A dividing issue is whether a person is " Folkish ", meaning that an emphasis on ancestry and ancestor worship is a part of their belief system.

Johnson describes that the African identity was influenced and caste system constructed by dividing enslaved Africans, mixed race offsprings, and indentured servants by their occupations, and by skin color.

The Ottomans attempted to create peace by dividing Mt Lebanon into a Christian district and a Druze district, but this would merely create geographic powerbases for the warring parties, and it plunged the region back into civil conflict which included not only the sectarian warfare but a Maronite revolt against the Feudal class, which ended in 1858 with the overthrow of the old feudal system of taxes and levies.

Into the 19th century, a system prevailed of dividing the land into prazos ( large agricultural estates ) which the natives cultivated for the benefit of the European leaseholders, who were also tax-collector for each district and claimed the tax either in labour or produce, a system that kept the sharecropping farmers in a state of serfdom.

The concept of dividing pre-historical ages into systems based on metals extends far back in European history, but the present archaeological system of the three main ages: stone, bronze and iron, originates with the Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen ( 1788 – 1865 ), who placed the system on a more scientific basis by typological and chronological studies, at first of tools and other artifacts present in the Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen ( later the National Museum of Denmark ).

The system of dividing students into nations according to origin can ultimately be traced back to the nations at the medieval University of Paris and other early medieval universities, but the Uppsala nations appear only about 1630 – 1640, most likely under influence of the Landsmannschaften which existed at some of the German universities visited by Swedish students.

He then suggested a system of sub-units, dividing successively by factors of ten into the centuria, decuria, virga, virgula, decima, centesima, and millesima.

Among the cultural traits that the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan shared with many other cultures of central Mexico are the agricultural basis of maize cultivation, the basic social organization dividing society into classes of noble pipiltin and macehualli commoners, the complex religious beliefs and practices including most of the pantheon ( e. g. gods such as Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl ), the calendric system of a xiuhpohualli of 365 days intercalated with a tonalpohualli of 260 days.

However, the basic idea of the point system – to generate different type sizes by multiplying a single minimum unit calculated by dividing a base measurement unit such as one French Royal inch – was not Didot ’ s invention, but Fournier ’ s .< ref group =" note ">

Many of the legal, administrative, and economic reforms of the revolutionary period were left intact ; the Napoleonic Code, which guaranteed legal equality and civil liberties, the peasants ' biens nationaux, and the new system of dividing the country into < span lang =" fr "> départments </ span > were not undone by the new king.

Most strains of C jejuni produce a toxin ( cytolethal distending toxin ) that hinders the cells from dividing and activating the immune system.

Rays are used to model the propagation of light through an optical system, by dividing the real light field up into discrete rays that can be computationally propagated through the system by the techniques of ray tracing.

Late in 1957, General Raoul Salan, commanding the French Army in Algeria, instituted a system of quadrillage ( surveillance using a grid pattern ), dividing the country into sectors, each permanently garrisoned by troops responsible for suppressing rebel operations in their assigned territory.

In order for the state to reclaim dry, barren areas of land, the state further developed this system by dividing up the land according to the number of men of an age to cultivate it.

The system used in the west today, dividing instruments into wind, strings, and percussion, is of Greek origin ( in the Hellenistic period, prominent proponents being Nicomachus and Porphyry ).

The BNSF is the dividing line for the street system east and west, and Bridge Street is the dividing line north and south.

: d ) Shortly before his death he completed " From Job Markets to Labor Markets " in which he proposed a computer-moderated economic system dividing work among all who seek employment.

The Tetrarchy ultimately degenerated into civil war, but the eventual victor, Constantine the Great, restored Diocletian's system of dividing the Empire into East and West.

In 1968, Mexican American inmates of the California state prison system separated into two rival groups, Norteños ( northerners ) and Sureños ( southerners ), according to the locations of their hometowns ( the north – south dividing line is near Delano, California ).

