The outgoing members, whose four-year terms will expire a week after the April 18 primary election, received carved wooden elephants, complete with ivory tusks, to remember the state committee by.

These Arminians reject the concept of individual election entirely, preferring to understand the doctrine in corporate terms.

He reprised resolutions for constitutional amendments to provide for 1 ) the direct election of the president, rather than by the electoral college, 2 ) the direct election of U. S. Senators, rather than by state legislatures and 3 ) the limiting of judges ' terms to twelve years.

Among single-winner election systems where voters act in their own best interests, approval voting comes closest to reflecting the overall will of the people as measured in terms of minimizing Bayesian regret.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

Alternatively, there may further be requirements for maximum terms that a government can keep power before holding an election.

By the terms of the agreement, the election of bishops and abbots in Germany was to take place in the emperor's presence as judge between potentially disputing parties, free of bribes, thus retaining to the emperor a crucial role in choosing these great territorial magnates of the Empire.

According to the terms of the compromise, the election of bishops and abbots was to follow proper procedure, that is, the canons of the cathedral were to elect the bishop.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

With the election of a new Minister, the FCP is in the process of being wound down, despite campaigning to extend its terms of reference to make it a permanent advisory panel.

From statehood until the election of 1966, governors were elected to two-year terms.

Under the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, the presidential election fell to the House of Representatives, which was to choose from the top three candidates: Jackson, Adams, and Crawford.

Under the terms of the accord, both sides agreed to disarm, Díaz would be allowed to finish his term and a new national army would be established, the Guardia Nacional ( National Guard ), with U. S. soldiers remaining in the country to supervise the upcoming November presidential election.

At the 1996 election, the Keating Government was swept from power in a landslide, losing 29 seats and suffering a five percent two party preferred swing -- in terms of seats lost, the second-worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level in Australia.

The congregation as a whole has only the responsibility to vote on: 1 ) the call of the pastor ( subject to presbytery approval ) and the terms of call ( the church's provision for compensating and caring for the pastor ); 2 ) the election of its own officers ( elders & deacons ); 3 ) buying, mortgaging, or selling real property.

Members of both are elected by direct election for six-year terms.

Additionally, the longer terms and avoidance of popular election turned the Senate into a body to " temper " the populism of the House.

* Millard Fillmore-1828 election to the New York State Assembly for three one-year terms

The first Presidential election to include neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President on a major party ticket since 1952 came in 2008 when President George W. Bush had already served two terms and Vice President Cheney chose not to run.

** U. S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.

* November 4 – United States presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.

In the successive 1983 general election DC suffered one of its largest declines in terms of votes at that point, receiving only 32. 5 % of the vote cast (- 5. 8 %).

In the two years following the election of Gregory VII, Henry was forced by the Saxon Rebellion to come to amicable terms with him at any cost.

Indeed, approximately 6 % of the variance in the vote was explained in terms of the bogus polls, showing that poll results ( whether accurate or inaccurate ) can significantly influence election results in closely contested elections.

Coming as it did only a few months after the landslide victory of his supporters at the polls in August 2007, his relinquishing of office so soon afterwards can be seen in terms of an element of promise and expectations unfilled.

Mesić had always topped the polls for the most popular politician in Croatia during his two terms.

Multiple opinion polls conducted in Taiwan have indicated that there is very little support for immediate unification on the PRC's terms or for an immediate declaration of independence.

In 1997, after two, three-year terms as a ward councillor, she topped the polls when she was elected to the London Board of Control and acted as deputy mayor and budget chief to Dianne Haskett, whom she succeeded as mayor in the 2000 election.

Lee endorsed Mike Foster, a Republican who came from behind in the polls to win the governorship and to serve two terms.

However, opinion polls conducted in Taiwan have indicated that there is very little support for unification on the PRC's terms, even among those who favor eventual unification, making peaceful unification unlikely for the foreseeable future.

