Their previous legalized marriages do not count, for they hold the laws of the state null and void.

Even though he disapproved the use of a violent revolution, the Ji family dominated the Lu state by force for generations and had exiled the previous duke.

Sometimes it is desired to bring a database back to a previous state ( for many reasons, e. g., cases when the database is found corrupted due to a software error, or if it has been updated with erroneous data ).

Lactantius criticized Diocletian for an excessive increase in troop sizes, declaring that " each of the four strove to have a far larger number of troops than previous emperors had when they were governing the state alone ".

Thus, the law of " interpenetrating opposites " records the inextricable interdependence of components: the " transformation of quantity to quality " defends a systems-based view of change that translates incremental inputs into alterations of state ; and the " negation of negation " describes the direction given to history because complex systems cannot revert exactly to previous states.

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

In the snap elections in North Rhine-Westphalia a week later, the FDP not only crossed the threshold, but also increased its share of the votes to 2 percentage points higher than the previous state election.

Godzilla returns to Monster Island, and Jet Jaguar returns to his previous, human-sized state and reunites with his inventors.

This policy made sense not simply because the unhappy fates of several Emperors previous to this duo had made it clear that one man simply could not rule a state this size ; equally, a ' barbarian ' enemy suing for peace in this time tended to demand that they be allowed to apply to the ' chief ' or ' king ' of the victorious side.

In 1849, shortly after the revolutions of the previous year, Molinari published two works: an essay, " The Production of Security ", and a book, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare, describing how a market in justice and protection could advantageously replace the state.

Spanish and Ancient Greek, for example, have a perfect ( not the same as the perfective ), which refers to a state resulting from a previous action ( also described as a previous action with relevance to a particular time, or a previous action viewed from the perspective of a later time ).

Furthermore, various institutions, monuments and the like, are named for current or previous heads of state, such as streets and squares, schools, charitable and other organizations ; in monarchies ( e. g. Belgium ) there can even be a practice to attribute the adjective " royal " on demand based on existence for a given number of years.

However, thanks to the successes of Adams ' diplomacy during his previous eight years as secretary of state, most of the foreign policy issues he would have faced had been resolved by the time he became president.

The history of Lebanon covers the history of the modern Republic of Lebanon and the earlier emergence of Greater Lebanon under the French Mandate for Syria, as well as the previous history of the region, covered by the modern state.

Friedrich Engels noted: " Without a previous social revolution the abolition of the state is nonsense ; the abolition of capital is in itself the social revolution and involves a change in the whole method of production.

In the licensing of houses in multiple occupation ( HMOs ), properties registered under a previous scheme, but would not be licensable under mandatory arrangements, would go into a state of limbo when they expire, until the status of any potential additional licensing scheme is fully resolved.

* 2008 – California becomes the second U. S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

At the heart of the description are ideas of quantum state and quantum observable which are radically different from those used in previous models of physical reality.

Moreover, Nepal was declared a secular state abrogating the previous status of a Hindu Kingdom.

Nationality, with its historical origins in allegiance to a sovereign monarch, was seen originally as a permanent, inherent, unchangeable condition, and later, when a change of allegiance was permitted, as a strictly exclusive relationship, so that becoming a national of one state required rejecting the previous state.

When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".

Desperate as was the state of his finances, thanks to his previous extravagance, he found the money needed to purchase the services of some twenty-three soldiers of the Praetorian Guard.

They were originally buried where they died, but were later moved on the orders of the US military government to the cemeteries of their previous homes.

The victorious Roman general, Publius Cornelius Sulla, left the Athenians their lives and did not sell them into slavery ; he also restored the previous government, in 86 BC.

However, most of this aid has been targeted at the Federation ; the previous government of the RS was anti-Dayton and not assisted by the U. S. The election of the " Sloga " or " Unity " Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Dodik, has shifted the balance of power in the Republika Srpska ( RS ) to a pro-Dayton stance and will result in an upsurge of funding to the RS from the international community.

These benefits had been legislated for the previous year by Churchill ’ s Family Allowances Act 1945, and was the first measure pushed through parliament by Attlee ’ s government.

Some major figures in the previous mainland China government, such as H. H. Kung and T. V. Soong, exiled themselves to the United States.

They have also argued that, while the modern Communist Party may be flawed, it is comparatively better than previous regimes, with respect to improving the general standard of living, than any other government that has governed China in the past century and can be seen in a more favourable light compared with most governments of the developing nations.

However, the plantations, both under their previous private ownership and under government administration, proved consistently unprofitable due to the introduction of new oils and lubricants in the international marketplace, and the establishment of vast coconut plantations in the East Indies and the Philippines.

Many properties owned by the government during the previous regime have now been transferred to pro-government enterprises in the name of privatization.

* 1966 – In Syria, Baath party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.

The Kohl government was hurt at the polls by slower economic growth in the east in the previous two years, and constantly high unemployment.

The Gabonese Social Democratic Grouping ( RSDG ), as the resulting government was called, was smaller than the previous government and included representatives from several opposition parties in its cabinet.

The Gabonese Social Democratic Grouping ( RSDG ), as the resulting government was called, was smaller than the previous government and included representatives from several opposition parties in its cabinet.

The Tocqueville Connection states: " Most of the ambassadors were appointed by former prime minister Lansana Kouyaté, in office from February 2007 until May 2008 ," raising the possibility that the recall was an attempt on the part of Camara to distance himself from the previous government.

Under previous governments, especially those led by the CDU, the West German government had shown more rhetorical support for German refugees and expellees.

This created a system of ministerial government to replace the previous committee-based administration.

This degree of unity within the German government with both the diplomats and the military united in their support of Hitler's anti-Polish policy, which stood in contrast to their views the previous year about destroying Czechoslovakia, very much encouraged Hitler and Ribbentrop with their chosen course of action.

In Britain, also previous to this EU jurisprudence, a series of laws introduced during the 1980s by Margaret Thatcher's government restricted closed and union shops.

In an effort to forestall the sort of widespread accusations of fraud and manipulation which had accompanied previous elections, the government introduced new safeguards, including published voter lists and a hard-to-falsify voter identification card.

In 2009, the National Party announced that funding for coastal shipping and supporting infrastructure, part of the " Sea Change " plan of the previous Labour government, would be cut to a substantial degree.

In most countries, including most European countries, the term is applied to any set of rulings on law which is guided by previous rulings, for example, previous decisions of a government agency.

Paraguay's highly centralized government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution, which reinforced a division of powers that in the previous two Constitutions existed mostly on paper.