His pronouncements on doctrinal matters and the judgments of his court were considered definitive and final.

Many FIPS pronouncements were developed by the U. S. government to standardize codes.

Vernadsky's visionary pronouncements were not widely accepted in the West.

The documents were embarrassing-largely because they contradicted Microsoft's public pronouncements on the subject.

Ravel stated, " If I were called upon to do so, I would ask to be allowed to identify myself with the simple pronouncements made by Mozart ...

As a figurehead of the opposition movement demanding reform, many revolutionary pronouncements were made in Caroline's name.

During 1950, the French hellenist Pierre Amandry, who had worked at Delphi and later directed the French excavations there, concurred with Oppé's pronouncements, claiming that gaseous emissions were not even possible in a volcanic zone such as Delphi.

These pronouncements, and many others on the album, came to attract extraordinary popular interest at a time when more of the world's youth were using drugs recreationally and looking for spiritual, political, and strategic advice from The Beatles.

However, they differ in that they accept the Church as it existed until Vatican II, usually until the death of Pope Pius XII and all his pronouncements regarding doctrine, faith, and morals, and the rite of Mass before Annibale Bugnini's first innovations were introduced in the 1950s, whereas most Protestants believe that the Catholic Church began to fall away with the rise of the Emperor Constantine, his legalization of Christianity, and its latter establishment as the state religion of the Roman Empire.

Even some Nazis thought Céline's antisemitic pronouncements were so extreme that they were counter-productive.

Unfortunately, his pronouncements were often confused and childlike.

" Extraordinary " pronouncements of spiritual advancement were made by various parties, disputed by others, and the internal Theosophical politics further alienated Krishnamurti.

The subtlety of the new distinctions on the World Teacher issue was lost on many of his admirers, who were already bewildered or distraught because of the changes in Krishnamurti ’ s outlook, vocabulary and pronouncements – among them Besant and Mary Lutyens ' mother Emily, who had a very close relationship with him.

He had the secret of taking the public into his confidence, and his pronouncements upon new plays were accepted as final.

However, the council ’ s pronouncements on music were not the first attempt at reform.

His visionary pronouncements were not widely accepted in the West, and some decades after the Gaia hypothesis received the same type of initial resistance from the scientific community.

However, this led to the unexpected realization for Stossel that more important events were those that occurred slowly, such as the women's movement, the growth of computer technology, and advancements in contraception, rather than daily events like government pronouncements, elections, fires or crime.

Zapiski o XX i XXI wieku (" In the Whirlpools of History: Jottings on the 20th and the 21st Centuries "; Cracow, Znak, 2007 ) is a compilation of interviews and lectures, reflecting Kapuściński's training as a historian and dealing with contemporary issues and their historical and cross-cultural parallels ( including such issues as globalisation, Islam, the birth of the Third World, and the dawn of the Pacific civilisation ). Kapuściński's pronouncements on current affairs were noteworthy: he thought that the causes of the 9 / 11 tragedy, for example, were too complex to lend themselves to an exhaustively thorough analysis at present, although he offered an extensive and sophisticated exposition of some of the key elements of the puzzle in " Zderzenie cywilizacji " ( The Clash of Civilisations ); he told a BBC interviewer right after the attacks: " I greatly fear that we will waste this moment.

( The thirteenth Dalai Lama was deposed in 1904, reinstated in 1908 and deposed again in 1910 by the Qing Dynasty government, but these pronouncements were not taken seriously in Lhasa.

Top-ranking military leaders were given direct access to the Emperor and the authority to transmit his pronouncements directly to the troops.

In her role as arbitrator, the envoys were not admitted to her presence ; an interpreter conveyed their messages to her and reported her pronouncements.

There were those who believed that while he was one of the busiest figures on the intelligence circuit, some of his pronouncements ( those on the Soviet Union for example ) were based on slender information.

" Congress, possessing exclusive power over the amending process, cannot be bound by and is under no duty to accept the pronouncements upon that exclusive power by this Court.

There are no deficiencies in Scripture that need to be filled with by tradition, pronouncements of the Pope, new revelations, or present-day development of doctrine.

