The Axioms required to make the theoretical machinery operate are set out tersely and powerfully, so that all permissible operations within the theory can be traced rigorously back to these axioms, rules, and primitive notions.

There are in The Almagest no rules for determining in advance whether a new epicycle will be required for dealing with abberations in lunar, solar, or planetary behavior.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

The very rules and regulations in every city are the primary case of slum conditions.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

There are other basic rules.

Safety rules, of course, are more important than all the others put together.

We speculate that compulsives in the unstructured schools are under greater strain because of the lack of systemization in their school setting, but that their need to organize ( for comfort ) is so intense that they struggle to induce the phonic rules and achieve in spite of the lack of direction from the environment.

The possibilities are few, and the total number of rules may be considerably greater.

Often, therefore, there are a number of rules having the same effect, and commonly other sets of rules as well, having the opposite effect.

While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.

Other items on the agenda during the meetings, which are expected to continue through Saturday, concern television, rules changes, professional football's hall of fame, players' benefits and constitutional amendments.

In accordance with the principle on which alphabets are based, these rules will generally map letters of the alphabet to the phonemes ( significant sounds ) of the spoken language.

French, with its silent letters and its heavy use of nasal vowels and elision, may seem to lack much correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, but its rules on pronunciation, though complex, are actually consistent and predictable with a fair degree of accuracy.

Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists, though they have among the strictest rules on how to conduct their lives, teach that sinners are destroyed rather than tortured forever.

There are rather strict selection rules as to the electronic configurations that can be reached by excitation by light — however there are no such rules for excitation by collision processes.

The quantum numbers, together with the rules governing their possible values, are as follows:

The driver will pick up more passengers as long as seats are available, and will transport them to their destination based on first come first served rules.

Like other works by Jonathan Tweet, the rules are very simple and flexible.

Microsoft intended the rules to be " flexible ", and, because it was unilateral, the license was legally unable to reduce rights.

suggest a flexible approach based on harm reduction, “ Willingness to provide hormonal therapy based on assessment of individual patients needs, history and situation with an overriding goal of achieving the best outcome for patients rather than rigidly adhering to arbitrary rules has been successful .”

These norms will be arbitrary, culturally dependent and ‘ flexible ’, whereas territorial morality aims at rules which are universal and absolute, such as Kant ’ s ‘ categorical imperative ’ and Geisler's graded absolutism.

Ultimately it made for a very flexible system with a vast array of options, but could easily suffer from play balance problems if particular sets of rules were used together, since little effort was made to balance different variants against each other, and power creep in the later professions and spell lists was very much in evidence.

Various exemptions and flexible billing rules make the system the next evolutionary step of systems like the London congestion charge programme.

Abstract Syntax Notation One ( ASN. 1 ) is a standard and flexible notation that describes rules and structures for representing, encoding, transmitting, and decoding data in telecommunications and computer networking.

The Irish Parliamentary Party is generally seen as the first modern British political party, its efficient structure and control contrasting with the loose rules and flexible informality found in the main British parties, which came to model themselves on the Parnellite model.

However, market systems are usually flexible enough to be refined and have its detailed rules adjusted so as to regain the trust of participants relatively quickly-most market systems tend to degrade gracefully, with a few exceptions, e. g. hyperinflation, South Sea bubble, tulip boom, dotcom boom, depression, that are very damaging, but nonetheless relatively infrequent.

In addition they are generally assertive but calm under pressure, and they are able to follow and apply rules yet be flexible when necessary.

International versions can be slightly more flexible, allowing a tube of 121. 92 cm ( 4 ft ) and. 50 cal under IFA rules.

This is repeated in the updated 4th edition rules along with acknowledgments to Champions as the first truly flexible character creation system.

In contrast, the procedure in courts is much less flexible, and there are normally strict rules of evidence to be followed.

Moreover, the Speaker never presides over the Committee of the Whole House, which, as its name suggests, consists of all the members, but operates under more flexible rules of debate.

Now, the procedure is used to take advantage of the more flexible rules of debate.

The most diverse classes are those development classes with more flexible rules ( International Moth International C class catamaran ), these classes represent the cutting edge of the sport, using the latest technology including hydrofoils and solid wings in place of sails.

The rules of strip poker are flexible and intended to generate an atmosphere of adult fun.

For Wilson, a fully functioning human ought to be able to be aware of his or her reality tunnel, and able to keep it flexible enough to accommodate, and to some degree empathize with, different reality tunnels, different " game rules ", different cultures .... Constructivist thinking is the exercise of metacognition to become aware of our reality tunnels or labyrinths and the elements that " program " them.

So, business rules need to be implemented in a flexible way that does not result in complicated dependencies, rather the data model should be flexible enough so that changes in the business can be implemented within the data model in a relatively quick and efficient way.

However the flexible nature of the system is utilized throughout the book, allowing the Game Master to attune the rules to fit their setting.

The basic classes are broad, flexible, and generic, rather than the much more narrowly focused character classes from the Dungeons and Dragons rules.

In terms of the Global economy, the world community is seen by some economists as an inter-dependent system of goods and services with semi-permeable boundaries and flexible sets of import / export rules.

Tetris Worlds includes the rules of The New Tetris under the name " Square Tetris ", with even more flexible wall kick rules, although the rule for what constitutes a spin move differs significantly.