He named both oxygen ( 1778 ) and hydrogen ( 1783 ) and helped construct the metric system, put together the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature.

Riding a wave of popularity from the return of the last POWs from Soviet labor camps, as well as an extensive pension reform, Adenauer led the CDU / CSU to the first — and as of 2011, only — outright majority in a free German election.

In short, the extensive reform efforts have " leveled the playing field " for the parties.

The Hungarians and Poles had responded to the mobile threat by extensive fortification-building, army reform in the form of better armoured cavalry, and refusing battle unless they could control the site of the battlefield to deny the Mongols local superiority.

In 1995, the executive and legislative branches negotiated a reform of the 1987 Sandinista constitution which gave extensive new powers and independence to the National Assembly, including permitting the Assembly to override a presidential veto with a simple majority vote and eliminating the president's ability to pocket veto a bill.

The war ended in 1935 after extensive human losses on both sides, and war veterans led the push for general social reform.

The 1912 primaries represented the first extensive use of the presidential primary, a reform achievement of the progressive movement.

Vietnam's economy experienced a hyperinflation period in its early years of the extensive reform program, especially from 1989 to 1992.

These extensive protests made Kaunda realise the need for reform.

The Frederick Chiluba government ( 1991 – 2001 ), which came to power after democratic multi-party elections in November 1991, was committed to extensive economic reform.

At home he endeavoured to reform administration, to encourage agriculture and commerce, and to secure the loyalty of the nobles by grants of land and privileges so extensive that, towards the end of his reign, many nobles who exercised their full feudal rights had become almost independent princes.

The Jackson administration attempted to explain this unprecedented purge as reform, or constructive turnover, but in the months following the changes it became obvious that the sole criterion for the extensive turnover was political loyalty to Andrew Jackson.

Economic reform has been extensive.

This is the most extensive economic reform since the government implemented gasoline rationing in 2007.

The predominant academic opinion is that the extensive care taken to provide for monks and nuns from the suppressed houses to transfer to continuing houses, demonstrates that monastic reform was still, at least in the mind of the King, the guiding principle ; but that further large-scale action against under-performing richer monasteries was always envisaged.

Eventual winner David Cameron appointed Clarke to head a Democracy task force as part of his extensive 18-month policy review in December 2005, exploring issues such as the reform of the House of Lords and party funding.

The Commission launched the CAP reform process with an extensive public debate on the future of the Cap between April and June 2010, followed by a public conference in July 2010, with around 600 participants.

Land reform can, therefore, refer to transfer of ownership from the more powerful to the less powerful: such as from a relatively small number of wealthy ( or noble ) owners with extensive land holdings ( e. g., plantations, large ranches, or agribusiness plots ) to individual ownership by those who work the land.

In more recent times, electoral mobilization and the use of land as a patronage resource have been proposed as possible motivations for land reform efforts, such as the extensive redistributive land reforms of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.

He tried to reform the Baltimore Board of Police Commissioners, initiating an extensive investigation that led to charges against them.

During the Commonwealth Era, extensive reform was made to the government in preparation for Philippine independence.

An extensive programme of family law reform and provision for a divorce referendum was to be undertaken.

Rasmussen wrote the book From Social State to Minimal State () in 1993, in which he advocated an extensive reform of the Danish welfare system along classic liberal lines.

The landmark NBA antitrust suit, named after the then-president of the NBA Players ' Association, led to an extensive reform of the league's strict free agency and draft rules and, subsequently, to higher salaries for all players.

The congress drew up an extensive Charter of Demands, which called for the abolition of laws permitting imposition of the régime d ' exception, political integration of Algeria and France, maintenance of personal legal status by Muslims acquiring French citizenship, fusion of European and Muslim education systems in Algeria, freedom to use Arabic in education and the press, equal wages for equal work, land reform, establishment of a single electoral college, and universal suffrage.

Basic maintenance is performed in this yard ; for more extensive work the cars are taken to the subway's Greenwood Yard by truck, given the train's different track gauge.

With politically sensitive issues such as the July 1, 2003 demonstrations in Hong Kong against Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, the amount of coverage and analysis within the forum is often more extensive than with the paper itself.

