In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.

In the strict sense, however, agnosticism is the view that humanity does not currently possess the requisite knowledge and / or reason to provide sufficient rational grounds to justify the belief that deities either do or do not exist.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

As with many scientific fields, strict delineation can be highly contrived and atomic physics is often considered in the wider context of atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

Each of these hymns has eight four-line stanzas and is written in strict iambic dimeter ( that is 2 x 2 iambs ).

In some cases, the term admiralty is used in a wider sense, as meaning sea power or rule over the seas, rather than in strict reference to the institution exercising such power.

A less strict and more practically useful definition will refer to the frequencies where the frequency function is small.

The auction is a bidding process undertaken within strict procedural and ethical protocols to determine the declaring side and the final contract.

Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other time silence is maintained as much as is practically possible.

However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself and Jeremiah's name is not found anywhere in the book itself ( nor any other name, for that matter ), so authorship of Lamentations is disputed.

There is a strict hierarchy in groups, with the larger adult males being dominant.

However, there is considerable variation on this pattern in almost every respect, including length, number of lines and rhyming scheme, making the strict definition of a ballad extremely difficult.

In most cases, the discipline is self-governed by the entities which require the programming, and sometimes very strict environments are defined ( e. g. United States Air Force use of AdaCore and security clearance ).

An arithmetic calendar is one that is based on a strict set of rules ; an example is the current Jewish calendar.

That is, they may be violated if strict adherence to the rule would lead to much more undesirable consequences.

Its main motto is: " Set clear strict laws, or deliver harsh punishment ".

For example, a ( strict ) 2-category is a category together with " morphisms between morphisms ", i. e., processes which allow us to transform one morphism into another.

One of the main tenets of Dispensationalism is the strict dichotomy that dispensationalists claim exists between Israel and the New Testament Church.

It is his relentlessness and unwaivering adherence to this revolutionary artistic philosophy that has enabled him to paint such pictures as `` The Invasion of Cuba ''.

It is quite probable, however, that stupidity, inexperience and childish adherence to slogans like `` unconditional surrender '' had more to do with the unsatisfactory settlements at the end of the war than treason or sympathy with Communism.

A number of studies have looked at levels of " compliance " or " adherence " with antipsychotic regimes and found that discontinuation ( stopping taking them ) by patients is associated with higher rates of relapse, including hospitalization.

The inframammary fold, where the lower portion of the breast meets the chest, is an anatomic feature created by the adherence of the breast skin and the underlying connective tissues of the chest ; the IMF is the lower-most extent of the anatomic breast.

The effect may not result from the acidic nature of polyphenols but possibly to a specific A type proanthocyanidin which is thought to inhibit adherence of Escherichia coli and other fimbriated bacteria to uroepithelial cells.

However, in adherence to the ideas of Arab Nationalism, the Arab countries prefer to give preference to the Literary Arabic which is common to all of them, conduct much of their political, cultural and religious life in it ( adherence to Islam ), and refrain from declaring each country's specific variety to be a separate language, because Literary Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam and the language of the Islamic sacred book, the Qur ' an.

Debian is known for relatively strict adherence to the philosophies of Unix and free software as well as using collaborative software development and testing processes.

Where Diocletian's system of rescripts shows an adherence to classical tradition, Constantine's law is full of Greek and eastern influences.

Rand's student, Leonard Peikoff has argued that the identification of one's interests itself is impossible absent the use of principles, and that self-interest cannot be consistently pursued absent a consistent adherence to certain ethical principles.

* 2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.

Overall, the system is designed to encourage role-playing over strict adherence to an arbitrary set of rules.

Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, primarily to promote continuity and accuracy.

Whether the marketplace should be or is free is disputed ; many assert that government intervention is necessary to remedy market failure that is held to be an inevitable result of absolute adherence to free market principles.

Today the term " Soft Science Fiction " is often used to refer to science fiction stories which lack a scientific focus or rigorous adherence to known science.

However, the Great Commission is specifically directed at " all nations ," and an early difficulty arose concerning the matter of Gentile ( non-Jewish ) converts as to whether they had to " become Jewish " ( usually referring to circumcision and adherence to dietary law ), as part of becoming Christian.

" The New York Times said the change to Verdana " is so offensive to many because it seems like a slap at the principles of design by a company that has been hailed for its adherence to them.

Although there may be exceptions, it is thought by many international academics that most states enter into legal commitments with other states out of enlightened self-interest rather than adherence to a body of law that is higher than their own.

And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

In its place is a passionate consciousness grasped and molded to feelings of positive or negative values even as the actions of one's life are determined by constellations of process in which one is caught.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

One may be exasperatingly aware that if the answer is favorable it will be judged such only by those of one's own age.

What Sam Rayburn's life proves to us all is the magnificent lesson in political science that one can devotedly and with absolute dedication represent the seemingly provincial interests of one's own community, one's own district, one's own State, and by that help himself represent even better the sweep and scope of the problems of this the greatest nation of all time.

To have one's intentions deliberately or unintentionally misunderstood is always a waste of time.

It is largely a matter of finding passages that suit one's purposes.

It is of course useful to have a sovereign cause on one's social criticism, for it makes diagnosis and prescription much easier than they might otherwise be.

And even more complex items can be interpreted to conform to one's own point of view, which is by nature so personal.

If one lives near a subway or an express parkway, the solution is to have one's wines stored with a dealer and brought home a few at a time.

A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

and it is better to be shamed and criticized by one's parents, who already consider one different and difficult to understand, than by one's peers, who are also experiencing a similar groping for and denial of adult status.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

Obviously what we are confronted with here is the identification of `` professional '' with narrow skills and specialization, the effective servicing of a client, rather than responsiveness to the wider and deeper meaning and associations of one's work.

To be human, he believes, is to seek one's own destruction: the Freudian `` death-wish '' cliche inevitably cited whenever laymen talk about auto race-drivers.

Because all living beings possess a soul, great care and awareness is essential in one's actions.

1 John 4 states that for one to love God one must love his fellowman, and that hatred of one's fellowman is the same as hatred of God.

Both ethical altruism and ethical egoism contrast with utilitarianism, which is the view that every individual's well-being ( including one's own ) is of equal moral importance.