These are sometimes called " the four pillars of the Big Bang theory ".

* Four pillars policy, a legislative policy of the Government of Australia to maintain the separation of four of the largest banks in Australia by disallowing their merger or acquisition by any of the other three banks

As a gesture of gratitude, Delos was secured with four pillars.

As a gesture of gratitude, Delos was secured with four pillars and later became sacred to Apollo.

For, since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the church is scattered throughout all the world, and the “ pillar and ground ” of the church is the gospel and the spirit of life ; it is fitting that she should have four pillars, breathing out immortality on every side, and vivifying men afresh.

The four pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce income tax and capital gains tax, reduce government regulation of economy, and control money supply to reduce inflation.

Indigenous peoples have argued, through various international forums such as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Convention on Biological Diversity, that there are four pillars of sustainable development, the fourth being cultural.

UNMIK has been divided into four sections which it calls " pillars.

In general, the four pillars define a Green Party as a political movement that interrelates its philosophy from four different social movements, the peace movement, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and the labour movement.

As one of the four pillars of Shu and one of the four rudders of heaven he was associated with the North, and is specifically referenced as such in Spell 148 in the Book of the Dead.

* Bazi or four pillars: by hour, day, month, and year of birth.

The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests has four inner, twelve middle and twelve outer pillars, representing the four seasons, twelve months and twelve traditional Chinese hours respectively.

The new agency would be organized around four " pillars ": a technology and innovation office including the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Institute of Standards and Technology ; a statistical division including the United States Census Bureau and other data-collection agencies currently in the Commerce Department, and also the Bureau of Labor Statistics which would be transferred from the Department of Labor ; a trade and investment policy office ; and a small business development office.

The program at the Academy is guided by the Air Force's core values of " Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in All We Do ", and based on four " pillars of excellence ": military training, academics, athletics and character development.

Another record mentioned by pharaoh Thutmose III of Egypt in the 33rd year of his reign ( 1446 BC ) as the people of Ermenen, and says in their land " heaven rests upon its four pillars ".

The four legs of the celestial cow represented Nut or Hathor could, in one account, be seen as the pillars on which the sky was supported with the stars on their bellies constituting the Milky Way on which the solar barque of Ra, representing the sun, sailed.

Irenaeus of Lyons wrote in the late 2nd century that since there are four quarters of the earth ... it is fitting that the church should have four pillars ... the four Gospels ( Against Heresies, 3. 11. 8 ), and then shortly thereafter made the first known quotation from a fourth gospel — the canonical version of the Gospel of John.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

four rings, a watch and a set of pearl earrings.

In the following century the meetings were set to forty a year, with four in each state month.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

* Ambient Records, a set of four albums produced and recorded by Brian Eno

There are four basic types ( and several variants ) which each have a set of parameters describing the connection.

Acknowledging the lack of progress in relation to bilateral relations and the internal situation following the position adopted in 1997, the EU adopted a step-by-step approach in 1999, whereby sanctions would be gradually lifted upon fulfillment of the four benchmarks set by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Bowls have symbols unique to the set of four for identification.

The book is made up of six court tales and four apocalyptic visions set in the time of the Babylonian captivity.

* In the same innings, he became the second batsman to score 1000 Test runs in five different years, four days after Matthew Hayden first set the record.

Besides living together under continuous observation, which is the major attraction of the contest, the program relies on four basic props: The stripped-bare, back-to-basics environment in which they live, the evictions, the weekly tasks and competitions set by Big Brother and the " Diary / Confession Room ", in which the housemates individually convey their thoughts, feelings, and frustrations and reveal their nominees for eviction.

The first four films are historical dramas set, respectively, in the time of Christ, the U. S. Civil War, 16th-century Spain, and the late 19th-century South — the latter a fictionalized treatment of the life of Methodist evangelist, Robert Sayers Sheffey.

* Valved brass instruments use a set of valves ( typically three or four but as many as seven or more in some cases ) operated by the player's fingers that introduce additional tubing, or crooks, into the instrument, changing its overall length.

In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.

Each sub-group of two interacting couples is known to choreographers as a minor set and to dancers as a foursome or hands four.

The translation by Richard Crashaw was set to music in a four part glee by Samuel Webbe Jr.

Most of Smith's weird fiction falls into four series set variously in Hyperborea, Poseidonis, Averoigne and Zothique.

In his 16-year career in the NFL, Anderson made four trips to the Pro Bowl, won four passing titles, was named NFL MVP in 1981, and set the record for completion percentage in a single season in 1982 ( 70. 66 %).

However, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy: successful players ( in all versions other than golf croquet ) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents.

Once ten yards have been gained the offence gains a new set of three downs ( rather than the four downs given in American football ).

The highest auction record for the artist was set on November 6, 2007 at Christie's in New York, where a group of four paintings, " Les Quatre Saisons " ( the Four Seasons ) sold for $ 14, 601, 000 ( estimate $ 12, 000, 000-$ 18, 000, 000 ).

The Channel F is only able to use one plane of graphics and one of four background colors per line, only three plot colors to choose from ( red, green and blue ) that turned into white if the background is set to black.

In the process, Earnhardt set a NASCAR modern era record of four consecutive wins and won five of the first seven races.