The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

In one debate he supported the freedom of judgment as opposed to dogma, in another he held that the practice of science was in fact an act of religious worship.

With a few important and a few more unimportant exceptions, no expression can be deemed le mot juste for its context, because each was very probably the only expression that long-established practice and ease of rapid recitation would allow.

When cattle became more valuable, ranch owners frowned upon this practice and it was discontinued, at least when the boss was 'round.

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.

Huff, who received a salary of $109 a week from the loan association from October of 1955 until September of this year, said that his private practice was not lucrative.

He was perhaps a trifle tipsy, having been long at sea where drinking is not permitted, and consequently out of practice ; ;

This distant territory was a Democratic stronghold, and acceptance of the post would have effectively ended his legal and political career in Illinois, so he declined and resumed his law practice.

This placement is consistent with the modern practice of ordering the elements by proton number, Z, but this number was not known or suspected at the time.

In practice, power was more and more concentrated in the hands of the President who, supported by an ever increasing staff, largely controlled parliament, government, and the judiciary.

Since the minting of coins was a prerogative accorded in Islamic practice only to a sovereign, it can be considered that Osmanli became independent of the Mongol Khans.

The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.

In Canada this practice occurred during the 1890s, but was not commonplace until the 1920s.

ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

The practice of reading to oneself without vocalizing the text was less common in antiquity than it has since become.

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

Her practice of accompanying Germanicus on campaigns was considered inappropriate, and her tendency to take command in these situations was viewed with suspicion as subversively masculine.

At this festival a couch was set up, on which the panoply of the hero was placed, a practice which recalls the Roman Lectisternium.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

Maeda explained that he invented the practice to get around strict Japanese censorship regulations, which prohibit the depiction of the penis but apparently do not prohibit showing sexual penetration by a tentacle or similar ( often robotic ) appendage.

For example, dhimmis in some countries were required to wear distinctive clothing, a practice not found in either the Qur ' an or hadiths but invented in early medieval Baghdad and inconsistently enforced.

While invented long before, the practice of including music with the entrance gained rapid popularity during the 1980s, largely as a result of the huge success of Hulk Hogan and the WWF, and their Rock ' n ' Wrestling Connection.

In 1811 Friedrich Bohnenberger again discovered it, but Kater independently invented it and was first to put it in practice.

Some hold that the practice was invented in 1609 by Dutch merchant Isaac Le Maire, a sizeable shareholder of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie ( VOC ).

Based on these legends — indeed, the legends may have been invented for this purpose — some Irish clerics considered Barnacle Goose flesh to be acceptable fast day food, a practice that was criticized by a contemporary Welsh author:

It was a commercial and financial success, and invented many new managerial methods that became standard practice in railroading and modern business.

Sarazen invented the modern sand wedge, and debuted the club ( while keeping it secret during preliminary practice rounds ) at the British Open at Prince's Golf Club in 1932 ( which he won ).

In 1978 scientists at BMI-TNO, the research unit of Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research at The University of Amsterdam, invented and patented a series of additional key elements to make the volume clamp work in clinical practice, among them: the use of modulated infra-red light in the optical system inside the sensor, the light-weight, easy to wrap finger cuff with Velcro fixation, a new pneumatic proportional control valve principle and last but not least the invention of a setpoint strategy for the determination and tracking of the correct volume at which to clamp the finger arteries – the Physiocal system.

While freestyle dance is random and a personal dance invented by a single person ( even if it's based on someone else's dance style ), a full street dance is a collection of the various similar dance moves and styles collected into one practice and regarded as the same dance.

The LB & SCR appears to have invented the practice of " slipping " coaches from the rear of express trains, at intermediate junctions, for onward transmission to smaller stations.

He invented the practice that came to be known as Muntzing, which involved simplifying otherwise complicated electronic devices.

Maeda explained that he invented the practice to get around strict Japanese censorship regulations, which prohibit the depiction of the penis but apparently do not prohibit showing sexual penetration by a tentacle or similar ( often robotic ) appendage.

* CSI: NY aired on November 4, 2009 an episode which included a WAM-related subplot, though this involved " sploshing parties "-an extremely uncommon practice invented principally for an episode of HBO's Real Sex series.

This concept was novel when Nichols invented it, but it is now a standard practice in commercial leases.

Later, Melville scholar Harrison Hayford made a detailed study of these sources and, in the introduction to a 1969 edition of Omoo, summed up the author's practice like this: " He had altered facts and dates, elaborated events, assimilated foreign materials, invented episodes, and dramatized the printed experiences of others as his own.

Sorensen's help in innovating foundry practice for mass production earned for him from Henry Ford the nickname of " Cast-Iron Charlie " during the company's first decade, when he invented ( or at least independently reinvented ) the use of metal patterns instead of wood ones to withstand the huge number of moldmaking cycles needed for mass production, and methods of core registration to accurately position the cores without relying on the sand under them to assist in the registration.

This system was " invented " by Alan Blumlein of EMI in 1931 and was patented the same year, but it was not reduced to actual practice, as was a requirement for patenting in the U. S. and elsewhere at that time ( Blumlein died during combat in WW-II ).

In general, the theory of representative government is, Gaddafi argues, an outdated practice that was invented by philosophers and thinkers at the time when the common folk were ordered about like livestock by their rulers.

In 1907, Kano invented the modern keikogi ( practice uniform in the color ), and belts in white for mudansha and black for yudansha.

58 different types of the Alloplant biomaterials were invented and introduced into practice.

" He even contends in the work, in a deliberately provocative overstatement, that Shakespeare " invented " humanity, in that he prescribed the now-common practice of " overhearing " ourselves, which drives our own internal psychological development.

Silver lustre employed the new metal platinum, whose chemical properties were analyzed towards the end of the 18th century, John Hancock of Hanley invented the application of a platinum technique, and " put it in practice at Mr Spode's manufactory, for Messrs. Daniels and Brown ", about 1800.

In 1915 or 1916 he invented the Caprotti valve gear rotary cam poppet valve gear for steam engines of all kinds, but in practice it was employed almost exclusively in railway locomotives.