The degree to which the norms of a particular society or community are adopted determines one's willingness to engage with others.

While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.

New legislation subsequently adopted included a ban on the sale of paint spray cans to persons under 18 and increases in maximum fines for the offence from NZ $ 200 to NZ $ 2, 000 or extended community service.

* 2007 – Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy.

His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, which has been widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of the Linux kernel.

Unlike most major shifts in scientific thought, special relativity was adopted by the scientific community remarkably quickly, consistent with Einstein's later comment that the laws of physics described by the Special Theory were " ripe for discovery " in 1905.

In the 2000s, former President Vicente Fox adopted a new foreign policy that calls for an openness and an acceptance of criticism from the international community and the increase of Mexican involvement in foreign affairs, as well as a further integration towards its northern neighbors.

The community adopted this plan, and during the ensuing seven-year struggle, thousands of Indians were jailed, flogged, or shot for striking, refusing to register, for burning their registration cards or engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance.

Following the closure of the Netscape project, the name was adopted by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary the Mozilla Corporation, who continue to promote the original project's goals in association with the wider Mozilla community.

Adler remarked that many Pagans informed her of how they had adopted polytheism because it allowed a greater freedom, diversity and tolerance of worship amongst the community than that permitted in monotheistic religions.

It is commonly called " Wicca ", a term that came to be adopted in the early 1960s, although in the late 1970s and 1980s certain Pagan Witches began to instead use that term purely in reference to specific traditions of the Pagan Craft, and in the contemporary pagan community both definitions are now employed, causing some confusion.

In the 1980s and 1990s, many law enforcement agencies began to adopt community policing strategies, and others adopted problem-oriented policing.

In addition, many of the techniques developed by phenetic taxonomists have been adopted and extended by community ecologists, due to a similar need to deal with large amounts of data.

* Shambo a black Friesian bull living in the Hindu Skanda Vale Temple near Llanpumsaint in Wales ( 2001 – 2007 ), who had been adopted by the local Hindu community as a sacred animal

However, it is not clear in how many of these countries it has been actually adopted by the Deaf community.

On September 23, 2004 the university's board of governors voted unanimously to rename the institution Breton University, however the proposed name received opposition from a number of groups in the institution and local community over the removal of the word " Cape " from the proposed new name, thus the name Cape Breton University was adopted instead.

The WorldForge community has adopted the view that " massive " is unnecessary in a non-commercial

During South Africa's transition to democracy, she adopted a far less conciliatory and compromising attitude than her husband toward the dominant white community. This made her unpopular with the white apartheid interest groups, not surprisingly.

* May 12 – History of the Moravian Church: The 18th century renewal: Brotherly Agreement adopted by the Moravian Church community at Herrnhut under the influence of Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf, the beginning of the Church's renewal.

Heliox has been used medically since the 1930s, and although the medical community adopted it initially to alleviate symptoms of upper airway obstruction, its range of medical uses has since expanded greatly, mostly because of the low density of the gas.

The Jewish presence itself was divided between the traditional Sephardi community, Orthodox and anti-Zionist, whose members spoke Arabic and adopted Arab dress, and the more recent influx of Ashkenazis.

Many followers relocated to Persia and became affiliated with the local Christian community there ; this adopted an increasingly Nestorian theology and was thereafter often known as the Nestorian Church.

In April 1986, he won election as mayor ( a nonpartisan position ) of his adopted hometown, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California – a small, wealthy village and artists ' community on the Monterey Peninsula.

Eventually, however, DocBook was adopted by the open source community where it has become a standard for creating documentation for many projects, including FreeBSD, KDE, GNOME desktop documentation, the GTK + API references, the Linux kernel documentation, and the work of the Linux Documentation Project.

This has led scholars from Kerman onwards to believe that Byrd was reinterpreting biblical and liturgical texts in a contemporary context and writing laments and petitions on behalf of the persecuted Catholic community, which seems to have adopted Byrd as a kind of ' house ' composer.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

The name " Aleut " comes from the Aleut word allíthuh, meaning " community.

Precise definition of roles and self-identification is a common subject of debate, reflection, and discussion within the community .< ref name =" Terms ">

The particle physics community as a whole did not view their existence as likely in 2006 ,< ref name = PDGPentaquarks2006 > W .- M. Yao et al.

In the European community cent is the official name for one hundredth of a euro.

The name derives from the fact that community colleges primarily attract and accept students from the local community, and are often supported by local tax revenue.

In 2003, the www. cpan. org domain name was redirected to Matt's Script Archive, a site infamous in the Perl community for having badly written code.

Each server often has a unique community and people often include the server name when identifying their character outside of the game.

* LaGuardia Airport, the smallest of New York's three major currently operating airports, bears his name ; the airport was voted the " greatest airport in the world " by the worldwide aviation community in 1960.

Harmony lives on in name at Twin Oaks Community, a contemporary intentional community of 100 people in Virginia.

Twin Oaks names all of its buildings after defunct communities, and " Harmony " is the name of one of the residences which also houses the community woodshop and main laundry area.

Hmong culture prohibits the marriage of anyone with the same last name-to do so would result in being shunned by the entire community, and they are usually stripped of their last name.

* John M. Ford ( 1957 – 2006 ), American science fiction writer and poet ; achieved iconic status in genre community as columnist and personality known under pen name " Dr. Mike "

His grandfather, Bacchius, had a Greek name, while his father, Priscus bore a Latin name, which has led to speculations that his ancestors may have settled in Neapolis soon after its establishment or that they may have descended from a Roman ' diplomatic ' community that had been sent there.

Jamaican pediatrician Dr. Cicely Williams introduced the name into the medical community in her 1935 Lancet article.

The international community has settled on karst, the German name for Kras, a region in Slovenia partially extending into Italy, where it is called " Carso " and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made.

Descendants of the original community still live in the area on the small island of Abdullah Goth, which is located near the Karachi Port. The original name " Kolachi " survives in the name of a well-known Karachi locality named " Mai Kolachi " in Sindhi.

Limburg is first mentioned in documents in 910 under the name of Lintpurc when Louis the Child granted Konrad Kurzbold an estate in the community on which he was to build a church.

The new name surprised the community ; a misspelled contraction of machine cinema ( machinema ), the term machinima was intended to dissociate in-game filming from a specific engine.

The first Acadian settlers in the Moncton area established a marshland farming community and chose to name their settlement Le Coude ( The Elbow ).

When Netscape Navigator was released as open source software, Mozilla was the name of the development project and community, along with the project's first product, the Mozilla Application Suite ( later renamed SeaMonkey ).