At this time there were two customary means of selecting a leader: having a hereditary leader for general purposes, and choosing someone with good qualities in times of crisis or opportunities for action.

Choosing a Cartesian coordinate system for a one-dimensional space — that is, for a straight line — means choosing a point O of the line ( the origin ), a unit of length, and an orientation for the line.

Choosing a Cartesian coordinate system for a three-dimensional space means choosing an ordered triplet of lines ( axes ), any two of them being perpendicular ; a single unit of length for all three axes ; and an orientation for each axis.

They now gathered the various constitutional laws they had passed into a single constitution, showed remarkable strength in choosing not to use this as an occasion for major revisions, and submitted it to the recently restored Louis XVI, who accepted it, writing " I engage to maintain it at home, to defend it from all attacks from abroad, and to cause its execution by all the means it places at my disposal ".

By choosing different values for the parameter m, the following types of means are obtained:

If the accused party is found guilty, the victim ( or in death, victim's family ) determines the punishment, choosing either retribution ( qisas-e-nafs ), which means execution in the case of intentional murder, and in cases of intentional battery, the amputation of the limb that was lost ; or they can choose to forgive the perpetrator.

His wisdom is infinite: He is never mistaken in choosing the means to any end: But the course of nature tends not to human or animal felicity: Therefore it is not established for that purpose.

The state legislatures originally chose the means of choosing the Senators.

This means that a person choosing a subwoofer needs to consider more than just the lowest pitch that the sub can reproduce.

Different nations deal with the idea of judicial independence through different means of judicial selection, or choosing judges.

However, because the queens are all alike, and that no two queens can be placed on the same square, the candidates are all possible ways of choosing of a set of 8 squares from the set all 64 squares ; which means 64 choose 8

* Freedom – giving people autonomy choosing means to achieve goals ;

Most striking among the stories include the countess of Cellant seeking vengeance on one lover by means of others ( part 1, story 4 ), two whores seeking to win their husbands back ( part 1, story 17 ), two brother thieves in cahoots to rob the treasures of the king of Egypt ( part 1, story 23 ), a disdained lover voluntarily choosing to live inside a cave ( part 1, story 25 ), a woman killing herself only out of fear that her good fortune will turn bad ( part 1, story 48 ), Filippo Lippi, released from slavery in Africa because of his talent as a celebrated painter ( part 1, story 50 ), a woman disdaining a man and then killing herself when he no longer pursues her ( part 2, story 16 ), an abbot making music from a chorus of pigs ( part 2, story 23 ), an adulterous lover buried alive and then saved ( part 3, story 1 ), a merchant's murder of another ( part 4, story 1 ), a case of double adultery whereby each husband cuckolds the other ( part 4, story 11 ), and two women yelling at each other after being falsely told they are hard of hearing ( part 4, story 21 ).

But usually, the term " quasi-empirical " refers to the means of choosing problems to focus on ( or ignore ), selecting prior work on which to build an argument or proof, notations for informal claims, peer review and acceptance, and incentives to discover, ignore, or correct errors.

A complex structure gives rise to a conformal structure by choosing the standard Euclidean metric given on the complex plane and transporting it to X by means of the charts.

This means that by choosing a low order filter, the computation time can be reduced.

The value for zinc in seawater is 780 Ah / kg but aluminium is 2000 Ah / kg, which means that, in theory, aluminium can produce much more current than zinc before being depleted and this is one of the factors to consider when choosing a particular material.

The rational motivation for choosing a well-corroborated theory is that it is simply easier to falsify: Well-corroborated means that at least one kind of experiment ( already conducted at least once ) could ( but did not ) falsify the one theory, while the same kind of experiment, regardless of its outcome, would not falsify the other.

To a degree, this recognizes the need for some means of " blowing off steam ", or the system itself demonstrating its power and confidence by choosing restraint.

Typical standards include references to honesty, avoiding journalistic bias, demonstrating responsibility, striking an appropriate balance between privacy and public interest, shunning financial conflict of interest, and choosing ethical means to obtain information.

In addition to choosing the name " Christian ," which means " follower of Christ ", Accum's father chose to emphasize his newly embraced religion by adopting the surname Accum, which derives from the Hebrew word " Akum ," meaning " not-Jewish.

However, he argues, choosing manipulation negates, in its means, the democratic ideal.

