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.

Having whipped Mr. De Sapio in the primaries and thus come into control of Tammany Hall, they have changed the name to Chatham Hall.

On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

The procedures used by the BIH evolved, and the name for the time scale changed: " A3 " in 1963 and " TA ( BIH )" in 1969.

The resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.

The name of the town was then changed to Anbar (" granaries ").

The family originally spelled their name " Alcock ", later changed to " Alcocke " then " Alcox ".

Amos Bronson, the oldest of eight children, later changed the spelling to " Alcott " and dropped his first name.

By age three, however, her mother changed her name to Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, after her own mother.

As a teenager, she changed the spelling of her name to " Abbie " before choosing to use only " May ".

On May 10, 2012, NYSE Amex Equities changed its name to NYSE MKT LLC.

In 1929, the New York Curb Market changed its name to the New York Curb Exchange.

Lucius ’ name was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus and he became Claudius ’ s adopted son, heir and recognised successor.

In 221, Alexander's grandmother, Maesa, persuaded the Emperor to adopt his cousin as successor and make him Caesar and Bassianus changed his name to Alexander.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

The school's name has since changed several times, but since 1989 has been considered a branch campus of the Petroleum University of Technology, centered in Tehran.

With ASP Version 3 the name was changed to Asymmetric Multiprocessor and support was added for OS / VS2 ( SVS ).

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

The name was also changed to Atlantic Baptist University, a reflection of expanded student enrollment and academic accreditation.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

In 1802, at the age of 26, he won a place to study theology at St. John's College, Cambridge where he changed his name, Brunty, to the more distinguished sounding Brontë.

The Haggada identifies them as separate people, the second being the first Abimelech's son, and that his original name was Benmelech (" son of the King ") but changed his name to his father's.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

He recalls with a wry smile the wit who said, on returning from a homecoming reunion, that he would never go again because all his class had changed so much they didn't even recognize him.

Beginning with the October 1959 issue of the Journal, the method of production of copy for photo-offset reproduction was changed from varityping to hot typesetting.

The direction in which the arrow points shows how the maturity level of the growth center was changed at Completion from the level at Onset.

It was possible to maintain aerobic conditions in the pond by regular additions of sodium nitrate until the temperature decreased and the algae population changed from blue-green to green algae.

Twenty-four hours had changed him from a performer to a freak.

`` For one thing you can stop keeping that child in starched dresses and changed from the skin out nineteen times a day ''.

He stopped and looked at the picture of his son, the picture on his desk which had changed with the years from a laughing baby to a candidate for Hanford College.

The evolution of the Greek art seems to go parallel with the Greek philosophical conceptions, which changed from the natural-philosophy of Thales to the metaphysical theory of Pythagoras.

More complex assistive technology devices have been developed over time, and as a result, sports for people with disabilities " have changed from being a clinical therapeutic tool to an increasingly competition-oriented activity ".

Angola changed from a one-party Marxist-Leninist system ruled by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), in place since independence in 1975, to a multiparty democracy based on a new constitution adopted in 1992.

The Hebrew and Nabataean alphabets, as they stood by the Roman era, were little changed in style from the Imperial Aramaic alphabet.

is an example of associativity because the parentheses were changed ( and consequently the order of operations during evaluation ) while the operands 5, 2, and 1 appeared in exactly the same order from left to right in the expression.

Catching the impulse from Hilary and confirmed in it by the success of Arian psalmody, Ambrose composed several original hymns as well, four of which still survive, along with music which may not have changed too much from the original melodies.

With the shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, art likewise changed its focus, as much in its content as in its mode of expression.

Naval armour has fundamentally changed from the Second World War doctrine of thicker plating to defend against shells, bombs and torpedos.

But as the war changed his attitude and personality, poems and other aspects of his past life become something Paul could not remember having any link to, and he learns to disconnect himself from his feelings.

When Salieri retired from the stage, he recognized that artistic styles had changed and he felt that he no longer had the creative capacity to adapt or the emotional desire to continue.

The stadium name temporarily changed from DSB Stadion to AZ Stadion, as it was considered undesirable that the stadium was linked with a non-existent bank.

The AFL logo was incorporated into the newly minted AFC logo, although the color of the " A " was changed from blue and white to red.

The governors were appointed from both Catholic and Protestant cantons and since they changed every two years, neither faith gained a majority in the County.

However, in the 1850s the traffic changed dramatically, and Aberdour Harbour became a popular destination for pleasure steamers from Leith.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

The games were originally meant to be loaded from tape, but were later changed to load from ROM.