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.

One of the significant rules prohibited " soaking " or " plugging " the runner ; under older rules, a fielder could put a runner out by hitting the runner with the thrown ball, similar to the common schoolyard game of kickball.

In 1893, the Badminton Association of England published the first set of rules according to these regulations, similar to today's rules, and officially launched badminton in a house called " Dunbar " at 6 Waverley Grove, Portsmouth, England on September 13 of that year.

There were twelve rules in all, and they specified that fights should be " a fair stand-up boxing match " in a 24-foot-square or similar ring.

The word use of Basic English is similar to full English, but the rules are much simpler, and there are fewer exceptions.

However, stare decisis, the principle that similar cases should be decided according to consistent principled rules so that they will reach similar results, lies at the heart of all common law systems.

The distinct rules of their order with regard to fasting are numerous, but not more severe than those of similar congregations, though much more so than is required by the old Benedictine rule.

The second theory is that the rules of the modern game of croquet arrived from Ireland during the 1850s, perhaps after being brought there from Brittany where a similar game was played on the beaches.

In federal civil procedure law, which has also been accepted by approximately 35 states ( through adoption of state civil procedure rules similar to the federal rules ), the class action must have certain definite characteristics ( often referred to by the acronym CANT ):

Since 1938, many states have adopted rules similar to the FRCP.

In this stratum we elaborate a " pure grammar " or a logical syntax, and he would call its rules " laws to prevent non-sense ", which would be similar to what logic calls today " formation rules ".

They are very similar to today's logic " transformation rules ".

In the United States, Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and similar state rules require that an attorney perform a due diligence investigation concerning the factual basis for any claim or defense.

Some earlier incarnations of football allowed unlimited forward passing, while others had strict offside rules similar to rugby.

In Australian rules football, the move commonly described as a " tackle " is similar to in rugby and involves wrapping, holding or wrestling a player who has possession of the ball to the ground.

There are no fixed positions ( even a goalkeeper is not required under the 2007 – 2008 rules ), but most teams arrange themselves ( in a similar way to Association football teams ) into fullbacks ( defence ), midfielders ( halfback ) and forwards ( front line ).

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.

The Satapatha Brahmana ( 9th century BCE ) contains rules for ritual geometric constructions that are similar to the Sulba Sutras.

The NRA provides a similar set of rules:

However, this did not give them enough capital to publish the rules for Dungeons & Dragons and, worried that other companies would be able to publish similar projects first, the two convinced acquaintance Brian Blume to join TSR in December 1973 as an equal one-third partner.

This symmetry reflects similar underlying physics: the pair of neutrons and the pair of protons in helium's nucleus obey the same quantum mechanical rules as do helium's pair of electrons ( although the nuclear particles are subject to a different nuclear binding potential ), so that all these fermions fully occupy 1s orbitals in pairs, none of them possessing orbital angular momentum, and each cancelling the other's intrinsic spin.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

Constitutional laws may often be considered second order rulemaking or rules about making rules to exercise power.

In the second book, Clement provides practical rules on living a Christian life.

had to drink There were even drinking game referee officials, including a ' registrar of the rules ' who knew all the rules to the game, a ' registrar of the horn ' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses, and a ' governor ' who decided one's third call of offense.

Because of the vulnerability of a player in such a position, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) and the National Federation of State High School Associations (" Fed ") have adopted rules providing that if a player is positioned at least 7 yards behind the neutral zone to receive a snap, opponents are not to deliberately contact the snapper until one second after the snap ( NCAA ), or until the snapper has a chance to react ( Fed ).

Therefore, the first and second rules (" always treat the gun as if loaded ", " never let the muzzle cover non-targets ") apply to any gun, even one loaded with blanks.

The second edition Gamma World boxed set ( with rules designed by Ward, Jaquet, and David James Ritchie ) was released in 1983.

Geelong travelled to Melbourne to become the second winner of the Caledonian Challenge Cup in 1863, played under compromise rules.

The work follows the structure of the Tur and the Shulchan Aruch ; rules dealing with vows, agriculture, and ritual purity, are discussed in a second work known as Aruch HaShulchan he ' Atid.

The rules were released in two volumes, with the first covering character creation in depth and the second describing campaigns and the running of games.

The tournament was played under rapid rules with 25 minutes per game and a 10 second bonus per move.

The second and third English rules use a system based on Damage Effect Factors ( DEF ).

As a second example, medical diagnosis viewed in terms of rules ( e. g., MYCIN ) looks substantially different from the same task viewed in terms of frames ( e. g., INTERNIST ).

* 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.

The third revision of the rules, Mage: The Ascension Revised, made significant changes to the rules and setting, mainly to update Mage with respect to its own ongoing storyline, particularly in regards to events that occurred during the run of the game's second edition.

Rules of the first kind are called inflectional rules, while those of the second kind are called word formation.

Among its other rules, the jintishi rules regulate the tonal variations within a poem, including the use of set patterns of the four tones of Middle Chinese The basic form of jintishi ( lushi ) has eight lines in four couplets, with parallelism between the lines in the second and third couplets.

Starting in the second half of the 20th century modern democracies have introduced rules for the flow of funds through party coffers, e. g. the Canada Election Act 1976, the PPRA in the U. K. or the FECA in the U. S ..

However, mercy rules usually do not take effect until a prescribed point in the game ( e. g., the second half of an Association football game ).