An organization of elders that has concealed the true abilities of treecats for centuries from mankind, and one that now makes the momentous decision to extend their range off-world and " colonize " other worlds.

Worse yet, since the aforementioned decision problem for CSG's is PSPACE-complete, that makes them totally unworkable for practical use, as a polynomial-time algorithm for a PSPACE-complete problem would imply P = NP.

Usually doctrinal conformity is held as a first consideration when a church makes a decision to grant or decline financial contributions to such agencies, which are legally external and separate from the congregations they serve.

Conciliation differs from arbitration in that the conciliation process, in and of itself, has no legal standing, and the conciliator usually has no authority to seek evidence or call witnesses, usually writes no decision, and makes no award.

A jury trial ( or trial by jury ) is a legal proceeding in which a jury either makes a decision or makes findings of fact which are then applied by a judge.

This is when the mining company makes the decision to develop the mine or to walk away from the project.

The model assumes that there are two “ equally positioned firms ”; the firms compete on the basis of quantity rather than price and each firm makes an “ output decision assuming that the other firm ’ s behavior is fixed .” The market demand curve is assumed to be linear and marginal costs are constant.

After both criteria are satisfied the court additionally checks whether formalities related to the legislative requirements are followed and only then makes decision.

Gus makes the decision to leave Hale behind, even choking him and believing that Hale is dead.

LUH becomes disillusioned and makes a conscious decision to break the law and stop taking her drugs.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the highest court in the land for both criminal and civil cases in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and any decision it makes is binding on every other court in the hierarchy.

Such qui tam lawsuits must be filed under seal, using special procedures to keep the claim from becoming public until the federal government makes its decision on direct prosecution.

Anomic aphasia, for example, creates a condition that seems to selectively encumber individuals ' ability to name objects ; this makes the decision to partition the parts of speech into distinct hierarchies more of a principled decision than an arbitrary one.

** The abdicated King Edward VIII, now HRH Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate.

* October 10, 1824 – The Edinburgh Town Council makes a decision to found the Edinburgh Municipal Fire Brigade, the first fire brigade in Britain.

** The MCC makes an ultimately controversial decision to alter the lbw rule so a batsman can be lbw to a ball pitching outside off stump.

** The U. S. Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States ' nuclear repository.

This investigation may last anywhere upwards of ten seconds, until the velvet worm makes a decision on whether to attack it — or until it disturbs the prey and flees.

A " top-down " approach is one where an executive, decision maker, or other person or body makes a decision.

" He explained that he'd " never been abused in my local high street ," and has " made no firm decision about leaving the UK " but thugs are helping make such a decision, pointing out that the rioting " makes us look like a country of ignorant savages, beating up people already injured, pretending to help while stealing their things, hitting old men, killing them.

It is the executive producer who makes the decision as to when the song is finished and ready to be shown to the public.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.

It makes the diver feel drunk ''.

It appears to be one of intense dislike, which he makes little effort to conceal even in the presence of Southern friends.

The sequence is determined by chance, and Mr. Cunningham makes use of any one of several chance devices.

He will not curb his instinctual desires but release the energy within him that makes him feel truly and fully alive, even if it is only for this brief moment before the apocalypse of annihilation explodes on earth.

From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

With these we shape our destiny and own private property, and that, sir, makes ours the best of all possible societies.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

he often uses very odd rhythms, which makes it difficult, and challenging, for the lyric writer ''.

The unfinished note, written in pencil upon the back of a used envelope, and addressed to the coroner, makes one wonder about many things: `` God forgive me for everything.

Men seem almost universally to want a sense of function, that is, a feeling that their existence makes a difference to someone, living or unborn, close and immediate or generalized.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

Trevelyan centers too exclusively on Bright, is insufficiently appreciative of the views of Bright's opponents and critics, and makes light of the genuine difficulties faced by Peel.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

It need hardly be remarked that Thompson was not generally known for his scrupulosity about keeping his social engagements, which makes his irritation in this letter all the more significant.

It is not the authority of God Himself which makes them true.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

He cites the French Revolution as typifying this rigidity but makes no mention of the Italians, who have been able to adapt to all types of circumstances.

What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.