In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters.

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The Fiji Junior Certificate was similarly of no use, he considered ; in the past, it had been used as a qualification to enter some professions such as nursing, teaching, and the police, but it had outlived its usefulness.

Over the past decades a number of these have been found, of varying degrees of usefulness and reliability.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

A significant concern of Jewish authorities was to ensure compliance with the Torah's commandments, the enactments of the Mosaic Law ; yet, as these laws had been written in circumstances of the past, they seemed to call for adaptation or explication if they were to fit the circumstances of contemporary life.

The government set out to eliminate past vestiges of authoritarian rule, by revising laws and decrees to fit democratic provisions.

These oracles may include ( but are not limited to ) specifications, contracts, comparable products, past versions of the same product, inferences about intended or expected purpose, user or customer expectations, relevant standards, applicable laws, or other criteria.

The senators agreed to render homage to Christian, on condition that he gave a full indemnity for the past and a guarantee that Sweden should be ruled according to Swedish laws and custom.

There is some overlap between criminal law and tort, since tort, a private action, used to be used more than criminal laws in the past.

Although time travel has been a common plot device in science fiction since the late 19th century and the theories of special and general relativity allow methods for forms of one-way travel into the future via time dilation, it is currently unknown whether the laws of physics would allow time travel into the past.

Uniformitarianism is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now, have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe.

" In essence, the constancy of natural laws must be assumed in our study of the past, because if we do not, then we cannot meaningfully study the past.

Therefore, in order to come to conclusions about the past, we must assume the invariance of nature's laws.

The subversive nature of the festival is reflected in Italy's many laws over the past several centuries attempting to restrict celebrations and the wearing of masks, a central feature of the Carnival.

The simplified argument runs along these lines: if determinism is true, then we have no control over the events of the past that determined our present state and no control over the laws of nature.

Since our present choices and acts, under determinism, are the necessary consequences of the past and the laws of nature, then we have no control over them and, hence, no free will.

But it follows from the consequence argument that, if Jane had remained standing, she would have either generated a contradiction, violated the laws of nature or changed the past.

Historically and internationally, support for affirmative action has sought to achieve a range of goals: bridging inequalities in employment and pay ; increasing access to education ; enriching state, institutional, and professional leadership with the full spectrum of society ; redressing apparent past wrongs, harms, or hindrances, in particular addressing the apparent social imbalance left in the wake of slavery and slave laws.

Significantly, the natural laws of time travel within the series operate to prevent cohabitation of a timeline by more than one version of a person or object: anything arriving from the future replaces its past self.

Other senior members of the House of Savoy have also in the past downplayed the significance of the anti-Jewish laws signed by Vittorio Emmanuele's grandfather.

" Ordonnance du 19 octobre 1945 " also states in article 3 " This application does not however affect the validity of past acts by the person or rights acquired by third parties on the basis of previous laws.

While current zoning laws do not require building remodelling to remain historically accurate, the vast majority of houses and structures remain architecturally as they were constructed, often more than a century past.

used the City Charter to revoke the alcohol license and the PD enforced the local laws of the land pushed by the new Police Chief, a Texas Ranger who took over after the past Police Chief and investigator where removed for corruption after an outside the county investigation of the City of Navasota Police department.

All proceeds from the sales of the items went to the " We The People " group ; a group dedicated to changing the parole laws for convicted murders such as McFadden ( who was paroled in spite of a past marked by violence ) due to overcrowding.

The term remains in use among scholars when referring to past practices concerning multiraciality, such as anti-miscegenation laws that banned interracial marriages.

Additionally, laws governing the colonies of the British Empire ( including the 1766 amendment to the Sugar Act of 1764 ) used the latitude of Cape Finisterre as the latitude past which certain goods could not be shipped north directly between British colonies.

In a turn of events that proved to be a minor embarrassment for the reorganized ownership group, Backman was almost immediately fired after management learned, after the fact, of legal troubles and improprieties in Backman's past.

Automatic lead selection or lead steering is also intended to improve efficiencies, both for inbound and outbound campaigns, whereby inbound calls are intended to quickly land with the appropriate agent to handle the task, whilst minimizing wait times and long lists of irrelevant options for people calling in, as well as for outbound calls, where lead selection allows management to designate what type of leads go to which agent based on factors including skill, socioeconomic factors and past performance and percentage likelihood of closing a sale per lead.

However, once a project grows past a few thousand lines, has multiple developers, and external-partner teams, fully integrated IDEs with code analysis and configuration management are all but mandatory.

In the past 60 years, MIT's educational disciplines have expanded beyond the physical sciences and engineering into fields such as biology, economics, linguistics, political science, and management.

* Manager's compensation: In the past, certain executive management teams had their payout based on the total amount of profit of the company, instead of the profit per share, which would give the team a perverse incentive to buy companies to increase the total profit while decreasing the profit per share ( which hurts the owners of the company, the shareholders ).

In the past, it typically replaced the role of market in the capitalist economy with centralized state management of the economy, which is known as a command economy.

Bud Adams established the Titans / Oilers Hall of Fame after the 40th season of the franchise to honor past players and management.

In the past network management mainly consisted of monitoring whether devices were up or down ; today performance management has become a crucial part of the IT team's role which brings about a host of challenges — especially for global organizations.

Oceanographic data management is the discipline ensuring that oceanographic data both past and present are available to researchers.

Over the past two decades, greater Auckland has been subject to a process of growth management facilitated through various strategic and legislative documents.

The management of cystic fibrosis has improved significantly over the past 70 years.

Thus, the major threat in these areas is fire management ( protection of private assets is a key objective and so past fire regimes may not reflect environmental needs ), weed invasion and lack of connectivity between patches.

The museum's tax filings from the past few years suggest a shift among the highest paid employees from curatorial staff to management.

Water management engineering developments in the past century have degraded these wetlands through the construction on artificial embankments.

In the past 30 years, the transfer of responsibilities to the Government of Northwest Territories has taken place for several programs and services including the delivery of health care, social services, education, administration of airports and forestry management.

Although some of the sources listed here treat only one kind of VaR as legitimate, most of the recent ones seem to agree that risk management VaR is superior for making short-term and tactical decisions today, while risk measurement VaR should be used for understanding the past, and making medium term and strategic decisions for the future.

Limited reforms within professional management circles have led in the past to activity-based costing, economic value added, and risk measures.

The management thanked fans for their loyalty over the past 12 years of the duo's history.

However Microsoft has been criticized for security and privacy management problems in the past, and its model is unlikely to be adapted for direct use by governments or other mandatory purposes.

McMurdo has attempted to improve environmental management and waste removal over the past decade in order to adhere to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, which was signed Oct. 4, 1991, and entered into force Jan. 14, 1998.

In the past, lists of union members have been shared or circulated between multiple organizations to prevent hiring of employees who have been critical of management or advocated on behalf of members of their profession.

She ultimately was allowed to come back due to her cabinet experience and her economic management in the past.

It is the first volume and combination of the past sixteen years of Peter Drucker's work on management.