In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

Even to the present day, this has always been the basis of all successful legislation: public custom is adopted and enforced by the State.

They rest on usage, custom, convention, often of slow growth in their early stages, not always uniform, but which in the course of time received universal observance and respect.

The author of this entry was evidently alluding to the custom of celebrating Mass privately at the altars near or over the tombs of the martyrs in the crypts of the catacombs ( missa ad corpus ), while the solemn celebration always took place in the basilicas built over the catacombs.

He denied that we can ever perceive cause and effect, except by developing a habit or custom of mind where we come to associate two types of object or event, always contiguous and occurring one after the other.

Folklorists have attempted to determine the origin by internal evidence, which can not always be clear ; Joseph Jacobs, comparing the Scottish tale The Ridere of Riddles with the version collected by the Brothers Grimm, The Riddle, noted that in The Ridere of Riddles one hero ends up polygamously married, which might point to an ancient custom, but in The Riddle, the simpler riddle might argue greater antiquity.

Similarly, his assertion that the phrase halacha le-Moshe me-Sinai-" an oral law revealed to Moses on Sinai "-does not always bear a literal meaning but often signifies a universally adopted custom, is not usually taken as a liberal interpretation.

When in operation, it was the custom to have a picture of Raymond Burr included somewhere on each set, with the first toast on the opening night of every production always dedicated to his memory.

Since the fall of the Roman Empire, the Frankish kings had always shown a certain deference to the Byzantine Emperor, but Theudebert rejected his status as an inferior leader: for example, he broke imperial custom by minting gold coins containing his own image.

" It had always been the custom … for young men with ambitions in public life to fix upon some older model of their ambition … and regard him as a mentor " ( Kennedy, 16 ).

Kim Deal generally plays four-string solid-body bass guitars and always uses a pick, particularly the " green Dunlops with the little turtle on them ", although since the Pixies ' reunion she has also been using custom green Dunlops with " KIM " written on them.

Also, numbers are frequently abbreviated by only calling the lower digit of a value not divisible by 10 ( e. g. “ two ” instead of “ twenty-two ” or “ five ” instead of “ forty-five ”); this is unambiguous if values are always called out in order and intermediate values never skipped, as is the custom.

The two production engines were always mated to an automatic gearbox but have become popular in the custom car scene where they have been mated to the 4x4 manual transmission and the rear-wheel-drive manual transmission from the Ford Sierra XR4 and XR4x4.

Since there are almost never two production pipelines that are the same, custom tools always need to be developed to address problems in the production process, e. g. to address image manipulation issue.

In some houses it was the custom that the head of the house was always named the same according to the iemoto system ( 家元 ).

1910 Calgary was a frontier town that smelled of horse manure and in which public drunkenness was common ; though Aberhart's sensibilities were less shocked by this than his wife's were, he also had to make some adjustments: in Brantford he had always attended church in a silk top hat and frock coat, but he quickly abandoned this custom after discovering that he was the only one in Calgary to do so.

Cost of construction on a per square meter ( or per square foot ) basis for houses can vary dramatically based on site conditions, local regulations, economies of scale ( custom designed homes are always more expensive to build ) and the availability of skilled tradespeople.

Even this is not always possible however, as some vendors ' graphics drivers ( notably those of Intel ) require specific registry hacks to implement custom resolutions, which can make it very difficult to use the screen's native resolution.

Licensing will hinder discovery of truth by the government ’ s prejudice and custom, because there will always be more truth to be found that we do not yet know of.

In a courtship situation where both parties have a similar financial standing, which is commonplace in the aforementioned nations, the traditional custom of the man always paying in restaurants has largely fallen out of use and is by many, including etiquette authorities, considered old fashioned.

* Bresci had a custom of always carrying an expensive camera, even on the day he committed regicide.

The Mishneh Torah had always been a leading authority in the Baladi ( local, traditionalist ) Yemenite community-as a matter of local custom.

Thus he cites the assertions that rent depends on the difference of fertility of the different portions of land in cultivation ; that the laborer always receives precisely the necessaries, or what custom leads him to consider the necessaries, of life ; that, as wealth and population advance, agricultural labor becomes less and less proportionately productive ; and that therefore the share of the produce taken by the landlord and the laborer must constantly increase, whilst that taken by the capitalist must constantly diminish ; and he denies the truth of all these propositions.

( It was a rule among the Dutch that Native American land must always be purchased and never seized by force, but as the concept of land ownership was alien to the Americans, there was a great deal of cultural confusion attached to the transactions with the Dutch " payments " taken for gifts in keeping with Native custom.

John Brand's Popular Antiquities ( 1859 ) describes a custom in Kent of ' going a hodening ' at Christmas, going round the houses in procession and singing carols, accompanied by a sort of hobby-horse.

The Hogmanay custom of singing " Auld Lang Syne " has become common in many countries.

In these traditions, the custom of " singing the notes " ( syllables ) is generally only preserved during the learning process at singing schools and singing may be to an instrumental accompaniment, typically a piano.

