159 ) adopts the old English Common-Law definition of affray, with the substitution of actual disturbance of the peace for causing terror to the lieges.

The London-based Rainforest Foundation notes that " the UN figure is based on a definition of forest as being an area with as little as 10 % actual tree cover, which would therefore include areas that are actually savannah-like ecosystems and badly damaged forests.

While formal language theory usually concerns itself with formal languages that are described by some syntactical rules, the actual definition of the concept " formal language " is only as above: a ( possibly infinite ) set of finite-length strings, no more nor less.

The definition makes no declaration about the Church's belief that the Blessed Virgin was sinless, in the sense of actual or personal sin.

Since the actual physical surface of the Earth is too complex for mathematical analysis two levels of abstraction are employed in the definition of these coordinates.

While the actual numbers behind this definition were never firm, the concept allowed customers to share access to expensive resources like disk drives and printers, send e-mail, and access the Internet.

" The International Association for the Study of Pain's widely used definition states: " Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage ".

3 is the actual parameter value that is substituted for the formal parameter in the function definition.

Because the actual relationship of turtles to other reptiles was not yet well understood at this time, Gauthier's definition came to be considered inadequate.

To determine the actual data rate of a network or connection, the " goodput " measurement definition may be used.

In " Social Capital and Development: The Coming Agenda ," Francis Fukuyama points out that there isn't an agreed definition of social capital, so he explains it as " shared norms or values that promote social cooperation, instantiated in actual social relationships " ( Fukuyama, 27 ), and uses this definition throughout this paper.

Many fruits commonly referred to as berries are not actual berries by the scientific definition, but fall into one of these categories:

Extension ( semantics ) to the actual things that referring terms like nouns stand for, provided that agreement on reference is accomplished, is one method of breaking this circularity, but this is outside the capacity of a text-based definition.

: Although the purse example is based on an actual adjective, this is not generally the case: an on-again-off-again relationship contains no adjectives, for example, and so is not an adjectival phrase under the syntactic definition.

This definition of EI encompasses behavioral dispositions and self perceived abilities and is measured by self report, as opposed to the ability based model which refers to actual abilities, which have proven highly resistant to scientific measurement.

In reality, while Massachusetts ( where the fictional crime was committed ) does have a law requiring passersby to report a crime in progress, the most stringent punishment the characters could have suffered under those circumstances would have been a $ 500 – 2, 500 fine ( assuming they were prosecuted under state law ); in addition, the phrase " good Samaritan law ," when used in Massachusetts, refers only to the civil law definition and does not have any actual relevance to the law under which Jerry Seinfeld and his friends were prosecuted ( which would be considered a duty to rescue ).

Subsequently, the actual meaning of the terms " First World " and " Third World " changed from being based on political ideology to an economic definition ( see the terms developed country and developing country ).

the definition currently in use to measure the UK government deficit, the actual deficit for 1993 – 94 of 6. 9 % was the highest since 1975 – 76 at 9. 2 % but just over half the 13. 3 % deficit projected for 2009 – 10 in the April 2009 budget.

This lack of a single, universal definition commonly results in discrepancies between advertised and actual number of baths in real estate listings.

0. 235420 ( exactly: 1320 / 5607 ) troy ounces or 113. 0016 grains ( original definition ; actual gold content may differ due to allowed tolerances and abrasion, see Reminting worn coins below.

Often, it is unclear whether the actual presentation fits this definition because the term is used in an attempt to discredit the presentation.

This is the definition in only the United States and came from the landmark 1964 lawsuit New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, which ruled that public officials needed to prove actual malice in order to recover damages for libel.

The three members of one team are given an obscure word ; one of them gets the actual definition, and the other two must bluff with fake definitions composed in a short time, while the band entertains the house, and local stations identify themselves.

In modern Chinese culture, jianghu is commonly accepted as an alternative universe coexisting with the actual historical one in which the context of the wuxia genre was set.

Kepler's efforts to explain the underlying reasons for such motions are no longer accepted ; nonetheless, the actual laws themselves are still considered an accurate description of the motion of any planet and any satellite.

A third parameter is whether translatability is accepted as a proof of similarity or difference between concept systems or whether it is rather the actual habitual use of linguistic expressions that is to be examined.

However, the Syrian government accepted UNSCR 1483 ( after being absent for the actual vote ), which lifted sanctions on Iraq and established a framework to assist the Iraqi people in determining their political future and rebuilding their economy.

However, despite its disclaimer, and the fact that it deviates from actual events in many ways, the play has largely been accepted as history by the public.

It is generally accepted that this was around 590, making the actual year 589.

It was accepted that if the deadline had been contained within the actual text of the amendment itself, Congress could not have extended it, as doing so would involve changing the text of an amendment already ratified by some of the states.

