Used in this sense, it usually contrasted to egoism, which is defined as acting to the benefit of one self.

Patriarchal theory is not always defined as a belief that all men always benefit from the oppression of all women.

In fact, praetoric law was so defined by the famous Roman jurist Papinian ( Amilius Papinianus — died in 212 AD ): " Ius praetorium est quod praetores introduxerunt adiuvandi vel supplendi vel corrigendi iuris civilis gratia propter utilitatem publicam " (" praetoric law is that law introduced by praetors to supplement or correct civil law for public benefit ").

Briefly defined as " sharing with another party the burden of loss or the benefit of gain, from a risk, and the measures to reduce a risk.

Further, the court held that while the statute forbade the teaching of evolution ( as the court had defined it ), it did not require the teaching of any other doctrine, so that it did not benefit any one religious doctrine or sect over the others.

Unlike defined benefit ERISA plans or banking institution savings accounts, there is no government insurance for assets held in 401 ( k ) accounts.

Having a single, well controlled, and well defined data integrity system increases stability ( one centralized system performs all data integrity operations ), performance ( all data integrity operations are performed in the same tier as the consistency model ), re-usability ( all applications benefit from a single centralized data integrity system ), and maintainability ( one centralized system for all data integrity administration ).

The largest benefit of layer 4 switching is that the network administrator can configure a layer 4 switch to prioritize data traffic by application, which means a QoS can be defined for each user.

Retirement plans may be classified as defined benefit or defined contribution according to how the benefits are determined.

A defined benefit plan guarantees a certain payout at retirement, according to a fixed formula which usually depends on the member's salary and the number of years ' membership in the plan.

Some types of retirement plans, such as cash balance plans, combine features of both defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

A traditional defined benefit ( DB ) plan is a plan in which the benefit on retirement is determined by a set formula, rather than depending on investment returns.

In the US, specifies a defined benefit plan to be any pension plan that is not a defined contribution plan ( see below ) where a defined contribution plan is any plan with individual accounts.

A traditional pension plan that defines a benefit for an employee upon that employee's retirement is a defined benefit plan.

A traditional form of defined benefit plan is the final salary plan, under which the pension paid is equal to the number of years worked, multiplied by the member's salary at retirement, multiplied by a factor known as the accrual rate.

The benefit in a defined benefit pension plan is determined by a formula that can incorporate the employee's pay, years of employment, age at retirement, and other factors.

While this type of plan is popular among unionized workers, Final Average Pay ( FAP ) remains the most common type of defined benefit plan offered in the United States.

In an unfunded defined benefit pension, no assets are set aside and the benefits are paid for by the employer or other pension sponsor as and when they are paid.

The DoD is required by law to " maintain a Standard Positioning Service ( as defined in the federal radio navigation plan and the standard positioning service signal specification ) that will be available on a continuous, worldwide basis ," and " develop measures to prevent hostile use of GPS and its augmentations without unduly disrupting or degrading civilian uses.

This plan, defined as the mandate system, was adopted by the " Council of Ten " ( the heads of government and foreign ministers of the main Allied powers: Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Japan ) on 30 January 1919 and transmitted to the League of Nations.

Executing consists of the processes used to complete the work defined in the project plan to accomplish the project's requirements.

The deliverables are produced as outputs from the processes performed as defined in the project management plan and other frameworks that might be applicable to the type of project at hand.

The institution was defined in the writings of Bahá ' u ' lláh and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, Bahá ' u ' lláh's successor, and was officially established in 1963 as the culmination of the Ten Year Crusade, an international Bahá ' í teaching plan.

A public land mobile network may be defined as a number of mobile services switching centre areas within a common numbering plan and a common routing plan.

A defined contribution plan will provide a payout at retirement that is dependent upon the amount of money contributed and the performance of the investment vehicles utilized.

The parent of a group filing consolidated returns might be treated as the same corporation following a reorganization defined in section 368(a)(1), but as a different corporation for this purpose after a tax-free acquisition by another corporation which had not, for example, elected to file consolidated returns with its own subsidiaries.

It is unknown whether the earliest alphabets had a defined sequence.

Although he was committed to maintaining what the church had defined at Nicaea, Constantine was also bent on pacifying the situation and eventually became more lenient toward those condemned and exiled at the council.

Homological methods and sheaf theory had already been introduced in algebraic geometry by Jean-Pierre Serre and others, after sheaves had been defined by Jean Leray.

Both AARP and NBP had defined ways to allow " controller " devices to override the default mechanisms.

That doctrine had been written about much earlier by Augustine of Hippo and was eventually defined a dogma by the Council of Trent.

Here, St Athanasius, spent his remaining days, characteristically enough, in re-emphasizing the view of the Incarnation which had been defined at Nicaea.

There he started driving for the Cooper Car Company works team and by 1958 had progressed with them to Formula One, the highest category of open wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), motor sport's world governing body.

Eilenberg and Mac Lane later wrote that their goal was to understand natural transformations ; in order to do that, functors had to be defined, which required categories.

For instance, it defined chemical engineering to be a " science of itself, the basis of which is ... unit operations " in a 1922 report ; and with which principle, it had published a list of academic institutions which offered " satisfactory " chemical engineering courses.

In his Manual of Geology, 1863, Dana says " The continents and oceans had their general outline or form defined in earliest time.

Of the authors who selected and defined the DSM-IV psychiatric disorders, roughly half had had financial relationships with the pharmaceutical industry at one time, raising the prospect of a direct conflict of interest.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

Before the question could be answered, the notion of " algorithm " had to be formally defined.

It was formed by the combination of HP's legacy services consulting and outsourcing business and the integration of acquired Electronic Data Systems, which had defined the outsourcing business when it was established in 1962 by H. Ross Perot.

It was this extensive samurai ( noble warrior class ) population which defined the character of Edo, particularly in contrast to the two major cities of Kyoto and Osaka ( neither of which were ruled by a daimyō or had a significant samurai population ).

A tendency developed to use European and, to a lesser extent, Asian, stage names for the same time period world wide, even though the faunas in other regions often had little in common with the stage as originally defined.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

Before Moseley and his law, atomic numbers had been thought of as a semi-arbitrary ordering number, vaguely increasing with atomic weight but not strictly defined by it.

It was not until 1854 that Pope Pius IX, with the support of the overwhelming majority of Roman Catholic bishops, whom he had consulted between 1851 – 1853, promulgated the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus ( Latin for " Ineffable God "), which defined ex cathedra the dogma of the Immaculate Conception:

Controversially, this defined " persons of German ethnic origin " who had been expelled, or were to be expelled from their countries of birth into the postwar Germany, as individuals who would " not be the concern of the Organization.

Simcoe essentially denied the boundary defined in the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) on the grounds that the Americans had nullified the treaty.

Madison pointed out that a limited government would be created, and that the powers delegated ‘ to the federal government are few and defined .” Madison persuaded prominent figures such as George Mason and Edmund Randolph, who had refused to endorse the constitution at the convention, to change their position and support it at the ratifying convention.