As of 2008, the ICS is nearly finished a task begun in 1974, subdividing the Phanerozoic eonothem into internationally accepted stages using two types of benchmark.

In the Fujii case, involving nearly 200 papers, the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, which published 24 of Fujii's papers, has accepted that its handling of the issue was inadequate.

The geocentric model was nearly universally accepted until 1543 when Nicolaus Copernicus published his book entitled De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and was widely accepted into the next century.

Despite concerns that Sullivan at nearly 12 years of age was too old to give much service as a treble before his voice broke, he was accepted and soon became a soloist and, by 1856, was promoted to " first boy ".

The most commonly accepted hypothesis for this battle ( epic as described by Christian chronicles, but a mere skirmish in Muslim texts ) is that the Moorish column was attacked from the cliffs and then fell back through the valleys towards present day Gijón, but was attacked whilst in retreat by the retinue and nearly destroyed.

Heidenheim also divided each weekly Sabbath reading into seven sections ( seven people should be called up each Sabbath ), as there had been considerable variation in practice about where to make the divisions, and his divisions are now accepted by nearly all Ashkenazi communities.

Other families have been removed recently, and are nearly universally accepted ( e. g., Pleocomidae, Glaresidae, Glaphyridae, Ochodaeidae, Geotrupidae, Bolboceratidae )

He wrote that although he had attempted to " satisfy all moderate minds, and free them from all just fears on this matter ", he insisted that if Parliament accepted that " in no case whatsoever ( though they should never so nearly concern matters of state or government ) we, or our Privy Council, have power to commit any man without the cause shown ", then this " would soon dissolve the foundation and frame of our monarchy without overthrow of our sovereignty ... we cannot suffer this power to be impeached ".

( Interestingly, a nearly identical episode occurs in Mordecai Richler's Son of A Smaller Hero, another North American-Jewish author to whose work many comparisons with Roth's have been made — most notably, in the alienation experienced by the assimilated Jew, no longer a member of his original ethnic, religious community, yet also not accepted into the larger culture.

With his rivals eliminated, Ibn Saud's ideology was in full force, ending nearly 1400 years of accepted religious practices surrounding the Hajj, the majority of which were sanctioned by a millennia of scholarship.

The report concluded that Sevan had accepted nearly $ 150, 000 in bribes over the course of the programme, and in 2005 he was suspended from his position at the United Nations as a result of the investigation of fraud in the programme.

In a more general sense, it is used to refer to the accepted truth about something which nearly no one would argue about, and so is used as a gauge ( or well-spring ) of normative behavior or belief, even within a professional context.

After nearly twenty years of service at the Crystal Palace, Grove resigned the secretaryship at the end of 1873 and accepted an offer from the publishers Macmillan and Co. to join their staff and become a director of the firm.

WAU nearly accepted a $ 25 million bid for the radio station owned by WAU, WGTS 91. 9FM, from American Public Media Group in 2007.

While it is commonly accepted by nearly all biographical accounts ( including those of the Lucy Parsons Center, the IWW, and Joe Knowles ) that Parsons joined the Communist Party in 1939, there is some dispute, notably in Gale Ahrens ' essay " Lucy Parsons: Mystery Revolutionist, More Dangerous Than A Thousand Rioters ", which can be found in the anthology Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality, Solidarity.

Cars older than 1925 may be accepted if they are nearly identical or fundamentally the same as eligible vehicles built in 1925 or newer.

Cars built after 1942 and up until 1948 are only accepted if they are nearly identical or fundamentally the same as the prewar vehicles ; the focus of the club is on the prewar, but this accepts that many cars built immediately postwar were actually the same vehicles as were available immediately before hostilities began.

By that time Gaines had received honors ( some described as posthumous ) and the FBI had accepted the case as the oldest of nearly a hundred civil-rights era disappearances referred to it by the NAACP.

Robson's 13-year spell at Manchester United came to an end after nearly 500 appearances and 99 goals in May 1994 when he accepted the role of player-manager at Middlesbrough.

The 1994 Cup Winners ' Cup proved to be George Graham's last trophy at the club ; the following February he was sacked after nearly nine years in charge, after it was discovered he had accepted an illegal £ 425, 000 payment from Norwegian agent Rune Hauge following Arsenal's 1992 acquisition of John Jensen and Pål Lydersen, two of Hauge's clients.