The simple vacuum system had the major defect that in the event of one of the hoses connecting the vehicles becoming displaced ( by the train accidentally dividing, or by careless coupling of the hoses, or otherwise ) the vacuum brake on the entire train was useless.

general: the system is expanding with the growth of mobile-cellular service and participation in regional development ; system is fully digital with fiber-optic cables linking the major population centers in the east ; fixed-line connections declined in recent years and now stand at roughly 8 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular telephone density currently is about 80 per 100 persons

Though much attention has been focused on the security and military aspects of Colombia's situation, the administration also is spending significant time on issues such as expanding international trade, supporting alternate means of development, and reforming Colombia's judicial system.

If a reaction results in a small energy release making way for more energy releases in an expanding chain, then the system will typically collapse explosively until much or all of the stored energy has been released.

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.

; Telephone system: large system ; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern ; Telecom Egypt, the landline monopoly, has been increasing service availability and in 2006 fixed-line density stood at 14 per 100 persons ; as of 2007 there were three mobile-cellular networks and service is expanding rapidly

In addition to an expanding welfare system, which since World War II had come to provide them with substantial assistance in the area of childbearing and child-rearing, women had made notable legislative gains that brought them closer to full equality with men.

Apart from the great conquests accomplished during his reign ( which proved to be fundamental for the future of Poland ), Mieszko I was renowned for his internal reforms, aimed at expanding and improving the so-called war monarchy system.

This process is known as wavefunction collapse, a controversial and much-debated process that involves expanding the system under study to include the measurement device.

The Flying Cloud was the first car to use Lockheed's new hydraulic internal expanding brake system and featured styling by Fabio Segardi.

A relatively new technique, expanding the musical range and sonic capabilities of slide guitar, is the system of double slide guitar.

Moreover, the technical infrastructure for expanding these resources is already in place, thus facilitating the participation of many more languages in the UNL system from now on.

Greater Victoria also has an expanding system designed to facilitate bicycles and electrically assisted bicycles via bike lanes on many main roads as well as the Galloping Goose Regional Trail and Lochside Regional Trail.

Venezuela has a limited national railway system, which has no active rail connections to other countries ; the government of Hugo Chávez has invested substantially in expanding it.

The idea of a network system which would distribute programming to many stations simultaneously, saving each station the expense of creating all of its own programs and expanding the total coverage beyond the limits of a single broadcast signal, was devised.

Many also settled in the growing small towns along the expanding railway system.

* Detailed Design: the process of refining and expanding the preliminary design of a system or component to the extent that the design is sufficiently complete to begin implementation.

The Russian mobilization system was ineffective and the expanding nation needed to be defended in many locations.

Dutch influence was far more significant: expanding to the southwest and north of the island, they set up a tax system and established schools and churches in many villages.

Additional problems growing out of the expanding relationship with West Germany included conflict between Bonn and East Berlin on the rights and privileges of West German news correspondents in East Germany ; the social unrest generated by the " two-currency " system, in which East German citizens who possessed West German D-marks were given the privilege of purchasing scarce luxury goods at special currency stores ( Intershops ); and the ongoing arguments over the issue of separate citizenship for the two German states, which the SED proclaimed but which the West German government refused to recognize as late as 1987.

* System File Protection: First introduced with Windows 2000 ( as Windows File Protection ), and expanding on the capabilities introduced with System File Checker in Windows 98, System File Protection aimed to protect system files from modification and corruption silently and automatically.

In his desire and stated political aim of expanding the " living space " ( Lebensraum ) of the German people by destroying or driving out " lesser-deserving races " in and from other territories dictator Adolf Hitler may have devised an ideological system of self-perpetuating expansionism, in which the expansion of a state's population would require the conquest of more territory which would in turn lead to a further growth in population which would then require even more conquests.

In the 19th century, the canal system in the south of France came into competition with an expanding rail network, but kept some importance due to the flourishing wine trade.

Many of the rails of the nation's expanding railroad system were made in Danville.