The Axioms required to make the theoretical machinery operate are set out tersely and powerfully, so that all permissible operations within the theory can be traced rigorously back to these axioms, rules, and primitive notions.

There are in The Almagest no rules for determining in advance whether a new epicycle will be required for dealing with abberations in lunar, solar, or planetary behavior.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

The very rules and regulations in every city are the primary case of slum conditions.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

There are other basic rules.

Safety rules, of course, are more important than all the others put together.

We speculate that compulsives in the unstructured schools are under greater strain because of the lack of systemization in their school setting, but that their need to organize ( for comfort ) is so intense that they struggle to induce the phonic rules and achieve in spite of the lack of direction from the environment.

The possibilities are few, and the total number of rules may be considerably greater.

Often, therefore, there are a number of rules having the same effect, and commonly other sets of rules as well, having the opposite effect.

While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.

Other items on the agenda during the meetings, which are expected to continue through Saturday, concern television, rules changes, professional football's hall of fame, players' benefits and constitutional amendments.

In accordance with the principle on which alphabets are based, these rules will generally map letters of the alphabet to the phonemes ( significant sounds ) of the spoken language.

French, with its silent letters and its heavy use of nasal vowels and elision, may seem to lack much correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, but its rules on pronunciation, though complex, are actually consistent and predictable with a fair degree of accuracy.

Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists, though they have among the strictest rules on how to conduct their lives, teach that sinners are destroyed rather than tortured forever.

There are rather strict selection rules as to the electronic configurations that can be reached by excitation by light — however there are no such rules for excitation by collision processes.

The quantum numbers, together with the rules governing their possible values, are as follows:

The driver will pick up more passengers as long as seats are available, and will transport them to their destination based on first come first served rules.

The very idea of there being `` count rules '' implies that there is some sort of proportion to be expected between the amount of congestive activity and the extent of the breakaway ( run up or run down ) movement.

Because these users have different needs, the presentation of financial accounts is very structured and subject to many more rules than management accounting.

In the very early part of the 20th century, known as the " dead-ball era ", baseball rules and equipment favored the " inside game " and the game was played more violently and aggressively than it is today.

At least in the past, the manner of holding hands was very important and followed strict rules.

In 621 BC a scribe named Draco codified the cruel oral laws of the city-state of Athens ; this code prescribed the death penalty for many offences ( nowadays very severe rules are often called " Draconian ").

These rules served in a very real sense as a constitution for the Ming Dynasty for the next 250 years.

For example, the rules of the Hebrew calendar depend on the seven-day week cycle ( a very simple calendar ), so the week is one of the cycles of the Hebrew calendar.

This conceptualization is very broad, and should not be confused with how " cognitive " is used in some traditions of analytic philosophy, where " cognitive " has to do only with formal rules and truth conditional semantics.

Linguists have found that, while humans form sentences in ways apparently governed by very complex systems, they are remarkably unaware of the rules that govern their own speech.

The competition aspect of cheerleading can be very enduring ; styles and rules changing every year make it important and difficult to find the newest and hottest routines.

Unlike the American game, Canadian rules allow a drop kick to be attempted at any time by any player, but the move is very rare.

The rules are very strict: allowing the head of the delegation, his or her spouse, and one other person.

Eastern Orthodoxy, in particular has very elaborate and strict rules of fasting, and continues to observe the Council of Jerusalem's apostolic decree of Act 15.

The terms ' rapidly ' and ' very small ' call for empirical physical checking of the domain of validity of the above rules.

The proceedings are very formal and are governed by rules, such as rules of evidence and procedure, which are established by the legislature.

As for other organic compounds, very common ethers acquired names before rules for nomenclature were formalized.

They are very similar to today's logic " transformation rules ".

Like other works by Jonathan Tweet, the rules are very simple and flexible.

Amy Kelly, in her article “ Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Courts of Love ”, gives a very plausible description of the origins of the rules of Eleanor's court: “ in the Poitevin code, man is the property, the very thing of woman ; whereas a precisely contrary state of things existed in the adjacent realms of the two kings from whom the reigning duchess of Aquitaine was estranged .”

This also made it difficult to pass the ball when very close to one's own end zone, since merely dropping back to pass or kick would result in a safety ( rules of the forward pass at the time required the passer to be five yards behind the line of scrimmage, which would make throwing the forward pass when the ball was snapped from behind one's own five-yard line illegal in itself ).

However, their rules were very short lived.

Freeciv is very configurable, down to the specific rules, so it can be played in Freeciv ( default ) mode, Civilization mode, Civilization II mode, or a custom mode.