These measured positions are then compared with those calculated by the laws of celestial mechanics: an assembly of calculated positions is often referred to as an ephemeris, in which distances are commonly calculated in astronomical units.

These authors proved, however, that no optical system can justify these suppositions, since they are contradictory to the fundamental laws of reflexion and refraction.

These teachings discuss the ministry and atonement of Jesus, the laws of justice and mercy, the need for repentance, and the resurrection and judgment of all people.

These Sunday laws enacted at the state and local levels would sometimes carry penalties for doing non-religious activities on Sunday as part of an effort to enforce religious observance and church attendance.

These studies have been challenged by several Brazilian ministries, which assert that recent improvements in environmental laws, enforcement and public attitudes have fundamentally reduced the threat posed to forests by such projects.

These include various predictions of the downfall of the northern kingdom, the equivalent prediction of the downfall of Judah following the reign of Manasseh, the extension of Josiah's reforms in accordance with the laws of Deuteronomy, and the revision of the narrative from Jeremiah concerning Judah's last days.

These laws might have paved the way to removing the worst of the poverty during the previous regimes.

These laws vary from time to time and from place to place: note variations in gambling laws, for example, and the prohibition or encouragement of duelling in history.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

These laws in ancient India discriminated between castes.

These laws sharply circumscribe any non-governmental political activity: street demonstrations, non-approved political organizations, and un-registered financial donations are formally banned.

These experiments are used to prove, verify, and reinforce laws and theorems such as Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, etc.

These areas are not mutually exclusive — for example, laws governing water pollution in lakes and rivers may also conserve the recreational value of such water bodies.

These laws regulated public drinking water systems, toxic substances, pesticides, and ocean dumping ; and protected wildlife, wilderness, and wild and scenic rivers.

These successes were followed by the enactment of a whole series of laws regulating waste ( Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ), toxic substances ( Toxic Substances Control Act ), pesticides ( FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ), clean-up of polluted sites ( Superfund ), protection of endangered species ( Endangered Species Act ), and more.

These laws were intended to promote the production of media arts, including film scenery, and stipulate that the government – on both the national and local levels – must lend aid in order to preserve film media.

These laws were among the first race-based measures instituted by the Third Reich.

These laws did not extend to the regions affected by the Protestant Reformation.

These laws must be wisely and lovingly observed.

These laws and customs vary from country to country, and have varied over time.

These laws vary to some extent, such acts are called incestuous.

These names indicate the orbital shape and are used to describe the electron configurations.

These colorful, small-patterned printed fabrics gave rise to the use of the word calico to describe a cat coat color: " calico cat ".

These events were the height of the Pizarro-Almagro friendship, which historians describe as one of the last events in which their friendship soon faded and entered a period of turmoil for the control of the Incan capital of Cuzco.

These problems, together with some conceptual puzzles, led many physicists to believe that a theory more complete than quantized general relativity must describe the behavior near the Planck scale.

These terms are generally used to describe the rabbinic fasts, although tzom is used liturgically to refer to Yom Kippur as well.

These planetary romances describe a desert Mars populated by barbarian warriors and citizens of decadent city-states, coming into explosive contact with Terran civilization.

These laws describe the relationship between the forces acting on a body and the motion of that body.

These basic structural properties play a major role in determining bulk physical properties of the polymer, which describe how the polymer behaves as a continuous macroscopic material.

These primitives are defined by syntactic and semantic rules which describe their structure and meaning respectively.

These settings, the frequency level of the peak or trough, are two of the parameters of a frequency response curve, and in a two-control equaliser they completely describe the curve.

These parameters each describe some aspect of the response curve seen as a whole, over all frequencies.

These early writers used terms such as libertas populi, a free people, to describe the states.

These documents do not describe how to program a particular routine, or even why that particular routine exists in the form that it does, but instead merely lays out the general requirements that would motivate the existence of such a routine.

These describe the relationships among the source code files, and contain information about how they are to be compiled.

These coordinates are known as local coordinates and these homeomorphisms lead us to describe surfaces as being locally Euclidean.

These myths also express some hope that the idyllic state of affairs they describe is not irretrievably and irrevocably lost to mankind, that it can be regained in some way or other.

These M2-models describe elements of the M1-layer, and thus M1-models.

These stories were preserved by oral tradition until they were written down some 250 years after the events they describe.

These words and terms were used because of their familiarity, but more so because in most cases there were no equivalent terms in the vernacular which could express the Jewish concepts or describe the objects of cultural significance.

These words are often used to describe anything related to that number ( e. g., undenary chess is a chess variant with an 11 × 11 board, or the Millenary Petition of 1603 ).

These describe the character of the people of the Kingdom of God, expressed as " blessings ".

These orientations describe how a man has developed in regard to how he responds to conflicts in his or her life ; he also said that people were never pure in any such orientation.

These three perspectives are used to describe how magic works in a society.

These purely academic issues led the U. S. courts to describe cases where developing circumstances made any judgment ineffective as " moot ".