The renaming of the PLA head office and barracks was made in accordance with the Basic Law and the practical situation after Hong Kong's return to China and on the basis of extensive consultation.

Grof went on to formulate an extensive theoretical framework for the analysis of pre-and perinatal experiences, based on the four constructs he called Basic Perinatal Matrices.

MicroScript is based on, and makes extensive use of, the TRON Basic Text Editor, and Basic Figure Editor.

Too extensive an interpretation will surely collide with the freedom of exercise of occupation as well as the right to property ( Articles 12 and 14 of the Basic Law ).

Dr. McCune has written numerous articles and extensive course syllabi in Systematic Theology, Presuppositional Apologetics, New Evangelicalism, History of Israel, Basic Bible Doctrine, and Dispensationalism, as well as authored a teacher's handbook on the Book of Daniel.

Germans Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, passionate devotees of the label's sound, have undertaken an extensive and ongoing 12 " and LP re-issue campaign for the label through an exclusive imprint in the Basic Channel record label family, bearing the Wackies logo and label design.

His extensive body of works related to Sigmund Freud ( beginning in 1983 ) in a sense develops out of this text-based practice, though later found books would be integrated unmodified into Donald Judd-like “ specific objects ,” as with The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud ( 1987 ).

The ICFTU published its " Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights " every June, the publication of which was usually accompanied by extensive press coverage of the violations of trade union rights around the world.

The separation of church and state required by the Bill of Rights had allowed the construction of an extensive network of Catholic educational, health-care and social service institutions.

Human Rights Watch reported that the refugee camp, which was the major battleground, suffered extensive damage.

According to Minority Rights Group International there is extensive evidence of mass killings, cannibalism and rape of Pygmies and they have urged the International Criminal Court to investigate a campaign of extermination against pygmies.

The document also contains an extensive and specific Bill of Rights.

This was accepted by the United Nations on its formation and updated in 1959, and replaced with a more extensive UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

Maintaining his board membership until he passed, Henkin was a distinguished Columbia University law professor known as “ the father of human rights ” because of his extensive writings on the subject, most notably The Age of Rights ( 1989 ).

Human Rights Watch published a report criticizing the extensive destruction of Palestinian houses in the southern Gaza strip, and said it was unlawful, claiming that Israel uses the Palestinian smuggling tunnels as a pretext to create a " buffer zone " along the Gaza-Egypt border.

In Israel, Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service, uses hooding systematically ( more systematically than the IDF ), according to reports published by Human Rights Watch, who interviewed Palestinian detainees who had been hooded for extensive periods ( four to five days at a time throughout their detention ).

In the Herat region, dominated by the warlord Ismail Khan, Human Rights Watch reported extensive torture in 2002.

The extensive work was initiated and coordinated by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey ( HRFT ) and the Physicians for Human Rights USA ( PHR USA ).

the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner received several reports alleging that the resignation of four judges in the run-up to the decision occurred as result of extensive pressure by the executive.

The Government and two universities, who had subsidized his labours, and, towards the end, a younger generation of Aranda people on the Land Rights Council, believed they were the proper bodies for taking over the care and housing of this extensive material.

* University of Southern Mississippi's Civil Rights Documentation Project, includes an extensive Timeline

An extensive review and opinion advocating the adoption of civil marriage in Israel, written by Prof. Pinhas Shifman and published in July 2001 by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, mentions Mamzer among the categories of Israelis which Professor Shifman believes should have a right to marry a spouse of their choice and argues current Israeli law interferes with and denies that right.

In May 2005, Die Neue Epoche, the German-language edition of The Epoch Times, received a special media prize from the International Society for Human Rights ( IGFM ) for " extensive and regular reporting about violations of human rights in China.

* UNHCR Convention on Civil and Political Rights-Human Rights Committee Document CCPR / C / 89, dated 27 April 1993, Bosnia and Herzegovina Report ( extensive documentation of war crimes committed in Višegrad and surrounding areas )

In consequence, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court's extensive case law developed an array of implicit or " unwritten " fundamental rights, drawing upon the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and applying the fundamental rights guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights ( ECHR ), which Switzerland ratified in 1974.