) and of equality of length of line segments in general ( whence circles become meaningless ) while retaining the notions of parallelism as an equivalence relation between lines, and equality of length of parallel line segments ( so line segments continue to have a midpoint ).

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time.

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time.

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time.

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time.

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time.

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time.

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time.

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time.