The activities of the Planning Division are defined in considerable detail in the enabling act of the Development Council, which assigns to the agency both broad responsibilities and specific duties in the field of planning.

Under Section 2 ( c ) of the Contempt of Courts Act of 1971, criminal contempt has been defined as the publication ( whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise ) of any matter or the doing of any other act whatsoever which:

Many Christians believe that marriage is defined by the union of a man and a woman, and that any sexual act outside of the marriage relationship is inherently sinful.

For example, someone who acts cruelly towards other people is, by that act, defined as a cruel person.

All of these units translate to units of work, which is always defined in terms of forces and the distances that the forces act through.

" In an interview in Informations Catholiques Internationales on 15 May 1969, he criticized the Pope ’ s decision again as frustrating the collegiality defined by the Council, calling it a non-collegial or even an anti-collegial act.

But this group found it increasingly difficult to prove that they were not labourers because the 1882 act defined excludables as ‘ skilled and unskilled labourers and Chinese employed in mining .’ Thus very few Chinese could enter the country under the 1882 law.

Furthermore, in protecting individual rights, the government is acting as an agent of its citizens and " has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens " and it must act in an impartial manner according to specific, objectively defined laws.

Perjury operates in American law as an inherited principle of the common law of England, which defined the act as the " willful and corrupt giving, upon a lawful oath, or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, in a judicial proceeding or course of justice, of a false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry.

Segregation itself is defined by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance as " the act by which a ( natural or legal ) person separates other persons on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds without an objective and reasonable justification, in conformity with the proposed definition of discrimination.

Copulation, although usually used to describe the mating process of non-human animals, is defined as " the transfer of the sperm from male to female " or " the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman ".

Simony according to the canonists, says John Ayliffe in his Parergon, is defined to be a deliberate act or a premeditated will and desire of selling such things as are spiritual, or of anything annexed unto spirituals, by giving something of a temporal nature for the purchase thereof ; or in other terms it is defined to be a commutation of a thing spiritual or annexed unto spirituals by giving something that is temporal.

In the 1832 treatise On War, Prussian military general and theoretician Carl von Clausewitz defined war as follows: " War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.

The choice was a Newtonian definition of weight as the contact reaction-force against the force of gravity, for an object at rest on the ground, or an operational definition defined by the act of weighing.

The ambiguities introduced by relativity led, starting in the 1960s, to considerable debate in the teaching community as how to define weight for their students, choosing between a nominal definition of weight as the force due to gravity or an operational definition defined by the act of weighing.

According to general principles, such quantities are defined by Hermitian operators that act on the Hilbert space of possible states of a system.

The concept of “ reciprocal altruism ”, as introduced by Trivers, suggests that altruism, defined as an act of helping someone else although incurring some cost for this act, could have evolved since it might be beneficial to incur this cost if there is a chance of being in a reverse situation where the person whom I helped before may perform an altruistic act towards me.

The rhetorical attributes of the genre act as both objects which define and are defined by genre.

As defined in linguistics, a sentence is an abstract entity — a string of words divorced from non-linguistic context — as opposed to an utterance, which is a concrete example of a speech act in a specific context.

Sapience is often defined as wisdom, or the ability of an organism or entity to act with appropriate judgment, a mental faculty which is a component of intelligence or alternatively may be considered an additional faculty, apart from intelligence, with its own properties.

In many religious doctrines lust is loosely defined with the result that it is often equated and confused with the physical expression of love in the sexual act.

379 ), this earlier act being a " Prohibition of the Importation of certain Goods and Merchandise from the Kingdom of Great Britain "; the prohibited imported goods being defined where their chief value which consists of leather, silk, hemp or flax, tin or brass, wool, glass ; in addition paper goods, nails, hats, clothing, and beer.

* Carter Beats the Devil: A novel by Glen David Gold wherein the climax of his latest touring stage show, Carter invites United States President Warren G. Harding on to stage to take part in his act, 2001.

But he also believed that police and prosecutors had to act fairly, and much of what would later lie at the heart of the Warren Court's revolution in criminal justice can be traced back to his days as an active prosecuting attorney.

Created by legislative act of 22 December 1809, Warren County is named for American Revolutionary War officer Joseph Warren.

The short-lived town of Warrenton was the original Warren County seat, chosen by commissioners in March 1828 ; the next year an act was passed calling for the seat to be relocated, and in June 1829 it was moved to Williamsport.

Next through another act of the State Legislature in 1825, it was one of the seven large southerly townships, formerly in Sussex County, which together comprised the area that became Warren County.

On March 4, 1960, leading baritone Leonard Warren died of a stroke onstage after completing the aria " Urna fatale " in act two of Verdi's La forza del destino.

The trial of Warren Hastings had been the final act in the efforts spanning the eighteenth century to harness imperial power — along with imperial wealth and prestige — securely to Britain, both as a " nation " and as a " state ".

In 2008 – 2009, as a response to then President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama's inauguration – and in response to Stephen Colbert's comment that saddleback sounded like a sex act – Savage Love readers were encouraged to vote to define the neologism saddlebacking in reference to Warren's role as pastor of Saddleback Church.

Warren Saul Hitzig co-founded the Toronto Compassion Centre ( originally the ' Medical Marijuana Resource Centre ') in 1997 to provide high quality cannabis products to those with a documented medicinal need and to act as a medical marijuana information resource for the Canadian general public.

