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third and Act
The third credit service, Banks for Cooperatives, exists under authority of the Farm Credit Act of 1933.
Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.
Congress passed a third Reconstruction Act to invalidate these opinions, and took two votes to defeat the President's obstruction.
Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.
The third earl ( a member of the Conservative Party ) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the hereditary peers to remain under an amendment to Labour's 1999 House of Lords Act.
President Grant signed into law the Klan Act and the second and third Enforcement Acts.
These and other movements such as the Philippines 1995 Mining Act led the World Bank to publish a third report ( Assistance for Minerals Sector Development and Reform in Member Countries ) which endorsed mandatory environment impact assessments and attention to the locals.
“ Our investigation has confirmed that while Telstra breached the Privacy Act when the personal information of a number of its customers was disclosed to third parties ; this incident was caused by a one-off human error.
With the passage of the 1916 National Defense Act approximately one half of the United States Army's available combat forces and approximately one third of its support organizations were National Guard units.
Second, Section 230 of the Act has been interpreted to say that operators of Internet services are not to be construed as publishers ( and thus not legally liable for the words of third parties who use their services ).
The Good Samaritan provision of the Communications Decency Act established immunity from liability for third party content on grounds of libel or slander.
On the third reading of Peel's Bill of Repeal ( Importation Act 1846 ) on 15 May, MPs voted 327 votes to 229 ( a majority of 98 ) to repeal the Corn Laws.
The Commons passed resolutions ( 14 April ) that would form the basis for the Parliament Act: to remove the power of the Lords to veto money bills, to reduce their veto of other bills to a power to delay for up to two years ( the Bill would become law if passed a third time by the Commons ), and also to reduce the term of Parliament from seven years to five ( the King would have preferred four years ).
One example of a statutory exception to the prohibition of third party standing exists in the qui tam provision of the Civil False Claims Act.
The Act also included a unique provision that stated tin-plates should be admitted free of any duty after 1897, unless domestic production in any year reached one third the imports in that year.
Attached as title III to the Act, the Thomas Amendment became the " third horse " in the New Deal's farm relief bill.
In 2006, the United States Commission on Civil Rights reviewed the Justice Department Preclearance record and found that the percentage of DOJ objections to submitted changes has declined markedly throughout the 40-year period of the Act: from 5. 5 percent in the first period to 1. 2 percent in the second, and to 0. 6 percent in the third.
If an Act is made by the third method, the presiding officer of the house that last reconsidered the act promulgates it.
The Commons passed resolutions ( 14 April ) which would form the basis for the Parliament Act: to remove the power of the Lords to veto money bills, to reduce their veto of other bills to a power to delay for up to two years ( the Bill would become law if passed a third time by the Commons ), and also to reduce the term of Parliament from seven years to five ( the King would have preferred four years ).
On the third reading of Peel's Bill of Repeal ( Importation Act 1846 ) on 15 May, MPs voted 327 votes to 229 ( a majority of 98 ) to repeal the Corn Laws.
Before opening night, the third and fourth yeomen's couplets in the Act I finale – in which they remind " Leonard " of his brave deeds – were cut, though they remained in the vocal score until around the 1920s.
He is now remembered chiefly because of the contents of his will, which directs that eight lectures shall be delivered annually at Oxford in the University Church on as many Sunday mornings in full term, " between the commencement of the last month in Lent term and the end of the third week in Act term, upon either of the following subjects: to confirm and establish the Christian faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics ; upon the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures ; upon the authority of the writings of the primitive fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church ; upon the divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; upon the divinity of the Holy Ghost ; upon the articles of the Christian faith as comprehended in the Apostles and Nicene Creeds.
The ' Siegfried ' leitmotif from Act III of Wagner's opera, the third of his ' Ring ' cycle ; the theme is broader and more richly orchestrated than its earlier appearances ( see above ), suggesting the emergence of Siegfried's heroic character Richard Wagner is the earliest composer most specifically associated with the concept of leitmotif.

