By 1827, he had abandoned law and embarked on a geological career that would result in fame and the general acceptance of uniformitarianism, a working out of the idea proposed by James Hutton a few decades earlier.

People were ordered by law to drop their Western Christian names ; the titles Mr. and Mrs. were abandoned for the male and female versions of the French word for " citizen "; Men were forbidden to wear suits, and women to wear pants.

He abandoned the idea of entering the clergy and decided instead to study law.

Bellamy briefly studied law but abandoned that field without ever having practiced as a lawyer, instead entering the world of journalism.

These left-wing Orthodox rabbis were joined by right-wing Reform rabbis who felt that Jewish law should not be entirely abandoned, to form the Conservative movement.

The new law abandoned ad valorem tariffs and set rates independent of the monetary value of the product.

The term private international law was coined by American lawyer and judge Joseph Story, but was abandoned subsequently by common law scholars and embraced by civil law lawyers.

" With this new law the old formalism is being abandoned and new more flexible principles of ius gentium are used.

He was called to the bar in 1839, but he never practiced and soon abandoned law for journalism.

At the time of his marriage, John Yeats was studying law but abandoned his studies to study art at Heatherley's Art School in London.

The regnal year standard is still used with respect to statutes and law reports published in some parts of the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries ( England abandoned this practice in 1963 ): a statute signed into law in Canada between February 6, 1994 and February 5, 1995 would be dated 43 Elizabeth II, for instance.

For instance, in Japan and in some sects in Korea, monastic law regarding celibacy has been abandoned and Buddhist clergy do not take the ordination of a monk or nun but take alternate ordination which allows them to marry ( though nuns, at least in Japan, tend to remain unmarried ).

He abandoned law, devoting most of his later life to the study of Slavic languages.

Ingratitude by adopted children was severely frowned on by the law: if the adopted child of a prostitute abandoned his foster parents and returned to his biological father's house, his eye was torn out.

* Social fatherwhere a man takes de facto responsibility for a child, such as caring for one who has been abandoned or orphaned ( the child is known as a " child of the family " in English law )

This she soon abandoned to concentrate on political sciences, and then law.

In 1819 Spain abandoned all claims to land east of the Sabine River and the United States moved in to establish law and order.

In the administrative law context in the United States, the requirement that mandamus can be used only to compel a ministerial act has largely been abandoned.

It is revealed that Arthur was abandoned by his parents at a young age and it was Sam who raised him and put him through law school.

Lamar considered a staff appointment, but abandoned that to co-operate with his former law partner, Christopher H. Mott.

He was born at Brieg, and studied at Breslau, Göttingen and Berlin, first law, which he later abandoned for theology.

The narrow and dogmatic teaching was repugnant to Pufendorf, and he soon abandoned it for the study of public law.

Stravinsky, nearing the age of eighty, is like a lost and frantic bird, flitting from one abandoned nest to another, searching for a home.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

Once he had abandoned himself to the very worst, once he had quieted all the dragons of worry and suspense, there wouldn't be very much for Mae to do.

When we say that a mythological mode of thought must be completely abandoned, we mean it must be abandoned as the sole or proper means for presenting the Christian understanding of existence.

Mr. Kennan, who has recently abandoned authorship for a new round of diplomacy as the recently appointed American ambassador to Yugoslavia, is not the only man who finds it easier to portray the past than to prescribe for the future.

The historical order was abandoned in Runic and Arabic, although Arabic retains the traditional " abjadi order " for numbering.

Under instructions from the emperor, he undertook an invasion of southern Scotland, winning some significant victories, and constructing the Antonine Wall from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde, although it was soon abandoned for reasons that are still not quite clear.

Outraged at learning that black troops had been billeted in his house in Nashville, he nullified an arrangement by Gen. Sherman to allow an abandoned coastal strip in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida be allocated to freedmen for their agricultural use.

By 1912, Ostwald noted that the allotropy of elements is just a special case of the phenomenon of polymorphism known for compounds, and proposed that the terms allotrope and allotropy be abandoned and replaced by polymorph and polymorphism.

In any case the vests were abandoned by many soldiers due to their weight on long marches as well as the stigma they got for being cowards from their fellow troops.

Tourism is also an important industry and the Annapolis Valley is known for its scenic farmland, although today some is threatened with suburban development in the eastern end, and a great deal has been abandoned.

There he lived strictly enclosed in an old abandoned Roman fort for some twenty years.

By the mid late 18th century developments in cheaper zinc distillation such as John-Jaques Dony's horizontal furnaces in Belgium and the reduction of tariffs on zinc as well as demand for corrosion resistant high zinc alloys increased the popularity of speltering and as a result cementation was largely abandoned by the mid 19th century.

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

Plans to spin off the InterBase division as a separate company were abandoned after Borland and the people who were to run the new company could not agree on terms for the separation.

" Additionally, Tallard had insisted on besieging the little town of Villingen for six days ( 16 – 22 July ), but abandoned the enterprise on discovering the approach of Eugene.

The French moved first to Tirlemont, ( as if to threaten Zoutleeuw, abandoned by the French in October 1705 ), before turning southwards, heading for Jodoigne – this line of march took Villeroi ’ s army towards the narrow aperture of dry ground between the Mehaigne and Petite Gheete rivers close to the small villages of Ramillies and Taviers ; but neither commander quite appreciated how far his opponent had travelled.

The policy had the triple benefit, from the Roman point of view, of weakening the hostile tribe, repopulating the plague-ravaged frontier provinces ( bringing their abandoned fields back into cultivation ) and providing a pool of first-rate recruits for the army.

The answers were recorded in the works of the prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Second Isaiah, and in the Deuteronomistic history, the collection of historical works from Joshua to Kings: God had not abandoned Israel ; Israel had abandoned God, and the Babylonian exile was God's punishment for Israel's lack of faith.

God, according to Elihu, did not single out Job for punishment, but rather abandoned him and let him be dealt with by natural, unfriendly forces.