It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.

His purpose, however, was not to establish an empire, but to assert the principle of divine justice.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Once the principle was established, the increase in state-owned vehicles came rapidly.

It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.

It was a matter of principle with Churchill, since Britain had declared war in behalf of Poland.

It was possible, however, to decompose the compliance into a sum of a frequency-independent component and two viscoelastic mechanisms, each compatible with the Boltzmann superposition principle and with a consistent set of time-temperature equivalence factors.

This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.

In regard to Eichmann, it was to be found in the Nazi outlook, which contained a principle separate from and far worse than anti-Semitism, a principle by which the poison of anti-Semitism itself was made more virulent.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

The Yang, or male principle, was the source of light, heat, and dynamic vitality, associated with the Sun ; ;

while the Yin, or female principle, flourished in darkness, cold, and quiet inactivity, and was associated with the Moon.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

The simple treaty principle that Gabriel was asking him to ratify, in short, was nothing less than total trust.

Furthermore, even the highly trained law clerk who was a part of Jack's total make-up could not understand how the principle could ever be codified.

The hydraulic ram principle has been used in some proposals for exploiting wave power, one of which was discussed as long ago as 1931 by Hanns Günther in his book In hundert Jahren.

Chemical bonding and reactivity in organometallic compounds is often discussed from the perspective of the isolobal principle.

This principle is discussed in detail in the article on acid-base reaction theories.

Since temperature in principle also depends on altitude, one needs a second equation to determine the pressure as a function of height, as discussed in the next section.

In principle it is a book intended for Saint Augustine and therefore it must have been written before Orosius arrived in Africa, between 409 and 414 as discussed above.

However, scholarship indicates that this claim of priority is not so clear ; Leonhard Euler discussed the principle in 1744, and there is evidence that Gottfried Leibniz preceded both by 39 years.

The pre-factor P is also in principle a function of h and ( maybe ) F, but for the simple physical models discussed here it is usually satisfactory to make the approximation P = 1.

Those inhabitants who could not conform to the prince's religion were allowed to leave, an innovative idea in the 16th century ; this principle was discussed at length by the various delegates, who finally reached agreement on the specifics of its wording after examining the problem and the proposed solution from every possible angle. Cuius regio, eius religio went against earlier Catholic teaching which held that the kings should faithfully obey the pope.

" The goal was again reflected in his complementary lectures ( where he discussed the " national principle ") and a new set of works ; these featured musings on the Allied commitment ( Relations des Roumains avec les Alliès, " The Romanians ' Relations with the Allies "; Histoire des relations entre la France et les roumains, " The History of Relations between France and the Romanians "), the national character ( Sufletul românesc, " The Romanian Soul ") or columns against the loss of morale ( Armistiţiul, " The Armistice ").

At the Keely Motor Company's stockholders ' meeting in December, a report was read from Keely in which he discussed the difficulties he had had with the Board of Directors during 1889 and said that while the work of " graduating " or adjusting his provisional engine had not progressed as rapidly as he had expected, no serious obstacles had presented themselves, and there were no difficulties affecting the principle or " essence " of his work.

Rerum Novarum ( On the New Things ), for example, an encyclical written in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII made a critique on social ills and then discussed and promoted “ the Catholic doctrine on work, the right to property, the principle of collaboration instead of class struggle as the fundamental means for social change, the rights of the weak, the dignity of the poor and the obligations of the rich, the perfecting of justice through charity, on the right to form professional associations ” ( pa. 144 ).

A related principle is the indiscernibility of identicals, discussed below.

Among the many philosophers having discussed his ' principle of rationality ' from the 1960s up to now are Noretta Koertge, R. Nadeau, Viktor J. Vanberg, Hans Albert, E. Matzner, Ian C. Jarvie, Mark A. Notturno, John Wettersten, Ian C. Böhm.

The mission aims discussed are that " in principle all religions are one " and that the understanding that " peace is indivisible " and achievable by individuals and that " disgruntled individuals and dissatisfied nations can never promote lasting peace in the world.

His doctoral works contains the fundamental work on Islamic economic jurisprudence principle which he successfully defended after submitting briefed and discussed thesis to the university.

Heim discussed " the principle of the dynamic Kontrabarie " in which he examined how a field drive would be more effective than the best chemical drive for rockets.

The basic principles discussed in 1891 were adopted, with the addition of the principle of responsible government.

On the basis of such experiments electric power generation via the dye sensitization solar cell ( DSSC ) principle was demonstrated and discussed in 1972.

( The nil-band discretionary trust, discussed below, is an example of this principle in action.

Such puerile disputes will evaporate when the principle of a universal auxiliary language is properly discussed and understood.

In 2004, Dame Catherine stated that she supported a New Zealand republic " in principle " and when she was Governor-General, had discussed the issue of republicanism with the Queen: " She is quite sanguine about these things.

Almost febrile in intensity, the principle has become worldwide in application -- unfortunately at the very time that nationalist fervors can wreak greatest harm.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

introduction of the `` dialogue '' principle proved strikingly effective at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Catholic Association for International Peace in Washington the last weekend in October.

Therefore, the third principle of the plan must be that it does not depend for effectiveness on engagement by the same types, unless at an assured favorable exchange rate.

Since by the principle of optimality the remaining stages use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to Af, we may enter section Af of the table at this state Af and read off the optimal policy for stage Af and the resulting state Af.

Such a decision should have placed a powerful weapon in the hands of the entire housing industry, but there is little evidence that realtors, or at least their associations, have repudiated the principle in such clauses.

A life of gentility and principle such as Cousin Elec had lived had to be known at first hand.

On the Arctic Circle those events occur, in principle, exactly once per year, at the June and December solstices, respectively.

A consequence of using waveforms to describe particles is that it is mathematically impossible to obtain precise values for both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time ; this became known as the uncertainty principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg in 1926.

He reformed Austria's armies to adopt the nation at arms principle ; in 1809, he went into the War of the Fifth Coalition with confidence and inflicted Napoleon's first major setback at Aspern-Essling, before suffering a defeat at the bloody Battle of Wagram.

The principle of Schwerpunkt enabled the attacker to win numerical superiority at the point of the main effort, which in turn gave the attacker tactical and operational superiority even though the attacker may be numerically and strategically inferior along the entire front.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

To see the principle of an equal-energy surface at work, imagine gradually increasing the rate of rotation of the bucket from zero.

The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, 25 January, sometimes also known as Robert Burns Day or Burns Night ( Burns Nicht ), although they may in principle be held at any time of the year.

However, stare decisis, the principle that similar cases should be decided according to consistent principled rules so that they will reach similar results, lies at the heart of all common law systems.

As a third issue, philosophers who dispute the validity of the Turing test may feel that it is possible, at least in principle, for verbal report to be dissociated from consciousness entirely: a philosophical zombie may give detailed verbal reports of awareness in the absence of any genuine awareness.

Qualified banks borrow from each other within this band, but never above or below, because the central bank will always lend to them at the top of the band, and take deposits at the bottom of the band ; in principle, the capacity to borrow and lend at the extremes of the band are unlimited.

In many cases, such as the cabinet-directed prohibition on foreign ownership for broadcasters and the legislated principle of the predominance of Canadian content, these acts and orders often leave the CRTC less room to change policy than critics sometimes suggest, and the result is that the commission is often the lightning rod for policy criticism that could arguably be better directed at the government itself.

The concept was similar in principle to the bucket-brigade device ( BBD ), which was developed at Philips Research Labs during the late 1960s.