Several attempts were made to remove this from the Book of Order, and in 2011, the Presbyteries of the PC ( USA ) passed Amendment 10-A permitting congregations to ordain elders and deacons and presbyteries to ordain ministers, saying " governing bodies shall be guided by Scripture and the confessions in applying standards to individual candidates ", without reference to the fidelity / chastity provision.

" Palmer replied that he could not use individual arrests to treat an " epidemic " and asserted his own fidelity to constitutional principles.

Lyrebirds render with great fidelity the individual songs of other birds and the chatter of flocks of birds, and also mimic other animals such as koalas and dingos.

ffrr ( full frequency range recording ) was a spin-off devised by Arthur Haddy of British Decca's development during the Second World War of a high fidelity hydrophone capable of detecting and cataloging individual German submarines by each one's signature engine noise, and enabled a greatly enhanced frequency range ( high and low notes ) to be captured on recordings.

Courts began to vindicate individual and association claims with a legal base of " good fidelity ", and " usucaption ".

Occupied by German troops and subjected to the harshest of repression, has given to the French, by numerous individual and collective actions, a magnificent example of courage and fidelity.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

The phonograph today, for all its high fidelity and stereophonic sound, is precisely what the early art purveyors in the movies wished to make of the camera.

An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed by a subject or a citizen to his / her state or sovereign.

The oath of allegiance is an oath of fidelity to the sovereign taken by all persons holding important public office and as a condition of naturalization.

This is our doctrine of apostolic succession " neither depends on, nor is secured by, " an official succession of ministers, whether bishops or presbyters, from apostolic times, but rather by fidelity to apostolic truth ".

The interpolated story in chapter 33 of Part four of the First Part is a retelling of a tale from Canto 43 of Orlando, regarding a man who tests the fidelity of his wife.

Class AB is widely considered a good compromise for audio amplifiers, since much of the time the music is quiet enough that the signal stays in the " class A " region, where it is amplified with good fidelity, and by definition if passing out of this region, is large enough that the distortion products typical of class B are relatively small.

The term " fundamentalism " is sometimes applied to signify a counter-cultural fidelity to some simplistic principle, as in the pejorative term " market fundamentalism " applied to an exaggerated religious-like faith in the ability of unfettered laissez-faire or free market economic views or policies to solve economic and social problems.

It is with this technology that Lee and his bandmates are able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity that fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

High fidelity — or hi-fi or hifi — reproduction is a term used by home stereo listeners and home audio enthusiasts ( audiophiles ) to refer to high-quality reproduction of sound to distinguish it from the poorer quality sound produced by inexpensive audio equipment, or the inferior quality of sound reproduction characteristic of recordings made until the late 1940s.

The queen is depicted with a dog, a symbol of fidelity, at her feet.

One could bear a little with Oliver Cromwell, though, contrary to his oath of fidelity to Parliament, contrary to his duty to the public ,... But as for Richard Cromwell, his son, who is he?

Without this capacity, which is often the case in practice, to produce a representation with lower resolution or lower fidelity than a given one, one needs to start with the original source signal and encode, or start with a compressed representation and then decompress and re-encode it ( transcoding ), though the latter tends to cause digital generation loss.

In this opinion, predictable fidelity to the Constitution is more important than fidelity to unconstitutional precedent.

In July, 2010, by a vote of 373 to 323, the General Assembly voted to propose to the presbyteries for ratification a constitutional amendment to remove from the Book of Order section G-6. 0106. b. which included this explicit requirement for ordination: “ Among these standards is the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman ( W-4. 9001 ), or chastity in singleness .” This proposal required ratification by a majority of the 173 presbyteries within 12 months of the General Assembly ’ s adjournment.

It is with this technology that the group is able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

However, as a translation of Omar Khayyam's quatrains, it is not noted for its fidelity.

Since the concept of high fidelity became important some dozen years ago, the claims of technical improvements have multiplied tenfold.

An important discovery made in this period was the technique of AC biasing which improved the fidelity of the recorded audio signal by increasing the effective linearity of the recording medium.

It is therefore important to know the threshold of audibility of group delay with respect to frequency, especially if the audio chain is supposed to provide high fidelity reproduction.

The trade-off between compression power, speed, and fidelity ( including artifacts ) is usually considered the most important figure of technical merit.

