The essential characteristic of an optimal policy when the state of the stream is transformed in a sequence of stages with no feedback was first isolated by Bellman.

They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a government policy ( although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy ) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority.

Far right policy had been discredited by Nazism, and was subsequently politically isolated.

Algeria was trying to diversify its foreign policy, feeling isolated by Spain and French President François Mitterrand's accord with Morocco and Libya over Chad.

The Hedjaz region of western Arabia became an independent state under Hussein's control, until 1925, when, abandoned and isolated by the British policy – which had shifted support to the al Saud family – it was conquered by Saudi Arabia.

Although King James rewarded Calvert in 1623 for his loyalty by granting him a estate in County Longford, Ireland, where his seat was known as the Manor of Baltimore, Calvert was increasingly isolated from court circles as the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Buckingham wrested control of policy from the ageing James.

But for the sympathy of Britain under Palmerston, the July Monarchy would have been completely isolated in Europe, and this sympathy the aggressive policy of France in Belgium and on the Mediterranean coast of Africa had been in danger of alienating.

In 1897 he published Russiya na Istok ( Russia in the East ), a book sharply critical of the Russian Empire's foreign policy, which, according to Rakovsky, followed one of Georgy Plekhanov's guidelines (" Tsarist Russia must be isolated in its foreign relations ").

Similarly, the local policy for performing kidney biopsy assumes a critical role ; if it is a policy to simply observe patients with isolated hematuria, a group with a generally favourable prognosis will be excluded.

In domestic policy, he continued with many of the projects that were planned during his first term, including the completion of what is considerated his most important legacy, the Carretera Marginal de la Selva, a much-needed roadway linking Chiclayo on the Pacific coast with then isolated northern regions of Amazonas and San Martín.

The persecution of Assemblies of God Christians in Iran today is not a series of isolated events or the result of individual prejudices but rather a state policy implemented at all levels in various forms.

A major act of discontent occurred inside the party during its XIIth Congress in late November 1979, when PCR veteran Constantin Pîrvulescu spoke out against Ceauşescu's policy of discouraging discussions and relying on obedient cadres ( he was subsequently heckled, evicted from the Congress hall, and isolated ).

The government of California mandated that a network of " policy stations " be placed to service residents of isolated parts of the state.

The intent of German policy was to drive a wedge between the British and French, but in both cases produced the opposite effect and Germany was isolated diplomatically, most notably lacking the support of Italy despite Italian membership in the Triple Alliance.

Japan was not completely isolated under the sakoku policy.

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Although the new minister was able to raise the budget for the science and technology sector, he remained isolated within the government and had no influence on policy making for the economy.

It has been acknowledged by Hanoi that violence has in fact been directed against the prisoners, although it maintains that these are isolated cases and not indicative of general camp policy.

Buol's policy in the Crimean War had managed to keep Austria out of the war, but had left it badly isolated.

Archipelagos may be found isolated in bodies of water or neighboring a large land mass.

Transport in Antarctica has transformed from explorers crossing the isolated remote area of Antarctica by foot to a more open area due to human technologies enabling more convenient and faster transport, predominantly by air and water, as well as land.

The Ainu were becoming increasingly marginalized on their own land — over a period of only 36 years, the Ainu went from being a relatively isolated group of people to having their land, language, religion and customs assimilated into those of the Japanese.

The land is constructed as a paradisical garden, but like Eden after Man's fall, Xanadu is isolated by walls.

There was some excuse for her ; she had lost three babies and still felt herself an isolated foreigner in a hostile land, even more so after 1627 when her brother joined Sweden's enemies.

* In Philip K. Dick's fiction, Mars is an almost empty, dry land, with isolated communities and individuals, most of whom do not want to be there.

These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft would usually not be able to take off or land.

Although many populated land locations on the planet now have terrestrial communications facilities ( microwave, fiber-optic ), even undersea, with more than sufficient capacity, telephony and Internet access is still available only via satellite in many places in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as isolated locations that have no terrestrial facilities, such as Canada's Arctic islands, Antarctica, the far reaches of Alaska and Greenland, and ships at sea.

During this time, encroachment on their land and a series of massacres had reduced Awá numbers to about 300, of whom only about 60 were still living their traditional, isolated, hunter-gatherer way of life.

Also, external affairs minister Joe Clark was the first foreign affairs minister to land in previously isolated Ethiopia to lead the Western response to the 1984 – 1985 famine in Ethiopia ; Clark landed in Addis Ababa so quickly he had not even seen the initial CBC report that had created the initial and strong public reaction.

The new road and bridge effectively opened a large previously isolated tract of land along the southeastern edge of the city for commercial development.

Effectively isolated from the rest of Starke County, these residents asked that their land be annexed to LaPorte County, which was completed on January 28, 1842.

They chose this area because of its isolated geographic location, a minimum of government control, fertile land and an abundance of fish and wildlife.

While the nation had pushed to the western coast, the land the Fickert family settled in 1869 was still isolated and remote ... a rich, virtually hidden valley.

The town remained isolated from most of the world since it is surrounded by water and was not accessible by land until the mid twentieth century.

These were hardy settlers that had to fight not only the elements of an isolated land but Native Americans as well.

Since the islands of Oceania were never connected by land to a continent, the flora and fauna of the islands originally reached them from across the ocean ( though at the height of the last ice age sea levels were much lower than today and many current Seamounts were islands, so some now isolated islands were once less isolated ).

* Subsidiary islets-A more technical application is to small land features, isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger island.

" These reserves of unworked land lowered the value of neighbouring farms because isolated farms were less efficient than farms closer together, and people of other religious sects ( particularly Methodists, Presbyterians and Roman Catholics ) resented the apparent preferential treatment of the Anglican church.

Using documentary evidence, flavored by legend, researchers have isolated historical data using books by O ' Hart, McLysaght and O ' Brien, the Four Masters, baptismals, parish records, and ancient land grants.

Five farmers and their families, subsequently known as the Bankside Farmers, arrived at Machamux on 1693 having followed cattle to the isolated area known to the Pequot as the " beautiful land ".

Most of the people who were not clearing isolated land were clustered in settlements at Bartlett Hollow and Leonta.