* a sovereign or head of state who is the nominal or legal and constitutional holder of executive power, and holds numerous reserve powers, but whose daily duties mainly consist of performing ceremonial functions.

Madagascar holds great potential for agricultural development, mainly due to the large variety of soil types and climatic diversity.

The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.

As part of its Religious Studies Unit PASSIA also holds regular meetings with religious leaders ( mainly local Muslim and Chris ­ tian dignitaries, but also involving Jews and foreign scholars ) in an effort to foster schol ­ arly under ­ standing.

However, he approved of this relationship, mainly because John supports Spider-Man, who had previously saved his life, and saw through Norman Osborn as a thug who holds nothing but contempt for the people.

Sometimes, if a boxer doesn't make the weight agreed for on the first weight-in, he or she might go to a sauna or to jog with a jacket to sweat and lose the extra pounds, however this is mainly water that the body holds.

If the greater values of one variable mainly correspond with the greater values of the other variable, and the same holds for the smaller values, i. e., the variables tend to show similar behavior, the covariance is a positive number.

In some countries like Mongolia, many people ( mainly girls ) learn contortion because of a passion or as a career as it is considered a nationally respected art form that holds cultural importance.

* Structural engineer – Typically holds a bachelors or master's degree in structural engineering, new university graduates must hold a master's degree to gain chartered status from the Engineering Council, mainly through the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Itsuo Museum holds the Itsuo Collection which is mainly Japanese art for cha-no-yu ; Ikeda Bunko holds collections on Takarazuka and other materials related to Hankyu Dentetsu.

The term " Crunk " has been attributed mainly to African American slang which holds various meanings.

He holds 79 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Web easier to use.

TVNZ still holds public service responsibilities, broadcasting such shows, mainly on TVONE, in the late hours of the night, and on Sunday mornings.

Beilin holds a soft capitalist agenda, which did not stop him from joining forces with the mainly socialist Meretz.

It was mainly colonised by northern Italian immigrants and still holds Italian-themed festivals such as the Polenta festival and wine festivals.

Since 2007 TV Globo also operates a premium channel which originates from Lisbon, Portugal, called TV Globo Portugal, TV Globo Portugal differs from the TV Globo feed in Europe due to contractual agreements with other broadcast networks in Portugal, mainly SIC Portugal, which holds first run rights to some TV Globo programming like novelas.

The same pattern holds true for protoceratopsids, indicating that both groups preferred dry, desert-like habitat, and fed mainly on the types of tough, low-growing plant life that grows in arid climates.

The Mexican Mafia also holds a loose alliance with the Aryan Brotherhood, mainly due to their common rivals within the prison system.

Kroes has held and still holds many side offices, mainly in cultural and social organisations.

The RCK functions as an unconditional supporters ' group present at all matches, including those at European level, and gathers supporters mainly of the ultra-mentality, but also holds on to its values describe by the group as Amitié, Respect et Fête ().

Khurja annually holds a town fair called Ramlila during the festive season of Diwali which goes through the whole festive season and each day of the festival there is theatrical portrayal of the religious stories by various drama groups along with the town's biggest fair, the location of this fair is called the Panchvati which is mainly a group of agricultural farms which is transformed into the fair ground during the season. every year VIRAT KAVI SAMMELAN on 17 July in memory of Kargil Shaheed Dataram at Bir Balidan Bhoomi, Dhariun village.

The club holds debates, organizes plays and mainly conducts quizzes.

Minas also holds some important carnival parades, mainly in the historic cities of Ouro Preto, Mariana and Diamantina.

And this, I think, holds for values as well as life styles.

The Publications Board holds annual competitive examinations for places on the editorial and business staffs.

Consider it as a standby setup, at negligible cost, for those emergencies when the furnace quits, a blizzard holds up fuel delivery, or for cool summer mornings or evenings when you don't want to start up your whole heating plant.

Increased experimentation with multipurpose agencies, especially those that combine afresh the traditional functions of family and child welfare services, holds rich promise for the future.

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

That experience holds a lesson for us all in regard to birth control today.

Vocational training which holds no hope that the skill developed will be in fact a marketable skill becomes just another school `` chore '' for those whose interest in their studies has begun to falter.

Apparently he believes Mr. Buckley holds the key to the Democratic organization's acceptance of his choices for running mates without a struggle.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

* Robert Owen Evans is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and an amateur astronomer who holds the all-time record for visual discoveries of supernovae.

" The problem then becomes that of constructing a well-ordering, which turns out to require the axiom of choice for its existence ; every set can be well-ordered if and only if the axiom of choice holds.

Statements such as the Banach – Tarski paradox can be rephrased as conditional statements, for example, " If AC holds, the decomposition in the Banach – Tarski paradox exists.

* 1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage ; over 90 % would vote in the affirmative.

Confucianism holds that one should give up one's life, if necessary, either passively or actively, for the sake of upholding the cardinal moral values of ren and yi.

In number theory, if P ( n ) is a property of positive integers, and if p ( N ) denotes the number of positive integers n less than N for which P ( n ) holds, and if

( see limit ), then we say that " P ( n ) holds for almost all positive integers n " ( formally, asymptotically almost surely ) and write

The evaluation order does not affect the value of such expressions, and it can be shown that the same holds for expressions containing any number of operations .< ref > Thus, when is associative, the evaluation order can be left unspecified without causing ambiguity, by omitting the parentheses and writing simply:

dQ = TdS = 0 holds for reversible processes only.

Interview Island ( the largest wildlife sanctuary in the territory ) in Middle Andaman holds a population of feral elephants, which were brought in for forest work by a timber company and released when the company went bankrupt.

Mergers also give each player who holds any interest at all in a chain a chance to sell his stock or to trade it in for shares of the acquiring chain.

Similarly, intuitionists object to the existence property for classical logic, where one can prove, without being able to produce any term of which holds.

In addition to his office, the archbishop also holds a number of other positions ; for example, he is Joint President of the Council of Christians and Jews in the United Kingdom.

These aberrations are avoided if, according to Abbe, the sine condition, sin u ' 1 / sin u1 = sin u ' 2 / sin u2, holds for all rays reproducing the point O.

If the claim is unopposed, the Committee will generally award the claim, unless there is evidence of collusion, the peerage has been in abeyance for more than a century, or the petitioner holds less than one-third of the claim.