The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.

In 1973, the designated hitter ( DH ) rule was adopted by the American League, while in the National League pitchers still bat for themselves to this day.

Outside of the US, some other countries have adopted the one-drop rule, but the definition of who is black and the extent to which the one-drop " rule " applies varies greatly from country to country.

Most of the U. S. federal courts of appeal have adopted a rule under which, in the event of any conflict in decisions of panels ( most of the courts of appeal almost always sit in panels of three ), the earlier panel decision is controlling, and a panel decision may only be overruled by the court of appeals sitting en banc ( that is, all active judges of the court ) or by a higher court.

Nevertheless, the Manchus adopted the Confucian norms of traditional Chinese government in their rule and were considered a Chinese dynasty.

In all three traditions, a canon was originally a rule adopted by a council ; these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

The Bulgarian imperial title " Tsar " was adopted by all Bulgarian monarchs up to the fall of Bulgaria under Ottoman rule.

Beginning regionally again and universally by 1923, the Burnside rules led to the 3-man scrimmage being reduced to the centre alone, the number of players on the field being reduced commensurately from 14 to 12, and a snap rule and neutral zone similar to that of American football was adopted.

Depending on the particular formalism adopted for the calculus, it may be seen as a simple application of a " functional substitution " rule of inference, as in Gödel's paper, or it may be proved by considering the formal proof of, replacing in it all occurrences of Q by some other formula with the same free variables, and noting that all logical axioms in the formal proof remain logical axioms after the substitution, and all rules of inference still apply in the same way.

Some others adopted a militant approach that sought to overthrow British rule by armed struggle ; revolutionary activities against the British rule took place throughout the Indian sub-continent.

In response to the court decision, in 2007 the SEC adopted Rule 206 ( 4 )- 8, which unlike the earlier challenged rule, " does not impose additional filing, reporting or disclosure obligations " but does potentially increase " the risk of enforcement action " for negligent or fraudulent activity.

The UK government has consistently adopted a " non-interventionist policy ", and following the " high degree of consensus amongst academics, legal advisers, politicians and officials " would only intervene " in the event of a fundamental breakdown in public order or the rule of law, endemic corruption in the government or other extreme circumstances ".

This is all the more striking, given that Napoleon had pushed for measures ensuring the rule of law in the codes of laws adopted under his rule.

It was not until the widespread use of a syllabic script was adopted under Sargon's rule that significant portions of Mesopotamian population became literate.

The clergy had amassed a fortune in land, about one-fifth of all Christendom but at the time, in the 12th and 13th centuries, the Church was following a policy of isolation ; they adopted the rule of celibacy and cut themselves from domestic life ; they refused to plead in a secular court ; they refused to pay taxes to the State on the grounds that they had already paid it to the Pope.

Since then, many jurisdictions have been swayed by Justice Traynor's arguments on behalf of the strict liability rule in Escola, Greenman, and subsequent cases — including nearly all U. S. states, the European Union, Australia, and Japan — and have adopted it either by judicial decision or by legislative act.

The common contemporary Latin legal term used in documents of the Holy Roman Empire was for a long time regnum (" rule, domain, empire ", such as in Regnum Francorum for the Frankish Kingdom ) before imperium was in fact adopted, the latter first attested in 1157, whereas the parallel use of regnum never fell out of use during the Middle Ages.

It then adopted a leap rule that differs from that of the Gregorian calendar: years divisible by four are leap years, except that years divisible by 100 are only leap years if dividing the year by 900 leaves a remainder of 200 or 600.

The Jaffna kingdom never came under the rule of any kingdom of the south except on one occasion ; in 1450, following the conquest led by king Parâkramabâhu VI's adopted son, Prince Sapumal.

In 1994 a committee of IUPAC recommended that element 106 be named rutherfordium and adopted a rule that no element can be named after a living person.

Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

I am not easily persuaded that a rule accepted by so many people for so many centuries can be so lightly dismissed.

Phonemes connected by a morphophonemic rule commonly show a good bit of phonetic similarity, possible because of the several dimensions of contrast in the system.

More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.

The rule was enforced by demand of Sen. Wayne Morse ( D., Ore. ) in connection with President Eisenhower's cabinet selections in 1953 and President Kennedy's in 1961.

This year, I am told, the CBS network will continue to abide by the rule but NBC will play to a conclusion here.

It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had given him as a rule -- beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied -- and it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty.

He denounced secession as anarchy, and explained that majority rule had to be balanced by constitutional restraints in the American system.

If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.

Areas of the south east such as Harran and the Hakkari mountains continued to be inhabited by remnants of the Assyrians, but these regions remained under Parthian and then Sassanid Persian rule.

The atomic mass of these isotopes varied by integer amounts, called the whole number rule.

But by the 10th century the rule was commonly set aside, and we find frequent complaints of abbots dressing in silk, and adopting sumptuous attire.

* 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.

The same rule applies if one were to address a particle by its constituent components.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

This rule is completed in his treatise, Ars catholicae fidei, as follows: Theology itself may be demonstrated by reason.

* 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d ' état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.

In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.

This, combined with their post-battle rewards, prompted them to raise Alaric " on a shield " and proclaim him king ; according to Jordanes ( a Gothic historian of varying importance, depending upon who is asked ), both the new king and his people decided " rather to seek new kingdoms by their own work, than to slumber in peaceful subjection to the rule of others.

Johnson proposed adoption of a rule allowing election of a Speaker by a plurality ; the rule was passed and Howell Cobb was so elected.

However, the rule of the dynasty was relatively short-lived and the Almoravids fell-at the height of their power-when they failed to quell the Masmuda-led rebellion initiated by Ibn Tumart.