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 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.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

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

Similarly, virtually all members of LAMP have also resigned from the Louisiana Psychological Association ( LPA ) after many LPA members asserted that the LAMP's prescriptive authority movement secretly came to an agreement with Louisiana's medical board to transfer the practice of psychology for psychologists with prescriptive authority to the medical board.

An agreement between the TFG and the Islamic Courts Union ( ICU ) to build a national military was reached " in principle " on 5 September 2006, but in practice, political disagreements scuttled talks scheduled for 30 October in Khartoum, Sudan.

In practice, agreement between the two systems is high.

T ' ai chi ch ' uan theory and practice evolved in agreement with many Chinese philosophical principles, including those of Taoism and Confucianism.

The monarch still ruled under the law and could only legislate in agreement with the Riksdag of the Estates ; rather, the absolutism introduced was the monarch's ability to run the government unfettered by the privy council, contrary to earlier practice.

There is some agreement that appearing in a legally-constituted court in a legal proceeding to represent clients ( particularly for a fee ) is considered to be unauthorized practice of law.

International airline tickets have their prices fixed by agreement with the IATA, a practice for which there is a specific exemption in antitrust law.

The usual claim involves violation of a technology agreement that prohibits farmers from saving seed from one season's crop to plant the next, a common farming practice.

There is general agreement upon the colors for more common practices, particularly those with an intuitive relation between the color and the practice, such as yellow for urolagnia ; brown for coprophilia ; and black for SM, but no absolute consensus for less common practices.

There's no objective evidence to support the practice and little common agreement as to its rationale, although a multitude of reasons are given.

Humiliation can also be a consensual sexual practice, as part of an agreement with a sex partner to engage in erotic humiliation as part of bondage and domination activities.

Theoretically, there is no need to hold an early general election, but early elections are often called in practice because the basis for the coalition agreement is gone.

In 1981's Reference re a Resolution to amend the Constitution, the Court provided three factors necessary for the existence of a constitutional convention: a practice or agreement developed by political actors, a recognition that they are bound to follow that practice or agreement, and a purpose for that practice or agreement.

In 1737, Tynwald obtained further powers in addition to its monopoly on law-making-the agreement of Tynwald would be required for all taxation, in imitation of the constitutional practice of Great Britain.

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

It had both executive oversight authority, and in practice, binding legislative authority, as it dictated the party platform.

In practice however, more power is vested in the executive branch of government than in the legislative, and the judiciary has been weakened by sustained attacks by the government during the Mahathir era.

Before signing a bill into law, the President can also ask the Constitutional Tribunal to verify its compliance with the Constitution, which in practice bears a decisive influence on the legislative process.

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.

Since many a country with a transitional political and economic system continues treating its constitution as an abstract legal document disengaged from the economic policy of the state, practice of judicial review of economic acts of executive and legislative branches began to grow.

These other votes – the words are to be understood meaning votes on legislative issues – are, by now, common practice on the level of the Länder.

The legal provisions arising from the Praetor's Edict were known as ius honorarium ; in theory the Praetor did not have power to alter the law, but in practice the Edict altered the rights and duties of individuals and was effectively a legislative document.

In practice, legislative power rests with the party that has the majority of seats in the House of Assembly, which is elected for a period not to exceed five years.

In the United States, parliamentary procedure is also referred to as parliamentary law, parliamentary practice, legislative procedure, or rules of order.

The program was abandoned after two years, and it was more than a decade before the legislative authority for its graduates to practice was put into place.

Rose suggests that legislative proposals to recriminalize the unauthorized practice of law have heretofore failed because of anti-lawyer sentiment in Arizona politics.

During World War II, he lobbied successfully for an expansion of congressional staff resources to eliminate the practice under which House and Senate committees borrowed executive branch personnel to accomplish legislative work.

In government, bicameralism ( Latin bi, two + camera, chamber ) is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers compromise bills.

In government, unicameralism ( Latin, one +, chamber ) is the practice of having one legislative or parliamentary chamber.

In practice, its role and powers are somewhat analogous to an advisory legislative upper house and there have been occasional proposals to formalize this role in the PRC Constitution.

Even though Switzerland for instance is a member of the European Patent Organisation but not a member of the European Union, the EPO also signalled that it would have been likely to adjust its practice, if necessary, to conform with whatever text had finally emerged from the EU legislative procedure,

Autonomous region (; zìzhìqū ): A minority subject which has a higher population of a particular minority ethnic group along with its own local government, but an autonomous region theoretically has more legislative rights than in actual practice.

There the long governing Social Democrats have governed with more or less formal support from other parties: in the mid-20th century from Agrarians, after 1968 from Communists, and more recently from Greens and ex-Communists, and have thus been able to retain executive power and ( in practice ) legislative initiative.

Also, vote pairing is a routine practice in legislative bodies, city councils, etc.

The choice between the negligence principle ( defendants should be liable only if they were at fault ) and the strict liability principle ( defendants should be liable even if blameless ), he now insisted, “ is a concealed, half conscious battle on the question of legislative policy, and if any one thinks that it can be settled deductively, or once for all, I only can say that I think he is theoretically wrong, and that I am certain that his conclusion will not be accepted in practice .” Among the policy questions upon which the choice turned was the degree to which the losses associated with the myriad injuries caused by modern industries (“ railroads, factories, and the like ”) should be borne by the public at large ( through increased prices for the goods and services provided by those industries ).

In 1799, the Ionian islands became the Septinsular Republic, nominally under Turkish suzerainty, but in practice dominated by Russia ; in 1807, France took them back ; in 1809, the British seized the islands set up one of their first protectorates, the United States of the Ionian Islands, and held them for nearly half a century ; under the British, they were governed by a High Commissioner who could act with both legislative and executive powers.

The Massachusetts General Court ( the main elected legislative and judicial body in Massachusetts ) was brought under nominal British government control, but all members except the Royal Governor and a few of his deputies continued to be elected in the various towns, as was their practice over the prior 40 years.

It has been normal practice for local government electoral wards to be used as building blocks for constituencies, although there is no legislative requirement to do so.

Unlike the states which are sovereign entities possessing legislative power in their own right, a territory's legislative power is derived by way of a grant from the Commonwealth Parliament which still retains the power -- in practice very rarely exercised -- to legislate for the territory.