As has been the custom for the past several years, John Cross, Jr., Bench Show Chmn. of Westminster, arranged for the Juniors' meeting before the Class, and invited two speakers from the dog world to address them.

It has been the custom for most universities to stretch the blanket of accreditation for their liberal arts school to cover the shivering body of their fine arts department.

In this carefree sentence he summed up the essence of the prevailin' custom of buyin' by book count, and created a sayin' which has survived through the years.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

However, it has been shown that some animals, like chimpanzees, were able to generate creative plans of action to achieve their goals, and thus would seem to have a causal insight which transcends mere custom.

At its core, the Amiga has a custom chipset consisting of several coprocessors, which handle audio, video and direct memory access independently of the Central Processing Unit ( CPU ).

However, this method of designing custom CPUs for a particular application has largely given way to the development of mass-produced processors that are made for many purposes.

Scots common law covers matters including murder and theft, and has sources in custom, in legal writings and previous court decisions.

This custom has been discontinued, and the investiture now takes place with the scarlet biretta.

Captain America has also used a custom specialized motorcycle, modified by the S. H. I. E. L. D.

Digital media playback of hi-resolution 2K files has at least a 20 year history with early RAIDs feeding custom frame buffer systems with large memories.

One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers ; another is music that has been transmitted and evolved by a process of oral transmission or performed by custom over a long period of time.

A family name ( in Western contexts often referred to as a surname or last name ) is typically a part of a person's name which has been passed, according to law or custom, from one or both parents to their children.

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

This custom still has some effect around the world ; for example, with respect to name days in Hungary.

With the advice of our brethren and of the entire Curia, as well as with the will and consent of the prefect, we decree the abolition of that evil custom which has hitherto prevailed among the porticani, namely, of disposing, contrary to the wish of the one deceased, of the property of porticani dying without heirs ; with this understanding, however, that in future the porticani remain faithful to the Roman Church, to us and to our successors.

This canon did no more than confirm earlier legislation and custom, and has been often but wrongly, quoted as commanding for the first time the use of sacramental confession.

These guys were exhibited in the street to collect money for fireworks, although this custom has become less common.

" God's custom has wisdom but human custom does not, and yet both humans and God are childish ( inexperienced ): " human opinions are children's toys " and " Eternity is a child moving counters in a game ; the kingly power is a child's.

An old custom in the Highlands, which has survived to a small extent and seen some degree of revival, is to celebrate Hogmanay with the saining ( Scots for ' protecting, blessing ') of the household and livestock.

The Hogmanay custom of singing " Auld Lang Syne " has become common in many countries.

Public international law has three principal sources: international treaties, custom, and general principles of law.

This interface has been popularized with the Lego Mindstorms system, and is being actively pursued by a number of companies wishing to capitalize on the power of custom browsers like those found at Mozilla.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.

Although this originally had been planned when Commodore first switched from the parallel IEEE-488 interface to a custom serial interface, hardware bugs in the VIC-20's 6522 VIA shift register prevented it from working properly.

Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

Bede notes that the native Old English month Ēostur-monath ( Old English " Ēostre-month ") was equivalent to the month of April, yet that feasts held in the goddess's honor during Ēostur-monath had gone out of use by the time of his writing and had been replaced with the Christian custom of the " Paschal season ".

The ecclesiastical historian Socrates Scholasticus ( b. 380 ) attributes the observance of Easter by the church to the perpetuation of its custom, " just as many other customs have been established ," stating that neither Jesus nor his Apostles enjoined the keeping of this or any other festival.

Voltaire also states that the Circassians used the inoculation from times immemorial, and the custom may have been borrowed by the Turks from the Circassians.

Typically, vendors provide either custom modification services or sell new effects pedals which have been modified.

* The songs have been performed, by custom, over a long period of time, usually several generations.

He became possessed of a spirit, and suddenly began to rave in a kind of ecstatic trance, and to babble in a jargon, prophesying in a manner contrary to the custom of the Church which had been handed down by tradition from the earliest times.

He would not allow women to view even the gladiators except from the upper seats, though it had been the custom for men and women to sit together at such shows.

The vast majority of hearses since then have been based on larger, more powerful car chassis, generally retaining the front end up to and possibly including the front doors but with custom bodywork to the rear to contain the coffin.

Judgments of international tribunals as well as scholarly works have traditionally been looked to as persuasive sources for custom in addition to direct evidence of state behavior ( and they are also explicitly mentioned as such in Art.

* Over time there have been varying levels of observance of a custom that women are excused from certain types of work.

It has been suggested that there is " evidence showing the wedding custom was practised by gypsies in England, Scotland " as well as by African Americans and other groups.

The US edition of PC Gamer commented on the automap, which automatically marked important locations and allowed the user to add custom notes, and on the journal, which separated completed quests from unfinished quests.

However, there is a record of the hobby horse being used in Abbots Bromley as early as 1532, and it is possible that the horn dance component of the custom was also present at that time but not commented upon by the writer.

Steinway eventually built for him a custom keyboards with slightly narrower keys ( pianist / critic Stephen Hough has commented on how Hofmann's mechanical understanding of the Steinway piano action set him apart from all other pianists.

In addition, Pitchford commented that Valve and Gearbox had agreed not to " severely modify " the game engine used by Half-Life and Opposing Force as it " risks breaking all of the wonderful work " that the game's custom content community was creating.

When Cordell Hull graduated from Cumberland, he commented on the diploma privilege, which granted the right to practice law without taking a bar exam, saying that: according to custom, we members of the graduating class, the moment we received our diplomas, took them to the courthouse, where a district judge awaited us.

At the time of its introduction, a journalist commented that the Magnum looked " like a European ' shooting brake ' custom fabricated for a car nut like the Sultan of Brunei ’ s kid brother.