The actual term " State of the Union " first emerged in 1934 when Franklin D. Roosevelt used the phrase, becoming its generally accepted name since 1947.

" In clinical contexts, what may happen is that notionally the analyst's " interpretation is accepted, but the premises have been rejected ... the actual specificity, the substance of the interpretation ".

The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas chambers to mass murder Jews, and the actual number of Jews killed was significantly ( typically an order of magnitude ) lower than the historically accepted figure of 5 to 6 million.

The victorious general had been accepted as the actual commander of the army and maintained his strong connections to the aristocracy.

Although not accepted by larger section of Hindu culture, certain tantric cults performed human sacrifice until around the same time, both actual and symbolic ; it was a highly ritualised act, and on occasion took many months to complete.

Members of fandom often create a kind of fan-made canon ( fanon ) to patch up such errors ; " fanon " that becomes generally accepted sometimes becomes actual canon.

108 of the 173 bishops accepted the invitation, although the actual attendance was a little smaller.

Other widely mentioned elements of a SLAPP are the actual effectiveness at silencing critics, the timing of the suit, inclusion of extra or spurious defendants ( such as relatives or hosts of legitimate defendants ), inclusion of plaintiffs with no real claim ( such as corporations that are affiliated with legitimate plaintiffs ), making claims that are very difficult to disprove or rely on no written record, ambiguous or deliberately mangled wording that lets plaintiffs make spurious allegations without fear of perjury, refusal to consider any settlement ( or none other than cash ), characterization of all offers to settle as insincere, extensive and unnecessary demands for discovery, attempts to identify anonymous or pseudonymous critics, appeals on minor points of law, demands for broad rulings when appeal is accepted on such minor points of law, and attempts to run up defendants ' costs even if this clearly costs more to the plaintiffs.

After the defeat in 1699, the number was reduced, but it was increased in the 18th century to 113, 400 soldiers, but most were not actual soldiers and were accepted into the army through corrupt means and were only taking salary.

Thus, if popular fashion says that a ‘ blouse ’ is ideal for a certain situation or ensemble, this idea is immediately naturalized and accepted as truth, even though the actual sign could just as easily be interchangeable with ‘ skirt ’, ‘ vest ’ or any number of combinations.

While the version given by the playwrights may have come to be accepted as historical fact by some, the Chūshingura was written some 50 years after the event, and numerous historical records about the actual events that pre-date the Chūshingura survive.

While the church has traditionally adopted a " hate the sin but love the sinner " approach, in recent years some within the church have pushed for actual homosexual behaviour to be accepted as not sinful.

the earliest date is put around the 14th century where a copperplate inscription of Parakarama Bahu IV ( 1302-1326 ) refers to two persons who were declared exempt from certain taxes which included " gun licenses ". http :// www. island. lk / index. php? page_cat = article-details & page = article-details & code_title = 22207 many also believe that it was the Portuguese who first brought over actual muskets during their invasion of the Sri Lankan Coastline and low lands in 1505 as they regularly used short barrelled matchlocks during combat, however, P. E. P. Deraniyagala points out that the Sinhala term for gun, ‘ bondikula ’ matches the Arabic term for gun, ‘ bunduk .’ Also that certain technical aspects of the early Sinhalese matchlock were similar to the matchlocks used in the Middle East, thus forming the generally accepted theory that the musket was not entirely new to the island by the time the Portuguese came, but it was only in a short matter of time that native Sri Lankan kingdoms, most notably the kingdom of Sitawaka and the Kandyan Kingdom where Sinhalese muskets with a unique bifurcated stock, longer barrel and smaller calibre, which made it more efficient in driving out the energy from the gunpowder, where manufactured by the hundreds and mastered by soldiers to the point where according to the Portuguese invader, Queyroz, they could " fire at night to put out a match " and " by day at 60 paces would sever a knife with four or five bullets " and " send as many on the same spot in the target.

That Gambetta after 1875 felt strongly that the relations between France and Germany might be improved, and that he made it his object, by travelling incognito, to become better acquainted with Germany and the adjoining states, may be accepted, but M. Laur appears to have exaggerated the extent to which any actual negotiations took place.

* The plot of " A Home for the Highland Cattle ", a short story by Doris Lessing hinges on whether a painting of cattle can be accepted in place of actual cattle for " lobola ", bride price in a southern African setting.

The commonly accepted birth date of 27 December 1761 is the actual day of his baptism in the Lutheran church of the town Žeimelis.

Plasma effects being vital in slowing down a protostar's spin in stellar formation is accepted as mainstream science today ( although the actual mechanism is not so clearcut ).