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As an ad hoc group, blocs often share no universally common set of principles or beliefs apart from an adherence to – usually – radical left or autonomist values, although some anarchist groups have called for the Saint Paul Principles to be adapted as a framework in which diverse tactics can be deployed.
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The lower-level hypotheses are never ' ad hoc ', never introduced ex post facto just to sweep up within the theory some recalcitrant datum.
The opportunity exists for states to reserve some of their vocational education funds to apply on an ad hoc flexible basis to subsidize any local preemployment training programs that may be quickly set up in a community to aid a new industrial plant.
There should even be no more bitter surprises in the UN General Assembly as to NATO members' votes, since a new ad hoc NATO committee has been set up so that in the future such topics as Angola will be discussed in advance.
However, no comprehensive environmental protection program has emerged, and decisions on environmental policy have been made on an ad hoc basis.
Many parents use a collection of simplified or ad hoc signs called " baby sign.
Mordell's theorem had an ad hoc proof ; Weil began the separation of the infinite descent argument into two types of structural approach, by means of height functions for sizing rational points, and by means of Galois cohomology, which was not to be clearly named as that for two more decades.
Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has been more explicitly a state church and the choice is legally that of the British crown ; today it is made in the name of the Sovereign by the Prime Minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.
In early 2011, the City Council created an ad hoc America's Cup Citizens Advisory Committee to look for ways that Alameda could draw interest from teams and potential spectators.
His mandate derives from the Dayton Agreement, as confirmed by the Peace Implementation Council, an ad hoc body with a Steering Board composed of representatives of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK, the United States, the presidency of the European Union, the European Commission, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
There were four ad hoc three-game playoff series due to ties under this formulation ( in 1946, 1951, 1959 and 1962 ).
Naveh described it as an " ad hoc solution " to operational dangers, thrown together at the last moment.
* In 1966, The Beach Bums, an ad hoc group featuring a young Bob Seger, recorded " The Ballad of the Yellow Beret ".
The Black and Tans () were one of two ad hoc paramilitary units employed by the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) as Temporary Constables from 1920 to 1921 to suppress revolution in Ireland, the other body being the Auxiliaries.
Many combinatorial questions have historically been considered in isolation, giving an ad hoc solution to a problem arising in some mathematical context.
His judges would resolve disputes on an ad hoc basis according to what they interpreted the customs to be.
The limitations of such sets soon became apparent, and a number of ad hoc methods were developed to extend them.
The need to support more writing systems for different languages, including the CJK family of East Asian scripts, required support for a far larger number of characters and demanded a systematic approach to character encoding rather than the previous ad hoc approaches.
A recurrent criticism of inflation is that the invoked inflation field does not correspond to any known physical field, and that its potential energy curve seems to be an ad hoc contrivance to accommodate almost any data we could get.
* Function and data pointers permit ad hoc run-time polymorphism.
In addition to committees or mechanisms established on an ad hoc basis, two main organs are:
One controversy that has broken out in bankruptcy courts since 2007 concerns the proper amount of disclosure that the court and other parties are entitled to receive from the members of the ad hoc creditor's committees that play a large role in many such proceedings.
While some chemotaxis receptors are expressed in the surface membrane with long-term characteristics as they are determined genetically, others have short-term dynamics as they are assembled ad hoc in the presence of the ligand.
Early incorporated entities were established by charter ( i. e. by an ad hoc act granted by a monarch or passed by a parliament or legislature ).
The term " maturity " relates to the degree of formality and optimization of processes, from ad hoc practices, to formally defined steps, to managed result metrics, to active optimization of the processes.
# Initial ( chaotic, ad hoc, individual heroics )-the starting point for use of a new or undocumented repeat process.
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Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.
The song " Teenage Suicide ( Don't Do It )" by the fictional band Big Fun was written and produced for the film by musician Don Dixon, and performed by the ad hoc group " Big Fun ", which consisted of Dixon, Mitch Easter, Angie Carlson and Marti Jones.
She then began dating Kevin Gilbert and joined him in an ad hoc group of musicians known to everyone in the group as the " Tuesday Music Club.
Later in the 4th century, a group of Goths arrived in northern Bulgaria and settled in and around Nicopolis ad Istrum.
The final cut of the scene focused on Murphy ; this, coupled with the singer's modelling work in a popular ad campaign for Maxell, caused resentment among the rest of the group.
For Operation Dracula, an ad hoc parachute battalion group made up of personnel from the 153 and 154 ( Gurkha ) Parachute Battalions of the Indian Army secured Japanese coastal defences, which enabled the seaborne assault by the 26th Indian Division to attain its objectives with a minimum of casualties and time.
When Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis posed naked for Playboy, donating half her $ 100, 000 fee to PETA, the group issued a press release saying Davis " turns the other cheek in an eye-opening spread ," then announced she had been photographed naked with Hugh Hefner's dog for an anti-fur ad.
Lyman, along with Simon Ferguson ( Wireds first advertising manager ), introduced revolutionary ad campaigns by a diverse group of industry leaders — such as Apple Computer, Intel, Sony, Calvin Klein, and Absolut — to the readers of the first technology publication with a lifestyle slant.
The study chairman assigned an ad hoc working group to complete the study, which was ultimately reviewed by the responsible committee ( either the PRC or SCC ).
The group contends that mandatory motorcycle helmet laws enacted at the state, county, and municipal levels of government against consumers and users are unconstitutional due to vagueness, and this often results in arbitrary and ad hoc enforcement in those states which have enacted mandatory helmet laws.
The ad was sponsored and funded by the independent-expenditure group National Security Political Action Committee ( NSPAC ), but the Democrats later charged the Bush campaign with illegally coordinating the ad with the NSPAC.
This was a concept album featuring an ad hoc group of musicians and credited on the LP as " Jefferson Starship ", marking the first use of that name.
The studio group named themselves The Hillside Singers to identify with the ad, and within two weeks the song was on the national charts.
A squad can also be an ad hoc group of soldiers assigned to a task, for example, a firing squad.
However, the 2008 AGM saw a group of students mobilize to try to create an ad boycott for the purpose of stopping recruitment ads for the Canadian Forces being run by the Department of National Defence, which those students found objectionable.
*" The ad hoc group concludes that in actuality, Mr Wolfowitz from the outset cast himself in opposition to the established rules of the institution "; and
From around 1672, the year of the coming of age of Charles XI, the council was assembled less and less frequently and eventually the king ruled autocratically, using an ad hoc group of trusted relations and advisors to discuss a particular matter or group of matters.
In late October, Dole released a controversial television ad attacking Hagan for reportedly taking donations from individuals involved in the Godless Americans PAC, a group which advocates for the rights of people who do not believe in God.
The advert also offended The Zimbabwe youth group, Chipangano, has demanded an apology from Nando ’ s, threatened to boycott the South Africa-based chain and demanded the ad be withdrawn or the restaurant face retribution.
Following the cessation of direct Tegel – New York scheduled services, Pan Am continued to operate affinity group / Advance Booking Charter ( ABC ) flights from Tegel to the USA on an ad hoc basis.
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