On the show, he acts mostly as comic relief, and jokes are made at his expense ( particularly by Warren ) about how he cannot act and that he's just there to look cute.

Harvard law professor Theophilus Parsons wrote, “ I am just as certain that Wilkes had a legal right to take Mason and Slidell from the Trent, as I am that our government has a legal right to blockade the port of Charleston .” Caleb Cushing, a prominent Democrat, and former Attorney General ( under Franklin Pierce ) concurred: “ In my judgment, the act of Captain Wilkes was one which any and every self-respecting nation must and would have done by its own sovereign right and power, regardless of circumstances .” Richard Henry Dana, Jr., considered an expert on maritime law, justified the detention because the envoys were engaged “ solely a mission hostile to the United States ,” making them guilty of “ treason within our municipal law .” Edward Everett, a former minister to Great Britain and a former Secretary of State, also argued that “ the detention was perfectly lawful their confinement in Fort Warren will be perfectly lawful .”

Examples include " Potter Stewarting ", an expression used as a substitute for a common word that refers to the act of copulation, and " Burgering ", referring to the act of voiding one's bowels ( referring to Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 – 1986, Warren E. Burger ), etc.

During Dewey's first term as governor, the Wisconsin Legislature passed an act decreeing that the biennial elections for governor would begin in 1849 ; that year, in an election held in November, Dewey again defeated the Whig candidate, Alexander Collins, and the independent Warren Chase.

McWilliams left his government post in 1942, when incoming governor Earl Warren promised campaign audiences that his first official act would be to fire McWilliams.

* The multiple Miles Warren clones featured in " Spider-Island " who act as the henchmen for Jackal and the Queen.

Another act of Younger gallantry was an encounter shortly after the battle was when he warned Union Major Warren C. Bronaugh against riding into Confederate lines.

That is, when Willow first changes into Warren she acts more or less like Willow ; in these early scenes Hannigan would act first so that Busch could somewhat mimic her performance.

Xander is becoming overwhelmed by guilt over his failure to act when Warren shot Buffy and murdered Tara.

Later that year, Bartholomew County was organized by an act of the State Legislature and named to honor the famous Hoosier militiaman, General Joseph Bartholomew.

Scott County was formed by an act of the Wisconsin Territorial legislature in 1837.

For example, the Irish insanity defence comprises the M ' Naghten Rules and a control test which asks whether the accused was debarred from refraining from committing the act because of a defect of reason due to mental illness ( see Doyle v Wicklow County Council 1974 ) 55 IR 71.

Michigan, led by the young and hot-headed Mason, responded with the passage of the Pains and Penalties Act just six days after Lucas County was formed ; the act made it a criminal offense for Ohioans to carry out governmental actions in the Strip, under penalty of a fine up to $ 1, 000 and / or up to five years imprisonment at hard labor.

Lenawee remained attached to Monroe County, out of which it was formed, until an act of the Territorial Legislature passed on December 26, 1826, organized the county government.

Marconi established a wireless transmitting station at Marconi House, Rosslare Strand, County Wexford, Ireland in 1901 to act as a link between Poldhu in Cornwall and Clifden in County Galway.

* The North Carolina General Assembly passes an act establishing the town of Martinsborough, named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin, on the land of Richard Evans, which will serve as the county seat of Pitt County.

On March 17, 1879, the pair arranged that the Kid would act as an informant and testify against others involved in the Lincoln County War, and, it has been claimed, that in return the Kid would be " scot free with a pardon in pocket for all misdeeds.

Westchester County was an original county of the Province of New York, one of twelve created by an act of the New York General Assembly in 1683.

Since California considers “ all persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense … principals in any crime so committed ,” San Marin County Superior Judge Peter Allen Smith charged Davis with “ aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder in the death of Judge Harold Haley ” and issued a warrant for her arrest.

* The 1948 20th Century Fox movie Green Grass of Wyoming was filmed at the Fairfield County Fairground in Lancaster, making it the first community in Ohio to act as the setting for a feature length Hollywood movie.

The act forming the county was approved by the Indiana General Assembly on January 29, 1830, and created Clinton from the eastern parts of neighboring Tippecanoe County.

The County was created on December 10, 1807 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly.

The 1854 act reestablishing Putnam was passed after Representative Henderson M. Clements of Jackson County assured his colleagues that a new survey showed that there was sufficient area to form the county.

The act authorized Joshua R. Stone and Green Baker from White County, William Davis and Isaiah Warton from Overton County, John Brown and Austin Morgan from Jackson County, William B. Stokes and Bird S. Rhea from DeKalb County, and Benjamin A. Vaden and Nathan Ward from Smith County to study the Conner survey and select a spot, not more than two and one-half miles from the center of the county, for the courthouse.

In March and April 1977, the threesome toured as a support act for Cherry Vanilla and for Wayne County & the Electric Chairs.

Montgomery County was established by an act of the Indiana state legislature passed on December 21, 1822, which defined the county's boundaries and provided for the organization of its government.

This act appears to have led to the establishment of Kent County.

" By this time, Leavitt Thaxter had taken on the role, described in an act passed by the General Court of Massachusetts, as " guardian of the Indians and people of color resident at Chappequiddic and Indiantown in the County of Dukes County.