" He is brilliant in terms of analyzing polls and numbers.

Al Wefaq National Islamic Society (; transliterated: Jam ' īyat al-Wifāq al-Watanī al-Islāmīyah ), or Al Wefaq for short is a Bahraini political society, and the largest party in the Bahrain, both in terms of its membership and its results at the polls.

For four consecutive terms the New Democratic Party succeeded at the polls.

Medieval scholars may be considered forerunners of modern anthropology as well, insofar as they conducted or wrote detailed studies of the customs of peoples considered " different " from themselves in terms of geography.

By a process known as self-attribution, it has been shown in numerous studies that individuals with knowledge of astrology tend to describe their personality in terms of traits compatible with their star sign.

In terms of pathophysiology, clinical, physiological and imaging studies point to an involvement of the cerebellum and / or cerebellothalamocortical circuits.

Specialised terms such as selenology ( studies of the Moon ), areology ( of Mars ), etc., are also in use.

Further studies on animals that were traditionally assumed to be cold-blooded have shown that most creatures incorporate different variations of the three terms defined above, along with their counterparts ( ectothermy, poikilothermy and bradymetabolism ), thus creating a broad spectrum of body temperature types.

Long-term international studies of schizophrenia have found that over a half of individuals recover in terms of symptoms, and around a fifth to a third in terms of symptoms and functioning, with some requiring no medication.

This comes after the studies of structural geology ( at the reservoir scale ), sedimentary basin analysis, reservoir characterization ( mainly in terms of porosity and permeable structures ).

These related fields include transpersonal psychology, which studies transcendent or spiritual aspects of the human mind, and Anomalistic psychology, which examines paranormal beliefs and subjective anomalous experiences in traditional psychological terms.

The studies showed a correlation between the availability of color terms for specific colors and the ease with which those colors were remembered in both speakers of Zuni and English.

Vector calculus studies various differential operators defined on scalar or vector fields, which are typically expressed in terms of the del operator ().

Among these were Robert Boyle, who wrote: " the cornerstones of the Invisible ( or as they term themselves the Philosophical ) College, do now and then honour me with their company ..."; John Wilkins and John Wallis, who described those meetings in the following terms: " About the year 1645, while I lived in London ( at a time when, by our civil wars, academical studies were much interrupted in both our Universities ), ...

In terms of variation between individual people, more than 100 twin and adoption studies studies have been conducted in recent decades examining the genetic basis of aggressive behavior and related constructs such as conduct disorders.

* Cultural studies aims to examine its subject matter in terms of cultural practices and their relation to power.

While surgery still remains as the standard for cystic echinococcosis treatment, there have been a number of studies that suggest that PAIR with chemotherapy is more effective than surgery in terms of disease recurrence, and morbidity and mortality.

The A terms are also possible from the degenerate excited states, but the studies of temperature dependence showed that the A terms are not as dependent as the C term.

In terms of methodology the stress is on " positive economics "– that is, empirically based studies using statistics to prove theory.

Greek became the language of learned studies and hence Greek terms were used by Greek and Roman authors to describe Egyptian phenomena.

The Western Oceanic Melanesian " diversity " of lexicostatistical studies was never of any interest in terms of attributing any special time depth or subgrouping significance to it.

Culture theory is the branch of comparative anthropology and semiotics ( not to be confused with cultural sociology or cultural studies ) that seeks to define the heuristic concept of culture in operational and / or scientific terms.

The original discovery of the law was gradual over a period of perhaps half a century or more, and some early studies were in terms of cyclic processes.

However, in terms of actual statistics on animal injury rate, there appear to be no more recent independent studies on animal injury in rodeo than the 1994 study.

Although such studies are set up primarily in an operant conditioning chamber, using food rewards for pecking / bar-pressing behavior, the researchers describe pecking and bar pressing not in terms of reinforcement and stimulus – response relationships, but instead in terms of work, demand, budget, and labor.