Since the Vietnamese believe that the first visitor a family receives in the year determines their fortune for the entire year, people never enter any house on the first day without being invited first.

It determines whether or not the business ’ entire financial strength and credit rating is improving or getting worse.

The ability to see the transformation zone and the entire extent of any lesion visualized determines whether an adequate colposcopic examination is attainable.

The nature and state of market reform of the electricity market often determines whether electric companies are able to be involved in just some of these processes without having to own the entire infrastructure, or citizens choose which components of infrastructure to patronise.

In United Kingdom general elections, the voting in a relatively small number of swing seats usually determines the outcome of the entire election.

The court of criminal appeals " may affirm only such findings of guilty and the sentence or such part of the sentence, as it finds correct in law and fact and determines, on the basis of the entire record, should be approved.

When the computer determines it is a fake, he realizes the landing party, and by extension the entire ship, must be in danger.

This number is supposedly justified by a result of Seth Lloyd in which he determines that the number of elementary logic operations that can have been performed in the universe over its entire history cannot exceed 10 < sup > 120 </ sup > operations on 10 < sup > 90 </ sup > bits.

However, a monopoly determines the entire industry's sales.

* For counties with populations less than 18, 000 ( as determined by the census ), the entire county shall be one JP precinct, unless the Commissioners ' Court determines that more are needed, in which case the court can divide the county into no more than four JP precincts.

Under the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution, the Chairman determines the question as to disqualification of a member of the Rajya Sabha on ground of defection.

An author is broadly defined as " the person who originated or gave existence to anything " and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created.

Reading Atari 8-bit 130kB or 180kB disks was possible as well with special software, but the standard Atari 8-bit 90kB format, which used FM rather than MFM encoding, could not be handled by the 1571 hardware without modifying the drive circuitry as the control line that determines if FM or MFM encoding is used by the disc controller chip was permanently wired to ground ( MFM mode ) rather than being under software control.

If the receiver catches the ball but the official determines that he was still " bobbling " it prior to the end of the play, then the pass will be ruled incomplete.

In addition to seeing it as the most fundamental of the four elements and the one that is quantified and determines the quantity ( logos ) of the other three, he presents fire as the cosmos, which was not made by any of the gods or men, but " was and is and ever shall be ever-living fire.

To protect the suspect's due-process rights in felony cases ( where the suspect's interest in liberty is at stake ), there is usually a preliminary hearing, at which a judge determines whether there was probable cause to arrest the suspect who is in custody.

The question of what determines Jewish identity in the State of Israel was given new impetus when, in the 1950s, David Ben-Gurion requested opinions on mihu Yehudi (" who is a Jew ") from Jewish religious authorities and intellectuals worldwide in order to settle citizenship questions.

As the size of the combustion chamber determines the time to burn the fuel charge, dual ignition was especially important for the large-bore aircraft engines around World War II.

It determines if the harm resulting from an action was reasonably able to be predicted.

The Harm Within the Risk ( HWR ) test determines whether the victim was among the class of persons who could foreseeably be harmed, and whether the harm was foreseeable within the class of risks.

If the accused party is found guilty, the victim ( or in death, victim's family ) determines the punishment, choosing either retribution ( qisas-e-nafs ), which means execution in the case of intentional murder, and in cases of intentional battery, the amputation of the limb that was lost ; or they can choose to forgive the perpetrator.

The time from an atomic clock on board each satellite is encoded into the radio signal ; the receiver determines how much later it received the signal than it was sent.

The device determines the fluid level by measuring the time difference between when the impulse was sent and when the reflection returned.

First, a minor change was made to game play that now allows everyone to take at least one turn before the Doctor Lucky pawn determines turn order.

After the discovery of the testis-determining gene SRY, many scientists shifted to the theory that the genetic mechanism that determines a fetus to develop into a male form was initiated by the SRY gene, which was thought to be responsible for the production of testosterone and its overall effects on body and brain development.

Currently on the case of a missing cat, Dirk examines Richard and finds him to have been in a hypnotic-like state, and determines that Richard was temporarily possessed.

