The Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, are home to the Center Theatre Group, directed by Michael Ritchie. Contemporary Opera Los Angeles presents performances that are sung in English and set in a contemporary style and their proceeds benefit local children's education charities and animal rescue charities.

Following abolition of mortmain, the modern application of the cy-près doctrine has predominantly occurred in relation to charities as these are the most important trusts for a general purpose ( not private benefit ) permitted under English law.

In jurisdictions which have retained the English cy-près doctrine but do not have an equivalent state body to the Charity Commission ( or in relation to foreign charities ' assets in the United Kingdom ), charity trustees may seek the approval of the Court to their entry into cy-près arrangements to avoid later accusations of breach of trust.

He was almost positive it was not Assyrian nor Cassite, and imagined it must have been German or English.

The Hindi alphabet must represent both Sanskrit and modern vocabulary, and so has been expanded to 58 with the khutma letters ( letters with a dot added ) to represent sounds from Persian and English.

The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.

As nothing cannot be known by any means or method it must mean, in the context of the question, that a specific named object is present or not present in the observer's experience of a set of objects, conditions for which English uses " is " or " is not.

The main sects ( see also English Dissenters ) were Baptists, who advocated adult rebaptism ; Ranters, who claimed that sin did not exist for the " chosen ones "; and Fifth Monarchy Men, who opposed all " earthly " governments, believing they must prepare for God's kingdom on earth by establishing a " government of saints ".

Also, in Chapter XI ( entitled ' How to compare two different Systems of Laws ') of Book XXIX he advises that " to determine which of those systems the French and English systems for the punishment of false witnesses is most agreeable to reason, we must take them each as a whole and compare them in their entirety.

Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notions.

English scholar Russell Martineau, who had studied under Bopp, gave the following tribute: “ Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but language itself — study it either as a universal function of man, subjected, like his other mental or physical functions, to law and order, or else as an historical development, worked out by a never ceasing course of education from one form into another .”

But relations between them did turn tense in the year 1617 when Sir Thomas Roe the Elizabethan diplomat warned the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the young and charismatic son Prince Shah Jahan, the newly instated as the Subedar of Gujarat had turned the English out of the province, " then he must expect we would do our justice upon the seas ".

When he later studied English, he decided that the international language must have a simpler grammar.

Webster rejected the notion that the study of Greek and Latin must precede the study of English grammar.

* The English Channel was to be swept of British mines at the crossing points, and the Strait of Dover must be blocked at both ends by German mines.

* War must never be seen as having any purpose in itself, but should be seen as an instrument of Politik -- a German word that conflates the meanings of the English words policy and politics: " War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means.

To take another example, the minimal pair tip and dip illustrates that in English, and belong to separate phonemes, and ; since these two words have different meanings, English speakers must be conscious of the distinction between the two sounds.

The palaeographer must know, first, the language of the text ( that is, a 21st-century English or French speaker must become expert in the relevant earlier forms of these languages ); and second, the historical usages of various styles of handwriting, common writing customs, and scribal / notarial abbreviations.

Warranty claims commonly require privity between the injured party and the manufacturer or seller ; in plain English, this means they must be dealing with each other directly.

Except in exceptional circumstances, subjects taken must include Irish ( L1 ), English ( L2 ), a foreign language ( L3 ) and Mathematics.

The English Bill of Rights includes the proviso that arms must be as " allowed by law.

Let the Government labour to its utmost, let the Legislature labour days and nights in your service ; but, after the very best has been attained and achieved, the question whether the English father is to be the father of a happy family and the centre of a united home is a question which must depend mainly upon himself.

The captains, officers, sailors of these ships, whose wages must be paid, are English.

In many languages other than English, such valency changes are not possible ; the verb must instead be inflected in order to change the valency.

Humphry Davy, an English chemist was among the first to expound on the chemical basis of soil fertility and wrote in 1813: “ If land be unproductive, and a system of ameliorating it is to be attempted, the sure method of obtaining the object is to determine the cause of the sterility, which must necessarily depend upon some defect in the constitution of the soil, which may be easily discovered by chemical analysis .” His ideas were not immediately accepted.

* Voices tell Joan of Arc that Charles VII of France must be crowned and the English expelled from France.

An ordinance of Cromwell required all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute, reviving an ancient right the English had long insisted on, but when Tromp was tardy to comply, Blake opened fire, starting the brief Battle of Goodwin Sands.

He immediately promised to send a French army corps, and French envoys — under the grand name of the célèbre ambassade — arrived in London to begin negotiations in earnest, threatening the wrath of the French monarch if the English failed to comply.

To comply with the law Beckett “ was obliged to be in residence in Folkstone for a minimum of two weeks to allow him to be married in the Registry Office there ” and this time spent there observing the locals may well have influenced the “ middle class, English, ‘ Home Counties ’” setting of Play though James Knowlson also point to two visits to Sweetwater about the same time.

An ordinance of Cromwell required all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute, but when Tromp did not comply because he saw no reason to lower his flag for the English, Blake fired three warning shots.

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The Football League in England and the Scottish Football League introduced regulations that clubs in the highest divisions ( top 2 divisions in the English system ) must comply to this recommendation by August 1994.

The English and Hanseatics were only too happy to comply, and so contributed to the effectiveness of the embargo.

Sheppard ’ s fifteen English anthems, most of which are a4, comply with the demands of the Protestant reformers for simplicity, clear, audible words and largely syllabic text-underlay.

Harry Redknapp hinted at Woodgate's exit due to having to comply with new Premier League rules which limited squad sizes to 25 – ironically these rules were put in place in order to help the careers of English and Welsh footballers.

However in July 2012, Bell Media, owners of CKGM, announced that English-language rights to the Canadiens may return to CJAD following its acquisition of Astral Mediaas Bell plans to convert CKGM to a Francophone sports-talk station in order to comply with ownership limits preventing the merged company from owning both CJAD and CKGM if they both broadcast in English.

He got into a fight with Tom English, your brother's son.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

Next day a ship arrived with an English pilot, his leadsman, an English youth, and the first Hindu the Judsons and Newells had ever seen.

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

The limits are suggested by an imaginary experiment: contrast the perceptual skill of English professors with that of their colleagues in discriminating among motor cars, political candidates, or female beauty.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

Already Trevelyan had begun to parallel his nineteenth-century Italian studies with several works on English figures of the same period.

Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;

Loyal and unscrupulous, with a single-minded ambition to which he devoted all his energies, he outmatched the English diplomats time and time again until, by a kind of poetic justice, he fell at the battle of Courtrai, the victim of the equally nationalistic if less articulate Flemings.

The English, relying on a prejudiced arbiter and confronted with superior diplomatic skill, were also hampered in their negotiations by the events that were taking place at home.

The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

His English friends, it said, had gone into training to keep up with him vocally and with his `` allegro movements around the luncheon table ''.

For a particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.

It works with English, Russian, German, Hungarian or almost any other foreign tongue.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.