In all the bitter in-fighting, the squabbles over election procedures, the complicated numbers game that East and West played on the assistant secretaries' theme, the gentleman from Burma showed himself both as a man of principle and a skilled diplomat.

His disciple, Cyprian ( Bishop of Carthage 248-58 ) appeals to the same fundamental principle of election to a vacant see in the aftermath of the Decian Persecution when denying the legitimacy of his rigorist rival in Carthage and that of the anti-pope Novatian in Rome ; however, the emphasis is now on legitimating his episcopal ministry as a whole and specifically his exclusive right to administer discipline to the lapsed rather than on the content of what is taught.

The Council sought to: ( a ) bring an end to the practice of the conferring of ecclesiastical benefices by people who were laymen ; ( b ) free the election of bishops and abbots from secular influence ; ( c ) clarify the separation of spiritual and temporal affairs ; ( d ) re-establish the principle that spiritual authority resides solely in the Church ; ( e ) abolish the claim of the emperors to influence papal elections.

In the ensuing Canadian federal election, 1926, King appealed for public support of the constitutional principle that the Governor General must accept the advice of his ministers, though this principle was at most only customary.

The 2006 presidential election was hotly contested, with Mwanawasa being re-elected by a clear margin over principle challengers Michael Sata of the Patriotic Front and Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development.

While Rough was preaching in the parish church on the Protestant principle of the popular election of a pastor, he proposed Knox to the congregation for that office.

In political science, Duverger's law is a principle which asserts that a plurality rule election system tends to favor a two-party system.

When Heath called a leadership election at the end of 1974, Powell claimed they would have to find someone who was not a member of the Cabinet that " without a single resignation or public dissent, not merely swallowed but advocated every single reversal of election pledge or party principle ".

As of the 2008 election of Ma Ying-Jeou, the KMT agrees to the principle of One China, one led by the Republic of China rather than the People's Republic of China as the official government since 1911.

Henry also gave up any claims to succession and he " recognized the principle of free election " under the Henrician Articles and the pacta conventa.

The principle of election was established and women too were allowed to vote.

Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, which asserts a principle that the majority should have the right to make all decisions, states, " A minority group, by coordinating its effort in voting for only one candidate who is a member of the group, may be able to secure the election of that candidate as a minority member of the board.

These campaigns, among other things, called for popular election of bishops and priests, a principle that Bishop Shenouda later applied when he became Pope of Alexandria.

It brought in a bill for manhood suffrage at elections for the Second Chamber, together with single member constituencies and election on the absolute majority principle.

Trikoupis was successful after the election of 1874 in forcing the king to accept the " dedilomeni principle " ()-- that the leader of the majority in parliament must be selected as prime minister by the king.

Both because of its opposition to the principle of presidential election by universal suffrage and because De Gaulle's re-election appeared inevitable, the SFIO did not nominate a candidate for the 1965 presidential election.

Focused on winning the 1986 legislative election, Chirac, unlike Barre, accepted the principle of " cohabitation " with President Mitterrand.

This method is the modified Sainte-Laguë method and the underlying principle is that the number of seats a party gets in the Storting should be as close to the relative number of votes the party got in the election ( the principle of mathematical fairness ).

* Calvinism – System of soteriology advanced by French Reformer John Calvin, which espouses Augustinian views on election and reprobation ; stresses absolute predestination, the sovereignty of God and the inability of man to effect his own salvation by believing the Gospel prior to regeneration ; principle doctrines are often summarized by the acronym TULIP ( see Canons of Dort ).

The principle of such election rules in a club is that it is self-perpetuating to preserve the current ethos ( and exclusivity ) of the club, by ensuring that candidates are congenial to ( almost ) all the existing members ; i. e., new members are elected by unanimous or near-unanimous agreement of voting members.

The following example from the rules of election to the Travellers Club, which is quoted from Dickens's Dictionary of London ( 1879 ), provides an illustration of the principle:

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

Given the conceptual context within which ancient thought thrived, how could anyone have questioned this principle??

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

What we will be sacrificing in any such arrangement will be our power to be selective which is contained in the reciprocal trade principle under which we now operate.

In the audience a man named Ferguson lost his head and tried to rescue a little girl from the mob, on the same principle which had led Miss Harris to demand water.

It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.

