Lawson repeatedly predicted the worldwide adoption of Lawsonian principles by the year 2000.

For example, while in a conversion to Judaism a convert must accept basic Jewish principles of faith, and renounce all other religions, the process is more like a form of adoption, or changing national citizenship ( i. e. becoming a formal member of the people, or tribe ), with the convert becoming a " child of Abraham and Sarah.

International environmental law's development has included the statement and adoption of a number of important guiding principles.

One of the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development ( also known as the Earth Summit ) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, was the adoption of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, which contains 27 principles to underpin sustainable development.

Immediately after the public adoption of the present system of land-telegraphy, Mr. Lindsay directed his attention to the sending of messages across water by means of insulated wires, and succeeded-after several trials on ponds and sheets of water in the neighborhood-in establishing on a sure basis the principles of electric communication by means of insulated submerged wires.

The thought expressed in this book expands substantively on W. W. Greg ’ s groundbreaking theory that argued for the adoption of formal bibliographic principles ( Greg 29 ).

" Jefferson, who noted that " Col. Taylor and myself have rarely, if ever, differed in any political principle of importance ," considered Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated " the most logical retraction of our governments to the original and true principles of the Constitution creating them, which has appeared since the adoption of the instrument.

Nino began his academic activity in the early 1970s, concentrating on some traditional issues in jurisprudence, such as the concept of a legal system, the interpretation of the law, the debate between legal positivism and natural law, and the concept of validity After realizing the need to clarify the normative problems involved in some of those issues, he was led to embrace a model based on the explicit adoption of principles of justice and social morality, rejecting the predominant German-inspired " dogmatic " approach.

Although Mahan's influence on foreign powers has been generally recognized, only rather recently have scholars called attention to his role as significant in the growth of American overseas possessions, the rise of the new American navy, and the adoption of the strategic principles upon which it operated.

As an application of these general principles, social conservatives in many countries generally: favor the pro-life position in opposing euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, and abortion ; oppose both eugenics ( inheritable genetic modification ) and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support abstinence-only education, school prayers, gun ownership and defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman ; support the continued prohibition of recreational or medically non-beneficial drugs ; oppose prostitution and brothels, polygamy, gay adoption, premarital sex, and non-marital sex ; and object to pornography and what they consider to be indecency and promiscuity.

The philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason that since morality lies ultimately in a person's disposition, and as disposition is concerned with the adoption of universal principles, or as he called them: " maxims ", that every human being is guilty of, in one sense, an infinite amount of violations of the law, and so consequently an infinite punishment is not unjustified.

# the adoption of a Labour Code that established principles governing union certification and the negotiation of collective agreements in 1944 ;

Stone stated that the differences between the two organizations " have since been largely removed by the adoption of common principles and methods.

The Odes first became known as a jīng, or a " classic book ", in the canonical sense, as part of the Han Dynasty official adoption of Confucianism as the guiding principles of Chinese society.

Universal service was not secured until his death, but he laid down the principles and prepared the way for its adoption.

Following the market entails the political actor's reliance on research such as public opinion surveys and adoption of those principles and ideas held by the majority of the people who the political actor wishes to influence.

Though operating on principles so different as to make it unrecognizable to a Vitaphone engineer, Digital Theater Sound is a sound-on-disc system, the first to gain wide adoption since the abandonment of Vitaphone.

If the principles of the laws of any other country are good and worthy of adoption, incorporate them into your own ".

Perhaps its most well-known views related to economic matters, particularly the liberalization of the economy and the adoption of laissez-faire principles.

The law required Parliament to approve such revisions, normally regarded as a formality, but when the Prayer Book came before the House of Commons Joynson-Hicks argued strongly against its adoption as he felt it strayed far from the Protestant principles of the Church of England.

In 1896, he was one of the most active opponents of the adoption of the free silver platform at the Democratic National Convention, and distinguished himself by a remarkable speech pleading for a return to the original principles of the Democracy ; he was prominently mentioned as a candidate for the presidency by those who favored the gold standard.

The law required Parliament to approve such revisions, normally regarded as a formality, but when the Prayer Book came before the House of Commons Inskip argued strongly against its adoption as he felt it strayed far from the Protestant principles of the Church of England.