third and Faust
A third such individual at the time was Georg Faust, upon whom several pieces of later literature were written, such as Christopher Marlow's Faust, that portrayed him as consulting with demons.
The third theme used for the series is an orchestral rendition of the aria, " Dio Possente " ( Even Bravest Hearts May Swell ) from Charles Gounod's opera, Faust.

third and 2
The third method was, to our knowledge, successfully applied for the first time by C. Sheer and co-workers ( Ref. 2 ).
In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.
Most of the population () speaks German ( 84. 5 %), with Italian being second most common ( 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 2. 9 %).
A third twofold axis of rotation passes through the C = C = C bonds, and there is a mirror plane passing through both CH < sub > 2 </ sub > planes.
It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.
Each position conventionally has an associated number, which is used to score putouts: 1 ( pitcher ), 2 ( catcher ), 3 ( first baseman ), 4 ( second baseman ), 5 ( third baseman ), 6 ( shortstop ), 7 ( left fielder ), 8 ( center fielder ), and 9 ( right fielder ).
The Lions won the third Test 28 – 9 at Ellis Park, and the series finished 2 – 1 to South Africa.
He scored both goals in his second game as England beat Portugal 2 – 1 in a friendly at Wembley ; and overcame obvious nerves on a return to Belgrade to play his third match against Yugoslavia.
England defeated the Soviet Union 2 – 0 in the third place match.
Average rolling-stock age — a rough indicator of passenger comfort — fell slightly from the third quarter of 2001 – 2 to the third quarter of 2003 – 4, from 20. 7 years old to 19. 3 years old.
The binomial coefficients 1, 2, 1 appearing in this expansion correspond to the third row of Pascal's triangle.
Most of the population () speaks German ( 129, 592 or 77. 8 %), with Italian being second most common ( 9, 049 or 5. 4 %) and French being third ( 4, 280 or 2. 6 %).
One third of the world's population ( approximately 2. 3 billion people ) live in common law jurisdictions or in systems mixed with civil law.
2nd Edition ( 1991 ) with additional third author Frangois Ochsenbein, 2 volumes, LCCN 91026764.
The goat's tail consists of stars β Cap and α < sup > 2 </ sup > Cap: star β Cap being of the third magnitude.
Taking their third consecutive AL Central title, the Indians defeated the New York Yankees in the Division Series, 3 – 2.
In the 2007 World Series, the Rockies faced the Boston Red Sox, and were swept in four games ; the first game was 13 – 1, the second game was 2 – 1, the third game was 10 – 5, and the fourth and final game was 4 – 3.
* Compound, a former US automobile make with a unique compound gasoline engine ; exhausts of 2 cylinders were expanded in a larger third one.
The first case was done by the Gorenstein – Walter theorem which showed that the only simple groups are isomorphic to L < sub > 2 </ sub >( q ) for q odd or A < sub > 7 </ sub >, the second and third cases were done by the Alperin – Brauer – Gorenstein theorem which implies that the only simple groups are isomorphic to L < sub > 3 </ sub >( q ) or U < sub > 3 </ sub >( q ) for q odd or M < sub > 11 </ sub >, and the last case was done by Lyons who showed that U < sub > 3 </ sub >( 4 ) is the only simple possibility.
Between 1984 and 1986, $ 34 million from third countries and $ 2. 7 million from private sources were raised this way.
They advanced to the third round of the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs after defeating the Calgary Flames and San Jose Sharks both in six games, coming back three straight after the Sharks ' 2 – 1 series lead.
A third theory is that Galatians 2: 1-10 describes Paul and Barnabas ' visit to Jerusalem described in Acts 11: 30 and 12: 25.
* Unako no Otoshi ( Wo-Umako no Iratsume ), daughter of Ohoka no Obito no Okuma ; third consort ; 2 imperial children:

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