Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.

Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do.

Was it the party's intention, for example, to abolish gradually the kolkhoz system and replace it by uniformly wage-earning kolkhozes, i.e., state farms ( which were, moreover, to be progressively `` urbanized '' )??

The problem in the policy officer's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors -- political, military, economic, financial, legal, legislative, procedural, administrative -- to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control.

The transportation system which serves the National Forests is a complex of highways and access roads and trails under various ownerships and jurisdictions.

The long-range objective of this Department is to provide and maintain a system of forest development roads and trails which will adequately service the National Forest System at the levels needed to meet expected needs and optimum production of products and services.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

A completely new insight into living cells and their structure will be possible by use of a new technique which replaces visible light with ultraviolet radiation and combines a microscope with a color-TV system to view the results.

) This is the same system as was used in the field-sequential color-TV system which preceded the present simultaneous system.

Consider adopting a system of holidays in which time off is granted with an eye to minimum inconvenience to the operation of the plant.

A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.

This chlorine-carbon tetrachloride solution was illuminated for a day following which the flask was resealed onto a vacuum system and the excess chlorine distilled off.

The radius is calculated from the mass by assuming spheres of density Af except for the smallest particles, which must have a higher mass density to remain in the solar system in the presence of solar-radiation pressure.

Closely related to this function is the fact that the religious system provides a body of ultimate ends for the society, which are compatible with the supreme eternal ends.

To some extent the system can be considered a Gemeinschaft in which `` social-role occupancies are determined by birth, by attributes such as sex or caste, which are biologically or socially immutable ''.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

It is an organized system of these things.

This is necessary for a sounder collective defense system.

It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.

An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals.

but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.

It is the consequence of the system of ideas that constitutes the frame of our international -- and in some degree our domestic -- policy.

The system is composed of three credit services, Federal Land Banks and National Farm Loan Associations, Federal Intermediate ( short-term ) Credit Banks, and Banks for Cooperatives.

The usage of Stokoe's system is currently restricted to academic circles.

NTSC is currently only used with system M, even though there were experiments with NTSC-A ( 405 line ) and NTSC-I ( 625 line ) in the UK.

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

This is the system currently in use.

In the case of insulin grown in transgenic plants, it is well-established that the gastrointestinal system breaks the protein down therefore this could not currently be administered as an edible protein.

After decades of neglect and damage from wartime, Cambodia's rail network is currently being reconstructed as part of the Trans-Asian Railway project with modern trains replacing the current open-access system of " bamboo trains ", homemade bamboo mats powered by go-kart or water pump engines.

Commuter trains are currently uncommon in China, although a small system has been inaugurated in Beijing in 2008.

The currently available antiparasitic treatments for Chagas disease are benznidazole and nifurtimox, which can cause temporary side effects in many patients including skin disorders, brain toxicity, and digestive system irritation.

The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.

Is the currently most advanced messaging system for Freenet, as it features random post delay, support for many identities, and a distinction between trusting a user's posts and trusting their trust list.

As an alternative to using a particular system of units, one can reduce all measurements to dimensionless quantities expressed in terms of ratios between the quantities being measured and various fundamental constants such as Newton's constant, the speed of light and Planck's constant ; physicists can define at least 26 dimensionless constants which can be expressed in terms of these sorts of ratios and which are currently thought to be independent of one another.

: b ) A list of franchisees currently operating in the franchise system in Italy,

The system currently consists of two lines.

Because of the limited techniques currently available to detect extrasolar planets, many of those found to date have been of a size associated, in our solar system, with gas giants.

Galileo is a global navigation satellite system ( GNSS ) currently being built by the European Union ( EU ) and European Space Agency ( ESA ).

Cities which, in the Republic, are currently administered outside the county system, but with the same legal status as administrative counties, are not shown separately: these are Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford.

Each state and the federal court system currently uses one of the following " tests " to define insanity for purposes of the insanity defense:

The ICD is currently the most widely used statistical classification system for diseases in the world.

Principal US military systems currently purchased by the Kuwait Defence Forces are Patriot missile system, F-18 Hornet fighters, and the M1A2 Main Battle Tank.

The Lebanese rail system is not currently in use, with services having ceased due to the country's political difficulties.

The inter-modal zonal ticketing system currently used by Transport for London originated in this period.

Other immunomodulating substances, such as drugs that prevent acetylcholine receptor modulation by the immune system, are currently being researched.

A light rail system is currently being planned.