At this point, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson intervened, announcing that he would be making the targeting decision, and that he would not authorize the bombing of Kyoto.

CIGNA notes that it had no financial stake in the decision to authorize the transplant because it merely administers the insurance plan of Mr. Sarkisyan's employer and would not bear the cost of any operation.

President Grant was convinced that Congress would not authorize money to tear the bridge down, overruled Belknap's decision, and told Belknap in person " You certainly cannot destroy this structure on your own authority ... General, you had better drop this case.

On 16 February 1944, Field Marshal von Manstein, without waiting for a decision by Hitler, sent a radio message to Stemmermann to authorize the breakout.

:: Those who approve the verify decision and authorize the product hand-off.

It, however, became further used as a legal term when William J. Brennan, a justice of the United States Supreme Court, used it in a judicial decision ( Lamont v. Postmaster General ) which required a postal patron receiving " communist political propaganda " to specifically authorize the delivery.

In Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles, it is revealed that Rick's decision ( to authorize the use of the Neutron-S missiles only as a last resort ) was actually criticized by some senior REF officers, who believed that the missiles should simply be used immediately.

CFIUS reviews begin with a 30-day decision to authorize a transaction or begin a statutory investigation.

Security accreditation is the official management decision given by a senior agency official to authorize operation of an information system and to explicitly accept the risk to agency operations, agency assets, or individuals based on the implementation of an agreed-upon set of security controls.

At another unofficial hearing convened by Conyers on January 20, 2006, Rep. Jerrold Nadler ( D-NY ) called for the committee to explore whether Bush should face impeachment, stemming from his decision to authorize domestic surveillance without court review.

The party was formed in 1969 by Albert Hertzog ( son of former Prime Minister General JBM Hertzog ) in protest against the decision by Prime Minister BJ Vorster to authorize the presence of Maori players and spectators during the tour of New Zealand rugby union team in South Africa in 1970, as well as his re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Malawi and that country's appointment of a Black ambassador to South Africa.

Because of independence, the decision whether to use of the axiom of choice ( or its negation ) in a proof cannot be made by appeal to other axioms of set theory.

According to Steven J. Brams and Peter C. Fishburn, the IEEE board in 2002 rescinded its decision to use approval voting.

During development, engineers had made the decision to use the Zilog 8530 serial controller chip ( SCC ) instead of the lower cost and more common UART to provide serial port connections.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In 1851, the Admiralty decided to use Welsh steam coal in ships of the Royal Navy, and this decision boosted the reputation of Aberdare's product and launched a huge international export market.

The use of abeyance in such instances can allow such an organization to ' settle ' with the party without officially binding its actions in the future, should a new group of decision makers within the organization choose to pursue taking the dispute to court.

The use of Bayesian probabilities as the basis of Bayesian inference has been supported by several arguments, such as the Cox axioms, the Dutch book argument, arguments based on decision theory and de Finetti's theorem.

According to a tweet by Industry Minister Tony Clement, unless the CRTC reverses this decision, the government will use its override power to reverse the decision.

Worse yet, since the aforementioned decision problem for CSG's is PSPACE-complete, that makes them totally unworkable for practical use, as a polynomial-time algorithm for a PSPACE-complete problem would imply P = NP.

On the decision to use noms de plume, Charlotte wrote:

The decision to use the name " COBOL " was made at a meeting of the committee held on 18 September 1959.

The main source of the data is cleaned, transformed, cataloged and made available for use by managers and other business professionals for data mining, online analytical processing, market research and decision support ( Marakas & O ' Brien 2009 ).

A review of fourteen studies on the subject in sub-Saharan Africa, covering insecticide-treated nets, residual spraying, chemoprophylaxis for children, chemoprophylaxis or intermittent treatment for pregnant women, a hypothetical vaccine, and changing front – line drug treatment, found decision making limited by the gross lack of information on the costs and effects of many interventions, the very small number of cost-effectiveness analyses available, the lack of evidence on the costs and effects of packages of measures, and the problems in generalizing or comparing studies that relate to specific settings and use different methodologies and outcome measures.

The use of a sequence of experiments, where the design of each may depend on the results of previous experiments, including the possible decision to stop experimenting, is within the scope of Sequential analysis, a field that was pioneered by Abraham Wald in the context of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses.

