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latter and practice
The location of the latter now is determined for tax purposes at the time of registration, and it is now accepted practice to consider a motor vehicle as being situated where it is garaged.
The standard ampere is most accurately realized using a watt balance, but is in practice maintained via Ohm's Law from the units of electromotive force and resistance, the volt and the ohm, since the latter two can be tied to physical phenomena that are relatively easy to reproduce, the Josephson junction and the quantum Hall effect, respectively.
Although the posts of leader and party president of Fianna Fáil are separate, with the former elected by the Parliamentary Party and the latter elected by the Ardfheis ( thus allowing for the posts to be held by different people, in theory ), in practice they have always been held by the one person.
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.
Musica reservata is either a style or a performance practice in a cappella vocal music of the latter, mainly in Italy and southern Germany, involving refinement, exclusivity, and intense emotional expression of sung text.
In the latter, this practice is called calaverita ( Spanish for " little skull "), and instead of " trick or treat ", the children ask ¿ me da mi calaverita?
These have now been replaced by the defining points in the International Temperature Scale of 1990, though in practice the melting point of water is more commonly used than its triple point, the latter being more difficult to manage and thus restricted to critical standard measurement.
The terms laudanum and tincture of opium are generally interchangeable, but in contemporary medical practice the latter is used almost exclusively.
" Copernicus was aware of the practice of exchanging bad coins for good ones and melting down the latter or sending them abroad, and he seems to have drawn up some notes on this subject while he was at Olsztyn in 1519.
After World War I the heads of some formerly reigning dynasties continued the practice of rejecting or, increasingly, recognising dynastic titles and / or rights for descendants of " morganatic " unions, effectively de-morganatizing the latter.
While the two fields are closely related, ' urban design ' differs from ' urban planning ' in its focus on the proactive design of urban areas, whereas the latter tends, in practice, to focus on the management of private development through established regulatory planning methods and programs, and other statutory development controls.
Some Early Modern examples of the latter practice, where the patronymic was placed after the given name and was followed by the surname, are Norwegian Peder Claussøn Friis, the son of Nicolas Thorolfsen Friis ( Claus in Claussøn being short for Nicolas ) and Danish Thomas Hansen Kingo, the son of Hans Thomsen Kingo.
The state-run Chinese Buddhist Association, concerned with Buddhist apostates taking up Falun Gong practice, were the first to term Falun Gong xiejiao in the latter half of 1996.
For the same reason, although notionally the viceroy exercised the executive authority of the state, in practice he did so only at the direction of the President of the Executive Council, making the latter the Free State's political leader.
In practice of the latter function, the rector is usually replaced by a member of the PhD examination board of the university, which consists solely of full professors.
By the same measure, departing in this from the policy of the Eastern Empire, Majorian insisted that a marriage without dowry and pre-wedding gifts trade ( the first from the bride's family to the groom, the latter in the opposite direction ) was invalid ; simultaneously ended the practice of requesting pre-wedding gifts of a value considerably higher than the dowry.
A widespread instance for the latter during the Roman Empire was the practice by the elite to take nubile young girls as lovers or mistresses, girls who could be as young as daughters.
The political issue was a dispute between landowners ( a long-established class, who were heavily represented in Parliament ) and the new class of manufacturers and industrialists ( who were not ): the former desired to maximise their profits from agriculture, by keeping the price at which they could sell their grain high ; the latter wished to maximise their profits from manufacture, by reducing the wages they paid to their factory workers -- the difficulty being that men could not work in the factories if a factory wage was not enough to feed them and their families ; hence, in practice, high grain prices kept factory wages high also.
In doing so, he diverged from the actions of his predecessors who had been faced with the task of appointing a Prime minister from a hung parliament, Presidents N. Sanjiva Reddy, R. Venkataraman, and Shankar Dayal Sharma: the latter two had followed the practice of inviting the leader of the single largest party or pre-election coalition to form the government without investigating their ability to secure the confidence of the house.
By the latter part of the 19th century it was common practice to paint roses and castles on both narrow boats themselves and their fixtures and fittings.
The practice seems to have very ancient antecedents, witness the names of the presumably 6th century poets Talhaearn Tad Awen, Blwchfardd and Culfardd, mentioned by the Welsh historian Nennius alongside Taliesin and Aneirin, the latter referred to as Aneurin Gwenithwawd.
