It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

The term avionics was coined by journalist Philip J. Klass as a portmanteau of aviation electronics.

The term ' alcopop ' ( a portmanteau of the words alcohol and pop ) is used by advocates of tighter restrictions on alcoholic beverage sales, who argue that the beverages are especially appealing to underage drinkers.

The term tense is therefore at times used in language descriptions to represent any combination of tense proper, aspect, and mood, as many languages include more than one such reference in portmanteau TAM ( tense – aspect – mood ) affixes or verb forms.

The more general term machinima, a misspelled portmanteau of machine cinema, arose when the concept spread beyond the Quake series to other games and software.

Mafic is an adjective describing a silicate mineral or rock that is rich in magnesium and iron ; the term is a portmanteau of the words " magnesium " and " ferric ".

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and the term is used to refer to them collectively, often with implications of perceived superior social status.

The term is a portmanteau of proteins and genome.

The term transistor was coined by John R. Pierce as a portmanteau of the term " transfer resistor ".

A blog ( a portmanteau of the term web log ) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries (" posts ") typically displayed in reverse chronological order ( the most recent post appears first ).

The term is a portmanteau for Transmitter-responder.

Testilying ( a portmanteau of " testify " and " lying ") is a United States police slang term for the practice of giving false testimony against a defendant in a criminal trial.

Celebrated on June 19, the term is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, and is recognized as a state holiday or state holiday observance in 41 states of the United States.

Their name is likely a portmanteau of space and the slang term for testicles, as the Spaceballs cover their nether regions with their hands ( as if Dark Helmet was threatening any one of them ) repeatedly during the film.

The term " shotacon " is a Japanese portmanteau of, a reference to the young male character Shōtarō ( 正太郎 ) from Tetsujin 28-go.

The term is a portmanteau of the terms bookmark and applet, however, an applet is not to be confused with a bookmarklet, just as script written in JavaScript is not to be confused with a script written in Java.

The term phreak is a portmanteau of the words phone and freak, and may also refer to the use of various audio frequencies to manipulate a phone system.

Femslash is also known as " f / f slash ", " femmeslash ", and " saffic ", the last term being a portmanteau of Sapphic and fiction.

The term Rogernomics, a portmanteau of " Roger " and " economics ", was coined by journalists at the New Zealand Listener by analogy with Reaganomics to describe the economic policies followed by Roger Douglas after his appointment in 1984 as Minister of Finance in the Fourth Labour Government.

The term itself is a portmanteau of the words " cheese " and " hamburger ".

The term ganguro is a portmanteau of the Japanese word, meaning extremely dark, and, meaning grotesque, and the word ganguro can also be translated as " blackface ".

The term is a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre-( from Latin prae, " before ") and-quel as in sequel ( a supplementing work, especially one with a setting later than its predecessor's, from the Latin sequela, that which follows ).

The term cosplay is a portmanteau of the English words " costume " and " play ".

The term artistamp ( a portmanteau of the words " artist " and " stamp ") or artist's stamp refers to a postage stamp-like art form used to depict or commemorate any subject its creator chooses.