The grand jury commented on a number of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing departments which it said `` are well operated and follow generally accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments ''.

The UN estimates of 1. 8 million internally displaced persons ( IDPs ), while generally the accepted figure for war-affected people is 4 million.

While there is no generally accepted formal definition of " algorithm ," an informal definition could be " a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations.

One motivation for this use is that a number of generally accepted mathematical results, such as Tychonoff's theorem, require the axiom of choice for their proofs.

In Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism, there would first be the implementation of a mutually agreed-upon libertarian " legal code which would be generally accepted, and which the courts would pledge themselves to follow.

The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery.

An antipope () or anti-pope is a person who, in opposition to the one who is generally seen as the legitimately elected Pope, makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

The date of Abd al-Rahman's death is disputed, but is generally accepted to be sometime around 785 through 788.

His period of activity as a painter is traditionally limited to the two decades between 1639 and 1660, fitting directly within the generally accepted limits of the Dutch Golden Age ’ s most significant period, 1640-1665.

There are several other works ascribed to him, although not necessarily generally accepted as being his own work.

In common law, black letter legal doctrine is an informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the courts and / or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

Sometimes this is referred to as " hornbook law " meaning treatise or textbook, often relied upon as authoritative, competent, and generally accepted in the field of Canadian law.

All hypotheses on the origin of Basque are controversial, and the suggested evidence is not generally accepted by most linguists.

Although the term “ biochemistry ” seems to have been first used in 1882, it is generally accepted that the formal coinage of biochemistry occurred in 1903 by Carl Neuberg, a German chemist.

Use of hydronyms is generally accepted to determine the extent of these cultures ' influence, but not the date of such influence.

The term " Bahaism " ( or " Baha ' ism ") has been used in the past, but the generally accepted name for the religion is the Bahá ' í Faith.

Other exotic baryons have been proposed, such as pentaquarks — baryons made of four quarks and one antiquark ( B = + + + − = 1 ), but their existence is not generally accepted.

Though there was much argument in the past, it is now generally accepted that brochs were roofed, probably with a conical timber framed roof covered with a locally sourced thatch.

In Martha told Jesus " you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world ", signifying that both titles were generally accepted ( yet considered distinct ) among the followers of Jesus before the Raising of Lazarus.

The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about 1750 and 1820.

When a game becomes sufficiently popular, so that people often play it with strangers, there is a need for a generally accepted set of rules.

The Portland Club rules eventually became generally accepted throughout England and Western cultures.

Until recently, for example, cladograms like the following have generally been accepted as accurate representations of the ancestral relations among turtles, lizards, crocodilians, and birds:

In economics, currency is a generally accepted medium of exchange.

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful ,< ref name =" definition ">

Prisms and antiprisms, whose symmetry groups are the dihedral groups, are generally not considered to be Archimedean solids, despite meeting the above definition.

He also provided an algebraic definition of fundamental groups of schemes and more generally the main structures of a categorical Galois theory.

More generally, many philosophers and scientists have been unhappy about the difficulty of producing a definition that does not involve circularity or fuzziness.

Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.

There is no precise definition for the term " Chicagoland ," but it generally means the city and its suburbs combined together.

A broad definition, used generally throughout history, is that chemical affinity is that whereby substances enter into or resist decomposition.

In reality, this definition is generally used where only two firms have dominant control over a market.

This usage is technically incompatible with the normal definition of the word and leads to confusion, inasmuch as there are generally more than two owners of broadcast television stations in markets with broadcast duopolies.

Provided the underlying scalars form a field ( more generally, a commutative ring with unity ), the definition below shows that such a function exists, and it can be shown to be unique.

Among economists more generally, it argues that a particular definition presented may reflect the direction toward which the author believes economics is evolving, or should evolve.

An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

In Adam MacGregor's definition, " the blast-beat generally comprises a repeated, sixteenth-note figure played at a very fast tempo, and divided uniformly among the kick drum, snare and ride, crash, or hi-hat cymbal.

The IASB ´ s definition is the generally accepted definition of hyperinflation in the accounting profession since April 1989 followed by all countries implementing International Financial Reporting Standards.

The term covers large paintings in oil on canvas or fresco produced between the Renaissance and the late 19th century, after which the term is generally not used even for the many works that still meet the basic definition.

However, the usage of Irish diaspora is generally not limited by citizenship status, thus leading to an estimated ( and fluctuating ) membership of up to 80 million persons — the second and more emotive definition.

Members of the U. S. Congress are not exempt from the laws that ban insider trading, however, they generally do not have a confidential or fiduciary relationship with the source of the information they receive and accordingly, do not meet the definition of an " insider ".

The exact number of known living languages will vary from 5, 000 to 10, 000, depending generally on the precision of one's definition of " language ", and in particular on how one classifies dialects.

" The Stylebook definition of Latino includes not only persons of Spanish-speaking ancestry, but also more generally includes persons " from -- or whose ancestors were from --.

Mathematics ( from Greek μάθημα máthēma, “ knowledge, study, learning ”) is the abstract study of topics encompassing quantity, structure, space, change, and others ; it has no generally accepted definition.

Although there is no universal agreement on the definition of life, scientists generally accept that the biological manifestation of life is characterized by organization, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli and reproduction.

More generally, the statement must occur in the " course of justice ," but this definition leaves room open for interpretation.