The grand jury commented on a number of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing departments which it said `` are well operated and follow generally accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments ''.

The UN estimates of 1. 8 million internally displaced persons ( IDPs ), while generally the accepted figure for war-affected people is 4 million.

While there is no generally accepted formal definition of " algorithm ," an informal definition could be " a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations.

One motivation for this use is that a number of generally accepted mathematical results, such as Tychonoff's theorem, require the axiom of choice for their proofs.

In Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism, there would first be the implementation of a mutually agreed-upon libertarian " legal code which would be generally accepted, and which the courts would pledge themselves to follow.

The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery.

An antipope () or anti-pope is a person who, in opposition to the one who is generally seen as the legitimately elected Pope, makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

The date of Abd al-Rahman's death is disputed, but is generally accepted to be sometime around 785 through 788.

His period of activity as a painter is traditionally limited to the two decades between 1639 and 1660, fitting directly within the generally accepted limits of the Dutch Golden Age ’ s most significant period, 1640-1665.

There are several other works ascribed to him, although not necessarily generally accepted as being his own work.

In common law, black letter legal doctrine is an informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the courts and / or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

Sometimes this is referred to as " hornbook law " meaning treatise or textbook, often relied upon as authoritative, competent, and generally accepted in the field of Canadian law.

All hypotheses on the origin of Basque are controversial, and the suggested evidence is not generally accepted by most linguists.

Although the term “ biochemistry ” seems to have been first used in 1882, it is generally accepted that the formal coinage of biochemistry occurred in 1903 by Carl Neuberg, a German chemist.

Use of hydronyms is generally accepted to determine the extent of these cultures ' influence, but not the date of such influence.

The term " Bahaism " ( or " Baha ' ism ") has been used in the past, but the generally accepted name for the religion is the Bahá ' í Faith.

Other exotic baryons have been proposed, such as pentaquarks — baryons made of four quarks and one antiquark ( B = + + + − = 1 ), but their existence is not generally accepted.

Though there was much argument in the past, it is now generally accepted that brochs were roofed, probably with a conical timber framed roof covered with a locally sourced thatch.

In Martha told Jesus " you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world ", signifying that both titles were generally accepted ( yet considered distinct ) among the followers of Jesus before the Raising of Lazarus.

The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about 1750 and 1820.

When a game becomes sufficiently popular, so that people often play it with strangers, there is a need for a generally accepted set of rules.

The Portland Club rules eventually became generally accepted throughout England and Western cultures.

Until recently, for example, cladograms like the following have generally been accepted as accurate representations of the ancestral relations among turtles, lizards, crocodilians, and birds:

In economics, currency is a generally accepted medium of exchange.

The Standard Oil Company was slow to appreciate the economic potential of the Spindletop oil field, and the Gulf Coast generally, which gave greater opportunity to others ; Spindletop became the birthplace of oil giants Texaco and Gulf Oil.

One possible place of birth is Venice's former contrada of San Giovanni Crisostomo, which is sometimes presented by historians as the birthplace, and it is generally accepted that Marco Polo was born in the Venetian Republic with most biographers pointing towards Venice itself as Marco Polo's home town.

Though he is known to most likely be Parsee / Persian, his birthplace is uncertain, but it is now generally thought that he was born in the eastern part of ancient Greater Iran.

In some Middle Persian texts, Ray ( Ragha ) is given as the birthplace of Zoroaster although modern historians generally place the birth of Zoraster in Khorasan.

The " Olmec heartland " is an archaeological term used to describe an area in the Gulf lowlands that is generally considered the birthplace of the Olmec culture.

It is generally considered the birthplace and global centre of thoroughbred horse racing, and a future UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A Blue plaque | plaque commemorating the birthplace of generally receivable television.

Albo's birthplace is generally assumed to be Monreal, a town in Aragon.

His birthplace has been generally stated as Romania and he said his first childhood memories were in Romania.

Roman Umbria extended from Narni in the South, northeastward to the neighborhood of Ravenna on the Adriatic coast, thus including a large part of central Italy that now belongs to the Marche ; at the same time, it excluded the Sabine country ( generally speaking, the area around modern Norcia ) and the right bank of the Tiber, which formed part of Roman Etruria: for example Perusia ( the modern Perugia ) was not part of Roman Umbria ; and Sarsina, the birthplace of Plautus, is regularly stated to have been " in Umbria " — which it was, but is not now: Sarsina is in the modern province of Forlì, in Emilia-Romagna.

Smith Rock is generally considered the birthplace of modern American sport climbing, and is host to cutting-edge climbing routes.

Its course is generally north-westerly, passing near to the town of Dalmellington, and through the villages of Patna, Dalrymple, and Alloway, birthplace of Robert Burns.

** Jackson's birthplace is generally accepted to be in the Waxhaws region on the border between the Carolinas, but is not known with any certainty.

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

To relieve the itch and sweat galls, the men got into the water whenever they could and since each sizable stream was generally the dividing line between the armies the pickets declared a private truce while the men went swimming.

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.

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.

It ran two nights, and though it was generally praised, there was considerable criticism of its length.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

Lublin generally was the forerunner of what would happen elsewhere.

An aqueous suspension of the spores of B. subtilis, var. niger, generally known as Bacillus globigii, was aerosolized using commercially available nozzles.

Considerable technical skill was used and the administration of the elections was generally above reproach.

As the more conservative group with strong backing from wealthy businessmen, the U.M.C.I.A. was generally favored against the more progressive, labor-based U.N.F.P..

The readers of the Providence Daily Post, however, learned that it was generally conceded that `` Old Brown '' had a fair trial.

Shout at Eichmann though he might, the Prosecutor could not establish that the defendant was falsifying the way he felt about Jews or that what he did feel fell into the generally recognized category of anti-Semitism.

This was generally reflected in the civil laws of Christian countries.

Intermarriage, which is generally regarded as a threat to Jewish survival, was regarded not with horror or apprehension but with a kind of mild, clinical disapproval.

Even so, he generally listened and was usually reasonable to those who voiced their objections properly.

At the same time reaction among anti-organization Democratic leaders and in the Liberal party to the Mayor's reported plan was generally favorable.

It was generally agreed that the subject was important and the board should be informed on what was done, is going to be done and what it thought should be done.

The Revenue Service disallowed the claim, invoking a law provision that generally bars deductions for expenses incurred in connection with what it said was tax-exempt income.

He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).

By the 1850s, slavery was still legal in the southern United States, but had been generally outlawed in the northern states, such as Illinois.