Until 3 July 2011, when Arriva took over bus operations, there were approximately 500 buses in public transit service in Malta, most of them privately owned by the bus drivers themselves, and operated to a unified timetable set by the transport authority.

Additional acts of the legislature passed in 1974, 1976, and 1994 expanded the role and powers of the Met Council, merging it with transit and waste control commissions to become a unified regional authority.

The Board promoted specific projects, and promoted a suburban ' green belt ', a unified system of arterial roads and the creation of a single public transit network.

The concept was intended to cast each of the four modes as complementary, rather than competitive, in a unified transit system.

Valley Metro is the unified public brand of the regional transit system in and around the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area, responsible for public transit.

Durkheim noted long ago that religion as `` a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things unites into one single moral community all those who adhere to them ''.

The law of nature governed sovereigns in their relationship to their own citizens, to foreigners, and to each other in a conceptually unified system.

Alexander was concerned with filling the gaps of the Aristotelian system and smoothing out its inconsistencies, while also presenting a unified picture of the world, both physical and ethical.

Much of the air defense system is integrated into the Russian defense network, and in 2006 the two nations signed an agreement on the creation of a unified air defense system.

Among many achievements, Henry institutionalized common law by creating a unified system of law " common " to the country through incorporating and elevating local custom to the national, ending local control and peculiarities, eliminating arbitrary remedies and reinstating a jury system – citizens sworn on oath to investigate reliable criminal accusations and civil claims.

Henry II's creation of a powerful and unified court system, which curbed somewhat the power of canonical ( church ) courts, brought him ( and England ) into conflict with the church, most famously with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Accordingly, the systems of tribal arbitration were submerged into a more unified system of justice which formalised the relation between the different " classes " rather than " tribes ".

To provide modularity, memory and I / O buses can be combined into a unified system bus.

Galen believed that the circulatory system consisted of two separate one-way systems of distribution, rather than a single unified system of circulation.

As industrialisation developed, the need for a unified German state with a uniform currency, legal system, and government became more and more obvious.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

Modern legal positivists consider international law as a unified system of rules that emanates from the states ' will.

The Chewa attacked the Akafula, who settled in small family clans without a unified system of protection.

* No unified object handles ( OS / 2 v2. 11 and earlier ): The availability of threads probably led system designers to overlook mechanisms which allow a single thread to wait for different types of asynchronous events at the same time, for example the keyboard and the mouse in a " console " program.

The sociologist Durkheim, in his seminal book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, defined religion as a " unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things ".

The introductions of writing in the 5th century from China and Buddhism in the 6th century via Korea had a profound impact on the development of a unified system of Shinto beliefs.

Durkheim's definition of religion, from Elementary Forms, is as follows: " A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden – beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.

However, the unified nature of spacetime and the freedom of coordinate choice it allows imply that to express the temporal coordinate in one coordinate system requires both temporal and spatial coordinates in another coordinate system.

This may be because Wilfrid's opulent lifestyle was uncongenial to Bede's monastic mind ; it may also be that the events of Wilfrid's life, divisive and controversial as they were, simply did not fit with Bede's theme of the progression to a unified and harmonious church.

Some grand unified theories of particle physics also predict that a single proton can decay, changing the baryon number by one ; however, this has not yet been observed under experiment.

Thus the " Cabal Ministry " never really unified in its members ' aims and sympathies, and fell apart by 1672 ; Lord Ashley, who became Earl of Shaftesbury, later became one of Charles II's fiercest opponents.

The most extreme form of Gaia theory is that the entire Earth is a single unified organism ; in this view the Earth's biosphere is consciously manipulating the climate in order to make conditions more conducive to life.

The Soviets withdrew from the ACC in 1948 ; subsequently as the other three zones were increasingly unified and granted self-government, the Soviet administration facilitated the development of a separate socialist government in its zone.

Even more powerful translators are ones such as UnionFS, which allows a user to unify multiple directories into one ; thus listing the unified directory reveals the contents of all the directories ( a feature that is missing in many Unices, although available in modern BSDs ).

They formed a unified empire under Attila the Hun, who died in 453 ; their empire broke up the next year.

The alliance was shaky at best, mainly because during this period Himmler was still cooperating with Bormann to gain more power at the expense of Göring and most of the traditional Reich administration ; Göring's loss of power had resulted in an overindulgence in the trappings of power and his strained relations with Goebbels made it difficult for a unified coalition to be formed, despite the attempts of Speer and Göring's Luftwaffe deputy Field Marshal Erhard Milch, to reconcile the two Party comrades.

It can be argued that because of Adenauer's policies, a later reunification of both German states was possible ; and unified Germany has remained a solid partner in the European Union and NATO.

Although now extensively damaged, these share the same style as the great hall ; this would have unified the appearance of Gaunt's palace in a distinct break from the more eclectic medieval tradition of design.

From the middle of the 16th century, the papacy politically unified Lazio with the Papal States, so that these territories became provincial administrations of St. Peter's estate ; governors in Viterbo, in Marittima and Campagna, and in Frosinone administered them for the papacy.

Parties that formed a coalition for the general elections may continue to work together but they do not form a unified political bloc at the Congress ; parliamentary groups are identified by parties and not by coalitions.

Bismarck believed that as long as Britain, Russia and Italy were assured of the peaceful nature of the German Empire, French belligerency could be contained ; his diplomatic feats were undone, however, by Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose policies unified other European powers against Germany in time for World War I.

Although some quantum gravity theories such as string theory and other unified field theories ( or ' theories of everything ') attempt to unify gravity with the other fundamental forces, others such as loop quantum gravity make no such attempt ; they simply quantize the gravitational field while keeping it separate from the other forces.

Ideal for this state was the HRR ; the legend arose that Germany were " un-defeated when unified ", especially after the Franco-Prussian War (, lit.

Researchers continue to search for a unified consensus on what methodology might have the power and refinement to connect a proposed " grand theory " with the various midrange theories which, with considerable success, continue to provide usable frameworks for massive, growing data banks ; for more, see consilience.

For example, in Chinese real estate law there is no unified concept of real property ; the state owns all land but often not the structures that sit on that land.

He also desired a unified law of copyright ; all the existing statutes were to be codified under the bill, and the case law that had arisen around the Statute of Anne was to be clarified.

Unitarian Universalists do not share a creed ; rather, they are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth and by the understanding that an individual's theology is a result of that search and not obedience to an authoritarian requirement.

In Spain, distaste for the treaty was even greater ; the courtiers were unified in opposing partition, but were divided on whether the throne should go to a Habsburg or a Bourbon.