( A ) As used in subsection ( a ), the term " service provider " means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user ’ s choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received.

* Individuals pursue utility ( or preference ) maximisation by choosing between alternative means.

Although economic and personal circumstances vary widely among those now choosing apartments, Leo J. Pantas, vice president of a hardware manufacturing company, pointed out recently that many apartment seekers seem to have one characteristic in common: a desire for greater convenience and freedom from the problems involved in maintaining a house.

Kidd took pride in personally selecting the crew, choosing only those he deemed to be the best and most loyal officers.

The archaeological record indicates that the instructions reported by Akiba, for choosing a burial location, were rigidly adhered to ; almost all of the tombs from classical Jerusalem are to the east of the city, on the Mount of Olives, except for a few located over a kilometre to the west, and those in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Accordingly, those found guilty of any such transgression were condemned to death, either by a manner of their choosing, or according to the ancient fashion, which dictated that Vestals should be buried alive.

" Various critics, including historian Norman Cohn and folklorist Jacqueline Simpson, have highlighted what they see as Murray's " extreme selectivity " in choosing only sources that backed her argument, and ignoring those that did not.

Arminius saw God " looking down the corridors of time " to see the free choices of man, and choosing those who will respond in faith and love to God's love and promises, revealed in Jesus.

As the actual Head of Government, the Prime Minister selects his Cabinet, choosing its members from among those in Parliament who agree or generally agree with his intended policies.

Rational decision making entails choosing a " rational " action given one's preferences, the actions one could take, and expectations about the outcomes of those actions.

As a result, the country suffered a large exodus, with many of the most educated people and those who could afford it choosing to leave the country.

This may be to create a name of their own choosing as opposed to their given name, or to provide anonymity to those who are in the " broom closet.

Various vendors and individuals ( even those who were not part of the original group ) can use the standards document to make products that implement the common protocol defined in the standard, and are thus interoperable by design, with no specific liability or advantage for any customer for choosing one product over another on the basis of standardised features.

Fractals are sometimes combined with human-assisted evolutionary algorithms, either by iteratively choosing good-looking specimens in a set of random variations of a fractal artwork and producing new variations, to avoid dealing cumbersome or unpredictable parameters, or collectively, like in the Electric Sheep project, where people use fractal flames rendered with distributed computing as their screensaver and " rate " the flame they are viewing, influencing the server, which reduces the traits of the undesirables, and increases those of the desirables to produce a computer-generated, community-created piece of art.

Reasonably accurate folk astronomy, such as is usually attributed to Stone Age peoples or later Celts, would arrive at east and west by noting the directions of rising and setting ( preferably more than once each ) and choosing as prime direction one of the two mutually opposite directions that lie halfway between those two.

Attempting to reconcile the conflicting results, the Cahill team suggested that the high concentrations found by McCrone were due to a combination of contamination from modern dust, and poor sample selection ( i. e. choosing contaminant particles like those in the split ); however, they also chose not to publish or publicise Möller's loose particle study.

The white paper specifically states, " The new grant of British citizenship will not be a barrier, therefore, to those Overseas Territories choosing to become independent of Britain .... Our Overseas Territories are British for as long as they wish to remain British.

Finer control over the temperature experienced can be achieved by choosing a higher level bench for those wishing a hotter experience or a lower level bench for a more moderate temperature.

# choosing from those losing candidates from the previous election, who choose to contest the recount to fill the vacancy, as in Tasmania or the Australian Capital Territory,

Prior to this point, any malicious acts on the part of witches were treated identically to those of other criminals, until it was seen that they owed their powers to a deliberate act of their choosing.

The typical dichotomy in choosing ends is between ends that are " right " ( e. g., helping someone ) and those that are " good " ( e. g., enriching oneself ).

The first experiment conducted the results showed that when choosing what questions they wanted to be asked they were more likely to request those that would verify their self-concept rather than assess it.

He also added his impressive looks, dignified bearing and generosity towards his wife in his allowance to her for entertaining those guests of her own choosing.

Given that democracy involves those being represented choosing their representatives, this view seems to be self-contradictory.

These hostilities were worked out between the first game and the sequel, and in AC2 the three races co-existed with conflict limited to those choosing player versus player content.

Additional training is given to magistrates choosing to sit in the Youth Court, or those dealing with family matters.