* A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair ; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down ( the constellation Cassiopeia )

In some Christian denominations, for example, the Anglican Communion, parish churches may maintain a chair for the use of the bishop when he visits ; this is to signify the parish's union with the bishop.

When down to the last two players the chair may be moved as long as the music has stopped before the chair has been touched.

Although the Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces is legally the Sovereign: under constitutional practice the Prime Minister can declare war, and through the Secretary of State for Defence ( whom he may appoint, dismiss or even appoint himself as ) as chair of the Defence Council the power over the deployment and disposition of British forces.

If, however, the referee is on the court during play, the referee may overrule the umpire's decision ( This would only happen in Davis Cup or Fed Cup matches, not at the World Group level, when a chair umpire from a non-neutral country is in the chair ).

Should a player be determined to be stalling repeatedly, the chair umpire may initially give a warning followed by subsequent penalties of " point ", " game ", and default of the match for the player who is consistently taking longer than the allowed time limit.

The last kings may have borne the Etruscan title lucumo, while the regalia were traditionally considered of Etruscan origin: the golden crown, sceptre, the toga palmata ( a special robe ), the sella curulis ( curule chair ), and above all the primary symbol of state power: the fasces.

Some privileges of the flamen of Jupiter may reflect regal origin: he had the use of the curule chair, and was the only priest ( sacerdos ) who was preceded by a lictor and had a seat in the senate.

As the minority party has one less leadership position after losing the speaker's chair, there may be a contest for the remaining leadership positions.

Time-outs may be on a chair, step, corner or any other location where there are no distractions.

Desmond Tutu serves as the chair of the Elders, who will use their collective skills to catalyse peaceful resolutions to long-standing conflicts, articulate new approaches to global issues that are causing or may later cause immense human suffering, and share wisdom by helping to connect voices all over the world.

In organizations other than legislative bodies, the ruling of the chair may be appealed to the assembly in most cases.

In other words, even though a chair may physically exist, individuals can only experience it through the medium of their own mind, each with their own literal point-of-view.

Desmond Tutu serves as the chair of The Elders — who will use their collective skills to catalyse peaceful resolutions to long-standing conflicts, articulate new approaches to global issues that are causing or may cause immense human suffering, and share wisdom by helping to connect voices all over the world.

The mayor may chair the city council, but lacks any special legislative powers.

This may be directly compared with Fritz Perls ' use of an " empty chair " as a context for imagined interactions ( where the client was often invited to occupy the chair and thus take on the role of the person imagined to be sitting there ); Bert Hellinger's approach, which requires the client to arrange family members ( played by volunteers ) in a row or pattern which matches the client's internal understanding, and then to reorganise the row ; and Virginia Satir's work with tableaux and posture.

The sedan chair belonging to the elderly Spanish infantry general Fontaines ( a Belgian, known to the Spanish as Fuentes ) was taken as a trophy by the French and may be seen in Les Invalides museum in Paris.

The wicket may be any convenient object-a chair, a cardboard box, a set of long twigs or sticks, a rubbish bin, tree or a drawing on the wall.

The Prime Minister's attendance does not mean that he will chair the committee, despite being the most senior Cabinet member present, though he may choose to do so.

While this makes it more difficult for a small number of disruptors to block a decision, it puts increased responsibility on the chair, and may lead to divisive debates about whether rough consensus has in fact been correctly identified.

A person may also perform abdominal thrusts on themselves by using a fixed object such as a railing or the back of a chair to apply pressure where a rescuer's hands would normally do so.

* Magic Fielders, similar to the automatic wicket keeper rule, magic fielders can range from a chair to a hose, cars to windows, and the rule states that any magic fielder that is hit on the full will be recorded as out.

After the military coup in 1992, he was asked to chair the National Advisory Council, one of the mechanisms set up by the military to alleviate the restoration of constitutional rule, including the drafting of a new constitution for Sierra Leone.

He served as a vice chair of the government ’ s arts committee for the first two years of democratic rule.

Under this period, subpoenas could only be issued by the Committee chair, a rule change during the Clinton administration to facilitate investigations without delays caused by objections from minority members.

Much of the humor in the movie is the result of the two getting into, and then extricating themselves from, outrageous situations in their mission to covertly locate, open up ( read: utterly destroy ), and thus rule out each chair, in turn.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

It sometimes ended in death-like trances with many lying exhausted and panting on chair and floor.

From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.

There was a man's jacket on the chair and a straw hat on the table.

Then Rector, attired in his best blue serge suit, sat in a chair out on the lawn, in the shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette and waiting.

Then she went back to the wicker chair and resolutely adjusted her eyes to the glare on the water.

Those who are too weak, should climb on the chair and, starting at the top of the chin, let themselves slowly down.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

Is Bill's broken a chair, dominant stress will usually be on the complement a chair.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

He rocked back in the chair, knee locked against stomach, his beady eyes fixed on Matson.