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.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

Solving astronomical problems requires, for Copernicus, not a random search of unrelated tables, but a regular employment of the rules defining the entire discipline.

Although it does not follow the metrical rules for a blues to be sung, the phrases themselves carry a blues feeling.

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.

For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

The parent was asked to describe the child's typical behavior in certain standard situations in which there was an opportunity to observe tendencies toward perfectionism in demands upon self and others, irrational conformity to rules, orderliness, punctuality, and need for certainty.

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.

It lost sight of the individual almost entirely and confined itself to rules limiting the exercise of state power for reasons essentially unconnected with justice or morality save as these values might affect international relations.

his search was merely for rules that might limit his freedom of action.

Under committee rules, it went automatically to a subcommittee for one week.

Stickler for rules

( This would happen, for example, if the appellant waited too long, under the appellate court's rules, to file the appeal.

When an alphabet is adopted or developed for use in representing a given language, an orthography generally comes into being, providing rules for the spelling of words in that language.

* A language may use different sets of symbols or different rules for distinct sets of vocabulary items, such as the Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries, or the various rules in English for spelling words from Latin and Greek, or the original Germanic vocabulary.

The individual articles set the rules for current and future operations of the United States government.

The country's new Robotics Ethics Charter will establish ground rules and laws for human interaction with robots in the future, setting standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be programmed into robots to prevent human abuse of robots and vice versa.

The rules and policies to be applied in this process of course must be based on objectives which represent what is to be desired if radio service is to be of maximum use to the Nation.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

In his third theological textbook, Regulae Caelestis Iuris, he presents a set of what seems to be theological rules ; this was typical of the followers of Gilbert of Poitiers, of which Alan could be associated.

The rules of evidence are also developed based upon the system of objections of adversaries and on what basis it may tend to prejudice the trier of fact which may be the judge or the jury.

In his works he declared that " the principle ' what is not prohibited is allowed ' should be understood literally ", defying the unwritten ideological rules imposed by the Communist ruling elite on the society in spite of the seemingly democratic USSR Constitution.

These rules together make up, i. e. constitute, what the entity is.

In many circumstances, there is no need for special rules dealing with what happens after an infraction.

Thus linguists must resort to indirect methods to determine what those rules might be, if indeed rules as such exist.

One of the most common objections to rule-consequentialism is that it is incoherent, because it is based on the consequentialist principle that what we should be concerned with is maximizing the good, but then it tells us not to act to maximize the good, but to follow rules ( even in cases where we know that breaking the rule could produce better results ).

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Similarly, rules differ across space: what is acceptable in one society may not be so in another.

Social rules reflect what is acceptable or normal behaviour in any situation.

It is the social rules that tell people what is normal behaviour for any specific category.

A transaction must transform a database from one consistent state to another consistent state ( however, it is the responsibility of the transaction's programmer to make sure that the transaction itself is correct, i. e., performs correctly what it intends to perform ( from the application's point of view ) while the predefined integrity rules are enforced by the DBMS ).

Balancing these two considerations is what eventually leads to rules regarding the correct placement of the caesura and breaks between words ; in general, word breaks occur in the middle of metrical feet, while accent and ictus coincide only near the end of the line.

A transaction must transform a database from one consistent state to another consistent state ( however, it is the responsibility of the transaction's programmer to make sure that the transaction itself is correct, i. e., performs correctly what it intends to perform ( from the application's point of view ) while the predefined integrity rules are enforced by the DBMS ).

Deconstruction is therefore not a method in the traditional sense but is what Derrida terms " an unclosed, unenclosable, not wholly formalizable ensemble of rules for reading, interpretation and writing.

The system has also promoted the global rules and norms of how the school should operate and what is education.

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 ".

The game's rules suggest listing examples of what the magic system can do at each power level, working these out with the GM.

To decide what happens, the GM considers the rules of Karma ( characters ' statistics and Powers ), Drama ( the needs of the plot ), and Fortune, the result of a card drawn from the Fortune Deck.

