For a number of years the board used a machine to keep a permanent record but abandoned the practice about two years ago.

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.

This practice results in an interlocking directorate, where a relatively small number of individuals have significant influence over a large number of important entities.

This practice can lead to the controversial question of which research group actually discovered an element, a question that has delayed naming of elements with atomic number of 104 and higher for a considerable time.

There are a number of institutions and organizations which provide community college research to inform practice and policy.

In practice, the transfer of electrons will always change the oxidation number, but there are many reactions that are classed as " redox " even though no electron transfer occurs ( such as those involving covalent bonds ).

Combination chemotherapy is a similar practice that involves treating a patient with a number of different drugs simultaneously.

# The most preferred practice is to vary the number of lights each night.

This is in contrast to the practice of an artist or group releasing an album consisting of a number of unconnected ( lyrically and otherwise ) songs performed by the artist.

Some practice the superstition that an even number of people must be seated around the table.

Democracy has taken a number of forms, both in theory and practice.

In the legal profession, graduates of almost all Canadian law schools receive the LLB degree and are not referred to as " doctor " ( in a growing number of Canadian law schools the degree of Juris Doctor is conferred, but the title is not used in practice ).

In the past the Olympics have allowed a restricted number of over-age players per team ; but that practice ceased in the 2008 Olympics.

There are several variables in classifying stocks ; in practice, one orders raw stock by a code number, based on desired sensitivity to light.

He experimented with a ' steam spring ' ( to ' cushion ' the weight using steam pressure ), but soon followed the new practice of ' distributing ' weight by utilising a number of wheels.

According to a number of sources, it was Emmylou who forced the band to practice and work up an actual set list.

Furthermore, various institutions, monuments and the like, are named for current or previous heads of state, such as streets and squares, schools, charitable and other organizations ; in monarchies ( e. g. Belgium ) there can even be a practice to attribute the adjective " royal " on demand based on existence for a given number of years.

In practice this means that even on a correctly configured web server eavesdroppers can still infer the IP address and port number of the web server ( sometimes even the domain name e. g. www. example. org, but not rest of the URL ) that one is communicating with as well as the amount ( data transferred ) and duration ( length of session ) of the communication, though not the content of the communication.

In practice many hymns conform to one of a relatively small number of metres ( syllable count and stress patterns ).

It has been suggested that the use of dogs for digging up mandrake is further corroboration of the association of this plant with Hecate ; indeed, since at least as early as the 1st century CE, there are a number of attestations to the apparently widespread practice of using dogs to dig up plants associated with magic.

In practice sessions before the trip, Kennedy had run through a number of sentences, even paragraphs, to recite in German ; in these sessions, he was helped by Margaret Plischke, a translator working for the US State Department ; by Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's counsel and habitual speechwriter ; and by an interpreter, Robert Lochner, who had grown up in Berlin.

Some catalogs include books that were published with no ISBN but add a non-standard number with an as-yet unallocated 5-digit group such as 99985 ; this practice is not part of the standard.

In addition, there are a number of probabilistic algorithms that can test primality very quickly in practice if one is willing to accept the vanishingly small possibility of error.

You couldn't on the one hand decry the arts and at the same time practice them, could you??

A key point which is often overlooked is that published lower bounds for problems are often given for a model of computation that is more restricted than the set of operations that you could use in practice and therefore there are algorithms that are faster than what would naively be thought possible.

" You can look but you can't touch " is the mechanism of this operation, which plays upon the BDSM practice known as " tease and denial ".

One exercise to practice the proper weight to air relationship is the palm exercise where you hold your horn by laying it on its side in the palm of your hand.

The author wrote the epistle so that the joy of his audience would " be full " ( 1. 4 ) and that they would " not practice sin " ( 2. 1 ) and that " you who believe in the name of the Son of God ... may know that you have eternal life " ( 5. 13 ).

For general matrices, Gaussian elimination is usually considered to be stable in practice if you use partial pivoting as described below, even though there are examples for which it is unstable.

By clicking and popping up a pie menu, looking at the labels, moving the pointer in the desired direction, then clicking to make a selection, you learn the menu and practice the gesture to " mark ahead " (" mouse ahead " in the case of a mouse, " wave ahead " in the case of a dataglove ).

Most importantly, novices soon become experts, because every time you select from a pie menu, you practice the motion to mark ahead, so you naturally learn to do it by feel.

For someone who wants to practice his art in this business, all you can hope to do, as S. O. B.

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.

According to Maya Angelou: Courage is the most important of the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

An American clairvoyant by the name of Catherine Adams has written, “ My philosophy is to teach and practice spiritual freedom, which means you have your own spiritual guidance, which I can help you get in touch with.

We can practice joint cooperation in government, military, cultural, and economic matters and you can leave us with a guerrilla force.

But I can unfortunately not explain why you need the two ' L's, only note that the ' 一 ' is also the shortcut character for ' G ' ( making it one stroke only in practice ).

It is considered good practice to include instructions to encrypt it on the way, so that someone ( or some organization ) doing in / out traffic analysis on the nym server cannot easily match the message received by you to the one sent by the nym server.

You have been a Brahman and you have got to practice dharma.

To get ready for the season, you can play some batting practice or exhibition contests to get warmed up.

Similar to the editorial " we " is the practice common in scientific literature of referring to a generic third person by we ( instead of the more common one or the informal you ):