Apostasy, for example, is a violation of orthodoxy that takes the form of abandonment of the faith, a concept largely unknown before the adoption of Christianity as the state religion of Rome on February 27, 380 by Theodosius I ( see also First seven Ecumenical Councils and State church of the Roman Empire ).

Ramatoulaye: The widowed Senegalese woman who, after 25 years of marriage and 12 children, narrates the story of her psychological abandonment by her husband, who takes a second wife.

Godard and Gorin use other self-reflexive techniques in Tout va bien such as direct camera address, long takes, and abandonment of the continuity editing system.

Francis had held a strong distrust of the place of theological studies in the life of his brotherhood, fearing that it might lead to an abandonment of their commitment to a life of real poverty.

The line was in place in Marion until 2002, when eventual owner Red River Valley & Western filed for abandonment.

The tracks were in place until 2002, when Great Northern successor BNSF Railway filed for abandonment.

Portuguese rule saw a decline in the Hindu population on the island and the abandonment of the Shiva cave ( main cave ) as a regular Hindu place of worship, though worship on Mahashivratri, the festival of Shiva, continued and still does.

State repression ( including the infamous 1894 French lois scélérates ) of the anarchist and labor movements following the few successful bombings and assassinations may have contributed to the abandonment of these kinds of tactics, although reciprocally state repression, in the first place, may have played a role in these isolated acts.

Captain Evans was overseeing the abandonment of Fort Lyon and had been told that the new policy would be that the Navajo had to colonize in settlements or pueblos, mentioning the region of the Little Colorado west of Zuni as possibly an ideal place.

When the Federation of Malaya was put into place in 1948 following the abandonment of the Malayan Union a Court of Appeal was established for the entire federation that lasted until independence from the British in 1957.

Following the war faster aircraft led to the abandonment of the flimsy wooden gliders with the then new helicopters taking their place.

State repression ( including the infamous 1894 French lois scélérates ) of the anarchist and labor movements following the few successful bombings and assassinations may have contributed to the abandonment of these kinds of tactics, although reciprocally state repression, in the first place, may have played a role in these isolated acts.

Final abandonment of the broad gauge did not take place until after his death at the age of 73.

This disaster led to the abandonment of the building as a place of worship for Ardglass, probably in the 16th century.

The cause of their abandonment was the appointment of his son, the Master of Stair, who had made his peace with James II, as Lord Advocate in place of Mackenzie, who was dismissed from office for refusing to relax the penal laws against the Roman Catholics.

The family transfer character of Aliyah, that is the relocation of entire households, including women, children and elderly members, implies abandonment of the place of origin.

The Pyramid of Neferirkare Kakai ( burial place of the king ) was initially designed as a 6-step pyramid 52 m high, but later it was extended to the form of a typical pyramid and it reached a height of 72 m. The mortuary complex is unfinished, and only part of the lower mortuary temple was completed before, it is supposed, the abandonment of the project.

The Church operated the facility as a school, residence, and place of worship for another century, until the dilapidated condition forced its abandonment in 1972.

In police work ( and presumably serving as the source of its wider use ) a " dump job " is the abandonment of a dead human body, especially without significant concealment after its removal from the place of death.

But Deirdre David, in Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels, published in 1981, suggests that Margaret ’ s abandonment of London society means she is not in her place in the South, and that her adjustment to the North is, therefore, not ironic ( O ' Farrell, 1997, p 161 ).

However, in March 1945 he reported to Tokyo on the " danger of Berlin becoming a battlefield " and revealing a fear " that the abandonment of Berlin may take place another month ".

He began making small terracotta sculptures in 1895, and within a few years his concentration on sculpture led to the abandonment of his work in tapestry.

This controversy between those who advocated independent computations, and those who wished to continue the custom of relying on the Jewish calendar, was formally resolved by the First Council of Nicaea in 325 ( see below ), which endorsed the move to independent computations, effectively requiring the abandonment of the old custom of consulting the Jewish community in those places where it was still used.

However, since the abandonment of the START II treaty, the U. S. is said to be considering retaining 800 warheads on an existing 450 missiles.

Therefore, as historians such as John Stachel argue, Einstein's views on the " new aether " are not in conflict with his abandonment of the aether in 1905.

Imports of Soviet goods to Germany fell to 223 million Reichsmarks in 1934 as the more isolationist Stalinist regime asserted power and the abandonment of post – World War I Treaty of Versailles military controls decreased Germany's reliance on Soviet imports.

The reason for its swift abandonment as an alternative to morphine was due to the adverse effects it had on German soldiers during early trials.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

Experienced commanders on both sides in the English Civil War recommended the abandonment of garrisoned fortifications for two primary reasons.

** A massive eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat leads to evacuation and eventual abandonment of the capital, Plymouth.

That spending of city money on suburbs then devalued inner-city capital property, provoked the economic abandonment of the city in favor of peripheral rural property, consequently, the low price of inner-city land, relative to the high price of rural land.

The transference of the city did not, however, mean the abandonment of the east end of the promontory, on which stand the remains of several very large villas.

Upon his arrival in Scotland on 23 June 1650, Charles formally agreed to the Covenant ; his abandonment of Episcopal church governance, although winning him support in Scotland, left him unpopular in England.

The end of the period is marked by the abandonment of the cities and a return to lifestyles based on farming villages and semi-nomadic herding, although specialised craft production continued and trade routes remained open.

This abandonment led him to paint Death and the Maiden, where Wally's portrait is based on a previous pairing, but Schiele's is newly struck.

Several causes explain this process: The definitive breakdown of the production system based on slavery in existence from the time of the late Roman Empire, the continuous propagation of epidemics in the area, and the abandonment of Al Andalus by the Berber regiments after the revolt of 740-741.

Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had a profound effect on her.

The title reflects Gautier's abandonment of the romantic ambition to create a kind of " total " art involving the emotional participation of the reader, in favour of a more modern approach focusing more on the poetic composition's form instead of its content.

This material may be examined by metal detector for stray finds but unless the site has remained untouched since its abandonment there is invariably a layer of modern material on the surface of limited archaeological interest.

The giant brothers Otus and Ephialtes figure in at least two Naxos myths: in one, Artemis bought the abandonment of a siege they laid against the gods, by offering to live on Naxos as Otus's lover ; in another, the brothers had actually settled Naxos.

Buddy's abandonment on Earth in the script's final scene inspired the E. T.

In the past the Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad passed through Sopchoppy on its route between Tallahassee and Carrabelle until its abandonment in 1948, while the Tallahassee Railroad, the first railroad in Florida, was abandoned by the Seaboard Coast Line in 1983.

" And it was this new name that might have inspired the addition of a bizarre element to the story of Oedipus ' abandonment on Mt.

Exposure on a mountain was in fact a common method of child abandonment in Ancient Greece.