Some critics, such as Jerry Coyne ( professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago ) and Eugenie Scott ( a physical anthropologist and executive director of the National Center for Science Education ) have argued that the concept of irreducible complexity, and more generally, intelligent design is not falsifiable, and therefore, not scientific.

Despite the safeguards built into the constitutions of most of these organizations, courts and tribunals, the concept of universal jurisdiction is controversial among those states which prefer unilateral to multilateral solutions through the use of executive or military authority, sometimes described as realpolitik-based diplomacy.

He eventually became executive vice-president with the Chicago Blitz, where he returned to his concept of arena football.

Nimoy approached Beverly Hills Cop writer Daniel Petrie, Jr. to write the screenplay when a concept that executive producer Jeffrey Katzenberg described as " either the best or worst idea in the world " arose — Star Trek fan Eddie Murphy wanted a starring role.

It tells of a disgruntled black television executive who reintroduces the old blackface style in a series concept in an attempt to get himself fired introducing it and is instead horrified by its success.

The Court determined that this provision violated both the concept of federalism and that of the unitary executive.

While pitching the concept of a " show about nothing " to NBC executives, George dates executive Susan until The Virgin, when she is fired.

The concept for America ’ s Most Wanted originally came from a German show Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst ( German language File Number XY ... Unsolved ) that first aired in 1967, and the British show Crimewatch, first aired in 1984, with the US version conceived by Fox executive Stephen Chao and Executive Producer Michael Linder in the summer of 1987.

The concept of checks and balances was embodied in a provision that legislative acts could be vetoed by a council composed of the executive and selected members of the judicial branch ; their veto could be overridden by an unspecified legislative majority.

The particular term used for this concept may vary from country to country — the executive orders made by the President of the United States, for example, are decrees ( although a decree is not exactly an order ).

One of the concept executive producers has been Nico Mastorakis who brought with him several original ( for the Greek viewers ) ideas after his stay in the United States.

Andy Heyward initiated the concept and was one of the executive producers ; Jean Chalopin created / developed the show and wrote or co-wrote nearly every episode ; while Bruno Bianchi designed the main characters as well as directing and producing the series.

Although the German concept of Ausnahmezustand is best translated as " state of emergency ", it literally means state of exception which, according to Schmitt, frees the executive from any legal restraints to its power that would normally apply.

Beginning in late August, Haas turned into a face ( heroic character ) and began a storyline in which he began to impersonate other wrestlers, a concept created by John Laurinaitis, a WWE executive.

The concept of the Crown as a part of parliament is related to the idea of the fusion of powers, meaning that the executive branch and legislative branch of government are fused together.

Trevor Fetter, the company's president and chief executive, credited the Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail and the concept of an urban location for his decision to move to Downtown Dallas.

While only formally studied in late 20th century, the concept of deliberately precipitating one ’ s own slaying by the provocation of executive officials may span back to the late Roman Empire.

The concept for People has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time, Inc .’ s chief executive officer at the time and the former publisher of the weekly Life magazine.

A similar concept, termed " division of power ", also consists of differentiated legislative, executive, and judicial powers.

The most efficient way to achieve this is the administration of a battery of tests covering: attention, visual perception and reasoning, learning and memory, verbal function, construction, concept formation, executive function, motor abilities and emotional status.

Leopold's concept of this was based on respect for the political rights of citizens and on a harmony of power between the executive and the legislative.

Made chief executive in 1984, Davies then converted the 50 Hepworths stores to the Next format, extending the total concept look at the same time to cover menswear.

The concept series was created by Sandy Ross, a Scottish Television executive, who came up with the idea while skiing in Aspen in 1996.

The concept embodied in the phrase has been criticized for its binary simplification of two tightly interwoven parameters, as for example an environment of wealth, education and social privilege are often historically passed to genetic offspring.

Project MAC at MIT, working with GE and BTL, developed Multics, which introduced the concept of ringed security privilege levels.

The privilege of minting official coins developed into the concept of seigniorage.

It has been argued that the concept of heterosexism is similar to the concept of racism in that both ideas promote privilege for dominant groups within a given society.

For example, borrowing from the racial concept of white privilege, the concept of heterosexual privilege has been applied to benefits of ( presumed ) heterosexuality within society that heterosexuals take for granted.

Attorney – client privilege is a legal concept that protects certain communications between a client and his or her attorney and keeps those communications confidential.

* Legal professional privilege: Common Law general concept and history.

He also provided teaching material on legislative committees, the concept of parliamentary privilege and codes of ethics for parliamentarians.

Not only was the concept that the judicial system was entitled to ' every man's evidence ' itself deeply rooted in the Constitution, but merely determining the scope of the privilege ( when would it apply?

As he said in 1903, " It might be my privilege to have a part in the building of school that would turn the minds of youth back from this exaggerated concept of the value of book knowledge, to the realization that all this is valuable only as it becomes a background for, or the foundation under, the real things of life.

The converse of this was seldom true ; the concept that " it's a woman's prerogative to change her mind " had at least some basis in law ( though a woman might pay a high social price for exercising this privilege, as explained below )— and unless an actual dowry of money or property had changed hands, a man was only rarely able to recover in a " breach of promise " suit against a woman, were he even allowed to file one.

And since Louisiana had passed control between the French and Spaniards, and had largely adopted the French Napoleonic Code, there was a similar privilege concept in that territory.

Security in CHCS works by a number of mechanisms and includes the concept of least privilege.

Physician – patient privilege is a legal concept, related to medical confidentiality, that protects communications between a patient and his or her doctor from being used against the patient in court.

Application-compatibility issues, notably around multiple users and the concept of least privilege, may prevent some applications that incorrectly assume write access to the whole file system from working on newer platforms.

Not because of any fanatical concept of " justice " but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when " freedom " becomes a special privilege .(...

A concept of responsibility is in process of articulation and establishment.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

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 ''.

Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish.

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.

Who will deny that in a vast portion of the South the Federal action is incompatible with the Jeffersonian concept of `` the consent of the governed ''??

For it is their catastrophic concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions rather than Kemble's gradualist approach which dominates the field.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable.

The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.

The most fundamental concept of the new approach to economic aid is the focusing of our attention, our resources, and our energies on the effort to promote the economic and social development of the less developed countries.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

The concept of trans-illumination ( as shown by the photo on p. 92 ), as just one example, offers an entirely new approach to lighting problems -- no matter what industry is involved.