Although effective while he ruled, Diocletian's Tetrarchic system collapsed after his abdication under the competing dynastic claims of Maxentius and Constantine, sons of Maximian and Constantius respectively.

An unusual feature of the Kentish system was that only sons of kings appeared to be legitimate claimants to the throne, although this did not eliminate all strife over the succession.

Emperor Go-Saga even decreed an official alternation between heirs of his two sons, which system continued for a couple of centuries ( leading finally to shōgun-induced ( or utilized ) strife between these two branches, the " southern " and " northern " emperors ).

This system, however, tempted military officers to pass their positions to their sons, thus transforming the office from one based on achievement and loyalty to the mai into one based on hereditary nobility.

A strong preference for sons — who in Korea's traditional Confucian value system are expected to care for their parents in old age and carry on the family name — means that parents with only daughters usually continued to have children until a son is born.

Murasaki described his daughter's court activities: the lavish ceremonies, the complicated courtships, the " complexities of the marriage system ", and in elaborate detail, the birth of Shōshi's two sons.

According to the book of Exodus, Aaron and his sons were the first priests appointed as the priestly system was established by God.

In the summer of 2005, he was appointed manager of Rayo Vallecano and, in the following year, returned to his alma mater, as director of Real Madrid's sports city, the entire youth system, and manager duties at Real Madrid Castilla, where he coached one of his sons, Adrián.

At this time, none of his sons had heirs so it became necessary for a system to be devised to define precisely the circumstances in which each of his sons could inherit the crown — none of this would take precedence over normal succession by Primogeniture.

They had four sons, one of whom, Charles Eliot ( November 1, 1859-March 25, 1897 ) was an important landscape architect, responsible for the public park system in Boston.

This was not without controversy, and the incident involving the fathers and sons allude to both practices ; the feudal system and the national system.

However, his decision to divide the Six tumens to his sons, or taijis, and local tabunangs-sons in law of the taijis created a decentralized system of Borjigin rule that secured domestic peace and outward expansion for a century.

The system of dividing and expanding a kingdom in order to provide for the sons of a ruler agrees in general with the apparent organization and succession practices of ancient Tai village groups was called mueang.

If parents are found to be mistreating their sons, or are simply unable to care for them, the government has the power to ' repossess ' them and place them in the care system.

He was disheartened by the fact that the talents of many of England's younger sons were wasted due to an economic recession and the medieval system of primogeniture, in which the oldest son inherited all of the family's land.

) led to the adoption of the appanage system, which has the advantage of diverting the claim of younger sons to the crown, which was the inheritance of the eldest.

Some of these people were members of the few wealthy Muslim families that had managed to insinuate themselves into the colonial system in the 1890s and had with difficulty succeeded in obtaining for their sons the French education coveted by progressive Algerians.

A similar system operated in Wales, where under Welsh law any of the sons or brothers of the king could be chosen as the edling or heir to the kingdom.

In particular, he was appalled by what he saw as a tendency of the sons of the nation's leaders to grow up spoiled ( in contrast to the spartan upbringing his generation received from the palace apprenticeship system ).

The Qur ' an records Abraham telling Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob: " O my sons, God has selected the system for you, so do not die except as ones who have submitted.

Among them was the survival in the Borders of the inheritance system of gavelkind, by which estates were divided equally between all sons on a man's death, so that many people owned insufficient land to maintain themselves.

Nevertheless, the devshirme system was locally resented and was resisted, even to the point of disfiguring their sons.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

A single statewide assessing unit would eliminate the differences and complications that are inherent in a system of 39 different and independent assessing units ''.

In the forest highway system, there are now 24,400 miles of public roads.

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

In the forest development road and trail system, there are now 162,400 miles of roads and 106,500 miles of supplemental foot and horse trails.

Among the items scheduled for acceleration in the near future are the Polaris and B70 programs, strengthening of the airborne alert system of the Strategic Air Command, and improved battlefield surveillance systems.

If you plan to add cooling later to your heating system, there are things to watch for.

If the problems of combining cooling with your heating are knotty, it may be cheaper to plan on a completely separate cooling system.

For a few details of the system the lines are 1-1/4'' '' X-Tru-Coat, a product of Republic Steel Corp., and all lines are welded.

In an essentially static system, an oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface unless the interfacial tensions of the water phase are reduced by a surface-active agent.

If tyrosine and a system generating hydrogen peroxide are added to a cell-free homogenate of the thyroid, large quantities of free mono-iodotyrosine can be formed ( Alexander, 1959 ).

Closely related to this function is the fact that the religious system provides a body of ultimate ends for the society, which are compatible with the supreme eternal ends.

To some extent the system can be considered a Gemeinschaft in which `` social-role occupancies are determined by birth, by attributes such as sex or caste, which are biologically or socially immutable ''.

Within the larger social system are the structural and functional subsystems.

However, it cannot be presumed, informal though the structure of the population seems, that there are not well-defined roles within the system.

The four functional problems of a social system are, to some extent, solved by the subsystems within this population.

The values placed by the Brandywine population, upon maintaining a certain homogeneity, a certain separate racial identity, and therefore a certain separate social status, are important for the morale of the system.

Institutionalization Though undoubtedly all six processes are operative within the whole social system and its subsystems, two processes that are of crucial importance to this study will be singled out for particular emphasis.

The possibilities in the consonantal system are very numerous, and only a small portion of them are actually used.