The IRA, nominally subject to the Dáil, in practice, often acted on its own initiative.

While notionally answerable to the cabinet, in practice individual IRA units enjoyed a high degree of autonomy.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

In one debate he supported the freedom of judgment as opposed to dogma, in another he held that the practice of science was in fact an act of religious worship.

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.

When cattle became more valuable, ranch owners frowned upon this practice and it was discontinued, at least when the boss was 'round.

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.

Huff, who received a salary of $109 a week from the loan association from October of 1955 until September of this year, said that his private practice was not lucrative.

He was perhaps a trifle tipsy, having been long at sea where drinking is not permitted, and consequently out of practice ; ;

This distant territory was a Democratic stronghold, and acceptance of the post would have effectively ended his legal and political career in Illinois, so he declined and resumed his law practice.

This placement is consistent with the modern practice of ordering the elements by proton number, Z, but this number was not known or suspected at the time.

In practice, power was more and more concentrated in the hands of the President who, supported by an ever increasing staff, largely controlled parliament, government, and the judiciary.

Since the minting of coins was a prerogative accorded in Islamic practice only to a sovereign, it can be considered that Osmanli became independent of the Mongol Khans.

The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.

In Canada this practice occurred during the 1890s, but was not commonplace until the 1920s.

ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

The practice of reading to oneself without vocalizing the text was less common in antiquity than it has since become.

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

Her practice of accompanying Germanicus on campaigns was considered inappropriate, and her tendency to take command in these situations was viewed with suspicion as subversively masculine.

At this festival a couch was set up, on which the panoply of the hero was placed, a practice which recalls the Roman Lectisternium.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

Among some Protestant bodies, who do not consider it a sacrament, but instead as a practice suggested rather than commanded by Scripture, it is called anointing with oil.

The practice of withholding the cup from the laity was confirmed ( twenty-first session ) as one which the Church Fathers had commanded for good and sufficient reasons ; yet in certain cases the Pope was made the supreme arbiter as to whether the rule should be strictly maintained.

: they are commanded to practice only avarice unwillingly.

Officially holding the title of chief of staff, he was in practice a second-in-command, and commanded a much-criticised frontal assault at the Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900.

The practice of observing special holy days was borrowed from the Jews, who were commanded to observe such days by God.

The council set down penance to be done for not working on Thursday save for church festivals and commanded the practice of Martin of Braga, rest from rural work on Sundays, to be adopted.

Proponents of legal formalism disagree, saying that " law " is what is commanded by a lawgiver, that judges are not lawgivers, and that what judges do, while it might belong to the field of law, is not " law " but legal practice.

He again took the lead on the issue of the Paymaster of the Forces, and commanded that Richard Rigby, Paymaster until 1782, " do deliver to the House an account of the balance of all public money remaining in his hands on the 13th day of November last ", something Rigby complained was against common practice.

HMS Constance, commanded by Captain Courtenay, was a frequent visitor to the area, and was one of the first ships to use Augusta Bay and a long sandy hook-shaped spit ( now " the Goose Spit ") for gunnery practice.

" Concerning baptism we confess that all penitent believers, who, through faith, regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost, are made one with God, and are written in heaven, must, upon such Scriptural confession of faith, and renewing of life, be baptized with water, in the most worthy name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, according to the command of Christ, and the teaching, example, and practice of the apostles, to the burying of their sins, and thus be incorporated into the communion of the saints ; henceforth to learn to observe all things which the Son of God has taught, left, and commanded His disciples.

He was also referred to as " The Jumping General ", because of his practice of taking part in combat drops with the paratroopers whom he commanded.

By the commission of oyer and terminer the commissioners ( in practice the judges of assize, though other persons were named with them in the commission ) were commanded to make diligent inquiry into all treasons, felonies and misdemeanours whatever committed in the counties specified in the commission, and to hear and determine the same according to law.

During the summer of 1936, he commanded the summer practice cruise, participating in the evacuation of Spanish Civil War refugees.

In many societies, what we regard as corruption, favoritism, and personal influence are so accepted as consistent with the mores of officialdom and so integral a part of routine administrative practice that any attempt to force their elimination will be regarded by the local leadership as not only unwarranted but unfriendly.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

He did this by the charming practice of buying up used electric blankets for $5 to $10 from survivors of patients who had died, reconditioning them, and selling them at $185 each.

The suppositions in the previous illustration might be sufficiently altered by establishing a connection between general company practice and local practice in the South, and by establishing such direct connection between the practice and the economic well-being of stores located in New York and general company policy.

Even after Elizabethan traditions were weakened by the Cromwellian interregnum, the practice of singing together -- choruses, catches and glees -- always flourished.

Every night when he wanted a drink of water, didn't he practice being fearless by not turning on the bathroom light??

Love confirms others in their freedom, shuns propaganda and masks, assures others of its presence, and is ultimately confirmed not by mere declarations from others, but by each person's experience and practice from within.

In practice, " statistical models " and observational data are useful for suggesting hypotheses that should be treated very cautiously by the public.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

The practice is sanctioned in the Qur ' an by Surah 48: 10: " Verily, those who give thee their allegiance, they give it but to Allah Himself ".

* Commissioned: Publishers made publication arrangements, and authors covered all expenses ( today the practice of authors paying for their publications is often called vanity publishing, and is looked down upon by many publishers, even though it may have been a common and accepted practice in the past ).

In practice an analog signal is subject to electronic noise and distortion introduced by communication channels and signal processing operations, which can progressively degrade the signal-to-noise ratio.

The practice of commendation, by which — to meet a contemporary emergency — the revenues of the community were handed over to a lay lord, in return for his protection,

* Mohism, which advocated the idea of universal love: Mozi believed that " everyone is equal before heaven ", and that people should seek to imitate heaven by engaging in the practice of collective love.