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.

Many games are simply ordinary card games with the establishment of " drinking rules "; Asshole ( Presidents ), for instance, is virtually identical to Daihinmin but with additional rules governing drinking.

Many rules in chemistry rely on electron-counting:

Many companies began to market expert systems shells from universities, renamed " generators " because they added to the shell a tool for writing rules in plain language and thus, theoretically, allowed to write expert systems without a programming language nor any other software.

Many of the current " rules " of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills.

Many large countries in turn have internal rules on how and where specific subsets of their callsigns can be used ( such as Mexico's XE for AM and XH for FM radio and Television broadcasting ), which are not covered here.

Many members of the union requested that they switch the rules which were laid out by Gompers.

Many rules that govern the relations between states have been introduced and codified in the terms of peace treaties.

Many MUDs were fashioned around the dice-rolling rules of the Dungeons & Dragons series of games.

Many syntactically correct programs are nonetheless ill-formed, per the language's rules ; and may ( depending on the language specification and the soundness of the implementation ) result in an error on translation or execution.

Many important restrictions of this type, like checking that identifiers are used in the appropriate context ( e. g. not adding an integer to a function name ), or that subroutine calls have the appropriate number and type of arguments, can be enforced by defining them as rules in a logic called a type system.

Many of their efforts were acts of non-violent civil disobedience aimed at disrupting the enforcement of racial segregation rules and laws, such as refusing to give up a seat in the black part of the bus to a white person ( Rosa Parks ), or holding sit-ins at all-white diners.

Many professionals in this discipline attempt to find general rules that apply to all natural languages.

Many scholars have pointed out that the sharia is not formally a code, nor a well-defined set of rules.

Many role-playing gamers are more comfortable in a system that gives them less freedom, but where they do not need to police themselves ; others find it easier to enjoy a system where a more concrete framework of rules is already present.

Many authors: Stephen R. Marsh, Stephen Perrin, Ian Lee Starcher, Anthony Affronti, Jimmy Akin II, William A Barton, Norman Doege, Bruce Dresselhaus, Ray Greer, Zoran Kovacich, George MacDonald, Steve Maurer, Sandy Petersen, Wayne Shaw, John Sullivan — most are listed because they provided one or more optional rules.

Many rules and regulations have been set out to try to conserve fishes and shorebirds in Puget Sound.

Many classes of small racing dinghies can only be built in wood to conform to class rules.

Many of the rules Jesus calls for are considered by some to be extreme.

Many of the most interesting predictions of the autosegmental model derive from the automatic effects of the Well-formedness Condition and their independence of language-particular rules.

Many of the rules of Mao involve speech.

Many states have rules that permit certain cases such a death penalty cases and election cases directly to the state supreme court, even though most civil cases must be appealled first to an intermediate appellate court.

Many state supreme courts are the primary regulatory body for lawyers in their state and determine who can practice law and when lawyers are sanctioned for violations of professional ethical rules, which are generally also put in place as state court rules.

Many professionals in this discipline attempt to find general rules that apply to all natural languages in the context of historical linguistics, how characteristics of sentence structure in related languages changed over time.

Many years later, the photon-counting apparatus in the nose of the ship would determine that the star was close enough to actuate deceleration.

Many biopolymers spontaneously fold into characteristic compact shapes ( see also " protein folding " as well as secondary structure and tertiary structure ), which determine their biological functions and depend in a complicated way on their primary structures.

Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering.

Many mental health professionals use the manual to determine and help communicate a patient's diagnosis after an evaluation ; hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies in the US also generally require a ' five axis ' DSM diagnosis of all the patients treated.

Many early experiments found that any modification of the apparatus that can determine which slit a particle passes through will reduce the visibility of interference at the screen, thereby illustrating the complementarity principle: that light ( and electrons, etc.

* Many other forms of spectroscopy also rely upon Fourier Transforms to determine the three-dimensional structure and / or identity of the sample being analyzed, including Infrared and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopies.

Many solutions were proposed for how to determine longitude at the end of an exploratory sea voyage and hence the longitude of the place that was visited ( in case one would want to revisit it, place it on a map, or more urgently, avoid known marine hazards ).

Many private employers give standards-based tests to determine whether job applicants have necessary job skills ( such as typing speed ), and nearly all government employees have to take and pass a civil service examination.

Many proteins spontaneously fold into characteristic compact shapes — which determine their biological functions and depend in a complicated way on their primary structures.

Many transcription factors, especially some that are proto-oncogenes or tumor suppressors, help regulate the cell cycle and as such determine how large a cell will get and when it can divide into two daughter cells.

Many libraries and museums increasingly use only the safe if confusing term " membrane "; depending on factors such as the method of preparation it may be very hard to determine the animal involved without using a laboratory, and the term avoids the need to distinguish between vellum and parchment.

Many studies have tried to determine the effectiveness of yoga as a complementary intervention for cancer, schizophrenia, asthma and heart patients.

Many studies have been done to determine whether perceived benefits of a limited endoscopic or arthroscopic release are significant.

Many graphologists claim that handwriting analysis is non-discriminatory, since it cannot determine gender, age, ethnicity, or other Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) Protected Classes.

Many professionals or interested amateurs now consult extensive benchmark tests to determine system performance on various applications.

Many modern cameras include sophisticated multi-segment metering systems that measure the luminance of different parts of the scene to determine the optimal exposure.

Many of the sellers of fake amber are successful because many people, especially foreign tourists, do not know how to determine what is real.

Many rheumatologists also conduct research to determine the cause and better treatments for these disabling and sometimes fatal diseases.

Many other conditions can result in these symptoms, so laboratory tests are necessary to determine their cause.

Many studies have been performed to determine whether there is an actual presence of a VNO in adult human beings.

Many shelters temperament test animals before they are put up for adoption to determine if the animal is adoptable and, if so, what the appropriate home environment would be.

Many accounting firms competed for a multimillion-dollar contract to determine compensation to each employee.

Many factors determine the state of preservation of a wreck: