Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are not in place, or improving the fairness or effectiveness of existing systems.

He describes himself as a " communist / socialist " and is regarded as part of the so-called " Awkward Squad "-the loose grouping of left-wing union leaders who came to power in a series of electoral victories beginning in 2002.

The term Solid South describes the electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates from 1877 ( the end of Reconstruction ) to 1964 ( the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ).

The Solid South describes the reliable electoral support of the U. S. Southern states for Democratic Party candidates for almost a century after the Reconstruction era.

** In Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein describes a state in which citizens must earn voting rights and the right to hold electoral office and certain civil service jobs by completing a period of federal service.

Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.

In statistics, the autocorrelation of a random process describes the correlation between values of the process at different points in time, as a function of the two times or of the time difference.

The 13th century Iranian writer al-Kashani describes a more complex process whereby tutiya was mixed with raisins and gently roasted before being added to the surface of the molten metal.

The Buddha of the earliest Buddhists texts describes Dharma ( in the sense of " truth ") as " beyond reasoning " or " transcending logic ", in the sense that reasoning is a subjectively introduced aspect of the way unenlightened humans perceive things, and the conceptual framework which underpins their cognitive process, rather than a feature of things as they really are.

Nonverbal communication describes the process of conveying meaning in the form of non-word messages.

Unlike Blackstone and the Restatements, Holmes ' book only briefly discusses what the law is ; rather, Holmes describes the common law process.

The book includes several biographies of saints, and describes the process of the New England settlement.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

The following half reactions describes the process mentioned:

The second half of Exodus marks the point at which, and describes the process through which, God's theophany becomes a permanent presence for Israel via the Tabernacle.

In thermodynamics, the term exothermic (" outside heating ") describes a process or reaction that releases energy from the system, usually in the form of heat, but also in the form of light ( e. g. a spark, flame, or explosion ), electricity ( e. g. a battery ), or sound ( e. g. burning hydrogen ).

Flocculation describes the process by which the dispersed phase comes out of suspension in the form of flakes.

In thermodynamics, the word endothermic describes a process or reaction in which the system absorbs energy from the surroundings in the form of heat.

This expression describes the principle of a queue processing technique or servicing conflicting demands by ordering process by first-come, first-served ( FCFS ) behaviour: where the persons leave the queue in the order they arrive, or waiting one's turn at a traffic control signal.

However, rather than locating an event or state in time, the way tense does, aspect describes " the internal temporal constituency of a situation ", or in other words, aspect is a way " of conceiving the flow of the process itself ".

Telnet 3270, or TN3270 describes either the process of sending and receiving 3270 data streams using the Telnet protocol or the software that emulates a 3270 class terminal that communicates using that process.

In section one of The Communist Manifesto Marx describes feudalism, capitalism, and the role internal social contradictions play in the historical process:

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.

Julian Doyle, the film's editor, has written a book The Life of Brian / Jesus, which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that Monty Python's film is the most accurate Biblical film ever made.

The fourth ( and newest ) one describes the process of polluting by light.

" Crowley describes this process in his Magick, Book 4:

In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.

The number of degrees of freedom DF can be partitioned in a similar way: one of these components ( that for error ) specifies a chi-squared distribution which describes the associated sum of squares, while the same is true for " treatments " if there is no treatment effect.

The standard for these progress reports is in 2: 46 – 47, where Luke describes the impact of the gospel on the new church in Jerusalem.

Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.

The book describes the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

In his monograph " Beethoven — the ninth symphony ", Professor David Levy describes the rationale for these changes and the danger of calling the editions Urtext.

The agreement of these three independent measurements strongly supports the ΛCDM model that describes in detail the contents of the Universe.

Michigan State University Comic Art Collection librarian Randy Scott describes these as " large sheets of paper on which newspaper comics have traditionally been distributed to subscribing newspapers.

Research on these geometries led to, among other things, Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes the universe as non-Euclidean.

Rita Oleyar describes these writers as " on the whole, reverent and faithful to the primal myths, but filled with their own insights into the nature of God, man, and the universe ".

If these conditions do not hold, the formula describes a more general affine transformation of the plane provided that the determinant of A is not zero.

The DM selects and describes the various non-player characters ( NPCs ), the party encounters, the settings in which these interactions occur, and the outcomes of those encounters based on the players ' choices and actions.

Thubten Jigme Norbu, the elder brother of the present 14th Dalai Lama, describes these unfortunate events as follows:

describes a plurality of gods ( ʼelōhim ), which an older version in the Septuagint calls the “ assembly of the gods ,” although it does not indicate that these gods were co-actors in creation.

They are self-conscious about speaking formally and their rhetoric is shown to be flawed, as if Euripides was exploring the problematical nature of language and communication: " For speech points in three different directions at once, to the speaker, to the person addressed, to the features in the world it describes, and each of these directions can be felt as skewed.

Although the Hebrew Bible describes this event as an ecstatic vision rather than a historical occurrence, later interpreters speculated as to the fate of these men, both before and after their revitalization.

Other scholars refute these arguments — particularly since Josephus describes some Essenes as allowing marriage.

The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings to rival the king of the land.

The book describes its own structure around ten " toledot " sections ( the " these are the generations of ..." phrases ), but many modern commentators see it in terms of a " primeval history " ( chapters 1 – 11 ) followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories ( chapters 12 – 50 ).

In these volumes, the last of which was completed when she was about 75, Hildegard first describes each vision, then interprets them through Biblical exegesis.

In her 1998 book of hypnotherapy case studies, she reviews the clinical research on hypnosis with dissociative disorders, smoking cessation, and insomnia and describes successful treatments of these complaints.

In an article for the Christian Science Monitor, Sharon J. Huntington describes these other historical inks:

This section describes some widely held theories of distributive justice, and their attempts to answer these questions.

Herman Kuhn, quoting from Tattvarthasutra, describes karmas as " a mechanism that makes us thoroughly experience the themes of our life until we gained optimal knowledge from them and until our emotional attachment to these themes falls off.

Consequently, the quantum theory describing the low energy limit is a theory that describes the dynamics of these points moving in spacetime, rather than strings.