Such singings are common in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama, and generally preserve the singing school custom of " singing the notes.

On Erev Shabbat ( Sabbath eve ), Jewish people have a custom of singing a song which is called Shalom aleichem, before the Kiddush over wine of the Shabbat dinner is recited.

He came into his own with three films opposite Leela Chitnis: Kangan ( 1939 ), Bandhan ( 1940 ), Jhoola ( 1941 ), singing his own songs as was the custom then.

Dr. Hedgewar instilled a work culture in the RSS, like the devotion to the Bhagva ( saffron ) flag, priority to ideologies over individuals, communal decision making process, full-time dedicated volunteers, daily Shakha ( gathering every day by members of all ages for games and singing nationalistic songs ) and doing away with the custom of personality following.

This custom of singing died out in the 18th century.

At all events, in order to keep up the old time custom of singing the litany every Saturday in honour of the Blessed Virgin, a new text was drawn up containing praises drawn directly from the Scriptures, and usually applied to the Bl.

Epiphany is know in Latvia as Trijkungu diena ( Three Kings Day ) or Zvaigznes diena ( Star Day ) after the custom of star singing, and the Star of Bethlehem which led the Wise Men to the Christ Child.

The star singing custom too though had long ago spread throughout Romania and Moldova.

The Orchard-Visiting wassail refers to the ancient custom of visiting orchards, reciting incantations and singing to the trees in apple orchards in cider-producing regions of England to promote a good harvest for the coming year.

The Council of Vaison in 529 passed the decree: " Let that beautiful custom of all the provinces of the East and of Italy be kept up, viz., that of singing with great effect and compunction the ' Kyrie Eleison ' at Mass, Matins, and Vespers, because so sweet and pleasing a chant, even though continued day and night without interruption, could never produce disgust or weariness ".

He enjoys custom action figures, writing music, singing and playing the guitar.

* A reunion of the Gilligan's Island cast aired on May 18 with a custom set, audience members and a barbershop quartet singing the theme, cast member trivia, and more.

Speaking of breakfast, the President inaugurated a new custom -- that of conducting business at the breakfast table.

Mr. Brown will at the same time undertake expansion of VecTrol's custom design program for electronic control users with a greatly increased engineering staff.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

The custom of setting apart a special day for intercession for certain of the faithful on November 2 was first established by St. Odilo of Cluny ( d. 1048 ) at his abbey of Cluny in 998.

The custom chipset at the core of the Amiga design appeared in three distinct generations, with a large degree of backward-compatibility.

Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).

* Suzy ( 16-bit custom CMOS chip running at )

However, some cultural groups have sought to revive the custom at Uisneach and perhaps at the Hill of Tara.

Edward Dwelly in Bealltuinn ( 1911 ) describes a 1 May custom of his day, practised in the Scottish Highlands, where young people met on the moors, lit a bonfire and made an oatmeal cake toasted at the embers.

The price of a new bicycle can range from US $ 50 to more than US $ 20, 000 ( the highest priced bike in the world is the custom Madone by Damien Hirst, sold at $ 500, 000 USD ), depending on quality, type and weight ( the most exotic road bicycles can weigh as little as 3. 2 kg ( 7 lb )).

As was the custom, the couple spent the night before their coronation at the Tower of London.

This date format originates from the custom of writing the date as ' the 8th day of November in the year of our Lord 2003 ' in western religious and legal documents, which at one time were the majority of documents created.

The Systems Modules were designed with all of the connections at the back of the module using 22-pin Amphenol connectors, and were attached to each other by inserting them into a custom 19-inch rack.

Many derivative editions were also being written at the time, as was the custom of envious or unscrupulous writers.

Unlike modern systems, which can be applied to widely different databases and needs, the vast majority of older systems were tightly linked to the custom databases in order to gain speed at the expense of flexibility.

* Varying light levels and custom palettes – all areas in Wolfenstein 3D are fully lit at the same brightness.

Digital media playback of hi-resolution 2K files has at least a 20 year history with early RAIDs feeding custom frame buffer systems with large memories.

This was probably due to the custom of fighting in plate armour, where cutting attacks were ineffective and focus was laid instead on thrusts with narrow blades aimed at armour plate intersections ( or the eye slits of the helmet visor ).

The custom of the Easter egg originated amongst the early Christians of Mesopotamia, who stained eggs red in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at his crucifixion.

That the older custom ( called " protopaschite " by historians ) did not at once die out, but persisted for a time, is indicated by the existence of canons and sermons against it.

Because this Victorian cycle differed from the Alexandrian cycle in the dates of some of the Paschal Full Moons, and because it tried to respect the Roman custom of fixing Easter to the Sunday in the week of the 16th to the 22nd of the lunar month ( rather than the 15th to the 21st as at Alexandria ), by providing alternative " Latin " and " Greek " dates in some years, occasional disagreements from the date of Easter as fixed by Alexandrian rules continued.

He would not allow women to view even the gladiators except from the upper seats, though it had been the custom for men and women to sit together at such shows.