The rule makes it possible to introduce a biconditional statement into a logical proof.

* Promise: In return for Israel's promise to worship Yahweh alone, Yahweh makes promises to David and to Israel-to David, the promise that his line will rule Israel forever, to Israel, the promise of the land they will possess.

The rule makes it possible to introduce a conjunction into a logical proof.

The rule makes it possible to introduce disjunctions to logical proofs.

As a general rule a statistic of N is twice as capable as a level of N-1, where this makes sense.

This rule makes Gomoku more flexible and provides more power for White to defend.

The lack of an obvious rule to determine whether a given Mersenne number is prime makes the search for Mersenne primes an interesting task, which becomes difficult very quickly, since Mersenne numbers grow very rapidly.

An accompanying proposed rule deals with cosmetics, concluding that any use of natural estrogens in a cosmetic product makes the product an unapproved new drug and that any cosmetic using the term " hormone " in the text of its labeling or in its ingredient statement makes an implied drug claim, subjecting such a product to regulatory action.

* Binary scoring with nil rule: A player who makes the exact number of tricks bid scores 10.

Under this rule, a hand such as K-K-Joker-5-2 is just a pair of kings ( with an ace kicker ), but any four same-suit cards with a bug make a flush, and a hand such as 7-Joker-5-4-3 makes a straight.

" No ties " is probably the more common rule, but this makes swing declarations so dangerous that they are rare, and therefore makes the game less interesting, so the ties-acceptable rule is preferred by some professionals.

This rule applies even if a player can play a straight flush ; if a straight or flush makes a better hand in front, play it that way.

This rule makes it possible to have mixed wheelchair and able-bodied matches.

:" Strict uniformitarianism may often be a guarantee against pseudo-scientific phantasies and loose conjectures, but it makes one easily forget that the principle of uniformity is not a law, not a rule established after comparison of facts, but a methodological principle, preceding the observation of facts.

* The last heuristic is the " if it makes sense " rule.

** The MCC makes an ultimately controversial decision to alter the lbw rule so a batsman can be lbw to a ball pitching outside off stump.

This rule allows the second player to choose whether to switch positions with the first player after the first player makes the first move.

This rule makes data structure very easy to understand.

Rationally, Bayes ' rule makes a great deal of sense.

Using it for such rules makes the relationship between the result of the rule and the environment obvious.

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.

Mr. Martinelli explained that there should be more than enough signatures to assure the scheduling of a vote on the home rule charter and possible election of a nine member charter commission within 70 days.

In England the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 allowed such inferences to be made for the first time in England and Wales ( it was already possible in Scotland under the rule of criminative circumstances ).

It may be possible to apply the chain rule even when there are no formulas for the functions which are being differentiated.

For each rule with in its RHS, add a set of new rules consisting of the different possible combinations of replaced or not replaced with.

Following the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Macpherson Report recommended that the double jeopardy rule should be abrogated in murder cases, and that it should be possible to subject an acquitted murder suspect to a second trial if " fresh and viable " new evidence later came to light.

For example, just by applying a simple rule that constrains each queen to a single column ( or row ), though still considered brute force, it is possible to reduce the number of possibilities to just 16, 777, 216 ( that is, 8 < sup > 8 </ sup >) possible combinations.

In Hayek's view, the central role of the state should be to maintain the rule of law, with as little arbitrary intervention as possible.

Since real numbers can be represented as distances or intervals on a line, the slide rule was invented in the 1620s to allow multiplication and division operations to be carried out significantly faster than was previously possible.

This way it is possible to multiply real numbers using a ruler and a table of logarithms, or using a slide rule with a logarithmic scale.

This glossary contains terms that are possible meanings according to the rule that Linear A values are the same symbolically and phonetically as Linear B values.

This was possible only because in the fall of 2001, Karzai was able to successfully lead one of the largest southern Afghanistan tribes against the draconian rule of the Taliban.

Minimax ( sometimes minmax ) is a decision rule used in decision theory, game theory, statistics and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case ( maximum loss ) scenario.

Then, the electrons to be placed in the molecular orbitals are slotted in one by one, keeping in mind the Pauli exclusion principle and Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity ( only 2 electrons, having opposite spins, per orbital ; place as many unpaired electrons on one energy level as possible before starting to pair them ).

As a general rule, Haredi Jews believe that when at all possible the law should be maintained as it was understood by their authorities at the haskalah, believing that it had never changed.

As a consequence, it is not possible to provide a definitive account of what it is to follow a rule.

