This interpretation is supported by the negative character of all of the stories retold about Vortigern in the Historia Brittonum, which include his alleged practice of incest.

Because the remit of the Convention covers millions of species of plants and animals, and tens of thousands of these taxa are potentially of economic value, in practice this negative list approach effectively forces CITES signatories to expend limited resources on just a select few, leaving many species to be traded with neither constraint nor review.

The practice aims to liberate from negative conditioning and leads to control over perception and cognition.

* 無, Mu ( negative ), a Japanese and Korean word important in Zen practice

In practice, this is like a simple electric circuit, with a current of protons being driven from the negative N-side of the membrane to the positive P-side by the proton-pumping enzymes of the electron transport chain.

) Abortion also became a more widely used practice – with attitudes becoming less negative towards it.

His answer was in the negative because he believed that " cricketers are made by coaching and practice ", though he adds that if he was not born a cricketer, he was born " in the atmosphere of cricket ".

In practice the apparent horizon has a negative altitude, whose absolute value gets larger as the observer ascends higher above sea level, due to the curvature of the Earth.

As a result of negative comments by other physicians Harvey " fell mightily in his practice ", but continued advancing his career.

Because of this, even the Japanese word for " slaughter " ( 屠殺 tosatsu ) is deemed politically incorrect by some pressure groups as its inclusion of the kanji for " kill " ( 殺 ) supposedly portrays those who practice it in a negative manner.

These behaviors are said to generate negative karma, and are therefore viewed as counterproductive to the goals of the practice.

However, there are claims that this practice can have negative consequences for the animals themselves.

In many laboratory experiments it is good practice to have several replicate samples for the test being performed and have both a positive control and a negative control.

Surveillance is therefore an ambiguous practice, sometimes creating positive effects, at other times negative.

Valiente rewrote much of it, cutting out a lot of sections that had come from Crowley ( whose negative reputation she feared ), though retaining parts that originated with Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which she felt was genuine witchcraft practice.

The correct interpretation is that the risk free rate could be either positive or negative and in practice the sign of the expected risk free rate is an institutional convention-this is analogous to the argument that Tobin makes on page 17 of his book, Money, Credit and Capital.

This practice and faith are thought to expiate the believer's " negative karma ", and bring forth a higher life condition.

DNA and RNA alignments may use a scoring matrix, but in practice often simply assign a positive match score, a negative mismatch score, and a negative gap penalty.

In the 18th century it was common practice to ignore any negative results derived from equations, on the assumption that they were meaningless.

He believed that the inner individual expression, such as the practice of self-remembering with self-observation and the non-expression of negative emotions, always remains the same and could never change, for that is the guarantee of ultimate self-development.

Relationships with Third World countries were normally positive in theory, while some were quite negative in practice ( such as with the practice of proxy war ).

In this article, Rogers explains how the practice of feeding wild birds is inherently fraught with negative impacts and risks such as fostering dependency, altering natural distribution, density and migration patterns, interfering with ecological processes, causing malnutrition, facilitating the spread of disease and increasing the risk of death from cats, pesticides, hitting windows and other causes.

According to the United Nations convention, there is no distinction between the terms racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination, and superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and that there is no justification for racial discrimination, in theory or in practice, anywhere.

When the practice of treating certain groups preferentially, or denying rights or benefits to certain groups, based on racial characteristics is institutionalized, it is termed “ institutional racism ”.

In the early 20th century, many anthropologists accepted and taught the belief that biologically distinct races were isomorphic with distinct linguistic, cultural, and social groups, while popularly applying that belief to the field of eugenics, in conjunction with a practice that is now called scientific racism. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was co-opted by the budding eugenics movement to justify systematic population and racial planning in the early 20th century.

Institutionalized racial segregation was ended as an official practice by the efforts of such civil rights activists as Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., working during the period from the end of World War II through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supported by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

In February 2005, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. California that the California Department of Corrections ' unwritten practice of racially segregating prisoners in its prison reception centers – which California claimed was for inmate safety ( gangs in California, as throughout the U. S., usually organize on racial lines )— is to be subject to strict scrutiny, the highest level of constitutional review.

Murder ; extermination ; torture ; rape ; political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane acts reach the threshold of crimes against humanity only if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice.

In the twentieth century, those with any degree of sub-Saharan African ancestry ( which was virtually everyone who had been defined as coloured ) were redefined as Black, with Asian and other non-White Bermudians defined by separate racial groups ( although it also, in that century, ceased to be the practice to record race on birth or other records ).

Warren told his colleagues after oral argument that he believed racial segregation violated the Constitution and that only if one considered African Americans inferior to whites could the practice be upheld.

While the Death Eaters practice " dark magic ", illegal and dangerous spells, their ideology, such as it is, is a version of racial supremacy.

As the most prominent African-American in the field, Drew protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood, as it lacked scientific foundation, an action which cost him his job.

Critics of this ruling found this to be a case of judicial nitpicking and that the Court had in essence allowed the previously-banned practice of concentrating a racial group into a single district.

Desegregation busing in the United States ( also known as forced busing or simply busing ) is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics.

The sovereign nation of Venda didn't practice apartheid, leading to relationships across the racial divide.

A practice further reinforcing unofficial segregation in states outside the South, where racial segregation was legal, were exclusionary covenants in title deeds and real estate neighborhood redlining — explicit, legally sanctioned racial discrimination in real property ownership and lending practices.

Groups like the Prison Policy Initiative assert that the census practice of counting prisoners as residents of prisons, not their pre-incarceration addresses, leads to misleading information about racial demographics and population numbers.

The Communist Party holds that racial and ethnic discrimination not only harms minorities, but is pernicious to working-class people of all backgrounds, as any discriminatory practices between demographic sections of the working class constitute an inherently divisive practice responsible for " obstructing the development of working-class consciousness, driving wedges in class unity to divert attention from class exploitation, and creating extra profits for the capitalist class.

In practice, racial policies were directed not against the majority of Balts but rather against the Jews.

The Eagle Feather Law later met charges of promoting racial and religious discrimination due to the law ’ s provision authorizing the possession of eagle feathers to members of only one ethnic group, Native Americans, and forbidding Native Americans from including non-Native Americans in indigenous customs involving eagle feathers — a common modern practice dating back to the early 16th century.

According to the United Nations convention, superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and there is no justification for racial discrimination, in theory or in practice, anywhere.

After the Civil War, Black Baptists desiring to practice Christianity away from racial discrimination, rapidly set up several separate state Baptist conventions.