The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like " fall of the leaf " and " fall of the year ".

While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.

The Latin term ultra vires describes activities of officials within an organization or polity that fall outside the constitutional or statutory authority of those officials.

Caltech is on the quarter system: the fall term starts in late September and ends before Christmas, the second term starts after New Years Day and ends in mid-March, and the third term starts in late March or early April and ends in early June.

All of these positions fall into the category of millennialism, a broad term which includes any and all ideas relating to the millennium of Biblical prophecy.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

An enumerative definition of a concept or term is an extensional definition that gives an explicit and exhaustive listing of all the objects that fall under the concept or term in question.

All undergraduates are required to be in residence for the fall, winter, and spring terms of their freshman and senior years, as well as the summer term of their sophomore year.

and that almost 3. 2 million US students were taking at least one online course during the fall term of 2005.

Later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the term has been used in Finland for the post-1968 radicalization in the latter half of the Urho Kekkonen era.

In the correspondence of Metternich and other leaders of the repressive policies that followed the second fall of Napoleon in 1815, Jacobin is the term commonly applied to anyone with liberal tendencies, such as the emperor Alexander I of Russia.

The term is also used if the fighter is hanging on to the ropes, caught between the ropes, or is hanging over the ropes and is unable to fall to the floor and cannot protect themselves.

In the 2011 fall term, among students who had designated a major, the School of Engineering was the most popular division, enrolling 62. 7 % of students in its 19 degree programs, followed by the School of Science ( 28. 5 %), School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences ( 3. 7 %), Sloan School of Management ( 3. 3 %), and School of Architecture and Planning ( 1. 8 %).

For each class taken in the fall term, freshmen transcripts will either report only that the class was passed, or otherwise not have any record of it.

In the 2011 fall term, the School of Engineering was the most popular academic division, enrolling 45. 0 % of graduate students, followed by the Sloan School of Management ( 19 %), School of Science ( 16. 9 %), School of Architecture and Planning ( 9. 2 %), Whitaker College of Health Sciences ( 5. 1 %), and School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ( 4. 7 %).

The May Day bank holiday, on the first Monday in May, was traditionally the only one to affect the state school calendar, although new arrangements in some areas to even out the length of school terms mean that the Good Friday and Easter Monday bank holidays, which vary from year to year, may also fall during term time.

When there has also been an osteoporotic fracture ( also termed " low trauma-fracture " or " fragility fracture "), defined as one that occurs as a result of a fall from a standing height, the term " severe or established " osteoporosis is used.

She then left her position in 2007 during the fall term.

The City of Vandalia boasts several seasonal festivals and events, such as the annual Oktoberfest in the autumn, the Homecoming parade in the fall, and the Air Show & Parade in the summer.

Students spend most of the fall semester preparing for OSU's Homecoming celebration, begun in 1913, which draws more than 40, 000 alumni and over 70, 000 participants each year to campus and is billed by the university as " America's Greatest Homecoming Celebration.

Behind the decision to replace rock with concrete were maintenance issues ; with the coming of the 1960s, UM students exhibited waning enthusiasm for the annual trek up the hill and for annual upkeep of the " M ." Although the annual whitewashing went by the wayside, one tradition that lives on today is the lighting of the " M " during the University's annual Homecoming celebration each fall.

Originally lit by a group of students on October 9, 1919 following the fall whitewashing, the event was so popular that students have continued to light the " M " each year during Homecoming week ; special beacons light up the giant letter, welcoming former students back to the University.

OCU is a school full of traditions, the largest being Homecoming in the fall.

Homecoming usually occurs in the fall, and prom usually occurs in the spring.

These events are widely recognized as the largest Homecoming celebration in the country, which has grown to encompass dozens of events and community activities throughout the fall semester.

In the fall of 1926, Miss Ormsby was elected Homecoming Queen at the Ohio State University.

This is contrary to the usual custom of male students inviting females to school dances such as Prom in the spring and Homecoming in the fall.

