He hasn't played too much, because Richards has been working on him furiously in batting practice.

But the really controversial aspect of customer-cost imputation arises because of the cost analyst's frequent practice of including, not just those costs that can be definitely earmarked as incurred for the benefit of specific customers but also a substantial fraction of the annual maintenance and capital costs of the secondary ( low-voltage ) distribution system -- a fraction equal to the estimated annual costs of a hypothetical system of minimum capacity.

With a few important and a few more unimportant exceptions, no expression can be deemed le mot juste for its context, because each was very probably the only expression that long-established practice and ease of rapid recitation would allow.

This is true for two reasons: because Communism is both doctrinally, and in practice, antithetical to these conditions ; ;

Another interesting insight into Athenian democracy comes from the law that excluded from decisions of war those citizens who had property close to the city walls-on the basis that they had a personal interest in the outcome of such debates because the practice of an invading army at the time was to destroy the land outside the walls.

It is because they have done so that England is the place where people can do more what they please than in any other country in the world ... It is this practice of allowing one set of people to dictate to another set of people what they shall do, what they shall think, what they shall drink, when they shall go to bed, what they shall buy, and where they shall buy it, what wages they shall get and how they shall spend them, against which the Liberal party have always protested.

Indeed, methods for constructing " objective " ( alternatively, " default " or " ignorance ") priors have been developed by avowed subjective ( or " personal ") Bayesians like James Berger ( Duke University ) and José-Miguel Bernardo ( Universitat de València ), simply because such priors are needed for Bayesian practice, particularly in science.

There was widespread opposition to the introduction of regular congregational Communion, partly because the extra costs of bread and wine that would fall on the parish ; but mainly out of an intense resistance to undertaking in regular worship, a religious practice previously associated with marriage or illness.

In practice, the above definition is rarely used because in virtually all cases, the curl operator can be applied using some set of curvilinear coordinates, for which simpler representations have been derived.

Others see anti-Judaism as the rejection of or opposition to beliefs and practices essentially because of their source in Judaism or because a belief or practice is associated with the Jewish people.

The first of these two methods is more commonly encountered in practice because many industrial systems have many continuous systems components, including mechanical, fluid, biological and analog electrical components, with a few digital controllers.

Alternately, mutual agreement between a man and a woman could mold their relationship to concubinage because then it was an acceptable social practice.

The Catholic Church requires those who are attracted to people of the same ( or opposite ) sex to practice chastity, because it teaches that sexuality should only be practiced within marriage, which includes chaste sex as permanent, procreative, heterosexual, and monogamous.

Polygyny, or men having multiple wives at once, is one of the most common marital arrangements represented in the Old Testament, yet scholars doubt that it was common among average Israelites because of the wealth needed to practice it.

However, because fiat money is backed by government guarantee of a certain amount of goods and services, where the value of this is in turn determined by free market currency exchange rates, similar to the case for the international market exchange values which determines the value of metals which back commodity money, in practice there is very little economic difference between the two types of money ( types of currencies ).

There are, however, concerns that the practice of feeding chicken litter to cattle could lead to bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( mad-cow disease ) because of the crushed bone meal in chicken feed.

He would use the restroom in the school to practice, because it gave better acoustics.

However in practice, most English speakers think the Chinese pronunciation sounds more like an English initial than an English initial because the Chinese pronunciation is unaspirated.

Despite their practice of blending with dominant groups in order to avoid persecution and because the Druze religion doesn't endorse separatist sentiments, urging the Druze to blend with the communities they reside in, nevertheless the Druze have had a history of brave resistance to occupying powers, and they have at times enjoyed more freedom than most other groups living in the Levant.

Over two thousand girls — mostly teenagers but some as young as eight — were charged over the next three years with having circumcised each other with razor blades, a practice that came to be known as Ngaitana (" I will circumcise myself "), so-called because the girls claimed to have cut themselves to avoid naming their friends.

Revolvers, especially in. 22LR and 38 Special / 357 Magnum, are also common concealed weapons in jurisdictions allowing this practice because their simple mechanics make them smaller than many autoloaders while remaining reliable.

Although it is now recognized that precise determination of cohesion is impossible because is not a fundamental soil property, the Mohr-Coulomb theory is still used in practice today.

Some governors-general are considered de facto heads of state because, though not the de jure ( juridical or legal ) head of state, in practice they function like a head of state in most or all jurisdictions.

The practice of ' remote loading '— including data, such as images, directly from other sites — is usually frowned upon because of the use of bandwidth and computing power required from the remote computer system ( see bandwidth theft ).