Like science in general, it makes no pronouncements on the existence or activity of God.

Thom Jurek writes that " While many intellectuals have made wild pronouncements about Marclay and his art – and it is art, make no mistake – writing all sorts of blather about how he strips the adult century bare by his cutting up of vinyl records and pasting them together with parts from other vinyl records, they never seem to mention that these sound collages of his are charming, very human, and quite often intentionally hilarious.

McNair was frequently quoted for his pronouncements that no army could be fully effective unless it is properly organized, correctly equipped, adequately led, and completely trained.

The changes, effective as of January 1, 1980, reflected the leadership's conviction that if economic modernization was to succeed, the people — who had suffered through the humiliations, capricious arrests, and massive civil disorders of the Cultural Revolution ( 1966 – 76 )— had to be assured that they no longer would be abused or incarcerated on the basis of hearsay or arbitrary political pronouncements.

While this may be loosely viewed as a vertical command structure, it is notably unidirectional: a titular leader makes pronouncements, and activists may respond, but there is no established contact between the two levels of organization.

Despite mounting controversy and passionate public pronouncements both for and against the legislation, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has emphatically rejected calls for a national referendum, stating on 23 May that there is no legislation providing for a referendum to be held.

Since then, many Protestant denominations have made separate pronouncements, in which they not only approved birth control, but declared it at times to be a religious duty.

When the tribe grows to a size that rivals Ralph's, they begin to harass those who remain at the shelters and make pronouncements encouraging them to abandon Ralph and the societal order he has imposed.

To the extent that the ASC's pronouncements, known as Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ), have not been replaced by FRS, they remain in force.

Coming from the 17th century, they cover an astonishing range of emotional responses to Ma Kali, detailing philosophical statements based on Vedanta teachings and more visceral pronouncements of his love of Devi.

Speaking more broadly, Noble wrote, " Paglia's absolute belief in biological determinism leads her to pronouncements about female nature that are not only detestable but dangerous, because they routinely receive serious widespread attention in the contemporary culture at large.

Although British newspapers may occasionally complain about the " spin-doctoring " of New Labour, for example, they are dependent upon the pronouncements of " the Prime Minister's personal spokesperson " for government news.

McLuhan says that the conventional pronouncements fail in studying media because they pay attention to and focus on the content, which blinds them to see its actual character, the psychic and social effects.

Excited youths took inspiration from Mao's often vague pronouncements, generally believing the sanctity of his words and making serious efforts to figure out what they meant.

In this environment, Fasani's pronouncements stimulated the formation of the Compagnie di Disciplinanti, who, for a penance, scourged themselves until they drew blood, and sang Laudi in dialogue in their confraternities.

All other statements about the law in the text of a court opinion — all pronouncements that do not form a part of the court's rulings on the issues actually decided in that particular case ( whether they are correct statements of law or not )— are obiter dicta, and are not rules for which that particular case stands.

Singh argues that Naik's pronouncements are " juvenile ", and said " they seldom rise above the level of undergraduate college debates, where contestants vie with each other to score brownie points ".

# Believes that only modern liberal democratic states are truly legitimate, and that the political or human rights pronouncements of any international or regional organisation which admits undemocratic states lack the legitimacy to which they would be entitled if all their members were democracies.

) circumstances to help people become followers of Jesus and remain within their Buddhist, Hindu or Jewish contexts … rather than resolving the paradox via pronouncements on the eternal destiny of people more convinced by or loyal to other religions than ours, we simply move on … To help Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, and everyone else experience life to the full in the way of Jesus ( while learning it better myself ), I would gladly become one of them ( whoever they are ), to whatever degree I can, to embrace them, to join them, to enter into their world without judgment but with saving love as mine has been entered by the Lord ( A Generous Orthodoxy, 260, 262, 264 ).

In his 1906 pamphlet ' Faults of the Fabian ', H. G. Wells called the Fabian Society policy on the Boer War ' the three tailors of Tooley Street pronouncements ', suggesting that the Fabians claimed to speak for all socialists when in fact they spoke only for themselves.

Her printed pronouncements were widely distributed in the turbulent areas ; they were read on the public squares and from the parish pulpits.