" Seward declined, " defending ' our policy of non-intervention — straight, absolute, and peculiar as it may seem to other nations ,'" and insisted that " he American people must be content to recommend the cause of human progress by the wisdom with which they should exercise the powers of self-government, forbearing at all times, and in every way, from foreign alliances, intervention, and interference.

As early as 3 March 1914, Nazarene mission policy developed for the work in Japan by Reynolds encouraged the creation of " self-supporting and self-governing churches ": When a Mission Church reaches a place where it can become entirely self supporting it shall be organized by the District Missionary Superintendent ( SIC ) Into a self supporting body according to the manual of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene adapted to the needs peculiar to the country, and shall be governed by the same.

He argued that instead of environmental movements being " New Social Movements " peculiar to current societies, environmental movements are very old — being expressed via religious movements in the past ( or in the present like in ecotheology ) that begin to focus on material concerns of health, local ecology, and economic protest against state policy and its extractions.

PURPLE was an enticing, but quite tactically limited, window into Japanese planning and policy because of the peculiar nature of Japanese policy making prior to the War ( see above ).

Payton resigned in 1978 after thirteen months as Director citing, in part, policy differences between ACTION and the Peace Corps saying " as Director, I could not, because of the peculiar administrative structure under which the Peace Corps operates, do anything about this situation.

" Secretary of State William H. Seward declined, " defending ' our policy of non-intervention — straight, absolute, and peculiar as it may seem to other nations ,'" and insisted that " he American people must be content to recommend the cause of human progress by the wisdom with which they should exercise the powers of self-government, forbearing at all times, and in every way, from foreign alliances, intervention, and interference.

The power of making by-laws was “ tacitly annexed to corporations by the very act of their establishment .” While they must not directly contradict the overarching laws of the land, the central or local government cannot be expected to regulate toward the peculiar circumstances of a given body, and so “ they are invested with authority to make regulations for the management of their own interests and affairs .”

Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of the war ; it allows of the capturing of every armed enemy, and every enemy of importance to the hostile government, or of peculiar danger to the captor ; it allows of all destruction of property, and obstruction of the ways and channels of traffic, travel, or communication, and of all withholding of sustenance or means of life from the enemy ; of the appropriation of whatever an enemy's country affords necessary for the subsistence and safety of the Army, and of such deception as does not involve the breaking of good faith either positively pledged, regarding agreements entered into during the war, or supposed by the modern law of war to exist.

Sectional tensions had long existed between the states located north of the Mason-Dixon Line and those south of it, primarily centered on the " peculiar institution " of slavery and the ability of states to overrule the decisions of the national government.

The origins of the split between Amsterdam as capital city and The Hague as seat of government lay in the peculiar Dutch constitutional history.

Although in Switzerland's peculiar political system, in which all four major parties form a coalition, it is very difficult to achieve a change of government, this election produced an upset with the strong showing of the right-wing, anti-European Union and anti-immigration Swiss People's Party.

Ellis states that “ in the years leading up to the Civil War the nullifiers and their pro-slavery allies used the doctrine of states ’ rights and state sovereignty in such a way as to try to expand the powers of the federal government so that it could more effectively protect the peculiar institution .” By the 1850s, states ’ rights had become a call for state equality under the Constitution.

Medieval Icelandic institutions have several peculiar and interesting characteristics ; they might almost have been invented by a mad economist to test the lengths to which market systems could supplant government in its most fundamental functions.

Interestingly, the government chose to highlight Chaklov ’ s personal initiative ( that is, his youthful disdain for authority ) – a peculiar sort of dualism in a society where the collective good was ( supposed to be ) prized over individual initiative.

Bakhtin gives an example of an illiterate peasant, who speaks Church Slavonic to God, speaks to his family in their own peculiar dialect, sings songs in yet a third, and attempts to emulate officious high-class dialect when he dictates petitions to the local government.

Each chapter adopts its own by-laws that provide for areas of government that are peculiar to each chapter.

This peculiar move by the government has been costly to numerous businesses and was met with some confusion as many thought that the name was already a native word.

Antony Flew offers a mixed review: " Mr Cornish contends that the reason why the government of the USSR treated Wittgenstein with such peculiar generosity was that he had been the recruiter of all the Cambridge spies.

The irony is whenever the UNHCR and ICRC are in need of help they can easily find contacts to reach Baluch leaders abroad and inside Baluchistan but when the Baluch need their help they will make lame excuses such as ; the government doesn ’ t allow us to work in Baluchistan, we do not give statement against the government because it is a political risk, and most peculiar excuse they use is that they are ready to help but the families of missing Baluch do not contact them – what a petty .!

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

`` A lot of people are so peculiar that they don't like cats, it's not the easiest thing in the world to find good homes for kittens -- and, damn it, you know very well if I have them around long, impossible to give them away!!

