While traditional teaching maintains that any bishop with apostolic succession can validly perform the ordination of another bishop, some churches require two or three bishops participate, either to ensure sacramental validity or to conform with church law.

The University has general exchange agreements with many European and US universities and maintains a special exchange program agreement with National Chiao Tung University ( NCTU ) in Taiwan where the exchange students from the two universities maintains offices for, among other things, helping local students with applying and preparing for an exchange year as well as acting as representatives ( NCTU Europe – NCTU students at Chalmers, Chalmers Asia – Chalmers students at NCTU ).

The group maintains two inventories of " Heritage pubs ", the National Inventory ( NI ), which contains only those pubs that have been maintained in their original condition ( or have been modified very little ) for at least 30 years, but usually since at least World War II.

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism maintains the Solomon Schecter Day Schools, comprising 76 day schools in 19 American states and two Canadian provinces serving Jewish children.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

The Internet maintains two principal namespaces, the domain name hierarchy and the Internet Protocol ( IP ) address spaces.

The College also maintains the Dartmouth Skiway, a skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire that serves as the winter practice grounds for the nationally dominant Dartmouth ski team.

The Portuguese Army still maintains two units which are descended from former regiments of dragoons.

Chihuly maintains two retail stores in partnership with MGM Resorts International.

A collective head of state can exist in republics ( internal complexity ): e. g. nominal triumvirates ; the Directoire ; the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, where each member acts in turn as ceremonial chief of state ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( three member presidium, from three different nations ); San Marino ( two " Captains-regent "), which maintains the tradition of Italian medieval republics, where there always was an even number of consuls.

The Consulate General maintains two buildings in the city as they were established before the 1967 war, one building on what was the Israeli side and one on what was the Jordanian-annexed side of Jerusalem.

Several national expert groups came to the same result ; on top of all two international expert groups have in full detail evaluated the available data and finally concluded that any food at any dose is wholesome and safe to consume as long as it remains palatable and maintains its technical properties.

Lithuania maintains foreign diplomatic missions in 94 countries on six continents and consular posts in two countries that are not represented by an embassy.

Supporters are represented by two independent bodies ; the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association ( IMUSA ), which maintains close links to the club through the MUFC Fans Forum, and the Manchester United Supporters ' Trust ( MUST ).

As a small, landlocked country wedged between two larger and far stronger powers, Nepal maintains good relations with both China ( People's Republic of China ) and India.

In addition, Oman maintains good relations with Iran, its northern neighbor, and the two countries regularly exchange delegations.

Syria currently maintains an embassy in Ankara and two consulates – general in Istanbul and Gaziantep.

Besides on-campus libraries, the UC system also maintains two regional library facilities ( one each for Northern and Southern California ), which each accept older items from all UC campus libraries in their respective region.

It was based on two programs: the first program, "< tt > spider </ tt >" maintains a queue in a relational database, and the second program "< tt > mite </ tt >", is a modified < tt > www </ tt > ASCII browser that downloads the pages from the Web.

NASA maintains warehoused extensive catalogs of recovered pieces from the two destroyed orbiters.

The Internet maintains two principal namespaces, the domain name hierarchy and the Internet Protocol ( IP ) address system.

The Domain Name System maintains the domain namespace and provides translation services between these two namespaces.

Hawker Hurricane | Hurricanes and Spitfire s of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at the Duxford Air Show, May 2007. Duxford remains an active airfield and maintains two parallel runways ; an unpaved 880 m grass strip, and a concrete runway with a usable length of 1199 m, both oriented at 060 / 240-degrees.

FDK maintains two paved runways: the primary runway, Runway 5-23, which is 5, 220 feet in length and 100 feet in width, and Runway 12-30, which is 3, 600 feet in length and

Microtus maintains aboveground runways, which expand like a railway-system through the entire home range.

It maintains accuracy, for if part of the arrow struck a glancing blow on discharge, some inconsistency would be present, and the excellent accuracy of modern equipment would not be achieved.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

The modern English county of Essex maintains the historic northern and the southern borders, but only covers the territory east of the River Lea, the other parts being lost to neighbouring Mercia during the 8th Century.

In modern times it occasionally found in some glossy printing papers, artistic papers, playing cards, and it maintains the wrinkles in crêpe paper.

Popular historian Frank McLynn maintains a counter-revisionist perspective on John, arguing that the king's modern reputation amongst historians is " bizarre ", and that as a monarch John " fails almost all those that can be legitimately set ".

With the modern foundations for a general theory of systems following the World Wars, Ervin Laszlo, in the preface for Bertalanffy's book Perspectives on General System Theory, maintains that the translation of " general system theory " from German into English has " wrought a certain amount of havoc ".

He likens the practice of accusing anthropologists ( and other writers and artists ) of belief in the noble savage to a secularized version of the inquisition, and he maintains that modern anthropologists have internalized these accusations to the point where they feel they have to begin by ritualistically disavowing any belief in " noble savage " if they wish to attain credibility in their fields.

Old Spanish and Old French preserved a reflex of final / t / up through AD 1100 or so, and modern French still maintains final / t / in some liaison environments.

Lessig maintains that modern culture is dominated by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema, and that Creative Commons can provide alternatives to these restrictions.

The modern Dutch Army maintains a regiment of Guard Grenadiers who retain the bearskin headdress of the early 19th century.

The modern breed maintains bloodlines tracing to the foundation bloodstock of the registry, and has a partially open stud book that allows addition of some Thoroughbred, American Quarter Horse and Arabian blood.

The department maintains 50 + employees and officers, and the city has recently constructed a modern 3 story police station in 2007 to replace the aging old station, with highly advanced security and multimedia systems provided by ACNS, a local Manassas Park telecommunications and security company.

The agency is headquartered in the state-of-the-art New Brighton Public Safety Center, which opened in 2003, and maintains a modern fleet of police and fire vehicles.

Under its new ownership, Dunbrooke today maintains two offices – corporate headquarters in Independence, MO, and a modern decorating and distribution center located in El Dorado Springs, MO, built in 1998

As recently as 2008, magical realism in literature has been defined as "... a kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the ' reliable ' tone of objective realistic report, designating a tendency of the modern novel to reach beyond the confines of realism and draw upon the energies of fable, folk tale, and myth while maintaining a strong contemporary social relevance.

Standing against the modern ecumenist movement is the traditional Orthodox Church which staunchly maintains there is but one Church, and Orthodoxy is the Church.

* biblical minimalism — which holds the primacy of modern archaeological evidence, and maintains the theology and apology, and all stories within it are of a later aetiological character

The Gerontology Research Group validates current longevity records by modern standards, and maintains a list of supercentenarians ; many other unvalidated longevity claims exist.

The modern Château d ' If maintains adjacent cells named after Dantès and Faria as a tourist attraction.

The tempos are far faster than either genre, and it maintains the repetitive nature of modern post-rave global electronic dance music.

Although the shawls dropped out of fashion in the 1870s, the Paisley pattern remains an important symbol of the town: the Paisley Museum maintains a significant collection of the original shawls in this design and it has been used, for example, in the modern logo of Renfrewshire Council, the local authority.

The modern Roman Catholic Church maintains a neutral position on the practice of non-religious circumcision, and has never addressed the issue of infant circumcision specifically.

The modern settlement serves both as a dormitory town for the city of Glasgow and maintains its own commercial centre.