In a non-stock corporation with no general voting membership, e. g., a typical university, the board is the supreme governing body of the institution ; its members are sometimes chosen by the board itself.

This attitude was bolstered by the general conception that the Holy Roman Emperor and all other European Kings were chosen by God to be leaders.

The shade was chosen by Cy Huston, the Lions first vice president and general manager, and of the choice, he said: " They had me looking at so many blues I am blue in the face ," Huston said about the selection.

As the Britannica is a general encyclopaedia, it does not seek to compete with specialised encyclopaedias such as the Encyclopaedia of Mathematics or the Dictionary of the Middle Ages, which can devote much more space to their chosen topics.

The general meeting may not approve the formation of an SE unless one of the models of participation defined in the Directive has been chosen.

In general, a single wavelength is required for proper analysis, so, in order to selectively filter the light, it is passed through an excitation monochromator, and then that chosen wavelength is passed through the sample cell.

In a parliamentary system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen.

Tadeusz Kościuszko was chosen as its leader ; the popular general came from abroad and on March 24, 1794 in Cracow ( Kraków ) declared a national uprising under his supreme command.

Davis wanted to serve as a general in the Confederate States Army and not as the president, but accepted the role for which he had been chosen.

In December 2000, following his Senatorial defeat, Ashcroft was chosen for the position of US attorney general by president-elect George W. Bush who was impressed by Ashcroft.

It first prevented the candidate for expulsion being chosen out of immediate anger, although an Athenian general such as Cimon would have not wanted to lose a battle the week before such a second vote.

He was personally chosen by then-President and Chief of Army Staff general Zia-ul-Haq for this assignment due to Musharraf's wide experience in mountain and arctic warfare.

One of the most general words is chosen to typify the spectrum as its headword, which labels the whole group.

** Liceo: it is the general purpose kind of school, traditionally chosen by those wanting to pursue higher education ( university or arts academy ).

The Westminster system enables a government to be defeated, or forced into a general election, independently of a new government being chosen.

It comprises Sinn Féin members elected in the 1918 general election who, in accordance with their manifesto, have not taken their seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom but chosen to declare an independent Irish Republic.

* The India Act requires that the governor general be chosen from outside the British East India Company and it makes company directors subject to parliamentary supervision.

In the general case, if a complete basis set of solutions is chosen, any real laser beam can be described as a superposition of solutions from this set.

In 1242 they were in Aylesford, Kent, England, and two years later in southern France, while by 1245 they were so numerous that they were able to hold their first general chapter at Aylesford, where Saint Simon Stock, then eighty years of age, was chosen general.

However, the Welsh laws prescribe this system of division for land in general, not for kingdoms, where there is provision for an edling ( or heir ) to the kingdom to be chosen, usually by the king.

In general, sexual dimorphism can be attributed to greater intraspecific competition in one sex, either between rivals for access to mates and / or to be chosen by mates.

* After his election to the consulship, Titus Quinctius Flamininus is chosen to replace Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus as the leading Roman general in Macedonia.

The Corinthian general Timoleon is chosen to lead a liberation force to Sicily.

Among the other players chosen by Vancouver were centre Orland Kurtenbach, who was named the Canucks ' first captain, as well as defenceman Pat Quinn, who later became the team's general manager and coach in the 1990s.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Even the officer in charge, be it a captain ( for small display ) or a general, is restrained by monitoring.

( C ) Decisions of a general kind are made by the central command.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;

New machinery of coordination should not be our primary objective in the foreseeable future -- though perhaps the `` political general staff '' of Western leaders proposed by Sir Anthony Eden would serve a useful purpose.

The arguments advanced by those individuals and groups who oppose the system in force and who would drastically curtail or do away entirely with hospital care for the non-service-connected case, seem to be coldly impractical and out-of-step with the wishes of the general public.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

Proposed property sales of general interest to small business concerns are publicized through SBA regional news releases, and by `` flyers '' directed to the small business concerns.

The credit provdied by the first two services in the system outlined above is primarily for general agricultural purposes.

For many years a state tax on cities and towns was paid by the several municipalities to the state from the proceeds of the general property tax.

All research within the United States contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this Act, shall be provided for in such manner that all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research developed by Government expenditure will ( with such exceptions and limitations, if any, as the Secretary may find to be necessary in the interest of national defense ) be available to the general public.

For the policy officer will know that action can almost never be secret and that in general the effectiveness of policy will be conditioned by the readiness of the country to sustain it.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

After all, social life in the group of the bees is by no means general, although it certainly is a striking feature.

The reader should be familiar enough with projections by now so that he sees that Af and in general that Af.

This reduction has been accomplished by the general methods of linear algebra, i.e., by the primary decomposition theorem.

These are defined by a simple involutorial transformation of the points in which a general line meets a nonsingular quadric surface bearing a curve of symbol Af.