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Imposing a limit on the number of citizens allowed to vote ( limiting the franchise for example to the wealthiest citizens ) was a standard move on the part of wealthy people who objected to being subject to the votes of the " rabble " in a broad-based democracy where all free adult males could vote.
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Imposing value judgments on literature belongs, according to Frye, " only to the history of taste, and therefore follows the vacillations of fashionable prejudice " ( Anatomy 9 ).
Imposing and neo-classical Stambaugh Auditorium, located on the city's north side, has served for decades as a site of concerts and is often rented for private events.
Imposing tariffs on imported goods will artificially reduce that sector's demand for foreign currency, leading to further appreciation of the real exchange rate.
Historian and writer Ana Juarbe writes in an article titled " Imposing the Past on the Present: History, the Public, and the Columbus Quincentenary " about the photographs of Villa Sin Miedo in Jack Delano's exhibition that " despite US citizenship, Puerto Rican national sentiment is convincingly expressed by land rescuers from a community known as " Villa Sin Miedo ".
Imposing a mandatory minimum sentence based on this factual finding did not violate the reasonable-doubt requirement because it merely limited the discretion of the sentencing court rather than increased the maximum sentence available to the judge by virtue of the finding.
Thus the change in name to Sing Tha means Port Lion, and also Imposing Lion such as those posed on the Lion Gate, and on pedestals on the temple grounds.
Imposing and for
Imposing this regularity in the solution Θ of the second equation at the boundary points of the domain is a Sturm – Liouville problem that forces the parameter λ to be of the form λ = ℓ ( ℓ + 1 ) for some non-negative integer with ℓ ≥ | m |; this is also explained below in terms of the orbital angular momentum.
Imposing such an issue may well be what single-issue politics concern ; but for the most part success is rather limited, and electorates choose governments for reasons with a broader 13 @ 53.
Imposing and was
In the legendary account of the founding of the city, a lion came out of the forest when the site was chosen ; hence the city was called Ban Singh Tha (), Home ( of ) Imposing Lion.
Imposing and .
“ Imposing stone buildings began to give dignity and permanence to the dusty streets while wood-frame homes gradually replaced the “ proving-up ” homes of the Run.
Imposing a reasonable suspicion requirement, as urged by petitioner, would give parolees greater opportunity to anticipate searches and conceal criminality.
Imposing the condition that our antiderivative takes the value 100 at x = π is an initial condition.
Imposing buildings that make up a very elegant architectural unity can be seen along this segment of the city.
Imposing the Cardinal's Berretta, lithograph depicting McCloskey receiving the Cardinal's biretta from Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley.
Imposing only this property yields λΠ, a type system closely related to LF.
Imposing gate overlooking the Spaarne river.
Imposing this law forced the English to take sides in violent disputes within Irish lordships.
Imposing arches, crenellations, a spacious arched carriage-court facing Harrison Street, and a multitude of towers dominated the walls.
limit and on
Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.
Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.
Provided, That nothing in this provision shall be construed to limit the life of the Commission, or its authority to act on future agreements which may be effected under the provisions of this legislation.
Put a dollar-and-cents limit on benefits.
The actual pressure was not determined because the pressure was beyond the upper limit of the apparatus on hand.
The fact that there can not be any limit points of the set except in closed intervals follows from the argument used in Lemma 1, namely, that near any tangent point in the C-plane the curves C and Af are analytic, and therefore the difference between them must be a monotone function in some neighborhood on either side of the tangent point.
With these factors included, an upper limit is placed on the allowable loop gain by stability considerations.
When the frequency response characteristics of practical components are considered, their effect on stability does not present the most serious limit on the system loop gain.
The raising of the $25,000 Improvement Fund two days before the time limit expired, and the spontaneous `` praise demonstration '' held afterward on the campus, were reported as events which had brought happiness to Miss Giles.
The statutes, similar in both the Bay State and Rhode Island and dating back in some instances to colonial times, severely limit the types of merchandise that may be sold on the Sabbath.
No human being can write fast enough, or long enough, or small enough † ( †" smaller and smaller without limit ... you'd be trying to write on molecules, on atoms, on electrons ") to list all members of an enumerably infinite set by writing out their names, one after another, in some notation.
After a fixed amount of time, the copyright expires on intellectual work and it enters the public domain, where it can be used without limit.
addition, and there is no upper limit on the value of.
By measuring the velocities of pulsars, it is possible to put a limit on the asymmetry of supernova explosions.
After both anchors are set, tension is taken up on both cables to limit the swing or to align the vessel.
The Germanic victory caused a limit on Roman expansion in the West.
* 1974 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress places a $ 1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
To be all-encompassing AA's ideology places an emphasis on tolerance rather than on a narrow religious world view that could make the organization unpalatable to potential members and thereby limit its effectiveness.
Even though the island is just minutes off Interstate 880 in Oakland, the speed limit for the city is 25 mph ( 40 km / h ) on almost every road.
limit and number
There is no limit to the number of carbon atoms that can be linked together, the only limitation being that the molecule is acyclic, is saturated, and is a hydrocarbon.
Each time you double the number of processors the speedup ratio will diminish, as the total throughput heads toward the limit of.
The game is rarely redoubled beyond four times the original stake, but there is no limit on the number of redoubles.
The Murphy rule may be invoked with a maximum number of automatic doubles allowed and that limit is agreed to prior to a game or match commencing.
In addition, virtually an unlimited number of slots can be provided with 20, including the SBC slot, as a practical though not an absolute limit.
They may limit entrances, restrict the number of patrons in a store at a time, provide tickets to people at the head of the queue to guarantee them a hot ticket item or canvass queued-up shoppers to inform them of inventory limitations.
Similarly, if we limit the number of literals per clause to 2 and change the OR operations to XOR operations, the result is exclusive-or 2-satisfiability, a problem complete for SL = L.
While he supported the idea of government by an all-powerful sage, ruling as an Emperor, his ideas contained a number of elements to limit the power of rulers.
The customary acceptance of the fact that any real number x has a decimal expansion is an implicit acknowledgment that a particular Cauchy sequence of rational numbers ( whose terms are the successive truncations of the decimal expansion of x ) has the real limit x.
Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70, composed of six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons ; however, Pope John XXIII began to exceed the overall limit of 70, and this continued under his successors.
At the start of 1971, Pope Paul VI set an age limit of eighty years for electors, who were to number no more than 120, but set no limit to the number of cardinals as a whole, including those over eighty.
There was no limit to the number of players, but there were typically ten to fifteen a-side.
States normally limit the right to citizenship by descent to a certain number of generations born outside the state.
The condition number of ƒ at a point x ( specifically, its relative condition number ) is then defined to be the maximum ratio of the fractional change in ƒ ( x ) to any fractional change in x, in the limit where the change δx in x becomes infinitesimally small:
In most modern operating systems the size can be any non-negative whole number of bytes up to a system limit.
The ratio is called the spreading factor or processing gain and determines to a certain extent the upper limit of the total number of users supported simultaneously by a base station.
This is a Cauchy sequence of rational numbers, but it does not converge towards any rational limit: If the sequence did have a limit x, then necessarily x < sup > 2 </ sup > = 2, yet no rational number has this property.
One way to visualize this identification with the real numbers as usually viewed is that the equivalence class consisting of those Cauchy sequences of rational numbers that " ought " to have a given real limit is identified with that real number.
The field of definable numbers is not complete ; there exist convergent sequences of definable numbers whose limit is not definable ( since every real number is the limit of a sequence of rational numbers ).
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