Just days before the accident, he had also been named the Chairman for the fall 1990 Homecoming celebration.

On the Friday before the dance, the week's events culminate in the Homecoming Assembly, an all-school pep rally filled with events such as fall sports recognition and contests between the different classes.

The proceeds help fund an annual commission from a well-known composer of a new work ( or works ), typically premiered by the Glee Club during the fall Homecoming weekend concert.

Each fall, students donate blood as part of the school's Homecoming week festivities.

During the expansion, Drexel was officially united with the former MCP Hahnemann University, creating the Drexel University College of Medicine in 2002 ; and in the fall of 2006, Drexel established its School of Law, which was fully accredited by American Bar Association ( ABA ) in 2011.

Before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Ba ' ath Party officially ruled.

To protect themselves from the ongoing fines, the Keyboard Component was officially canceled in the fall of 1982 and the Entertainment Computer System ( ECS ) module offered up in its place.

In the fall of 1982, the LUCKI, now renamed the Entertainment Computer System ( ECS ), was presented at the annual sales meeting, officially ending the ill-fated Keyboard Component project.

The Ashcroft Group, LLC officially opened its doors in the fall of 2005 and as of March 2006 had twenty-one clients, turning down two for every one accepted.

* The Towers ( officially opened in fall of 2004 ) are three dormitory-style buildings.

On 21 September, the fall of the monarchy was officially declared, and the National Convention became the legal authority of France.

In the fall of 1992, Keillor returned to the World Theater with ARC for the majority of the season, and the next year, the program officially reverted to the A Prairie Home Companion name and format.

Because the neighboring provinces of Brabant and Gelderland from 1648 officially fall under the States-General, this Land van Ravenstein more and more was seen as " foreign ".

Crescent was formed with the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889 on March 2, 1889, and officially started that fall when William Brown began selling general merchandise out of a wagon.

After the fall of Shu Han in 263, Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan forces the last Wei ruler, Cao Huan, to abdicate his throne in 265, officially ending the Cao Wei dynasty.

While unable to confirm it officially, the admissions office stated that “ it appears that we have the most applications for the upcoming fall semester of any private university in the country .”

The city was placed under Polish administration on 6 October 1945 and since then has remained part of Poland, which was officially affirmed by both countries in 1990 after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

" Other barriers did not officially fall for decades in the states of Rhode Island ( 1842 ), North Carolina ( 1868 ), and New Hampshire ( 1877 ).

The following countries are one-party states in which the institutions of the ruling communist party and the state have become intertwined ; hence they fall under the definition of Socialist states that officially support communism.

It was the first officially registered political party after the fall of Communism.

Although the details of his service that summer and fall were not officially recorded, Brant was said to have distinguished himself for bravery.

The pilgrimage was officially reinstituted after the fall of Communism in 1989, and continues to this day, with upwards of 20, 000 men and boys arriving each Rosh Hashana from all over the world.

Through a ‘ hands on ’, ‘ cost conscious ’ and a ‘ design as you go ’ strategy, the project was officially completed in the fall of 1967 with the first generators going online in 1968.

After the fall of Vladivostok on 25 October 1922, the civil war was officially declared over.

In the fall of 2008, AUC officially inaugurated AUC New Cairo, a new 260-acre suburban campus in New Cairo, 45 minutes away from the downtown campus.

Following the fall of communism in Poland in 1989, Karski's wartime role was officially acknowledged there.

The Chipmunks first officially appeared on the scene in a novelty record released in late fall 1958 by Bagdasarian.

Addresses were presented to him at Southampton, Birmingham and other towns ; he was officially entertained by the Lord Mayor of the City of London ; at each place he spoke eloquently in English for the Hungarian cause ; and he indirectly caused Queen Victoria to stretch the limits of her constitutional power over her Ministers to avoid embarrassment, and eventually helped cause the fall of the government in power.