The principle of `` bills only '', or `` bills preferably '', seems so strongly accepted by the Federal Reserve that it is difficult to envision conditions which would persuade the authorities to depart radically from it by extending their open market purchases regularly into long-term Government securities.

Therefore, the sixth principle of the plan must be that it concentrate on current measures which will reduce future force requirements.

This is the principle which we will invoke in every case to set up a functional equation.

This is the feed state of the subsequent Af stages which, according to the principle of optimality, must use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to this state.

If we consider a process in which the outcome of one stage is known before passage to the next, then the principle of optimality shows that the policy in subsequent stages should be optimal with respect to the outcome of the first.

In regard to Eichmann, it was to be found in the Nazi outlook, which contained a principle separate from and far worse than anti-Semitism, a principle by which the poison of anti-Semitism itself was made more virulent.

Moreover, Moscow appeared determined to apply the tripartite veto principle to the executive organs of all international bodies, including the U. N. Secretariat and the International Control Commission for Laos.

Archimedes ' principle provided the next link: coins could now be easily tested for their fine weight of metal, and thus the value of a coin could be determined, even if it had been shaved, debased or otherwise tampered with ( see Numismatics ).

At the same time we adopt the principle: not to employ any of the other expression of the discipline under consideration, unless its meaning has first been determined with the help of primitive terms and of such expressions of the discipline whose meanings have been explained previously.

This class of theories holds that the truth or the falsity of a representation is determined in principle solely by how it relates to " things ", by whether it accurately describes those " things ".

I do not object to the principle of graduated taxation: for the just principle of ability to pay is not determined simply by the amount of income ... But, so far as I understand the present measure of finance from the partial reports I have received, I find it too violent.

In principle, an atomic structure could be determined from applying X-ray scattering to non-crystalline samples, even to a single molecule.

Air velocity through the test section is determined by Bernoulli's principle.

When the " characteristic freezing point " of a substance is determined, in fact the actual methodology is almost always " the principle of observing the disappearance rather than the formation of ice ", that is, the melting point.

The heat capacity can in principle be determined from this signal:

Thus, for the scientist, reality is explored as an evolutionary system of diverse entities, the order of which is determined by the principle of causality.

Jus sanguinis () is a principle of nationality law by which citizenship is not determined by place of birth but by having one or both parents who are citizens of the nation.

Since only the level spacing is determined by the correspondence principle, you could always add a small fixed offset to the quantum number --- L could just as well have been.

General semantics considers all human behavior ( including all human decisions ) as, in principle, fully determined once all relevant doctrinal and linguistic factors are included in the analysis, regarding theories of ' free will ' as failing to include the doctrinal and linguistic environments as environments in the analysis of human behavior.

With Wilson's 1918 proclamation of the Fourteen Points, whose fifth point proclaimed: " A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined ", some Algerian intellectuals — dubbed oulémas began to nurture the desire for independence or, at least, autonomy and self-rule.

* The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that at any given time, an electrons speed and location cannot be determined, it will already have changed.

In fact, both theory and computer simulations assume a thermodynamic separation principle: the separation process is determined by the equilibrium distribution ( partitioning ) of solute macromolecules between two phases --- a dilute bulk solution phase located at the interstitial space and confined solution phases within the pores of column packing material.

This is the principle that each nominal taxon in the family group, genus group or species group has, actually or potentially, a name-bearing type fixed to provide the objective standard of reference by which the application of the name is determined.

The action of a physical system is the integral over time of a Lagrangian function ( which may or may not be an integral over space of a Lagrangian density function ), from which the system's behavior can be determined by the principle of least action.

The embassy responded negatively in principle, adding that " US reaction to such a move cannot be determined in advance but would depend on circumstances at time ".

Stone decided not to write the essay ; she determined that she would do nothing to publicly acknowledge " the rectitude of the principle which takes away from women their equal rights, and denies to them the privilege of being co-laborers with men in any sphere to which their ability makes them adequate ; and that no word or deed of mine should ever look towards the support of such a principle, or even to its toleration.

It is, therefore, unwarranted to continue the statement that in addition to the acceleration of oxidations the beginning of individual life is determined by the entrance of a metaphysical " life principle " into the egg ; and that death is determined, aside from the cessation of oxidations, by the departure of this " principle " from the body.