Exponents of Zen often insist that very early Zen doctrine opposed the rampant supernaturalism of China, and proposed instead a more mature, less credulous view of the universe.

Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.

The proposed encoding does not use the lexical encoding model used in the existing ISO-IR / 169 registered character set, but instead applies the Unicode and ISO character-glyph model to the Bliss-character model already adopted by BCI, since this would significantly reduce the number of needed characters.

Hoping to achieve a compromise with the state's party bosses, Hughes rejected the option of a direct primary in which voters could choose between declared candidates and instead proposed a complicated system of nominations by party committees.

He likewise proposed legislative intervention into the terms of private bargains, to " provide against contracts being made which, from the helplessness of one of the parties to them, instead of being a security for freedom, become an instrument of disguised repression.

However, development of the workstation was well ahead of the PRISM, and the engineers proposed that they release the machines using the MIPS R2000 processor instead, moving its release date up considerably.

The problem of redefining Europe was finally resolved in 1730 when, instead of waterways, the Swedish geographer and cartographer von Strahlenberg proposed the Ural Mountains as the most significant eastern boundary, a suggestion that found favour in Russia and throughout Europe.

Although Scheler later criticised Husserl's idealistic logical approach and proposed instead a " phenomenology of love ", he states that he remained " deeply indebted " to Husserl throughout his work.

He proposed the reduction of the alphabet to 22 letters ( by eliminating the accented letters and most of their sounds ), the change of the plural to-i, the use of a positional accusative instead of the ending-n, the removal of the distinction between adjectives and adverbs, the reduction of the number of participles from six to two, and the replacement of the table of correlatives with more Latinate words or phrases.

Algarotti proposed a heavily simplified model of opera seria, with the drama pre-eminent, instead of the music or ballet or staging.

The WBA proposed a number of rule changes, including the use of five designated hitters to replace defensive players who would remain in the game ; the use of one designated runner per game ; the pitcher would be required to throw a pitch within 20 seconds ; a walk would be on three balls instead of the usual four ; and stealing home after the sixth inning would count as two runs.

Drexler and colleagues, however, noted that Drexler never proposed universal assemblers able to make absolutely anything, but instead proposed more limited assemblers able to make a very wide variety of things.

In 1992 a Draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations was proposed at the Rio Earth Summit by the UN Centre for Transnational Corporations ( UNCTC ), but the Business Council for Sustainable Development ( BCSD ) together with the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) argued successfully for self-regulation instead.

At the time Bush saw the current ways of indexing information as limiting and instead proposed a way to store information that was analogous to the mental association of the human brain: storing information with the capability of easy access at a later time using certain cues ( in this case, a series of numbers as a code to retrieve data ).

The proposal was scrapped and instead Foster proposed 30 St Mary Axe, " the gherkin " due to its design which alluded to its shape.

Swedenborg however argued that for people with less intelligence than the king such a big base would be too difficult and instead proposed 8 as the base.

Bismarck proposed that Prussia should exploit Austria's weakness to move her frontiers " as far south as Lake Constance " on the Swiss border ; instead Prussia mobilised troops in the Rhineland to deter further French advances into Venetia.

In case of Fontaine v. British Columbia ( Official Administrator ) the Court rejected the use of res ipsa loquitur and instead proposed the rule that once the plaintiff has proven that the harm was under exclusive control of the defendant and that they were not contributorily negligent a tactical burden is placed on the defendant in which the judge has the discretion to infer negligence unless the defendant can produce evidence to the contrary.

However, the key deficits of receptive aphasia do not come from damage to Wernicke's area ; instead, most of the core difficulties are proposed to come from damage to the medial temporal lobe and underlying white matter.

Roman Catholic theologian Karl Rahner, as part of his critique of transsubstantiation, rejected substance theory and instead proposed the doctrine of transfinalization, which he felt was more attuned to modern philosophy.