This latter term, in fact, follows original Greek practice, where ἁγιογραφία refers to visual images of the saints, while their written lives ( or ) or the study thereof are known as.
This contract, known as the Leaf ( ṣaḥīfa ) upheld the peaceful coexistence between Muslims, Jews and Christians, defining them all, under given conditions, as constituting the umma, or community of that city, and granting the latter freedom of religious thought and practice.
Beecher compared Chinese immigrants favorably to Irish immigrants, and argued that excluding the former from entering the country while allowing the latter was an unjust practice.
The two alternatives are to abbreviate as " mcg " or to write out " microgram " in full, the latter being best practice ( see List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions ).

latter and positive
The latter test is relatively insensitive, successfully detecting only 60-80 % of infections in asymptomatic women, and often giving falsely positive results.
It posits itself in opposition to positive law, as the latter depicts itself in social reality and methodologically in the objective " should-have " sense of law, which reveals itself through value-related interpretation.
The latter film received very positive reviews, with Entertainment Weekly describing Dunst's subplot as " nifty and clever.
Logarithms can be defined to any positive base other than 1, not just e ; however logarithms in other bases differ only by a constant multiplier from the natural logarithm, and are usually defined in terms of the latter.
Although the latter is higher-order, viewing positive cones as maximal prepositive cones provides a larger context in which field orderings are extremal partial orderings.
External overall positive feedback may be applied but ( unlike internal positive feedback that may be applied within the latter stages of a purpose-designed comparator ) this markedly affects the accuracy of the zero-crossing detection point.
The latter models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order positive feedback ( more ancestors, more descendants ) and / or a negative feedback arising from resource limitation.
Outside Lusatia, it has been superseded by German, following repeated " positive " discrimination, from the 13th century on, in favour of that latter tongue, being advantaged by the comparatively higher development of the German civilisation.
To obtain j from ũ, the latter must be divided by the positive real number which has the same square as ũ.
To yield i from ũ, the latter has to be divided by a positive real number which squares to the negative of ũ < sup > 2 </ sup >.
The latter question has positive answer whenever G has one of the following conditions:
Æthelbald may have influenced the appointment of successive archbishops of Canterbury in Tatwine, Nothelm, and Cuthbert, the latter probably the former bishop of Hereford ; and despite Boniface's strong criticisms, there is evidence of Æthelbald's positive interest in church affairs.
The government's budget deficit increased tenfold, inflation approached 10 percent, the unemployment rate doubled, and the current account went from positive to negative – the latter a critical problem in a country that rises or falls on foreign trade.
Key theorists in the former category include Derrick Jensen and John Zerzan while the ' Unabomber ' Theodore Kaczynski belongs in the latter, though the boundaries are blurred at times, both Jensen and Zerzan making positive references to some forms of permaculture.
However, the film was not without its naysayers, including Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert ; though the latter still gave it a positive vote, both criticized the picture for being too long and having too many superfluous characters ( such as Harris's English Bob, who enters and leaves without ever meeting the protagonists ).
Tom Turner has suggested that the latter resulted from a favourable account of his talent in Marie-Luise Gothein's History of Garden Art which predated Christopher Hussey's positive account of Brown in The Picturesque ( 1927 ).
The answer to this is that in the case of contradictory statements — A and not A — the latter is a mere negation of the former, and posits nothing ; and the negation of a notion with positive attributes, as the finite, does not extend beyond abolishing the given attributes as an object of thought.
The latter distance is given as a positive or negative number depending on which side of the reference plane faces the point.
In set theory and combinatorics, the cardinal number n < sup > m </ sup > is the size of the set of functions from a set of size m into a set of size n. If m is positive and n is zero, then there are no such functions, because there are no elements in the latter set to map those of the former set into.
In these states, German life has its positive and negative poles-in the former, all the interests which are national and reformative, in the latter, all that are dynastic and destructive.
They are most commonly found in immunologically-mediated hemolytic anemias and in hereditary spherocytosis, but the former would have a positive direct Coombs test and the latter would not.
Although compliance was believed to be one issue in clinical versus animal trials, the high viscosity and controlled nature of animal-viral inoculations ( atraumatic introduction of virus using a French catheter ) may be why the latter animal study observed a positive outcome.
On a more positive side, his expedition did broaden contacts between French and Italian humanists, energizing French art and letters in the latter Renaissance.
Icewind Dale was released to positive reviews, with critics praising the game's musical score and gameplay, the latter being compared to Diablo.

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