To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.

Ásatrú groups and the individual Ásatrúarmenn have no universal means of practice.

Naturally, they maintained capoeira as a means of recreation and martial arts practice.

" This, Harris contends, is part of what it means to practice a science of morality.

In practice, this means the government remains in power for close to its full term, and choose an election date it calculates to be in its best interests ( unless something special happens, such as a motion of no-confidence ).

( This practice may provide a fairly accurate means of dating a document.

Another author stated that " the practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research ".

In practice, this means rejecting " proprietary software ", which imposes such restrictions, and promoting free software, with the ultimate goal of liberating everyone " in cyberspace " – that is, every computer user.

# Dukkha Nirodha Gamini Patipada-Gamini: leading to, making for-Patipada: road, path, way ; the means of reaching a goal or destination-The way of practice leading to the cessation of Dukkha.

In practice, this means that the agreement of the Bundesrat in the legislative process is very often required, as federal legislation often has to be executed by state or local agencies.

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, some of the alternatives may be conscious or unconscious ; some of the consequences may be unintended as well as intended ; and some of the means and ends may be imperfectly differentiated, incompletely related, or poorly detailed.

However, Hesychasts who are living as hermits might have a very rare attendance at the Divine Liturgy ( see the life of Saint Seraphim of Sarov ) and might not recite the Divine Office except by means of the Jesus Prayer ( attested practice on Mt Athos ).

What this means is that by the exercise of sobriety ( the mental ascesis against tempting thoughts ), the Hesychast arrives at a continual practice of the Jesus Prayer with his mind in his heart and where his consciousness is no longer encumbered by the spontaneous inception of images: his mind has a certain stillness and emptiness that is punctuated only by the eternal repetition of the Jesus Prayer.

In practice, this means that jury trials are available in American civil cases in most cases seeking money damages on a tort law or contract law theory, but are rarely available when non-monetary damages, such as an injunction or declaratory relief are sought.

The words are separated by engraved dots, a common but by no means universal practice, and long vowels are marked by Apex ( diacritic ) | apices.

It is also common practice for major mining companies to do the rehabilitation of the dumps to an international acceptable standard, which in some cases means that higher standards than the local regulatory standard are applied.

In practice, the need for predictability means that inferior courts generally defer to precedent by superior courts.

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor.

In remark # 23 of Philosophical Investigations he points out that the practice of human language is more complex than the simplified views of language that have been held by those who seek to explain or simulate human language by means of a formal system.

In practice this means measuring dozens of variables, and then presenting them as two or three dimensional graphs.

In practice this means that the Sovereign reviews state papers and meets regularly with the Prime Minister, usually weekly, when she may advise and warn him regarding the proposed decisions and actions of Her Government.

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

The increase of written means of informal communication brought about by the Internet has produced the practice of using quotations as personal flags, as in one's own signature block.

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.

In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house.

The Coalition has become so stable, at least at the federal level, that in practice the lower house of Parliament has become a two-party house, with the Coalition and the Labor Party being the major parties.

With the addition of a pedal clavichord, which included a pedal keyboard for the lower notes, a clavichord could be used to practice organist repertoire.

In practice, however, if someone is acquitted in a lower District Court, then the prosecutor can appeal to the High Court, and then to the Supreme Court.

This practice could be sustained only by requisitioning precious metals from private citizens in exchange for state-minted coin ( of a far lower value than the price of the precious metals requisitioned ).

After obtaining a doctorate successfully, Dutch doctors may bear either the title dr. ( lower case ) before, or the letter D ( rarely in practice ) behind their name, but not both simultaneously.

This was often done for letterbox widescreen anime on VHS, though the practice of " hiding " subtitles within the lower matte also is done with symmetrical mattes, albeit with less space available.

Without this capacity, which is often the case in practice, to produce a representation with lower resolution or lower fidelity than a given one, one needs to start with the original source signal and encode, or start with a compressed representation and then decompress and re-encode it ( transcoding ), though the latter tends to cause digital generation loss.

Until more recently, safes and strongboxes were the exception to this, and to this day large vaults are custom designed and built at great cost, as the cost of this is lower than the very limited scope for mass production would allow, and the risk of a copy being obtained and defeated as practice is removed.

In practice much lower thresholds were maintained even though the optimal dose varies greatly between patients, often quite higher than this and with no inherent threshold in the possible dose, as the toxic dose for patients with very high tolerance can exceed this tenfold or more.

According to the estimates of Jacques Necker in 1788, the capitation tax was so riddled in practice, that the privileged classes ( nobles and clergy and towns ) were largely exempt, while the lower classes were heavily crushed: the lowest peasant class, originally assessed to pay 3 livres, were now paying 24, the second lowest, assessed at 10 livres, were now paying 60 and the third-lowest assessed at 30 were paying 180.

In practice the process of assessing overall risk can be difficult, and balancing resources used to mitigate between risks with a high probability of occurrence but lower loss versus a risk with high loss but lower probability of occurrence can often be mishandled.

In 1936 the US Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that IBM, together with Remington, should cease its practice of requiring its customers to buy their punch cards from it alone.

No president since Dwight Eisenhower has made a recess appointment to the Court, and the practice has become rare and controversial even in lower federal courts.

Code points with lower numerical values ( i. e. earlier code positions in the Unicode character set, which tend to occur more frequently in practice ) are encoded using fewer bytes.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese government attempts to ban the practice of cremation ; despite this decree, the lower and middle classes continue to cremate their dead, until the government resolves the problem in the 12th century by establishing public graveyards for paupers.

Moreover, there was a French practice, legally distinct from morganatic marriage but used in similar situations of inequality in status between a member of the royal family and a spouse of lower rank: an " openly secret " marriage.

He is opposed to the practice whereby theatres lower the intensity of their projector bulbs in order to extend the life of the bulb, arguing that this has little effect other than to make the film harder to see.

If a yokozuna is defeated by a lower ranked wrestler, it is common and expected for audience members to throw their seat cushions into the ring ( and onto the wrestlers ), though this practice is technically prohibited.

In practice, the strike zone is treated as a volume of space delimited by vertical planes extending up from the pentagonal boundaries of the home plate and limited at the top and bottom by upper and lower horizontal planes passing through the horizontal lines of the definition.

In some instances, mere apprentices or those ordained to lower orders dabbled in the practice.

Not only are they generally able to offer punters better odds due to their much lower overheads, but also in giving opportunities for arbitrage: the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets, although traditionally arbitrage has always been possible by backing all outcomes with bookmakers ( dutching ) as opposed to laying an outcome on an exchange.