More advanced user agents use color management to provide better color fidelity ; this is particularly important for Web-to-print applications.

Tests play an important part in character development and marital fidelity.

This process allowed the performer to add their own flavor to the poem in question, although fidelity to the traditional versions of the poems was generally favored.

Inevitably, the question of " faithfulness " arises, and the more high profile the source novel, the more insistent are the questions of fidelity.

CRTs are still popular in the printing and broadcasting industries as well as in the professional video, photography, and graphics fields due to their greater color fidelity, contrast, and better viewing from off-axis ( wider viewing angle ).

Philosopher David L. Norton identified himself an " ethical individualist ," and, like Rand, saw a harmony between an individual's fidelity to his own self-actualization, or " personal destiny ," and the achievement of society's well being.

Several church-related groups are working to promote sexual abstinence until marriage and fidelity in marriage and to prevent child exploitation ; they care for victims of Thailand's massive sex trade as well.

This spectrum encompasses a wide range of fidelity as to physical cockpit characteristics and quality of software models, as well as various implementations of sound, motion, and visual sensory cues.

By the late 1980s, thanks to such improvements in the electronics, the tape material and manufacturing techniques, as well as dramatic improvements to the precision of the cassette shell, tape heads and transport mechanics, sound fidelity on equipment from the top manufacturers far surpassed the levels originally expected of the medium.

Some classical recordings were issued in high fidelity and even stereophonic sound on the Capitol label by William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski with various orchestras ( including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra ), and Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as light classical albums by Carmen Dragon and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and a series of albums of film music conducted by leading Hollywood composers such as Alfred Newman.

The audio fidelity of these earliest discs was well below that of contemporary phonograph cylinder records.

Because of this, most PA woofers are not well suited to use in high quality high fidelity home applications, and vice-versa.

Procellariids, as well as having strong natal philopatry, exhibit strong site fidelity, returning to the same nesting site, burrow or territory in sequential years.

Paramount offered recordings of standard pop-music fare, on records initially recorded with average audio fidelity pressed in average quality shellac, but with the coming of electric recording, both the audio fidelity and shellac quality went downhill to well below average ( although an occasional well pressed record on better shellac have been seen and collected ).

The audio fidelity of the records when new was average to slightly below average for the time, but as Banner was a cheap label they were pressed from cheaper materials that did not well withstand repeated playing with the heavy phonograph reproducers of the time.

The audio fidelity is significantly below average for the time, but Merrit Records are sought after by record collectors because of the interesting Kansas City jazz and blues performances preserved on the label as well as the rarity of original Merrit Records.

The audio fidelity of the post-acoustic records, as well as the pressing quality is above average for the era.

The audio fidelity of Supreme Records ( as well as affiliated labels ) is decidedly below average for the era.

One well known and possibly apocryphal anecdote maintains that when Vernet was asked to remove a certain obnoxious general from one of his paintings, he replied, " I am a painter of history, sire, and I will not violate the truth ," hence demonstrating his fidelity to representing war truthfully.

Audio fidelity and pressing quality of Vocalion records are well above average for the era.

The Tully Monster had a pair of fins not unlike a cuttlefish at the tail end of its body, and possibly vertical fins as well ( though the fidelity of preservation of fossils of its soft body makes this difficult to determine ), and a long proboscis with eight small sharp teeth with which it may have probed actively for small creatures and edible detritus in the muddy bottom.

His disinterested virtue supported him through all his pretensions ; and though to conciliate popular favour he affected an impartiality that by turns led him to the borders of insincerity and contradiction ; and though he was often so minutely attached to forms, that it made him troublesome in affairs of higher moment, it will be difficult to find a subject, whom gravity will so well become, whose knowledge will be so useful and so accurate, and whose fidelity to his trust will prove so unshaken.

Simultaneous to this, the distortion can actually distort itself in fidelity of its production adding a smooth " creamy " effect to distortion when as well the resolution of the usually gritty distortion sound is compromised and the note will almost return to its original configuration plus the desired " sloping " effects.

* Consumer audio and high fidelity audio receivers and AV receivers used by home stereo listeners and audio and home theatre system enthusiasts as well as audiophiles.

The story touches upon the pressures of living private and public lives, as well as fidelity, love, and duty.