Many of the Romans saw the beginning of Otto the 2nd ’ s reign as a glimmer of hope that it might be possible for them to recover their ancient rights and even free themselves from foreign rule.

At most casinos in California and Michigan this rule doesn't apply ; the A-2-3-4-5 is the lowest possible straight.

He urged Israel's leaders to establish this state as soon as possible, claiming that: " Protracted Israeli military rule will expand the hate and the abyss between the residents of the West Bank and Israel, due to the objective steps that will have to be taken in order to ensure order and security.

This has led to great speculation, with historical evidence, that it is possible that Malian sailors may have reached the coast of Pre-Columbian America under the rule of Abubakari II, nearly two hundred years before Christopher Columbus and that black traders may have been in the Americas before Columbus.

In propositional logic, disjunction elimination ( sometimes named proof by cases or case analysis ), is the valid argument form and rule of inference that allows one to eliminate a disjunctive statement from a logical proof.

This rule is intended to eliminate or minimize damage to non-targets when a firearm is intentionally discharged.

While it is one of the most commonly used concepts in logic it must not be mistaken for a logical law ; rather, it is one of the accepted mechanisms for the construction of deductive proofs that includes the " rule of definition " and the " rule of substitution " Modus ponens allows one to eliminate a conditional statement from a logical proof or argument ( the antecedents ) and thereby not carry these antecedents forward in an ever-lengthening string of symbols ; for this reason modus ponens is sometimes called the rule of detachment.

In 1962 Nasir sent gunboats from Malé with government police on board to eliminate elements opposed to his rule.

Force may be used to eliminate political rivals, to coerce resistant populations, and to purge the community other men strong enough of character to rule, who will inevitably attempt to replace the ruler.

The rule allows one to introduce or eliminate a negation from a logical proof.

The government set out to eliminate past vestiges of authoritarian rule, by revising laws and decrees to fit democratic provisions.

( This rule is designed to prevent rights and ownership issues and to eliminate lobbying for director credit by producers and actors.

Thrawn largely goes against the Chiss rule of non-aggression, repeatedly baiting his enemies to commit an act of aggression against the forces under his command, but colludes with Admiral Ar ' alani ( who had commanded the task force that fought off an initial incursion from the Far Outsiders ) to eliminate the Vagaari to prevent a two-front war.

) The legislature can also establish or eliminate municipal corporations, which have home rule within town or city limits through the city council.

Ibn Saud had to first eliminate the right of his own father in order to rule, and then distance and contain the ambitions of his five brothers – particularly his oldest brother Muhammad who fought with him during the battles and conquests that had given birth to the state.

Using another approximation ( for example, the trapezoidal rule with twice as many points ), it is possible to take a suitable weighted average and eliminate another error term.

The simplest handicap is to eliminate the pie rule.

The goal may be to eliminate the opponent's pieces, or simply to form a certain configuration, e. g., to arrange the objects according to a rule.

Such rule was ultimately " more necessary even than prayer and fasting " in Islam, as it would protect Islam from deviation from traditional sharia law and in so doing eliminate poverty, injustice, and the " plundering " of Muslim land by foreign non-believers.

The smuggling problem became an obsession with Amin ; toward the end of his rule, he appointed his mercenary and political adviser, the former British citizen Bob Astles, to take all necessary steps to eliminate the problem.

The One Unit policy was intended to reduce expenditure and eliminate provincial prejudices, but the military coup of 1958 signaled difficulties when the first military President, Ayub Khan, abolished the office of Chief Minister of West Pakistan in favour of Governor's rule.

Jurisdictions of all committee were codified by rule in their respective chambers, which helped consolidate or eliminate many existing committees and minimize jurisdictional conflicts.

This incentive compatible value elicitation method did not eliminate the endowment effect but did rule out habitual bargaining behavior as an alternative explanation.

The rule change does not eliminate physical certificates, but requires issuers to be eligible for entirely electronic recording of securities ownership.

Among its investor protection rules, the MSRB is best known for adopting the first nation-wide Pay to Play rule, known as Rule G-37, designed to eliminate the use of political contributions to obtain municipal underwriting business from state and local governments.

Plaisance, supported by a majority of the nobles, was accepted as acting regent and then appointed her former father-in-law John of Ibelin ( lord of Arsuf ) to rule as bailiff in her place ; he had already been bailiff before her arrival and both Bohemund and John of Jaffa had hoped the presence of Plaisance and Hugh would eliminate the need for another bailiff.