In Homer's Iliad, when Alcmene was about to give birth to Heracles, Zeus announced to all the gods that on that day a child, descended from Zeus himself, would be born who would rule all those around him.

The child Andrew's rule in Halych must have been only nominal ; he did not even visit his principality.

In 1205, he led his armies to the principality to ensure the rule of the child Prince Danylo.

With the birth of a daughter as the first child of the current Crown Prince, Naruhito, Japan considered abandoning that rule.

Since Edward was still a child, rule passed to a regency council dominated by Protestants, who attempted to establish their faith throughout the country.

Romulus, little more than a child, acted as a figurehead for his father's rule.

A 2001 Human Rights Watch report considered FARC-EP's refusal to admit children under fifteen years old into their forces to be " encouraging " but added that there is " little evidence that this rule is being strictly applied " and called on the group to demobilize all existing child soldiers and cease this practice in the future.

Because Otto III was still a child, his grandmother Adelaide of Italy took over the regency until Otto III became old enough to rule on his own.

The rule applies at all levels within the hierarchy: the sum of the work at the “ child ” level must equal 100 % of the work represented by the “ parent ” and the WBS should not include any work that falls outside the actual scope of the project, that is, it cannot include more than 100 % of the work … It is important to remember that the 100 % rule also applies to the activity level.

Because Otto III was still a child ( only eleven when his mother died ), his grandmother, the Dowager Empress Adelaide of Italy, became regent, together with Archbishop Willigis of Mainz, until he became old enough to rule on his own in 994.

Young devised a rule of thumb for determining a child ’ s drug dosage.

Nevertheless, although he was only a child when his grandfather, King Charles II of Naples sent him to Hungary in 1300, Charles would strengthen his rule in the kingdom against his opponents and the powerful magnates following a long series of internal struggles.

He claims to rule the Pelasgians and to be the " child of Palaichthon (' ancient earth ') whom the earth brought forth.

He claims to rule the Pelasgians and to be the " child of Palaichthon ( or ' ancient earth ') whom the earth brought forth.

Therefore, even in a line following strict uterine succession, it is possible for different members of the line born after the development of in vitro fertilization to have different mitochrondrial DNA, if either ( a ) an heir was conceived through egg donation, or ( b ) strict application of a rule of " uterine " succession allowed a child to inherit from the surrogate who bore it, rather than from those who supplied the egg and sperm and raised the child as their own.

A younger child that benefits from the " first ball rule " but goes out to the second ball also might discover that there is now, by unspoken consensus, a " second ball rule " as well, and if necessary a " third ball rule ".

Since a medical certificate and a private pilot's license have a minimum age requirement of 16 and 17 respectively, the new rule prohibits " child pilots " such as Jessica Dubroff and Vicki Van Meter from manipulating the flight controls if they are pursuing a record, and the pilot in command's pilot certificate may be revoked for allowing such activity.

Other states leave discretion to prosecutors to argue or the judges to rule on whether the child understood that what was being done was wrong.

Some states refuse to set a fixed minimum age, but leave discretion to prosecutors to argue or the judges to rule on whether the child or adolescent (" juvenile ") defendant understood that what was being done was wrong.

Arvedui based his claim on his direct descent from Isildur ( second High King of Arnor and Gondor and uncle to Meneldil, the first King of Gondor after the joint rule of Isildur and Anárion ), and as the husband of Fíriel, only surviving child of King Ondoher.

Mothersbaugh doesn't rule out the idea of the band gathering in the studio, eventually, to record a new Devo album.

At most casinos in California and Michigan this rule doesn't apply ; the A-2-3-4-5 is the lowest possible straight.

This result limits the efficiency of the best possible algorithms when considering boards of arbitrary size, but it doesn't rule out the possibility of computing explicit strategies on small boards of a given size.

Since this is a general rule the receiver doesn't need extra information about the location of the stuffing bits in order to do the de stuffing.

Because the 13 loci that are currently used for discrimination in CODIS are independently assorted ( having a certain number of repeats at one locus doesn't change the likelihood of having any number of repeats at any other locus ), the product rule for probabilities can be applied.

KPN Chief Executive Ad Scheepbouwer said he doesn't rule out job cuts after the merger.

" Robert Christgau wrote that " As a rule, American songwriting is banal, prolix, and virtually solipsistic when it wants to be honest, merely banal when it doesn't ", but found Newman's " truisms — always concise, never confessional —" to be " his own.

The new rule states that an artist can be nominated as long as the artist hasn't released an entire album and doesn't win.

Vendetta is common in societies with a weak rule of law ( or where the state doesn't consider itself responsible for mediating this kind of dispute ) where family and kinship ties are the main source of authority.

Visitors to Twin Oaks are often assigned work not of their choosing, but a community rule forbids visitors being scheduled cleaning work that a member doesn't also participate in.

Flory views imperialism as a way to make money, commenting that he is only in Burma to finance himself, that this is the only reason why he doesn't want British rule to come to an end.

Although the hotel's remote location doesn't encourage impulse visits, the rule certainly does.

If the scoring system is by ranks ( e. g. who finishes first, second, third or last ), then this rule doesn't apply.

But there is also no evidence that says " the devil does not exist " so therefore one cannot rule that the devil doesn't exist.

In most logics, weakening is either an inference rule or a metatheorem if the logic doesn't have an explicit rule.

Needless to say this doesn't always work, and being in a difficult situation, to protect the large empire under his rule, he will resort to military force when needed — overwhelming force, carefully applied to minimize casualties and destruction.

Nemo dat quod non habet, literally meaning " no one gives what he doesn't have " is a legal rule, sometimes called the nemo dat rule, that states that the purchase of a possession from someone who has no ownership right to it also denies the purchaser any ownership title.

" Doggy ": a dog life is an optional rule and is used only once in the game – the first life of the game lost doesn't count and is called " doggy ".

Green building practices aim to reduce the environmental impact of buildings, so the very first rule is: the greenest building is the building that doesn't get built.

Eric tries to tell his mother the truth ( that Shelley is breaking Liane's rule about having boys over ) but she doesn't believe that Shelley would do such a thing, especially since she specifically told her not to have anyone over.

However, it is revealed that he doesn't want to rule the planet like the Red Skull and Octavius but that he just wants to get back to his father.

He even inspires Raff's followers with a rousing speech, during which he says, " Just because you're stupid that doesn't mean you can't rule a planet.