Shortly after becoming king, he asked the Irish of Dál Riata to send a bishop to facilitate the conversion of his people, and they sent Aidan for this purpose ; initially, the Irish sent an " austere " bishop who was unsuccessful in his mission, and Aidan, who proposed a gentler approach, was subsequently sent instead.

Themistocles proposed that the silver should be used to build a new fleet of 200 triremes, whilst Aristides suggested it should instead be distributed amongst the Athenian citizens.

Congress eventually proposed that elected officials take office in January, instead of March ; since this required cutting short ( by a couple of months ) the terms of the elected federal officials at the time of the proposal, Congress proposed the Twentieth Amendment, which established the present dates for when federal officials take office.

Because reasonably precise guidance on almost every issue, parties ( especially commercial parties ) can predict whether a proposed course of action is likely to be lawful or unlawful.

Species are proposed for inclusion in or deletion from the Appendices at meetings of the Conference of the Parties ( CoP ), which are held approximately once every three years, the most recent of which ( CoP 15 ) was held in Qatar in March 2010.

Minucius proposed that they share the joint control of the army, with command rotating between the two every other day.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

In 1678, Huygens proposed that every point to which a luminous disturbance reaches becomes a source of a spherical wave ; the sum of these secondary waves determines the form of the wave at any subsequent time.

The proposed Long-Sabbath Perennial Calendar extends to 36 hours the lengths of each of a pair of Saturdays and Sundays every year, and an additional pair in leap years.

In 1923 de Broglie proposed that wave-particle duality applied not only to photons but to electrons and every other physical system.

In its report, the commission proposed that Olympic Games be held every four years and that the program for the Games be one of modern rather than ancient sports.

With the signature of the USA in 2009, the proposed UN declaration on LGBT rights has now been signed by every European secular state and all western nations, as well as other countries — 67 members of the UN in total.

It has been proposed that the first problem could be resolved by making Easter occur on a fixed date every year, or alternatively on a Sunday within a fixed range of seven dates.

In number theory, Waring's problem, proposed in 1770 by Edward Waring, asks whether for every natural number k there exists an associated positive integer s such that every natural number is the sum of at most s k < sup > th </ sup > powers of natural numbers ( for example, every number is the sum of at most 4 squares, or 9 cubes, or 19 fourth powers, etc .).

It appoints the Director-General every five years, and votes on matters of policy and finance of WHO, including the proposed budget.

A sporting competition bringing together the members of the British Empire was first proposed by the Reverend Astley Cooper in 1891 when he wrote an article in The Times suggesting a " Pan-Britannic-Pan-Anglican Contest and Festival every four years as a means of increasing the goodwill and good understanding of the British Empire ".

Building up on this discussion, McWhorter proposed that " the world's simplest grammars are Creole grammars ", claiming that every noncreole language's grammar is at least as complex as any creole language's grammar.

* assess the proposed design with rational criteria for indoor air quality, thermal comfort, acoustical comfort, visual comfort, energy efficiency and HVAC system controls at every stage of the design process ;

Ernst Haeckel ( 1866 ), in his endeavour to produce a synthesis of Darwin's theory with Lamarckism and Naturphilosophie, proposed that " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ," that is, the development of the embryo of every species ( ontogeny ) fully repeats the evolutionary development of that species ( phylogeny ), in Geoffroy's linear model rather than Darwin's idea of branching evolution.

Kades rejected the proposed language that prohibited Japan's use of force " for its own security ," believing that self-preservation was the right of every nation.

Paleontologists David M. Raup and Jack Sepkoski have proposed that an excess of extinction events occurs roughly every 26 million years ( though many are relatively minor ).

Verdi was completely against this proposed solution and preferred instead to have direct negotiations with censors, arguing over each and every point of the work.

By the autumn, however, after the censor had banned every play that the theatre proposed to stage, Gorky abandoned the project.

Chamberlain proposed to separate the goal of free education for every child from the religious question.

Senator Online, an Australian political party running for the Senate in the 2007 federal elections, proposed to institute an EDD system so that Australians can decide which way the senators vote on each and every bill.