While the standards for determining whether a body of knowledge, methodology, or practice is scientific can vary from field to field, a number of basic principles are widely agreed upon by scientists.

In practice, under the conventions of the Westminster System followed in Queensland, the Premier's power is derived from two sources: command of a majority in the Legislative Assembly, and the Premier's role as chair of Cabinet, determining the appointment and roles of Ministers.

In Agostini v. Felton, the entanglement prong of the Lemon test was demoted to simply being a factor in determining the effect of the challenged statute or practice.

The practice of assigning patrilineal and matrilineal names to offspring for the purpose of tracing ancestry or determining inheritance and other relationships may be giving way to a 21st century preference for self-assigned or quality-assigned names as replacements for birth given names.

However, because of the cost of administration and ease of determining the plan sponsor's liability for defined contribution plans ( you do not need to pay an actuary to calculate the lump sum equivalent that you do for defined benefit plans ) in practice, defined contribution plans have become generally portable.

In practice, although the final votes on laws of the NPC often return a high affirmative vote, a great deal of legislative activity occurs in determining the content of the legislation to be voted on.

In practice, it entails an unusual combination of discipline and detachment to suspend, or bracket, theoretical explanations and second-hand information while determining one's “ naive ” experience of the matter.

Whether or not universities actually do conform to such statutory obligations, and if, for example, the code of practice of the NUS ( National Union of Students ) is followed when determining the make-up of such bodies is a hotly contested and ambiguous matter.

Capability development, which is often referred to as the military " strength ", is arguably one of the most complex activities known to humanity because it requires determining: Strategic, operational and tactical capability requirements to counter the identified threats ; Strategic, operational and tactical doctrines by which the acquired capabilities will be used ; identifying concepts, methods and systems involved in executing the doctrines ; creating design specifications for the manufacturers who would produce these in adequate quantity and quality for their use in combat ; purchase the concepts, methods and systems ; create a forces structure that would use the concepts, methods and systems most effectively and efficiently ; integrate these concepts, methods and systems into the force structure by providing military education, training, and practice that preferably resembles combat environment of intended use ; create military logistics systems to allow continued and uninterrupted performance of military organisations under combat conditions, including provision of health services to the personnel and maintenance for the equipment ; the services to assist recovery of wounded personnel and repair of damaged equipment ; and finally post-conflict demobilisation and disposal of war stocks surplus to peacetime requirements.

In 1615 he planned and carried into practice a new method of finding the radius of the earth, by determining the distance of one point on its surface from the parallel of latitude of another, by means of triangulation.

Because of these perceived defects in the traditional practice, Christian computists began experimenting with systems for determining Easter that would be free of these defects.

The new law makes it easier for notary's clerks to set up a practice and gives notaries more freedom in determining their fees for services.

Principles for determining costs may be easily stated, but application in practice is often difficult due to a variety of considerations in the allocation of costs.

In the early days of the system, bosses could promote exceptional workers from Silver to Gold, but this practice soon ceased as race came to be the determining factor.

The table below lists religions classified by philosophy ; however, religious philosophy is not always the determining factor in local practice.

The sterilant gas manufacturers include many safety features in their products but prudent practice is to provide continuous monitoring to below the OSHA PEL to provide a rapid warning in the event of a leak and monitors for determining workplace exposure to ozone are commercially available.

The commission was given the responsibility of drafting the Belmont Report and was tasked with determining the boundary between research and routine practice, the role of risk-benefit analysis, guidelines for participation and the definition of informed consent. The Office of Human Research Protection.

He improved the practice of surveying at sea, adapting terrestrial instruments for naval use, and was especially concerned with the problems of determining longitude.

Photogrammetry is the practice of determining the geometric properties of objects from photographic images.

The term derives from the ancient practice of determining the depth of water ( making a sounding ) by feeding out a line with a weight at the end.

In the days of the Amoraim, because of possible confusion in determining when menstruation began and ended and hence whether blood was normal menstrual ( niddah ) or abnormal ( zavah ) blood, it became the accepted practice and practical halacha, that all women treat any emission as a continued abnormal flow ( zavah gedolah — זבה גדולה ) which requires counting seven abnormal-discharge-free days from the end of menstruation.

Although this present value relationship reflects the theoretical approach to determining the value of a bond, in practice its price is ( usually ) determined with reference to other, more liquid instruments.

Umpiring practice grants a broad interpretation of whether a runner is being played upon ; if the defense's actions as a whole are focused on a runner, he qualifies as being played upon for the purposes of determining the penalty for obstruction.

However, this concept is difficult to implement in practice because of the difficulty of determining equivalent measures for usefulness to society and satisfaction of employees.