The basic formulation is: a state may exercise personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant, so long as that defendant has " sufficient minimum contacts " with the forum state, from which the complaint arises, such that the exercise of jurisdiction " will not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.

The basic concept is as follows: members of an organization, whether a business, a nation or any other form of human grouping, have essentially two possible responses when they perceive that the organization is demonstrating a decrease in quality or benefit to the member: they can exit ( withdraw from the relationship ); or, they can voice ( attempt to repair or improve the relationship through communication of the complaint, grievance or proposal for change ).

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

The basic difficulty, I suppose, was in my ultimate inability to feel a burden of sin from which I sought relief.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

In 1861, Mr. Brown's attention was called to yet another basic production problem -- the manufacture of twist drills.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

This was not a search for a `` magic formula '', but rather an examination of basic principles pertaining especially to all types of communication in marriage.

Swadesh in short was trying to develop a basic list that was universal ; ;

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.

Official reasoning: the bill was a `` wanton invasion of basic property rights ''.

What Gabriel was being asked to do now, however, was to re-examine all his basic assumptions, make value-judgments on them, and give them new and different powers in his mind to govern his motives.

Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable.

This was a basic number to understand, 7 times 13, a close relation conceived between natural phenomena, the underworld and the cycles of the heavens.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

It is evident that Swadesh has not only had much experience with basic vocabulary in many languages but has acquired great tact and feeling for the expectable behavior of lexical items.

Most importantly, the ' Altaic ' languages do not seem to share a common basic vocabulary of the type normally present in cases of genetic relationship.

It lists 144 items of shared basic vocabulary ( most of them already present in Starostin 1991 ), including words for such items as ' eye ', ' ear ', ' neck ', ' bone ', ' blood ', ' water ', ' stone ', ' sun ', and ' two '.

Related to this is lexicostatistics, which attempts to determine the degree of relation between a set of languages by comparing the percentage of basic vocabulary ( words like " I ", " you ", " heart ", " stone ", " two ", " be ", " and ") they share in common.

What survives today of Ogden's Basic English is the basic 850-word list used as the beginner's vocabulary of the English language taught worldwide, especially in Asia.

), along with a 50-word list from a more specialised subset of that general field, to make a basic 1000 words vocabulary for everyday work and life.

is a novella which uses basic grammar and vocabulary in the first chapter and builds up to expert Esperanto by the end, including word lists so that beginners may easily follow along.

* Estonian Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words ( from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix )

* Swadesh lists of Indo-Iranian basic vocabulary words ( from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix )

He advocated restricting the amount of material to be compared ( to basic vocabulary, morphology, and known paths of sound change ) and increasing the number of languages to be compared to all the languages in a given area.

Greenberg noted that mass " borrowing " of basic vocabulary is unknown.

Although little data is available, proto-Kwadi – Khoe reconstructions have been made for pronouns and some basic vocabulary.

Julius Klaproth had noted in 1823 that Burmese, Tibetan and Chinese all shared common basic vocabulary, but that Thai, Mon and Vietnamese were quite different.

However, these are seldom found in all branches of the family, and do not include basic vocabulary, indicating that they are old loan words ( Ostapirat 2005 ).

The detail ( illustration, left ), part of the basic vocabulary of trained architects from the later 18th century onwards, shows how the width of the metopes was flexible: here they bear the famous bas-relief sculptures of the battle of Lapiths and Centaurs.

Recent work by scholars such as Ekki Lu, Sakai Toru, and Lí Khîn-hoāⁿ ( also known as Tavokan Khîn-hoāⁿ or Chin-An Li ), based on former research by scholars such as Ông Io ̍ k-tek, has gone so far as to associate part of the basic vocabulary of the colloquial Taiwanese with the Austronesian and Tai language families ; however, such claims are controversial.

Lingala has many borrowings from French, even in its basic vocabulary.

The idea has been developed by Morris Swadesh under two assumptions: First that there exists a relatively stable " basic vocabulary " ( therefore called " Swadesh lists ") in all languages of the world, and secondly that any replacements happen in a way analogical to that in radioactive decay in constant percentages per time elapsed.

This core vocabulary was designed to encompass concepts common to every human language ( such as personal pronouns, body parts, heavenly bodies, verbs of basic actions, numerals ' one ' and ' two ', etc.

In other words, at some point in history, terms that used to be slang shift into basic vocabulary, and this principle applies to decades-old internet slang just as it has always applied to many other kinds of slang.

" Picture books are most often aimed at young children, and while some may have very basic language especially designed to help children develop their reading skills, most are written with vocabulary a child can understand but not necessarily read.

In a paper presented to the 1st International Congress of Linguists in 1928, Trubetzkoy defined a Sprachbund as a group of languages with similarities in syntax, morphological structure, cultural vocabulary and sound systems, but without systematic sound correspondences, shared basic morphology or shared basic vocabulary.