Some manufacturers have therefore implemented a brake assist system that determines that the driver is attempting a " panic stop " ( by detecting that the brake pedal was depressed very fast, unlike a normal stop where the pedal pressure would usually be gradually increased, Some systems additionally monitor the rate at the accelerator was released ) and the system automatically increases braking force where not enough pressure is applied.

The investigation takes many years, and Bernadette is questioned again and again, but the commission eventually determines that Bernadette experienced visions and was visited by the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

He determines that since the spiritus was granted by Jove, he should have it in death ; Tellus, or Earth, would receive the body she had given ; because Cura, or Care, had been the creator, she would keep her creation as long as it lived.

These times include, for example, when two Jews of different ethnic background marry, when a non-Jew converts to Judaism and determines what customs to follow for the first time, or when a lapsed or less observant Jew returns to traditional Judaism and must determine what was done in his or her family's past.

Whereas social identity theory was directed initially at the explanation of intergroup conflict in the absence of any conflict of interests, self-categorization theory was developed to explain how individuals come to to perceive themselves as members of a group in the first place, and how this self-grouping process underlies and determines all subsequent aspects of group behaviour.

It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Accordingly, if it is not repealed by the Congress at its present session, I shall have no alternative thereafter but to direct the Secretary of Defense to disregard the section unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines otherwise.

The United States Government shall have the right to terminate the financing of further sales under this Agreement of any commodity if it determines at any time after June 30, 1961, that such action is necessitated by the existence of an international emergency.

It seems to follow that by and large an antagonism exists between the paleo- and the neocortex as far as emotional reactivity is concerned, and that the balance between the two systems determines the emotional responsiveness of the organism.

For our present purposes we assume that the sole subject of bargaining is the basic wage rate ( not including productivity improvement factors or cost-of-living adjustments ), and it is this basic wage rate which determines the level of costs.

What determines the morality, they state, is not the means used, but the motive In general, the means ( excluding abortion ) that prove most effective are considered the most ethical.

There must first be a deeper sense that the church belongs not to us but to Christ, and that it is His purpose, not our own interests and preferences, that determines what it is to be and do.

Hence it is the atomic number alone that determines the chemical properties of an element ; and it is for this reason that an element can be defined as consisting of any mixture of atoms with a given atomic number.

An atom is classified according to the number of protons and neutrons in its nucleus: the number of protons determines the chemical element, and the number of neutrons determines the isotope of the element.

Once the physical therapist determines that the individual is able to safely perform parts of the program independently, it is important that the individual be prescribed and regularly engage in a supplementary home exercise program that incorporates these components to further improve long term outcomes.

As the speed of light in meters per second ( c < sub > 0 </ sub >) is fixed in the International System of Units, this measurement of the speed of light in AU / d ( c < sub > AU </ sub >) also determines the value of the astronomical unit in meters ( A ):

" God alone determines who will be saved and his determination is that all who believe Jesus through faith will be justified.

" In fairness to an accused, if, after consultation with his defense counsel, he knowingly and intelligently determines that his best interest is served by an Alford-type guilty plea, he should be free to choose this path.

In choosing analgesics, the severity and response to other medication determines the choice of agent ; the WHO pain ladder, originally developed in cancer-related pain, is widely applied to find suitable drugs in a stepwise manner.

The number of seats allocated is proportional to the popular national vote, and this determines the cut-off point.

It determines that Germany is a federal state.

xiii, " Cum ad Sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae ") prescribes their work, determines how much they may charge for their labour, fixes a certain tax for an abstract or abridgment of twenty-five words, or their equivalent, 150 letters, forbids them to charge more, even though the abstract goes over twenty-five words but less than fifty words, enacts that the basis of the tax is the labour employed in writing, expediting, etc., the Bulls, and by no means the emoluments accruing to the recipient of the favour or benefice conferred by the Bull, and declares that whoever shall charge more than the tax fixed by him shall be suspended for six months from office, and upon a second violation of the law, shall be deprived of it altogether, and if the delinquent be an abbreviator, he shall be excommunicated.

For example, when a user logs into a computer that is part of a Windows domain, Active Directory checks the submitted password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or normal user.