Natural law did, however, serve as authority for legal claims and rights in some judicial decisions, legislative acts, and legal pronouncements.

Pliny the Elder refers to him as an authority 65 times in the Natural History and in Athens, a monument was built in recognition of his writings.

Originally, the Nature Conservancy Council ( now Natural England ), pressed for a special authority to manage the Broads which had been neglected for a long time.

On 31 March 2012, the Nevados National Natural Park authority decided to shut the reserve to visitors, following the increment of the threat level from yellow to orange.

Natural rights, in particular, are considered beyond the authority of any government or international body to dismiss.

Although there are commercial tours of the islands and their biomes are available, all visitors require special authorization from the Madeira Natural Park, the regional environmental authority.

Lake Pleshcheyevo is now a protected area under the Pereslavl Governmental Nature-Historical Natural Park authority.

* In the United States, a similarly dominant case is Chevron U. S. A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council,, which describes the level of deference accorded to final legislative rulemaking issued by federal agencies with the authority to do so.

Before the National Park was established in 2003, Scottish Natural Heritage conducted a consultation exercise, considering the boundary and the powers and structure of the new park authority.

At about this time, Sternberg published two articles in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal (" An Inquiry into the Modus Operandi of the Yellow Fever Poison ," July 1875, and " A Study of the Natural History of Yellow Fever ," March 1877 ) which gained him status as an authority on yellow fever.

Named by US-ACAN for Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History, noted authority on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic bird life.

Natural Authority is the authority a person exerts that is innate to them rather than being drawn from some external body.

Natural authority can also refer to authority that comes about naturally in social situations instead of intentionally, such as wisdom, knowledge or technical ability which one person or a group of people has that another individual or group does not.

Natural authority in this sense is seen by anarchists as the only form of legitimate authority in society, because it is seen by anarchists as beneficial and fundamental to human relationships.

Though a 1993 Canadian Federal Court decision declaring that the Ojibways ' right to fish commercially takes precedence over any other activity, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources have attempted to impose an Aboriginal Communal Fishing Licence on the Saugeen First Nation, a direct assault on Tribal Sovereignty, which the Saugeen First Nation have never abrogated authority or relinquished it to any other entity.

As well as being the statutory harbour authority, the Conservancy manages the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ).

During his tenure as Curator of Arachnids at the American Museum of Natural History he was the usual authority quoted when any question on spiders arose.

It is governed by a statutory authority appointed by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

The legislative authority for the Natural Landmarks Program stems from the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 ( 49 Stat.

As of 2004, the state authority responsible for conducting the State EIA in Russia has been split between two Federal bodies: 1 ) Federal service for monitoring the use of natural resources – a part of the Russian Ministry for Natural Resources and Environment and 2 ) Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Control.

For the Term of his Natural Life is a " ripping yarn ", which at times relies on unrealistic coincidences.

* Scholarly surveys of focused topics from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: articles on Aristotle, Aristotle in the Renaissance, Biology, Causality, Commentators on Aristotle, Ethics, Logic, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Natural philosophy, Non-contradiction, Political theory, Psychology, Rhetoric

" Impact of Climatic Change on Water and Natural Hazards in the Alps ".

Driving north on I-94 a sign on the roof of the building nearest the freeway says " Study Natural Law.

* Expression of viral proteins coupled to MHC proteins on the surface of the infected cell, allowing recognition by cells of the immune system ( such as Natural Killer and cytotoxic T cells ) that then induce the infected cell to undergo apoptosis.

Sir Isaac Newton was probably the discoverer of astigmation ; the position of the astigmatic image lines was determined by Thomas Young ( A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1807 ); and the theory was developed by Allvar Gullstrand.

However, following the founding of the National Gallery, London in 1824, the proposed Picture Gallery was no longer needed, and the space on the upper floor was given over to the Natural History collections.

Because of continued pressure on space the decision was taken to move natural history to a new building in South Kensington, which would later become the British Museum of Natural History.

Natural hazards include the heavy surf and the lack of natural harbors on the coast ; during the rainy season torrential flooding is a danger.

* Natural gas ( methane ), used by many for home cooking on gas stoves, has a cyan colored flame when burned.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by the Dan yr Ogof caves.

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of Man ".

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

Also in Roman times, some Essenes settled on the Dead Sea's western shore ; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, " on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... the town of Engeda " ( Natural History, Bk 5. 73 ); and it is therefore a hugely popular but contested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that " the Dead Sea Scrolls " discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

He had a small part in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot ; his part was eventually cut, but can be seen on the Special Edition DVD.

Natural monopoly, or the overlapping concepts of " practical " and " technical " monopoly, is an extreme case of failure of competition as a restraint on producers.

At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.

Natural gas and propane tank water heaters with energy factors of 62 % or greater, as well as electric tank water heaters with energy factors of 93 % or greater, are considered high-efficiency units.

Natural factors like rain and standing groundwater have contributed to the erosion of the ziggurat and damage to the ruins, especially along the south-west side.

Natural factors included widespread drought in the early 1830s, and again in the 1840s, and a food crisis in the 1840s.

# Emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate ( Anthropogenic aerosols ( i. e., human emitted aerosols ) are short-lived and mostly produce negative radiative forcing ; Natural factors have made small contributions to radiative forcing over the past century )

Natural disturbances can be described by key factors such as frequency, intensity and area.

“ The main factors in civilizational changes are in our view acquired volitional human factors … Natural or environmental factors, such as race and heredity, geographic situation, economic system, and social, intellectual, and moral conditions, are all possibilities or bonds.