In its final form, the new Constitution meant to create a lay federal state to promote, above all, individual liberties, following the basic principles of the Constitution of the United States, albeit with the adoption of a slightly different ( and somewhat more centralized ) form of federalism.

During 2007, the Computacenter group committed itself to the 10 core principles of United Nations Global Compact, which illustrates the company's adoption of sustainable and socially responsible policies, especially in relation to human rights, labour rights, the environment and anti-corruption.

However, it did not come into general use until Joseph Greenberg ( 1963 ) formally proposed its adoption.

After the initial adoption of the Convention, some LDCs and environmental organizations argued that it did not go far enough.

Although Bede did not invent this method, his adoption of it, and his promulgation of it in De Temporum Ratione, his work on chronology, is the main reason why it is now so widely used.

A related issue is the adoption of the Gospel of Mark as a Canonical Gospel, given that, like the hypothetical Q, it is largely reproduced in Matthew and Luke, but, unlike Q, it did not become " lost ".

While Boniface was not able to safeguard the church from property seizures by the local nobility, he did achieve one goal, the adoption of stricter guidelines for the Frankish clergy, which often hailed directly from the nobility.

English Common Law, for instance, did not permit adoption since it contradicted the customary rules of inheritance.

Officials of the BFA noted that, although the asylum promoted otherwise, adoptive parents did not distinguish between indenture and adoption ; " We believe ," the asylum officials said, " that often, when children of a younger age are taken to be adopted, the adoption is only another name for service.

Noting that as recently as 1996, the legislature had authorized bills promoting same-sex adoption, the state determined that such a consistent policy did not exist ( this provision, however, did outline a potential path by which the legislature might avoid providing marriage rights to same-sex couples in the future if it so chose.

However, this law did not permit adoption by same-sex partners ; and as birth within a same-sex marriage did not imply affiliation, the same-sex spouse of the biological parent had no way to become the legal parent.

Some general interest continued until the early 1950s but designs did not necessarily offer a great advantage in range and presented a number of technical problems, leading to the adoption of " conventional " solutions like the Convair B-36 and the B-52 Stratofortress.

Dewar did not profit from the widespread adoption of his vacuum flask-he lost a court case against Thermos concerning the patent for his invention.

Only forty years later, after Franco's death ( 1975 ) and the adoption of a democratic constitution in Spain ( 1978 ), did Catalonia recover its autonomy and reconstitute the Generalitat ( 1979 ).

By making them in longer lengths, a reduction was effected in the number of joints, always the weakest part of the line ; and another advance consisted in the substitution of wrought iron for cast iron, though that material did not gain wide adoption until after the patent for an improved method of rolling rails granted in 1820 to John Birkinshaw, of the Bedlington Ironworks, Northumberland.

In many cases, however, these postulates did not apply: on several occasions, the Brazilian ISI process, which occurred from 1930 until the end of the 1980s, involved currency devaluation as a means of boosting exports and discouraging imports ( thus promoting the consumption of locally manufactured products ), as well as the adoption of different exchange rates for importing capital goods and for importing consumer goods.

The idea that regulation of interstate commerce may to some extent be an exclusive Federal power was discussed even before adoption of the Constitution, though the framers did not use the word " dormant.

By ancient custom an Act did not come into force until it had been promulgated at an open-air sitting of Tynwald, usually held on Tynwald Hill at St John's on St John's Day ( 24 June ) but since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1753 on 5 July ( or on the following Monday if 5 July is a Saturday or Sunday ).

( Some of these efforts, such as Taligent, did not fully come to fruition ; others, like Java, gained widespread adoption.

A consequence of the universal adoption of detailed PC architecture was that no more than 640 kilobytes of memory were supported ; early machines running MS-DOS and CP / M-86 did not suffer from this restriction, and some could make use of nearly one megabyte of RAM.

Those designs did not necessarily offer a great advantage in range and presented a number of technical problems, leading to the adoption of " conventional " solutions like the Convair B-36 and the B-52 Stratofortress.

Their son was given up for adoption, and did not make contact with his birth mother until 1996.

This still did not lead to international recognition for the country, however, and it was only in 1980, after the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, the British-supervised election of Robert Mugabe as prime minister in April 1980 and the adoption of the name Zimbabwe that international acceptance came.