In 1952, for example, the Court accepted the claim of the Dean of Westminster to advise the Queen on the proper procedure during the ceremony ( for nearly a thousand years he and his predecessor abbots have kept an unpublished Red Book of practices ), the claim of the Lord Bishop of Durham and the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells to walk beside the Queen as she entered and exited the Abbey and to stand on either side of her through the entire coronation ritual, the claim of the Earl of Shrewsbury in his capacity as Lord High Steward of Ireland to carry a white staff, and the claim of the Queen's Scholars of Westminster School to be the first to acclaim the monarch on behalf of the common people ( their shouts of " Vivat!

Pran Nath served Khan for 7 years before he was accepted as a student, and stayed with Khan for nearly two decades.

Nathaniel Frank, who had worked with John Slater for nearly two decades accepted the post.

The Sui Dynasty, which managed to reunite the country in 589 after nearly four centuries of political fragmentation, played a role more important than its length of existence would suggest.

American film star Angelina Jolie portrayed Lara Croft in two feature-length Tomb Raider films, which together grossed nearly US $ 500 million worldwide, making her role as Lara the most well known and widely seen of any other.

" With 3 % of the world's population, or nearly 200 million people, live outside the country of their birth, encyclopedic museums play an especially important role in the building of civil society.

The essential role of the Broca's area in speech production has been questioned since it can be destroyed while leaving language nearly intact.

On her way to the audition, she was so nervous about getting a role that she felt defined her life, she nearly wrecked her car.

He sang the role of Hecate in this work for nearly 50 years, and the music remained popular for more than a century after his death.

Its prominent role in biochemistry is the subject of a very large body of research ( as of March 2012, the Medline database returns nearly 200, 000 articles on the subject, largely on protein phosphorylation ).

This played a major role in the popularity and quick development of the quartz watch, which in less than a decade was dominant in the watch market, nearly ending an almost 100 years of mechanical wristwatch heritage.

When he assumed the role of Secretary of the Navy he was replacing Grant's Secretary for nearly eight years, George Robeson.

The blueberry crop plays a major role in the county's economy ; nearly 85 % of the world's supply of wild blueberries comes from Washington County.

The Scottish term days, which fulfil a similar role as days on which rents are paid, correspond more nearly to the cross-quarter days than to the English quarter days.

Haverhill has played a role in nearly every era of American history, from the initial colonial settlement, to the French and Indian Wars, and the American Revolutionary and Civil wars.

This meant that improvised hectograph assumed the role of reproducing nearly every sort of censored material from subversive literature to pornography.

During the April 25, 2007 U. S. House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs hearing on Puerto Rico's political status, he was seen treating McClintock very cordially, which suggests that the tension levels between them had eased somewhat, suggesting he may have wanted to help reunite the party as it prepares for the 2008 electoral campaign against incumbent Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá and assume a different non-elective role within the statehood movement to which he has devoted nearly two decades of his life.

However, Gleason wanted nearly $ 3, 500 per episode to play the role, a price that was far too steep.

Sixty-four-year-old Bill Frawley, a seasoned vaudevillian and movie character actor with nearly 100 film credits to his name, was a long shot to play Fred Mertz and only came into consideration after he telephoned Ball personally to ask if there was a role for him on her new show.

Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.

When Lugosi reprised his role as Dracula for the 1931 Universal Studios motion picture version of the play, he retained the cloak as part of his outfit, which made such a strong impression that cloaks came to be equated with " Count " Vladislav Dracula in nearly all non-historical media depictions of him.

This is somewhat ironic, since arguably Weil was the mathematician of the 1940s and 1950s who best played the Hilbert role, being conversant with nearly all areas of ( theoretical ) mathematics and having been important in the development of many of them.

The Fremen have been featured in the Dune series of games, playing a vital role in the plots of nearly all of them.

The education policies establishing French language as the language of the Republic have been contested in the second half of the 20th century insofar as, while they played an important role in unifying the French nation-state and the Third Republic, they also nearly caused the extinction of several regional languages.

Gareth Lewis ( who played pub landlord Meic Pierce ) is the seventh longest-serving actor in a continuous role in British television soap history, while Gwyn Elfyn played the part of village shopkeeper Denzil Rees continuously for nearly 28 years from 1984, making him in January 2012 the tenth longest-serving actor still appearing in a United Kingdom soap opera role.