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Certain religious and political functions were reserved for the Levites, and the early sources of the Torah — the Jahwist and Elohist — appear to treat the term Levi as just being a word meaning priest ; scholars therefore suspect that " levi " was originally a general term for a priest, and had no connection to ancestry, and that it was only later, for example in the priestly source and Blessing of Moses, that the existence of a tribe named Levi became assumed, in order to explain the origin of the priestly caste.
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Certain indigenous religious groups such as the Australian Aborigines are more typically totemic, whereas others like the Inuit are more typically animistic in their worldview.
Certain works of Erasmus laid a foundation for religious toleration.
Certain Hindu sects also wear head scarves for religious reasons.
Certain religious beliefs were mixed with the beliefs of the local populations as it appears in the old cults of isolated Arcadia which survived up to classical Greece.
Certain groups, like the Roma ( gypsies ), oppose organ donation on religious grounds, but most of the world's religions support donation as a charitable act of great benefit to the community.
Certain sects of Taoism, Korean Shamanism, Shinto, some Japanese new religious movements, and other East-Asian religions feature spirit-possession.
Certain types of churches may in certain circumstances excommunicate the apostate, while some religious scriptures demand the death penalty for apostates.
Certain historically religious cities such as Boston and Baltimore among others will schedule games no earlier than 1: 35 PM to ensure time for people who go to religious service in the morning can get to the game in time.
Certain schools have certain codes on the use of makeup ( some don't condone it at all ), the sporting of bracelets / jewelry, but most if not all schools allow students to wear obligatory religious clothing such as such as the Islamic hijab, sheila, and abaya as well as Sikh turban, etc.
Certain countries, such as Israel, only allow couples to register on the condition that they have first been married in a religious ceremony recognised by the state, or were married in a different country.
Certain religious traditions ( such as types of Buddhism, Surat Shabd Yoga, mysticism and Pentecostalism ) and educational paradigms with, for example, the conditioning of military recruit-training ( also known as " boot camps "), stress the experiential nature of human epistemology.
Certain groups, such as Orthodox Jews, have practiced endogamy as an inherent part of their religious beliefs and traditions.
Certain that he is doing God's work, Brother Justin fully devotes himself to his religious duties, not realizing that his ultimate nemesis Ben Hawkins and the carnival are inexorably drawing closer.
* Certain Jewish communal and religious leaders have used this term to describe Jewish assimilation ( cultural assimilation, religious assimilation ) and interfaith marriage of Jews with gentiles.
Certain of them are priceless for their religious and historical value, such as that of Pantokratoros and that of Saint George that are next to the pulpit and which date from around the 13th century.
Certain groups of Hindustani people are identified with multiple identities, with a more localized prioritized ethnic orientation, for example, Bihari people, Haryanvi people, Avadhi people, Malvi people, Himachali people, Rajasthani people, in addition to further tribal, village, and / or religious identities.
Certain publications are designed for distribution to members of specific religious groups.
Certain ethnic groups, such as the Tenggerese and Osing, are also associated with Hindu religious traditions.
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Certain aspects of these early religious practice survive even today the term buniag ( ie baptism ), it is said comes from Buni or Kabunian, and, until more recent years, in Santa Maria some professed belief in spirits inhibiting fields and trees, in whose honor half-cooked rice, betel nut and chicken meat were offered.
Certain religious holidays, such as Sukkot, have their roots in harvest festivals.
Certain Vampires have exhibited traditionally accepted " weaknesses ," such as being unable to cross running water or an aversion to religious icons.
Certain and political
Certain Boer nationalists have asserted that they do not consider themselves a right-wing element of the political spectrum.
Certain scholars and political leaders feel that these modern developments endanger nation states by taking power away from state governments and ceding it to international bodies such as the U. N. and the World Bank, argue that international law has evolved to a point where it exists separately from the mere consent of states, and discern a legislative and judicial process to international law that parallels such processes within domestic law.
Certain countries, such as France, ban altogether the corporate funding of political parties.
A recent study done by the observer of Chinese film and television, Ying Zhu, suggests that “ CCTV is full of serious-minded creators who regularly experience bouts of self-doubt, philosophical ambivalence, and in some cases, clinical depression .” During her extensive interviews with key CCTV players, Zhu notes that “ Certain common themes, about ideals distorted or altogether thwarted by commercial and political pressure, emerged .”
Certain Christian theologians have also criticized a tendency to " historicize " and " dogmatize " certain political or secular events such as the Shoah which are not part of theology as traditionally understood, that is, theology as a hermeneutic of the deposit of faith and of divine revelation, and not theology as sociology, philosophy, history or politics.
Certain forms of political and constitutional dispute are common to federations.
Certain senior civil service positions, including some heads of diplomatic missions and executive agencies are filled by political appointees.
Certain states that use the open-primary format may print a single ballot and the voter must choose on the ballot itself which political party's candidates they will select for a contested office.
Certain forms of music became more closely associated with political protest, especially in the 1960s.
Certain cafés were identified with the political ideas of their regular customers.
Certain domains, such as the approval of certain technologies for public consumption, can have vast and far-reaching political, economic, and human effects should things run awry of the predictions of scientists.
Certain of united political backing and almost universal public support, Palmer obtained an injunction on October 31 and 400, 000 coal workers struck the next day.
Certain political systems adhere to this principle, others do not.
Certain of united political backing and almost universal public support, Palmer obtained an injunction on October 31 and 400, 000 coal workers struck the next day.
Certain political parties will provide transport for voters to and from the voting centre.
Certain forms of slacktivism have political goals in mind, such as gaining support for a presidential campaign, or signing an internet petition that aims to influence governmental action.
Certain UK organisations, usually socialist or left-of-centre political groups, have traditionally had a policy that members should never accept wages higher than the wage of the average working class person whilst being employed by that organisation or in a representative capacity.
Certain and functions
Certain judicial functions are also performed by the Queen in Council, although in practice the actual work of hearing and deciding upon cases is carried out exclusively by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Certain architectures may allow two or three operands ( including the result ) directly in memory or may be able to perform functions such as automatic pointer increment etc.
Certain store support functions exist in the Franklin Park, Illinois office.
Certain keys on the keyboard would control movement around the virtual scenery and also often add possible additional functions.
Certain transcendental functions can be carried over to the surreals, including logarithms and exponentials, but most, e. g., the sine function, cannot.
Certain systems can tolerate such glitches, but if for example this output functions as a clock signal for further systems that contain memory, the system can rapidly depart from its designed behaviour ( in effect, the temporary glitch becomes permanent glitch ).
Certain functions of an advanced text mode, such as an own font uploading, almost certainly become unavailable.
Certain substitutions can be made to integrals involving trigonometric functions, so the integral is transformed into a rational function of a complex variable and then the above methods can be used in order to evaluate the integral.
Certain language functions such as word retrieval and production were found to be located to more anterior language cortices, and deteriorate as a function of age.
Certain complex glycosphingolipids were found to be involved in specific functions, such as cell recognition and signaling.
Certain functions of the Management and Coordination Agency were transferred to the Cabinet Office in this process, while many functions of the MPT were transferred to an independent Postal Services Agency which later became Japan Post.
Certain learning tasks are well suited for an LMS ( centralized functions like learner administration and content management ).
Certain functions of the Council, however, remained subject to the approval of the Board.
Certain situations can be solved exactly by elliptic functions.
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