Many of the Essene groups appear to have been celibate, but Josephus speaks also of another " order of Essenes " that observed the practice of being engaged for three years and then becoming married.

In 1993, Garth Brooks, who had criticized music stores which sold used CDs since it led to a loss in royalty payments, persuaded Capitol Records not to ship his August 1993 album In Pieces to stores which engaged in this practice.

Even with them, however, Rousseau went too far, courting rejection when he criticized the practice of tax farming, in which some of them engaged.

They also engaged in the " Criticism and Self-criticism ", a Maoist practice intended to purge bad habits and avoid repeating mistakes.

Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature.

Prosecutors said that Daimler engaged in a " long-standing practice " of paying bribes, due in part to a corporate culture that encouraged the practice.

A per se violation requires no further inquiry into the practice's actual effect on the market or the intentions of those individuals who engaged in the practice.

Fair trade organizations, backed by consumers, are engaged actively in supporting producers, awareness raising and in campaigning for changes in the rules and practice of conventional international trade.

Two days later on July 22, the PRC Ministry of Civil Affairs outlawed the Falun Dafa Research Society as an illegal organization " engaged in illegal activities, advocating superstition and spreading fallacies, hoodwinking people, inciting and creating disturbances, and jeopardizing social stability ", and the Ministry of Public Security declared it a crime to practice Falun Gong in groups, to possess Falun Gong's teachings, to display Falun Gong banners or symbols, or to protest the ban.

Although he expressed concern over Li's totalizing discourse and millennial themes, Craig Burgdoff writes that such concerns are tempered by the fact that Falun Gong practice does not require unquestioning acceptance of all of Li's teachings, and there is no overt emphasis on dogmatically enforcing orthodoxy, Instead, Burgdoff writes that he found " practitioners to be engaged seriously in a highly disciplined spiritual and ethical practice.

The NLRB's website includes the text of manuals useful for those who are engaged in union organizing or in the practice of labor relations and law.

The Valukas Report by bankruptcy court examiner, Anton R. Valukas, issued on 11 March 2010, charged that Lehman Brothers engaged in a practice known as repo 105 and that Ernst & Young, Lehman's auditor, was aware of it.

Aztec religious leaders were heterosexually celibate and engaged in homosexuality with one another as a religious practice, temple idols were often depicted engaging in homosexuality, and the god Xochipili ( taken from both Toltec and Mayan cultures ) was both the patron of homosexuals and homosexual prostitutes.

Nevertheless, MRTA also engaged in criminal acts ; it resorted to assassinations, such as in the case of General Enrique López Albújar, the taking of hostages and the systematic practice of kidnapping, all crimes that violate not only personal liberty but the international humanitarian law that the MRTA claimed to respect.

In the United States, the major broadcast networks also engaged in the practice of wiping recordings until the late 1970s.

Psychiatric literature notes that " Since the influx of eastern spiritual practices and the rising popularity of meditation starting in 1960s, many people have experienced a variety of psychological difficulties, either while engaged in intensive spiritual practice or spontaneously ".

The Hilman family employed a mysterious man for a time who regularly engaged in target practice with his pistol.

However, Bobby unknowingly says that Redcorn's tribe engaged in cannibalism, which then causes a mortified Redcorn having to explain to everyone how that practice was discontinued centuries ago.

Academic members of the Faculty are actively engaged in education and research in areas as diverse as clinical practice, domestic animal health and diseases, food safety, biology and public health.

" Some Jews are known to have engaged in non-surgical foreskin restoration in order to join the dominant cultural practice of socializing naked in the gymnasium, where their circumcision would have been a social stigma.

In the past, cable companies have engaged in the controversial practice of negative option billing, in which a subscriber is automatically given and billed for the new services unless he or she specifically declines them, but this is now illegal.

During pre-game infield practice, Reese, the captain of the team, went over to Robinson, engaged him in conversation, and put his arm around his shoulder in a gesture of support which silenced the crowd.

During the 1970s and 1980s, social constructionist theory underwent a transformation as constructionist sociologists engaged with the work of Michel Foucault and others as a narrative turn in the social sciences was worked out in practice.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

Berthollet was engaged in a long-term battle with another French chemist Joseph Proust on the validity of the law of definite proportions.

Its unique pedagogy, emphasizing students ' individual development through tutorials (" conferencing ") and personal mentoring of students by faculty (" donning "), together with an emphasis on writing, an open curriculum and education of the " whole person " produces engaged students in fields that range from the arts to medicine ; from public service to law.

This was a flagrant breach of Roman law and tradition, which held that any Vestal found to have engaged in sexual intercourse was to be buried alive.

Societal investment in law enforcement through such organizations can be massive, both in terms of the resources invested in the activity, and in the number of people professionally engaged to perform those functions.

Under the common law and the Uniform Commercial Code in the United States, merchants are held to a higher standard in the selling of products than those who are not engaged in the sale of goods as a profession / career.

As a sign of their independence from national ties, judges were given full diplomatic immunity when engaged in Court business The only requirements for a judge were " high moral character " and that they have " the qualifications required in their respective countries the highest judicial offices " or be " jurisconsults of recognized competence in international law ".

It combines a large state sector that comprises the ' commanding heights ' of the economy, which are guaranteed their public ownership status by law, with a private sector mainly engaged in commodity production and light industry responsible from anywhere between 33 % ( People's Daily Online 2005 ) to over 70 % of GDP generated in 2005.

An anonymous informant claimed that Fortuyn had engaged in sex with Moroccan youths aged between 16 and 21 ; this was legal under Dutch law.

ALEC responded by denying that it engaged in lobbying, and arguing that liberal groups were attacking ALEC because " they don't have a comparable group that is as effective as ALEC in enacting policies into law.

For example, a party suing over a law prohibiting certain types of visual material, may sue because the 1st Amendment rights of theirs, and others engaged in similar displays, might be damaged.

By 312, however, Constantine and Maxentius were engaged in open hostility with one another, although they were brothers-in ‑ law through Constantine's marriage to Fausta, sister of Maxentius.

After Ridge had married a European-American woman from Connecticut and Boudinot was engaged to another, the Cherokee Council in 1825 passed a law making children of such unions full citizens of the tribe, as if their mothers were Cherokee.

The enforcement authority given by Congress allows the SEC to bring civil enforcement actions against individuals or companies alleged to have committed accounting fraud, provided false information, or engaged in insider trading or other violations of the securities law.

* Leopold II also engaged in a religious ceremony with Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, also known as Caroline Lacroix, a prostitute, on 14 December 1909, with no validity under Belgian law, at the Pavilion of Palms, Royal Palace of Laken, in Brussels, five days before his death.

For example, if a local law enforcement agency is alleged to have engaged in racial profiling it would not be unusual for the case to be resolved by having the local law enforcement agency adopt procedures to be used in traffic stops, with compliance supervised by a federal trial court judge.

Commercial law, also known as business law, is the body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons and businesses engaged in commerce, merchandising, trade, and sales.

Some initiatives include hiring off-duty law enforcement officers to make extra patrols, offering summer youth programs to keep youth engaged, and helping neighborhoods make infrastructure improvements to traffic patterns, community lighting and more.

Epicyclical motion is used in the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical device for computing the phase and position of the Moon using four gears, two of them engaged in an eccentric way that closely approximates Kepler's second law, i. e. the Moon moves faster at perigee and slower at apogee.

He was engaged in lecturing, in the government of the university ( of which he was the third rector ), and as tutor to the crown prince in Roman, criminal and Prussian law.