There is no clock in the Jewish scheme, so that a civil clock is used.

Though the civil clock incorporates local adoptions of various conventions such as time zones, standard times and daylight saving, these have no place in the Jewish scheme.

However, due to variations in the rotation rate of the Earth, the rate of an ideal sidereal clock deviates from any simple multiple of a civil clock.

Anno 1812, Decembris 26 at 1 o ' clock P. M. before us the rector of the Zarnowiec parish and civil recorder of the village of Zarnowiec, Pilica County, Department of Cracow, there came Hon.

Unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of the bell do not accord to the number of the hour.

Each degree of longitude east of the Greenwich meridian makes the vital moment exactly 4 minutes earlier than midnight as shown on the clock, while each hour that the local civil time is ahead of coordinated universal time ( also known as GMT ) makes the moment an hour later.

The civil power is responsible for maintenance of the tower clock, the tower and the church bells.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.

This finding is consistent also with the fact that student leaders are more likely to be supporters of the values implicit in civil liberties than the other students.

progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Had U.S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war.

The concern of Utopia is with the optimo reipublicae statu, the best ordering of a civil society ; ;

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Conscience and religion are concerned with private sin: The civil law is concerned with public crimes.

Only confusion, failure and anarchy result when the effort is made to impose upon the civil authority the impossible task of policing private homes to preclude the possibility of sin.

One advantage that would come to the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East Providence would become eligible to apply to the federal government for financial aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil defense program.

It is the basis for Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ), which is used for civil timekeeping all over the Earth's surface, and for Terrestrial Time, which is used for astronomical calculations.

There is no corresponding right to a writ in any pure or continental civil law legal systems, though some mixed systems such as Quebec recognize these prerogative writs.

In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.

Generally speaking in private, civil cases there is no plea entered of guilt or innocence.

" Österreichische Kanzleisprache " is now used less and less, thanks to various administrative reforms which have led to there being fewer of the classic civil servants, the Beamter.

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

It is thus much better equipped for fulfilling its civil roles as opposed to providing a deterrence against would-be aggressors or in defending the nation during a war.

The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability.

* 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.

* 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

Any person who is seen as a threat to civil aviation is banned from flying.

A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.

On the continent of Europe among some civil law systems ( i. e. those deriving from Roman law or the Napoleonic Code ), the inquisitorial system may be used for some types of cases.

The term " common law " ( connotation 2 ) is often used as a contrast to Roman-derived " civil law ", and the fundamental processes and forms of reasoning in the two are quite different.

During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

The main alternative to the common law system is the civil law system, which is used in Continental Europe, and most of the rest of the world.

Calendars in widespread use today include the Gregorian calendar, which is the de facto international standard, and is used almost everywhere in the world for civil purposes, including in the People's Republic of China and India ( along with the Indian national calendar ).

While the Gregorian calendar is widely used in Israel's business and day-to-day affairs, the Hebrew calendar, used by Jews worldwide for religious and cultural affairs, also influences civil matters in Israel ( such as national holidays ) and can be used there for business dealings ( such as for the dating of checks ).

It was commonly used during the mid-1960s by Mexican-American activists, who, in attempt to reassert their civil rights, tried to rid the word of its polarizing negative connotation by reasserting a unique ethnic identity and political consciousness, proudly identifying themselves as Chicanos.

Modern historians have used this to determine both the nature of his politics and of the aborted chapters of his civil war history.

" In 1704, civilization was used to mean " a law which makes a criminal process into a civil case.

" Civilization was not used in its modern sense to mean " the opposite of barbarism "— as contrasted to civility, meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the second half of the 18th century.

The international distinctive sign of civil defence, defined by the rules of International Humanitarian Law and to be used as a protective sign

The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.

The Correlates of War, a dataset widely used by scholars of conflict, classifies civil wars as having over 1000 war-related casualties per year of conflict.

Using a separate statistical evaluation than used above for interventions, civil wars that included pro-or anti-communist forces lasted 141 % longer than the average non-Cold War conflict, while a Cold War civil war that attracted superpower intervention resulted in wars typically lasting over three times as long as other civil wars.

Comparative civil law studies, for instance, show how the law of private relations is organised, interpreted and used in different systems or countries.

The term " democracy " is sometimes used as shorthand for liberal democracy, which is a variant of representative democracy that may include elements such as political pluralism ; equality before the law ; the right to petition elected officials for redress of grievances ; due process ; civil liberties ; human rights ; and elements of civil society outside the government.