* Scotland: the Land Reform ( Scotland ) Act 2003 ends the historic legacy of feudal law and creates a framework for rural or croft communities right to buy land in their area.

He got involved in long debates about pension issues for Civil War veterans, but his most notable legacy as a representative was in passing the 1889 Nelson Act.

Flood's legacy was acknowledged in Congress in 1997 via the Baseball Fans and Communities Protection Act of 1997.

Perkins's legacy of support to education and the under-privileged is shown by the federal student loan called the Perkins Loan, named for him, as is the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006, which provides federal money for career technical education schooling.

However, the main provision of the Jones Act remained thereby allowing for a legacy fleet of the US Merchant Navy to remain.

From 1995 to 2009 he wrote seven very different plays dedicated to young audiences for this company: At the Inland Sea ( 1995 ), in which a youth confronts the legacy of the holocaust ; Eleven Vests ( 1997 ), on scholastic and military authoritarianism ; Have I None ( 2000 ), The Balancing Act ( 2003 ), The Under Room ( 2005 ) Tune ( 2007 ) and A Window ( 2009 ).

It operates under contract for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ( NDA ), a government body set up specifically to deal with the nuclear legacy under the Energy Act 2004.

The Scroll and Key Society: Seen in Act 1, but not revealed until Act 2, the Scroll and Key Society is a group of green clad individuals in dark sunglasses who have come to the building on behalf of Lionel Edward's legacy ( Elizabeth's father ), whom they claim was a prominent society member.

An analyst of the phenomenon, Thomas Shapiro, professor of law and social policy at Brandeis University argues, “ The wealth gap is not just a story of merit and achievement, it ’ s also a story of the historical legacy of race in the United States .” Differentials applied to the Social Security Act ( which excluded agricultural workers, a sector that then included most black workers ), rewards to military officers, and the educational benefits offered returning soldiers after World War II.

That legacy took shape in the form of Act 250.

The legacy of the Act can be followed through subsequent legislation that built on and expanded the powers granted in 1850 and the 4, 540 public libraries that exist in the United Kingdom in 2010 can trace their origins back to this Act.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

It condemned him for his invention of dynamite and is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death.

In the case of legacies when the funds or assets out of which they are payable are not sufficient to pay them in full, the legacies abate in proportion, unless there is a priority given specially to any particular legacy.

Classics Professor G. P. Goold at University College, wrote of Housman's scholarly accomplishments: " The legacy of Housman's scholarship is a thing of permanent value ; and that value consists less in obvious results, the establishment of general propositions about Latin and the removal of scribal mistakes, than in the shining example he provides of a wonderful mind at work ....

One legacy of the previous era is a greatly overstaffed military industry ; under former leader Josip Broz Tito, military industries were promoted in the republic, resulting in the development of a large share of Yugoslavia's defense plants but fewer commercially viable firms.

It is implemented as an additional layer on top of ( a legacy version of ) Berkeley DB and the Xerces library.

The System / 360 architecture was so popular that it dominated the mainframe computer market for decades and left a legacy that is still continued by similar modern computers like the IBM zSeries.

He furthermore argues that this legacy of imperialism or cultural imperialism is still very influential in international systems of power.

Other major critiques are that the term is not defined well, and employs further terms that are not defined well, and therefore lacks explanatory power, that cultural imperialism is hard to measure, and that the theory of a legacy of colonialism is not always true.

This legacy distinction is somewhat erased by languages such as ChucK, SuperCollider, and Impromptu.

The principal legacy of the Cathar movement is in the poems and songs of the Cathar troubadors, though this artistic legacy is only a smaller part of the wider Occitan linguistic and artistic heritage.

There is a diverse but ardent group of people worldwide who restore and preserve legacy 16-bit Data General systems.

The school is an active member of the eastern Toronto community and celebrates his legacy.

It is used in industrial applications and is quickly replacing legacy data transmission systems in the world's telecommunications networks.

This is a legacy of its bid to be the state capital, which it lost to Olympia.

CWU being placed there is another product of that legacy.

Although opinions differ as to his character there is no dispute over his great achievements: he helped to save the Habsburg Empire from French conquest ; he broke the westward thrust of the Ottomans, liberating central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish occupation ; and he was one of the great patrons of the arts whose building legacy can still be seen in Vienna today.

Eiffel's design is based on object-oriented programming theory, with only minor influence of other paradigms or concern for support of legacy code.

Today, the broadcaster's online video player, the BBC iPlayer, reflects the branding legacy by retaining an i-prefix in its branding.

The Bacardi legacy lives on in Santiago and Havana through its grand buildings and its historic significance.

Its legacy was its most important sovereign, Ishanavarman who completely conquered the kingdom of Funan during 612-628.

The city, and the Empire, would ultimately fall to the Ottomans by 1453, but its enduring legacy had provided Europe centuries of resurgence following the collapse of Rome.

The ephemeris time of the 1952 standard leaves a continuing legacy, through its ephemeris second which became closely duplicated in the length of the current standard SI second ( see below: Redefinition of the second ).

World War II resulted in the destruction of Germany's political and economic infrastructure and led directly to its partition, considerable loss of territory ( especially in the east ), and historical legacy of guilt and shame.

The show's additional legacy — probably its main one to most of the Southern and rural viewers in particular — was the hundreds of performances of country music, bluegrass, gospel music, and other traditional styles, that were featured on it during its run.

The legacy of the 8086 is enduring in the basic instruction set of today's personal computers and servers ; the 8086 also lent its last two digits to later extended versions of the design, such as the Intel 286 and the Intel 386, all of which eventually became known as the x86 family.

Its artistic legacy includes the employment, since the 1920s, of many well-known graphic designers, illustrators and artists for its own publicity posters.

Since the 1950s, following the lead of D. W. Jefferson, there are those who argue that, whatever its legacy of influence may be, Tristram Shandy in its original context actually represents a resurgence of a much older, Renaissance tradition of " Learned Wit " – owing a debt to such influences as the Scriblerian approach.

For a variety of reasons, a legacy system may continue to be used, sometimes well past its vendor-supported lifetime, resulting in support and maintenance challenges.

Comair airline company fired its CEO in 2004 due to the failure of an antiquated legacy crew scheduling system that ran into a limitation not known to anyone in the company.

Producers argued for its cancellation because of its falling ratings, afraid that the show's legacy might be damaged if it were renewed for another season.

Nevertheless, this particular 22-year long legacy was broken when Nauru's president decided to change its allegiance and establish formal relations with China.

OS / 2 has historically been more difficult to run in a virtual machine than most other legacy x86 operating systems because of its extensive reliance on the full set of features of the x86 CPU.

" An additional legacy unit, Famous Players Theaters ( Canada ) was sold in 2005 to its competitor Cineplex Odeon Corporation.

Constance Lowell, Percival Lowell's widow, subsequently embroiled the observatory in a long legal battle to secure its million-dollar portion of Lowell's legacy for herself, which meant that the search for Planet X could not resume for several years.

# Philosophical posthumanism: a philosophical direction which is critical of the foundational assumptions of Renaissance humanism and its legacy.

Among the key themes of Romanticism, and its most enduring legacy, the cultural assertions of romantic nationalism have also been central in post-Enlightenment art and political philosophy.

Whereas previous rulers had been influenced by Persian culture ( Suleiman's father, Selim I, wrote poetry in Persian ), Suleiman's patronage of the arts had seen the Ottoman Empire assert its own artistic legacy.