The traditional Jewish understanding of the promise of salvation was that being rooted in " the seed of Abraham " referred to physical lineage from Abraham.

A culture with a diminished lineage system, deteriorating over a long period from the ninth or eighth century onward, less embedded in traditional family patrimonies, might be more predisposed both to hold the individual accountable for his behavior, and to see an individual deity accountable for the cosmos.

However, due to the fact that Mandela was only the Inkosi's child by a wife of the Ixhiba lineage, a so-called " Left-Hand House ", the descendants of his cadet branch of the Thembu royal family remain ineligible to succeed to the Thembu throne, which is itself one of the several traditional seats that are still officially recognized by South Africa's government.

More traditional elements of political authority — such as Sufi networks, royal lineage, clan strength, age-based wisdom, and the like — still exist and play a role in Afghan society.

Notably, it includes as a major lineage several members of the traditional sections Cyphomandropsis and the old genus Cyphomandra.

After first dispatching the already much weakened Ivar in 977, he challenged Máel Muad in 978 and defeated him in the fateful Battle of Belach Lechta, after which all the Eóganachta were no longer viable at the provincial level and Brian and the Dál Cais now enjoyed the overlordship, although not the traditional kingship of the province, which was based on lineage.

Synapsids were considered to be the reptilian lineage that led to mammals via gradually evolved, increasingly mammalian features, hence the name " mammal-like reptiles " which became a broad, traditional description for all nonmammalian synapsids.

The traditional silsila ( spiritual lineage ) of the Chishti order is as follows:

The traditional recommendation in the lineage of meditators that developed in the Kagyu-Nyingma tradition is based on the idea of mixing mind and breath.

* Amalgamation ( military unit ), the consolidation of military units, usually traditional regiments, into a new unit carrying the lineage, history, traditions, and identity of both

. The traditional recommendation in the lineage of meditators that developed in the Kagyu-Nyingma tradition is based on the idea of mixing mind and breath.

During the first half of the 19th century, students in American colleges would have encountered a very similar course of study, a curriculum with sturdy foundations in the traditional liberal arts ( the trivium and quadrivium of ancient lineage ).

Unlike previously where the lineage was divided geographically into Northern, Middle and Southern Drukpa, the Drukpa Lineage masters today often cross these traditional borders and communicate to strengthen the lineage and the teachings.

However, in recent years, this traditional lineage has been challenged and is no longer considered fact by historians.

Waterhouse cites three reasons, traditional in Tibetan Buddhism, why Geshe Kelsang is authorized to be a Spiritual Guide, saying " The combination of experience, lineage and knowledge makes Geshe Kelsang ideal as a teacher.

In traditional ambilineal cultures such as those listed below, the individual has the option of choosing their own lineage.

Within the traditional sphere, the childbearing ability of women was explained as the means by which lineage ancestors were allowed to be reborn.

According to a Uganda Travel Guide, the traditional lineage of Batembuzi kings is ;

For a time Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal continued to live at the main Drukpa seat of Ralung, as irrespective of who was entitled to be considered as the true incarnation of Kunkhyen Pema Karpo, Ngawang Namgyal was the main Drukpa hereditary lineage – holder, and legitimate throne-holder at Ralung monastery, the traditional seat of the Drukpa Lineage.

Prieto-Márquez defined Hadrosaurinae as only the lineage containing H. foulkii, and used the name Saurolophinae instead for the traditional grouping.

In the late 8th century, under the influence of Huineng's student Shenhui, the traditional form of this lineage had been established:

In traditional Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, lay practitioners may also chant a hymn written by Shinran called the Shoshinge, which is not a sutra per se, but expounds the lineage with which Jodo Shinshu owes its beliefs.

He comes from a traditional family of astrologers from Bira Balabhadrapur Sasan village in Puri, Orissa, which trace their lineage back to Shri Achyuta Das ( Sri Acyutananda ).

Wessex's history of failures preceding his success in 878 emphasised to Alfred that the traditional system of battle he had inherited played to the Danes ' advantage.

The system of Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) and flourished during the Han Dynasty ( 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD ), during which all the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture – the Yin-Yang philosophy, theory of the 5 elements, Heaven and Earth, Confucian morality – were brought together to formalise the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

This high-speed SDRAM cache was run at a divisor of the processor clock and was accessed via its own 64-bit bus, known as a " back-side bus " allowing the processor to both service system front side bus requests ( the rest of the system ) and cache accesses simultaneously verses the traditional approach of pushing everything through the front-side bus.

Chiefs and other leaders preside over customary, traditional courts, though all persons have the right to request that their case be considered under the formal British-based legal system.

Since the 12th century, courts have had parallel and co-equal authority to make law -- " legislating from the bench " is a traditional and essential function of courts, which was carried over into the U. S. system as an essential component of the " judicial power " specified by Article III of the U. S. constitution.

Most people and institutions in China primarily use the Indian ( Arabic ) system for convenience, with traditional Chinese numerals used mainly in some formal or ceremonial occasions such as on printed money.

From 1974 until 1982, different presidential administrations chose to focus on ending the persistent insurgencies that sought to undermine Colombia's traditional political system.

He did not, however, present it as a fourth age, but chose to retain the traditional three-age system.

The period is a transitional one but not outside of the traditional three-age system.

A traditional finger counting system still in use in many regions of Asia works in this way, and could help to explain the occurrence of numeral systems based on 12 and 60 besides those based on 10, 20 and 5.

The College functions on a quarter system, and one weekend each term is set aside as a traditional celebratory event, known on campus as " big weekends " or " party weekends ".

* Disabilities, Handicaps, or sicknesses: There are many students that are unable to go to a traditional school setting because they cannot get around easily or a low immune system and get sick from other students.

Casey and Lorenzen have identified another financial benefit for the institutions of the US, stating that distance education creates new graduates who might be willing to donate money to the school who would have never have been associated with the school under the traditional system.

Beginning with the 1967 election, the indigenous population abandoned its traditional policy of shunning the official political system and participated actively.

Twenty-six percent of Milwaukee students will receive public funding to attend schools outside the traditional Milwaukee Public School system.

An expert system has a unique structure, different from traditional programs.

But this solution has a defect: expert system runs slower than a traditional program because he consistently " thinks " when in fact a classic software just follows paths traced by the programmer.

supplementing the traditional EFTPOS swipe or chip system.

This view was elaborated in traditional Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology, which depicts the cosmos as a vast, flat oceanic disk ( of the magnitude of a small planetary system ), bounded by mountains, in which the continents are set as small islands.

* Fixed stakes – a traditional system of staking the same amount on each selection.

The basic role of the gamemaster is the same in almost all traditional role-playing games, although differing rule sets make the specific duties of the gamemaster unique to that system.

These products, which should not be confused with smokeless powders, aim to produce less fouling ( solid residue ), while maintaining the traditional volumetric measurement system for charges.

The GNU Project chose the microkernel server – client architecture for the operating system, due to perceived advantages over the traditional Unix monolithic kernel architecture.

Honduras's traditional system of independent banana producers, who, as late as the 1980s, sold their crops to the international banana companies, was eroded in the 1990s.