But he takes his bearings from the great guidelines of policy, well-established precedents, the commitments of the United States under international charters and treaties, basic statutes, and well-understood notions of the American people about how we are to conduct ourselves, in policy literature such as country papers and National Security Council papers accumulated in the Department.

Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the representation of functions or signals as the superposition of basic waves, and the study of and generalization of the notions of Fourier series and Fourier transforms.

This became a basic emblematic tag that underlies medieval notions of the unicorn, justifying its appearance in every form of religious art.

Natural transformations are, after categories and functors, one of the most basic notions of category theory and consequently appear in the majority of its applications.

The notions of a " decidable subset " and " recursively enumerable subset " are basic ones for classical mathematics and classical logic.

Traditionalism was advocated by a group of U. S. university professors ( labeled the " New Conservatives " by the popular press ) who rejected the notions of individualism, liberalism, modernity, and social progress, and sought instead to promote cultural and educational renewal, and a revived interest in what T. S. Eliot referred to as " the permanent things " ( those perennial truths which endure from age to age and those basic institutions that ground society such as the church, the family, the state, and community life.

Concepts often generalize more basic notions of square dancing and are an important aspect of challenge square dance.

More specifically, it is in general topology that basic notions are defined and theorems about them proved.

There are a number of general basic properties and notions.

Weyl predicted that in the subsequent 20 years, mathematicians would come to realize the total vagueness of notions such as real numbers, sets, and countability, and moreover, that asking about the truth or falsity of the least upper bound property of the real numbers was as meaningful as asking about truth of the basic assertions of Hegel on the philosophy of nature.

Thus, Sona sacrificed familiarity of grammar and lexicon for some measure of " universality ", while at the same time preserving basic notions common to grammars around the world such as compounding as a method of word formation.

* reasoning mechanisms are based on graph notions, basically the classical notion of graph homomorphism ; this allows, in particular, to link basic reasoning problems to other fundamental problems in computer science ( problems on conjunctive queries in relational databases, constraint satisfaction problem, ...),

When comparing two different transition systems ( S ', Λ ', →') and ( S ' ', Λ ' ', →' '), the basic notions of simulation and similarity can be used by forming the disjoint composition of the two machines, ( S, Λ, →) with S

The BM journals, The Phoenix and British Patriot, thus changed to become much more simplistic and aggressive publications largely shorn of Jordan's pseudoscientific racialism in favour of more basic notions.

Rich picked up these arguments in an influential article in which he contended that Indians had “ a persistent reluctance to accept European notions or the basic values of the European approach ” and that “ English economic rules did not apply to the Indian trade .” Indians were savvy traders, but they had a fundamentally different conception of property, which confounded their European trade partners.

While these notions have been proven unfounded, the basic idea that petroleum is associated with magmatism persisted.

In their report into the changes, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights said that " The changes to the Rules are so clearly incompatible with Article 8, and so contrary to basic notions of fairness, that the case for immediately revisiting the changes to the Rules in Parliament is in our view overwhelming.

The approach adopted by Aron and colleagues questions the role of notions such as " shyness " in explaining basic differences in behaviour that are encountered in many species, including humans.

Rather, an entirely different sort of basic connection of elements is possible, from which our ordinary notions of space and time, along with those of separately existent material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order.

A slim brochure, containing only the most basic notions in common use, is printed by P & G Wells and distributed to new men.

Jackendoff ( 1990, 1996: 120 – 3 ), in the process of incorporating aspects of force dynamics into his theory of conceptual semantics, has proposed a reconfiguration of some of its basic notions.

Even advanced concepts in computation, such as fuzzy logic, knowledge-based systems and quantum computation have absolutely no use whatsoever for the extreme expressiveness of any of the world's languages anyway, " rich and powerful " as they may be characterized ; the notions understood by computers are very basic.

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 second season was never developed beyond these few basic notions as it was clear to Boucher from an early stage that there was little prospect of the series being renewed.

In common law, black letter legal doctrine is an informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the courts and / or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

Criticism of Christianity continues to date, e. g. Jewish and Muslim theologians criticize the doctrine of the Trinity held by most Christians, stating that this doctrine in effect assumes that there are three Gods, running against the basic tenet of monotheism.

The book originally contained two parts: a sequence of lectures setting forth basic church doctrine, followed by a compilation of important revelations, or " covenants " of the church: thus the name Doctrine and Covenants.

Distributism reflects this doctrine most evidently by promoting the family, rather than the individual, as the basic type of owner ; that is, distributism seeks to ensure that most families, rather than most individuals, will be owners of productive property.

The neuron doctrine is the now fundamental idea that neurons are the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system.

The doctrine of binding precedent or stare decisis is basic to the English legal system, and to the legal systems that derived from it such as those of Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa.

It is almost as though Richard is teaching the basic principles of psychology combined with spiritual doctrine.

Although it came to be labelled a heresy, the movement held similar views about the basic tenets of Christian doctrine to those of the wider Christian Church.

:: Without undertaking to survey the intricacies of the ripeness doctrine it is fair to say that its basic rationale is to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and also to protect the agencies from judicial interference until an administrative decision has been formalized and its effects felt in a concrete way by the challenging parties.

Most were trained under apprenticeships and were expected to have a basic knowledge of Latin, ritual and doctrine.

The first Jesuit influence upon this doctrine was not until 1609, " when Suarez rejected Azpilcueta's basic proof and supplied another " ( Malloch, p. 145 ; speaking of Francisco Suárez ).

Seminary training includes classwork in historical theology, Biblical languages ( Biblical Greek and Hebrew ), practical application ( education, preaching, and mission ), and doctrine ( the basic teachings and beliefs of the synod ).

The Gauquelins concentrated on the analysis of a basic tenet of astrological doctrine, the results of which, they claimed, affirmed the existence of a correlation between the positions of the planets at the moment of an individual ’ s birth, the psychological character and the effect of this character upon their careers.

" is his basic principle in the doctrine concerning law ( Ket.

Epicurus ’ basic doctrine is that a life of virtue is the life which generates the most amount of pleasure, and it is for this reason that we ought to be virtuous.

The basic doctrine of Spiritism (" the Codification ") is defined in five books written and published by Allan Kardec during his life:

In 1978 the Crizer report asserted that the basic design was consistent with doctrine and development of a IFV with superior characteristics would be costly and pose significant developmental risks.

Candidates to be confirmed take a class which covers Christian doctrine, theology, Methodist Church history, stewardship, basic Bible study and other topics.

In metaphysics, pluralism is a doctrine that many basic substances make up reality, while monism holds existence to be a single substance, often either matter ( materialism ) or mind ( idealism ), and dualism believes two substances, such as matter and mind, to be necessary.

The Council upheld the basic structure of the Medieval Church, its sacramental system, religious orders, and doctrine.

liberties not on the list, for example, the right to own certain kinds of property ( e. g. means of production ) and freedom of contract as understood by the doctrine of laissez-faire are not basic ; and so they are not protected by the priority of the first principle.

They reduced logic to a basic doctrine concerning the criterion of truth.

In the second half of the 19th century, many motifs of the nervous system were identified such as the neuron doctrine and brain localisation, which related to the neuron being the basic unit of the nervous system and functional localisation in the brain, respectively.