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 describe the behaviour of a black hole in close analogy to the laws of thermodynamics by relating mass to energy, area to entropy, and surface gravity to temperature.

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 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 three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which.

These have been used by the Arabs and Greeks since ancient times as trading vessels.

These ancient breeds then migrated South ( founding the Tazi / Saluki branch ) and West ( founding the Stepnaya, Krimskaya and Hortaya branches ) to develop into breeds adapted to those regions.

These offices are of very ancient date, and many of them were probably in origin proper to individual saints.

These events damaged his reputation among the ancient writers, though more recent historians have revised this opinion.

These mountains lavished Crete with valleys, such as Amari valley, fertile plateaus, such as Lasithi plateau, Omalos and Nidha ; caves, such as Diktaion and Idaion ( the birthplace of the ancient Greek god Zeus ); and a number of gorges.

These small-scale organic communities were generally seen as a new development in world history, in contrast to the established ancient civilizations of Egypt or Persia, or the hunter-gatherer bands elsewhere.

These African importees have had the most dominant racial influence, and their rich and ancient culture has had an influence second only to that of Europe on the political and cultural character of the modern Dominican Republic.

These paradoxes were very well known in ancient times, some are alluded to by Eubulides ' contemporary Aristotle and even partially by Plato.

These Churches also trace their episcopal lineages to the ancient apostolic succession.

These frescoes depict scenes of the life and society of ancient Greece, and constitute valuable historical testimonials.

These instruments are descended from ones that existed in ancient central Asia and India.

These included the Latin based Romance languages of Castilian, Aragonese, Catalan, Galician, Aranese, Asturian and Leonese, and the ancient language isolate of Basque.

These include the Antikythera mechanism and the astrolabe from ancient Greece ( c. 150 – 100 BC ), which are generally regarded as the earliest known mechanical analog computers.

These ancient satrapies included: Aria ( Herat ); Arachosia ( Kandahar, Lashkar Gah, and Quetta ); Bactriana ( Balkh ); Sattagydia ( Ghazni ); and Gandhara ( Kabul, Jalalabad, Peshawar ).

These oral traditions were transmitted by the Pharisee sect of ancient Judaism, and were later recorded in written form and expanded upon by the rabbis.

These varied and often ancient records indicate that distant septs of the name arose in several places throughout Ireland.

These Duotheistic philosophies tend to emphasize the God and Goddess ' ( or Lord and Lady's ) genders as being complementary opposites analogous to that of yin and yang in ancient Chinese philosophy.

These rhymes seem to have come from a variety of sources, including traditional riddles, proverbs, ballads, lines of Mummers ' plays, drinking songs, historical events, and, it has been suggested, ancient pagan rituals.

These show nori was used as food from ancient times.

These practical developments were followed by the development of theories of light and vision by ancient Greek and Indian philosophers, and the development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world.

These ancient inhabitants probably migrated from Southeast Asia, from people whose ancestors had originated in Africa 50, 000 to 70, 000 years ago.

These documents provide important information on ancient writings ; they give us the only extant copy of Menander, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Egyptian treatises on medicine ( the Ebers Papyrus ) and on surgery ( the Edwin Smith papyrus ), Egyptian mathematical treatises ( the Rhind papyrus ), and Egyptian folk tales ( the Westcar papyrus ).

These can be divided into two groups-Corvida, which retains ancient characters in phenotype and genotype, and Passerida, which has more modern traits.