Current rules regulate who may throw and who may receive a forward pass, and under what circumstances, as well as how the defensive team may try to prevent a pass from being completed.

In a 1905 experimental game, Washburn and what would become Wichita State used the pass before new rules allowing the play were approved in early 1906.

The Portland Club rules eventually became generally accepted throughout England and Western cultures.

The office originally granted the holder the ability to speak first at session on the topic presented by the presiding magistrate, but eventually gained the power to open and close the senate sessions, decide the agenda, decide where the session should take place, impose order and other rules of the session, meet in the name of the senate with embassies of foreign countries, and write in the name of the senate letters and dispatches.

The first ever intercollegiate football game between two American teams played under rules which would eventually become the rules under which modern American football is governed occurred between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869.

Gödel's completeness theorem of 1930 implicitly contains a definition of a universal computer, because the logical rules acting on some axioms of arithmetic will eventually prove as a theorem the result of any computation.

He eventually became convinced of the need for a new manual on the subject, one which would enable many organizations to adopt the same set of rules.

Gygax agreed to develop a set of rules with Arneson and get the game published ; the game eventually became known as " Dungeons & Dragons ".

This investigation leads him to question his allegiances to the Coastal Republic ( which rules in and around Shanghai ), and he eventually joins the Celestial Kingdom.

The IMSA GT Series evolved into the American Le Mans Series ; the European races eventually became the closely related Le Mans Series, both of which mix prototypes and GTs ; the FIA remains more interested in its own GT and GT3 championships, with the ACO's rules the basis for the LMS and ALMS.

With the shift from rules to principles and constraints that was found in the 1970s, these construction-specific transformations morphed into general rules ( all the examples just mentioned being instances of NP movement ), which eventually changed into the single general rule of move alpha or Move.

An oral law, intended as a body of rules, can be admitted in jurisprudence as long as it shows some efficacy, therefore it needs that the law is public, the human action is evaluated by a judge ( ordinarily producing a sentence according to the general interpretation of the law ) and then a punishment has eventually to be put into effect.

The WFL had several important rules differences from the National Football League of that era, and many were eventually adopted by the older league:

It is rumored that some participants engage in sexually promiscuous activity although several eventually ended up marrying each other ( hence the Love Boat nickname ).. Several unplanned pregnancies were documented on the 1996 study tour which resulted in more stringent rules for subsequent tours ; including rules against the opposite sex being present in the same dorm room and more strictly enforced curfews.

In the period of Romanticism, Shakespeare, who conformed to none of the classical rules, became the focus of French argument over them, in which the Romantics eventually triumphed ; Victor Hugo was among the first French playwrights to break these conventions.

Although the European Court of Justice's Advocate General subsequently said that the bloc's plan to tighten rules on the sale of vitamins and food supplements should be scrapped, he was eventually overruled by the European Court, which decided that the measures in question were necessary and appropriate for the purpose of protecting public health.

In turn, by bending the societal rules, these rules eventually change.

Conservative Rabbi Robert Gordis wrote an essay on " Ground Rules for a Christian Jewish Dialogue "; in all Jewish denominations, one form or another of these rules eventually became more or less accepted by parties engaging in Jewish-Christian theological dialogue.

Unfortunately, the engine suffered from oil scavenging problems early on in its development, and although the problem was eventually solved, changes in the rules by FIA and ACO effectively doomed the future prospects of what could otherwise have been a competitive engine.

In the 1993 – 94 NCAA season, Coach Dave Odom had considered red-shirting Duncan, but was forced to play him after fellow freshman big man Makhtar N ' Diaye was ruled out due to NCAA rules violations and eventually transferred to Michigan.

Gradually the FA, led by Charles Alcock, manages to persuade the clubs that a uniform set of rules is desirable and, after many adaptations and compromises, the FA rules eventually become standard.