Each day, for one 24-hour period, one member of the 50 prytaneis was selected by lot to serve as the foreman ( ἐπιστάτης epistates, " caretaker ").

The presiding officers of the assembly were the prytanies, randomly selected councilmen from whichever tribe was assigned to oversee the assembly in a given month ; at each meeting of the assembly, one of the prytanies was appointed epistates, or president of the assembly.

By chance, the philosopher Socrates, holding public office for the only time in his life, was epistates on the day that the generals were tried.

The number of civil servants was limited: the king directed his kingdom mostly in an indirect way, supporting himself principally through the local magistrates, the epistates, with whom he constantly kept in touch.

For most speakers ( even native speakers ), this form of the language is generally difficult to understand, as it contains many highly specialised terms for diplomatic, internal, official, and military matters.

: English ( official ), local dialects

* ASP ( film production company ), Alain Siritzky Productions, owners of the official Emmanuelle movie and TV franchise

However, since Paul was from Cilicia and refers to himself using this name ( see Acts 21: 39, 22: 3 ), it seems very natural that the name Cilicia would have continued to be in colloquial use among its residents despite its hiatus in official Roman nomenclature.

Achaemenid Assyria ( 539 BC – 330 BC ) retained a separate identity ( Athura ), official correspondence being in Imperial Aramaic, and there was even a determined revolt of the two Assyrian provinces of Mada and Athura in 520 BC.

Under Seleucid rule ( 330 BC – approximately 150 BC ), however, Aramaic gave way to Greek as the official administrative language.

* ABCs ( song ), the first official single by rapper K ' naan on his album Troubadour

* Finkel, Caroline, Osman's Dream, ( Basic Books, 2005 ), 57 ; " Istanbul was only adopted as the city's official name in 1930 ..".

While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

Per baseball official rule 6. 08 ( b ), a batter becomes a baserunner and is awarded first base when he or his equipment ( except for his bat ):

Rule 10. 05 ( a ) Comment: In applying Rule 10. 05 ( a ), the official scorer shall always give the batter the benefit of the doubt.

During the years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1569 – 1795 ), official documents were written in Polish, Ruthenian and Latin, with Lithuanian being mostly an oral language, with small quantities of written documents.

He alienated the powerful priests of Marduk, the official god of Babylon, by taking up the worship of Sin, the god of Harran ( a city in northern Mesopotamia ), absenting himself for long periods from the city and neglecting crucial ceremonies.

In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau ( now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City ), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, began promoting " the Big Apple " for the city.

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

Meanwhile, an official from Dr. Vornoff's home country, Professor Strowksi ( George Becwar ), arrives and tries to persuade him to return to their homeland in hopes that his research will benefit their nation.

Khmer (, ; or more formally,, ), or Cambodian, is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia.

From independence through the period of the presidency of Félix Malloum ( 1975 – 79 ), the official national army was known as the Chadian Armed Forces ( Forces Armées Tchadiennes — FAT ).

: Spanish ( official ), English ( as a second language )

In 1987, the Library of Congress Country Study said that the Air Force's official name, Ivoirian Air Transport and Liaison Group ( Groupement Aérien de Transport et de Liaison -- GATL ), ' reflects an original mission focused more on logistics and transport rather than a combat force.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

Conversely in francophone Canada, one hundredth of a Canadian dollar is informally called a sou ( penny ), though cent is official in both English and French.

In 1991 there were 2, 000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test ( comparable to the English Cambridge Certificate ), while in 2005, the number of candidates had risen sharply to 117, 660 .< ref > " 汉语水平考试中心 ： 2005年外国考生总人数近12万 ",< sup > Gov. cn </ sup > Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2006 .</ ref >

Mencius says: " When being a child, yearn for and love your parents ; when growing mature, yearn for and love your lassie ; when having wife and child ( ren ), yearn for and love your wife and child ( ren ); when being an official ( or a staffer ), yearn for and love your sovereign ( and / or boss ).

Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

When a specific allophone ( from a set of allophones that correspond to a phoneme ) must be selected in a given context ( i. e. using a different allophone for a phoneme will cause confusion or make the speaker sound non-native ), the allophones are said to be complementary ( i. e. the allophones complement each other, and one is not used in a situation where the usage of another is standard ).

Al Capp, an inductee into the National Cartoon Museum ( formerly the International Museum of Cartoon Art ), is one of only 31 artists selected to their Hall of Fame.

Animal cloning, through somatic cell nuclear transfer ( SCNT ), allows for genetic replication of selected animals.

Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant ( 1917 ), The Kid ( 1921 ), The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), City Lights ( 1931 ), Modern Times ( 1936 ), and The Great Dictator ( 1940 ).

Another commonly used basic distinction among the elements is their state of matter ( phase ), solid, liquid, or gas, at a selected standard temperature and pressure ( STP ).

Although this selected translation is not generally quoted by members of the Church, the English Bible issued by the Church and commonly used by Latter-day Saints contains cross references to the Joseph Smith Translation ( JST ), as well as an appendix containing major excerpts from it.

On the Nature of Animals, (" On the Characteristics of Animals " is an alternative title ; usually cited, though, by its Latin title ), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

In 1976, after consultation with the National Security Agency ( NSA ), the NBS eventually selected a slightly modified version, which was published as an official Federal Information Processing Standard ( FIPS ) for the United States in 1977.

DDC's numbers formed the basis of the more expressive but complex Universal Decimal Classification ( UDC ), which combines the basic Dewey numbers with selected punctuation marks ( comma, colon, parentheses, etc .).

Mirza Atta Ullah Khan, Sardar Bahadur s / o Khan Bahadur Mirza Fakir Ullah Khan ( Saman Burj Wazirabad ), a direct descendent of Jarral Rajput Rajas of Rajauri was selected and approved by the Amir to be the British Envoy to Kabul.

In Hawaii, where there were 140, 000 Americans of Japanese Ancestry ( constituting 37 % of the population ), only selected individuals of heightened perceived risk were interned.

As a Democratic-Republican he was selected as the fifth Vice President of the United States ( 1813 – 1814 ), serving under James Madison, until his death a year and a half into his term.

" The tremor may also occur in the head ( neck ), jaw and voice as well as other body regions, with the general pattern being that the tremor begins in the arms and then spreads to these other regions in selected patients.

* Function ( engineering ), related to the selected property of a system

Using uniformitarianism, which states that one cannot make an appeal to any force or phenomenon which cannot presently be observed ( see catastrophism ), Darwin theorized that the evolutionary process must occur gradually, not in saltations, since saltations are not presently observed, and extreme deviations from the usual phenotypic variation would be more likely to be selected against.

The President is elected every five years by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ), a special body convened only for this purpose, comprising the entire Bundestag and an equal number of state delegates selected especially for this purpose in proportion to election results for the state diets.

On the basis of the potential number of users, potential revenues for Galileo Operating Company or Concessionaire ( GOC ), international relevance, and level of innovation, a set of Priority Applications ( PA ) will be selected by the consortium and developed within the time-frame of the same project.