Xeer is defined by a few fundamental tenets that are immutable and which closely approximate the principle of jus cogens in international law: These precepts include: a ) payment of blood money ( locally referred to as diya ) for libel, theft, physical harm, rape and death, as well as supplying assistance to relatives ; b ) assuring good inter-clan relations by treating women justly, negotiating with " peace emissaries " in good faith, and sparing the lives of socially protected groups " Birr Magaydo ," ( e. g. children, women, the pious, poets, messengers, sheikhs, and guests ); c ) family obligations such as the payment of dowry, and sanctions for eloping ; d ) rules pertaining to the management of resources such as the use of pasture land, water, and other natural resources ; e ) providing financial support to married female relatives and newlyweds ; f ) donating livestock and other assets to the poor.

These spirit animals, the nahurac, act as Tirawa's messengers and servants, and can intercede with him on behalf of the Pawnee.

" These chemical messengers are transported outside of the body and result in a direct developmental effect on hormone levels or behavioral change.

These function as second messengers associated with G proteins and calcium signaling.

These sacrificed prisoners were believed to be messengers to the gods and were venerated as such.

These incidents also occasionally lead to proposals for, and dispute over, new ordinances and regulations on messengers and messengering.

" These churches must be received by majority vote of the messengers at the annual meeting.

These receptors generally function via intracellular second messengers, including cyclic AMP ( cAMP ), inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate ( IP3 ) and the calcium ( Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup >)- calmodulin system.

These messengers passed each other records of the empire's status, which are sometimes thought to have been encoded in a system of knots called quipu.

These events and other information are shared via the village website, the Aller DragonFlyer, and by a network of messengers known as the Aller Bush Telegraph.

These chemical messengers secreted by a queen, drone, worker bee or laying worker bee to elicit a response in other bees.

These towns very often provided food and horses to messengers of the Legions, theoretically receiving reimbursement, and were responsible for the care of their section of the Roman roads.

These intracellular messengers have some properties in common:

These miracles were confirmed by investigations made at Nazareth by messengers from the governor of Dalmatia.

These pathways are activated by second messengers which initiate signal cascades involving various proteins which are important to the cell's response.

These messengers would request that the priests bring out salt and water and ring the church bells to signify his coming.

These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.

These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.

These have never gone out of style in Scandinavian homes and now seem to be reappearing here and there in shops which specialize in handicrafts.

These gentlemen already have done the party harm by their seeming reluctance to vote aid for the depressed areas and by their criticism of Mr. Kennedy for talking about a recession and unemployment.

These proposals would reduce the amount of tax that DuPont stockholders might have to pay -- from an estimated 1.1 billion dollars under present law to as little as 192 million dollars.

These arrangements would have been impossible if the business community was truly interested in the welfare of its employes.

These forty-seven special purpose governments have the authority to levy taxes, to borrow money, own property, sue and be sued, and in general to exercise normal corporate powers.

These registries are sponsored by 18 national medical, dental, and veterinary societies and have as their mission the assembling of selected cases of interest to military medicine and of establishing through the mechanism of follow-up of living patients the natural history of various diseases of military-medical importance.

These thermometers have now been sent to the United Kingdom for calibration at the National Physical Laboratory.

These provisions are designed to reflect the differences in wealth and population among the States, with the objective that a vocationally handicapped person have access to needed services regardless of whether he resides in a State with a low or high per capita income or a sparsely or thickly populated State.

These could be costly and have a serious effect both at home and abroad.

These destructive forces also have a seriously adverse effect upon the watersheds and their life-supporting waterflows, and upon the other renewable forest resources.

These specialists, I learned, have done a great deal of work to improve the size and health of the plants and the resulting flowers.

These engines have a cylinder diameter of 3-7/8 inches and a stroke length of 3 inches.

`` These recent steps do not offer the possibility of extension to the great number of senior engineers who have displayed technical competence.

These have to do with property rights, municipal official attitudes and a host of others.

These vehicles, with large sensitive areas, have collected data for long enough times to give reliable impact rates for the periods of exposure.

These dosages could have been increased by increasing the source strength which was small in this case.

These have been labeled Regions 1, 2, and 4, respectively, in Fig. 1.

These drugs have no effect on the iodide concentrating mechanism, but they inhibit organification.

These groups have varied widely from mere families, primitive, totemic groups, and small modern cults and sects, to the memberships of great denominations, and great, widely dispersed world religions.

These things have been disseminated by other means, but always in the wake of extensive publication of analytic results.

These children have been described as those who were trying to say something to adults who did not understand.

These have an upper-middle-class leadership and a middle-class membership, with rare exceptions, where working-class parents are active in local P.-T.A. matters.

These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.