The movement toward European unity has been expressed in two currents: federalism and functionalism, one looking to the constitution of a United States of Europe, the other building on wartime precedents of practical cooperation for the solution of specific problems.

The country has a multi-party system in which many of its legislative practices derive from the unwritten conventions of and precedents set by Great Britain's Westminster Parliament.

The chthonic spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding mines and precious underground treasures, notably in the Germanic dwarves and the Greek Chalybes, Telchines or Dactyls.

Since the days of the Sanhedrin, however, no body or authority has been generally regarded as having the authority to create universally recognized precedents.

As a result, Halakha has developed in a somewhat different fashion from Anglo-American legal systems with a Supreme Court able to provide universally accepted precedents.

While Machiavelli's approach had classical precedents, it has been argued that it did more than just bring back old ideas, and that Machiavelli was not a typical humanist.

" That a community has different components whose interests must be balanced in any good regime is an idea with classical precedents, but Machiavelli's particularly extreme presentation is seen as a critical step towards the later political ideas of both a division of powers or checks and balances, ideas which lay behind the US constitution ( and most modern constitutions ).

The Han dynasty formally recognized four sources of law: lü ( 律: " codified laws "), ling ( 令: " the emperor's order "), ke ( 科: " statutes inherited from previous dynasties ") and bi ( 比: " precedents "), among which ling has the highest binding power over the other three.

Other cultures involved with ancient Mesopotamia shared the same common laws and precedents, extending to the form of contacts that Kenneth Kitchen has studied and compared to the form of contracts in the Bible with particular note to the sequence of blessings and curses that bind the deal.

Many of the country's legislative practices derive from the unwritten conventions of, and precedents set by, the United Kingdom's Westminster Parliament ; however, Barbados has evolved variations.

Clapham believes that this has few precedents in the entire history of opera.

The technopolis program of the 1980s has precedents in the New Industrial Cities Act of the 60s.

This was in turn caused by emphasis on new scientific advances, which has tended to blind researchers to precedents in older work .( p.

The hexagram has been in use as a symbol of Judaism since the 17th century, with precedents in the 14th to 16th centuries in Central Europe, where the Shield of David was partly used in conjunction with the Seal of Solomon ( the hexagram ) on Jewish flags.

To this end, the concluding bars of the development form a huge crescendo, and the return of the opening bars is marked fff ( fortississimo ), which rarely appears in Beethoven's works, but has precedents in the 6th and 7th Symphonies.

While such an approach has long precedents in the sphere of charity, it is receiving renewed attention from entrepreneurs such as independent film makers, now that social media and online communities make it possible to reach out to a group of potentially interested supporters at very low cost.

Relying on earlier precedents, the district court granted summary judgment to the defendant, writing that " Mr. Oncale, a male, has no cause of action under Title VII for harassment by male co-workers.

The extension of the scope of the designation " Al-Andalus " from a single islet to all of Iberia has several historical precedents.

The history of socialism has its origins in the French Revolution of 1789 and the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, although it has precedents in earlier movements and ideas.

The scientific method has ancient precedents and Galileo exemplifies a mathematical understanding of nature which is the hallmark of modern natural scientists.

She disapproved of the ' overblown sound ' of Mahler and similar composers, and instead chose to work with sparse textures and develop her own type of serialism ; she first used a 12-note series in Chamber Concerto I for 9 instruments ( 1939 ), a work that has been compared with Webern's op. 24 Concerto, but earlier than this she had been using the techniques of inversion and retrograde fundamental to a serial idiom, and she claimed she had been inspired to this by precedents she found in older British music, especially Purcell.

They argued that judgment has correctly reflected the true legislative intent of Articles 22 ( 4 ) and 24 ( 2 )( 3 ) of the Basic Law, and there are precedents in common law jurisdictions to repudiate a court judgment by means of legislative amendment.

Historian Joseph F. Darowski has called attention to earlier Old Testament and Protestant precedents, stating that Harvard and Yale were both once commonly called schools of the prophets.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.

The importance of Rousseau's twist has not always been clear to us, however.

This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.

Within the individual the reaction has been called various names, all, however, pointing to the same basic experience.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

Nineteenth-century virtues, however, seem somehow to have gone out of fashion and the Bright book has never been particularly popular.

No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.

The full implementation of these noble words, however, has taken the efforts of five sessions of the Legislature.

Nikita Khrushchev, however, has created yet another problem for himself.

With the resumption of Soviet testing and their intransigence at the Geneva talks, however, the hope that this third choice would prove viable has been shaken.

As it has turned out, however, the excessive enthusiasm in the first instance and the loss of hope in the second were both wrong responses.

Apparently, however, Miller has relied heavily on the anatomy in dogs and cats, and he has been criticized for using pathologic human material in his normal study ( Loosli, '38 ).

It is the classroom teacher, however, who has daily contacts with pupils, and who is in a unique position to put sound psychological principles into practice.

When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

Once he has been identified, however, a new melody is used to accompany his narrative, a bleak motif with barren octaves creating a rather ancient effect:

The gallium content, however, has been enhanced five-fold.

Recent work with radiocarbon and deuterated alcohols as solvents, however, has given evidence that metal-hydrido and carbonyl complexes may be readily formed by reaction with alcohol in some of these systems.

This has not, however, prevented publishers from labeling him a `` folk poet '', simply because he is a rural one.

It is still, however, the junior member of the League, if not in years at least in the catching up it has had to do.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.