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented for example, in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

Bukharin himself speaks of his " peculiar duality of mind " in his last plea, which led to " semi-paralysis of the will " and Hegelian " unhappy consciousness ", which likely stemmed not only from his knowledge of the ruinous reality of Stalinism ( although he could not of course say so in the trial ) but also of the impending threat of fascism.

We can thus understand the localisation of sub-genera, genera, and families ; and how it is that under different latitudes, for instance in South America, the inhabitants of the plains and mountains, of the forests, marshes, and deserts, are in so mysterious a manner linked together by affinity, and are likewise linked to the extinct beings which formerly inhabited the same continent ... On these same principles, we can understand, as I have endeavoured to show, why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants, but of these a great number should be endemic or peculiar ; ...

Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific sensations, and so has the film.

Most peculiar is the vibrato ting yin ( literally " still vibrato "); ancient manuals state that the finger on the left hand that is pressing the string should only move or rock ever so slightly so as to alter the pitch minutely, and some manuals say that the finger should not move at all but let the pulse of the finger do the vibrato.

Vietnam's peculiar geography made it a difficult country to attack, which is why Vietnam under Hùng Vương was for so long an independent and self-contained state.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented e. g. in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

The story goes that the annoyed Thomson wrote to the Postmaster General himself to complain saying, among other things, " We don't care what name you give us so long as it is sort of ' peculiar '.

Even light itself does not have a " velocity " of c in this sense ; the total velocity of any object can be expressed as the sum where is the recession velocity due to the expansion of the universe ( the velocity given by Hubble's law ) and is the " peculiar velocity " measured by local observers ( with and, the dots indicating a first derivative ), so for light is equal to c (- c if the light is emitted towards our position at the origin and + c if emitted away from us ) but the total velocity is generally different than c .( Davis and Lineweaver 2003, p. 19 ) Even in special relativity the coordinate speed of light is only guaranteed to be c in an inertial frame, in a non-inertial frame the coordinate speed may be different than c ; in general relativity no coordinate system on a large region of curved spacetime is " inertial ", but in the local neighborhood of any point in curved spacetime we can define a " local inertial frame " and the local speed of light will be c in this frame, with massive objects such as stars and galaxies always having a local speed smaller than c. The cosmological definitions used to define the velocities of distant objects are coordinate-dependent-there is no general coordinate-independent definition of velocity between distant objects in general relativity ( Baez and Bunn, 2006 ).

To pour a drink, hold the bottle in the right hand with the left hand touching the right forearm or elbow ; this peculiar arm position originated from the practice of holding back the sleeve of the hanbok so that it wouldn't touch the table or the food.

" This is slightly distressing to the subjects and indicative of the fact that their attention was so focused and fixated on the peculiar hand stimuli that they were momentarily entranced so they did not hear what was said.

For example, the unification of " grass " ( explained above ), means that a historical text cannot be encoded so as to preserve its peculiar orthography.

:" I shall merely add, that my experiments go to prove that it is a law in the animal economy that, by the continued fixation of the mental and visual eye on any object in itself not of an exciting nature, with absolute repose of body and general quietude, they become wearied ; and, provided the patients rather favour than resist the feeling of stupor which they feel creeping over them during such experiment, a state of somnolency is induced, and that peculiar state of brain, and mobility of the nervous system, which render the patient liable to be directed so as to manifest the mesmeric phenomena.

Procter's work often embodies a Victorian aesthetic of sentimentality, but, according to Francis O ' Gorman, does so with " peculiar strength "; Procter employs emotional affect without simplification, holding " emotional energy tension ... against complications and nuances.

Sephardic law and customs means the practice of Judaism as observed by the Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, so far as it is peculiar to themselves and not shared with other Jewish groups such as the Ashkenazim.

A very peculiar characteristic of this structure is that the link between active members and Alte Herren is usually so direct that already the youngest members are asked to address even their most decorated Alte Herren by Du, the intimate form of salutation in German, or even by their first name.

" Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader gave a positive review, claiming that " Argento works so hard for his effects — throwing around shock cuts, colored lights and peculiar camera angles — that it would be impolite not to be a little frightened ".< ref > Although J. Hoberman of The Village Voice gave a positive review as well, he calls it " a movie that makes sense only to the eye ".

" Not one single physician, as far as I know, during the previous two thousand five hundred years, thought of this so natural, so absolutely necessary and only genuine mode of testing medicines for their pure and peculiar effects in deranging the health of man, in order to learn what morbid state each medicine is capable of curing, except the great and immortal Albrecht von Haller.

Their spectra are peculiar by having weak hydrogen while on the other hand carbon and helium lines are extra strong.

They are peculiar in having their altitude dependent on the depth of revived erosion, instead of the amount of faulting, and they are sometimes topographically reversed, in that the revived scarp overlooks a lowland worn on a weak formation in the upheaved fault-block.

" Macanese also lacks weak pronouns ( io means " I ," " me " and " mine "), and has a peculiar way of forming possessive adjectives ( ilotro-sua means " theirs ").