In the context of decision theory, an estimator is a type of decision rule, and its performance may be evaluated through the use of loss functions.

That was one ( perhaps the main ) reason that a new name was devised for its successor currency, euro, which was felt not to favour any single language .. One other factor that maybe also influenced the decision not to use the name ecu for the actual EURO, was that in some European languages, as Portuguese, it also means " ass "

In 1946 the FCC's decision to use Armstrong's FM system as the standard for NTSC television sound gave Armstrong another chance at royalty payments.

Computational concerns are important for evaluating econometric methods and for use in decision making.

Once a decision was made to use a particular vendor's software to enter a design, the customer was ever after constrained to use no other software.

" Brooks responded " The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters.

On the other hand, the Greens achieved a major success as a governing party through the 2000 decision to phase out the use of nuclear energy.

The specific procedures for appealing, including even whether there is a right of appeal from a particular type of decision, can vary greatly from country to country.

( b ) The reasons given for a decision are often more important in the long run than the outcome in a particular case.

A decision is an instrument which is focused at a particular person or group and is directly applicable.

Examples might be which spouse is more competent for a particular task or function ; which has better access to it ; or if they decide both are similarly competent and have comparable access, they might make the decision based on who prefers that function or task, or conversely, which of them dislikes it less than the other.

A pattern would not tell the designer how many windows to put in the room ; instead, it would propose a set of values to guide the designer toward a decision that is best for their particular application.

Two unique features set systems engineering apart from other engineering disciplines: ( 1 ) the particular attention devoted to both the physical processes involved and to the decision making components of the industrial environment, and ( 2 ) the wide scope applicability of its systems methodology, not limited to manufacturing industries, but effectively used in all kinds of business organizations.

If a decision must be reached in a particular match ( e. g., in a tournament ) and it ends in a draw after regular time, there are at maximum two overtimes of 2 × 5 minutes with a 1-minute break each.

Although all the preparatory work for the decimal changeover had been done while Menzies was Prime Minister, Holt had particular responsibility as Treasurer for currency matters, and he was centrally involved in both the decision to change and its implementation.

A look at the UDRP decision patterns has led some to conclude that compulsory domain name arbitration is less likely to give a fair hearing to domain name owners asserting defenses under the First Amendment and other laws, compared to the federal courts of appeal in particular.

We don ’ t know who in particular we are, and therefore can ’ t bias the decision in our own favour.

It has been suggested that this may have actually been a strategic decision by Richard rather than a failure as such, as he may have recognized that Jerusalem in particular was in fact a strategic liability as long as the crusaders were obligated to defend it, as it was isolated from the sea where Western reinforcements could arrive.

In particular, the decision versions of many interesting search problems and optimization problems are contained in NP.

* How particular is God's prior decision: is it concerned with particular persons and events, or is it limited to broad categories of people and things?

It teaches that God's predestining decision is based on the knowledge of His own will rather than foreknowledge, concerning every particular person and event ; and, God continually acts with entire freedom, in order to bring about his will in completeness, but in such a way that the freedom of the creature is not violated, " but rather, established "

To strike from the record is for a judge to forbid a decision maker ( such as a juror ) to consider a particular piece of testimony or other evidence when deciding the case even though he or she has already learned what that evidence or testimony concerned.

His tenure as governor in general, and his decision to flee the capital in particular, was heavily criticized at the time, and has been criticized by historians ever since.

Several other factors have spurred his decision to defect, in particular his disillusionment by the death of his wife, Natalia, at the hands of an incompetent doctor who went unpunished because he was the son of a Politburo member.

The album Music from Big Pink, in particular, is credited with contributing to Clapton's decision to leave the super group Cream.

Because, when we get to the part about a particular decision that causes the tree to appear out of thin air, we draw a blank.

The tenets of Sikhism do not advocate a particular stance on either vegetarianism or the consumption of meat, but leave the decision of diet to the individual.

The majority argued that " a test for liability that depends on the extent to which particular suits would call into question military discipline and decision making would itself require judicial inquiry into, and hence intrusion upon, military matters.

The Easter Rising of 1916, and in particular the decision of the British military authorities to execute many of its leaders after courts martial, generated sympathy for the republican cause in Ireland.

This approach emphasizes quantitative methods, in particular operations research, management information systems, statistics, organizational behavior, modeling and simulation, and decision science.