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This rule is so strictly enforced that, even where the conflict of interest or conflict of duty is purely hypothetical, the directors can be forced to disgorge all personal gains arising from it.
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Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.
Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.
A very rough rule of thumb is that, under favorable conditions, you'll need 15 BTU's of cooling for every square foot of your house.
Unfortunately, the purely synthetic problem is the rule.
It is not binding upon another Superior Court, which could rule to the contrary.
More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.
as a rule, the earlier general dental treatment is started, the less expensive and more satisfactory it is likely to be.
The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;
Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.
A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.
Although he pointed out that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, he added that the vital interest in election results transcended county lines.
It is an irritable rule that does baseball more harm than good, especially at the minor league level.
A rule on the Federal deductibility of state taxes is contested.
The difference is not a formal one taxonomically and there are numerous exceptions to this rule.
If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.
In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.
* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
* Sequential analysis – evaluation of sampled data as it is collected, until the criterion of a stopping rule is met
The only rule universally accepted is that one should be consistent, and to make this easier, publishers express their preferences in a style guide.
In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.
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It may allay our passions and so restore the rule of reason.
I am not easily persuaded that a rule accepted by so many people for so many centuries can be so lightly dismissed.
He cited East Germany where after 15 years of Soviet rule it has become necessary to build a wall to keep the people in, and added, `` so long as people rebel, we must not give up ''.
Johnson proposed adoption of a rule allowing election of a Speaker by a plurality ; the rule was passed and Howell Cobb was so elected.
In 1841, Bethlehem came under Ottoman rule once more and remained so until the end of World War I.
For example, a reception statute enacted by legislation in the state of Washington requires that " he common law, so far as it is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, or of the state of Washington nor incompatible with the institutions and condition of society in this state, shall be the rule of decision in all the courts of this state.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his famous article, " The Path of the Law ", commented, " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.
This proved to be a very popular alternative milieu, so much so that much of the supplemental material is now included in the core rule book.
The CRTC contends that this low level of Canadian content, particularly when compared to the 35 % rule on local radio stations, was necessary because unlicenced U. S. receivers were already flooding into the country, so that enforcing a ban on these receivers would be nearly impossible ( see below ).
The Jacobian of f ∘ g is the product of these matrices, so it is, as expected from the one-dimensional chain rule.
If is an outward pointing in-plane normal, whereas is the unit vector perpendicular to the plane ( see caption at right ), then the orientation of C is chosen so that a tangent vector to C is positively oriented if and only if forms a positively oriented basis for R < sup > 3 </ sup > ( right-hand rule ).
The distinct rules of their order with regard to fasting are numerous, but not more severe than those of similar congregations, though much more so than is required by the old Benedictine rule.
At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.
Within ten years, the Supreme Court interpreted Rule 48 in such a way so that it could apply to absent parties under certain circumstances, but only by ignoring the plain meaning of the rule.
The first rule is used in many ( but not all ) dictionaries, the second in telephone directories ( so that Wilson, Jim K appears with other people named Wilson, Jim and not after Wilson, Jimbo ).
If this issue is raised, evidence will be placed before the court, which will normally rule as a preliminary matter whether the plea is substantiated, and if it so finds, the projected trial will be prevented from proceeding.
For instance, Martin L Friedland, in his book My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures, contends that the rule should be changed so that a retrial is granted only when the error is shown to be responsible for the verdict, not just one of many factors.
This principle does not prevent the government from appealing a pre-trial motion to dismiss or other non-merits dismissal, or a directed verdict after a jury conviction, nor does it prevent the trial judge from entertaining a motion for reconsideration of a directed verdict, if the jurisdiction has so provided by rule or statute.
For determining whether someone is intoxicated by alcohol by some means other than a blood-alcohol test, it is necessary to rule out other conditions such as hypoglycemia, stroke, usage of other intoxicants, mental health issues, and so on.
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We have sought to be strictly neutral as between the parties, but at the same time we have been required frequently to rule on specific issues or situations as they arose.
In fact, some sensitives rule this out, preferring to consider their expression as strictly extra-sensory perception ( ESP ), on this side of the `` veil ''.
When Mahavira revived and reorganized the Jain movement in the 6th or 5th century BCE, ahimsa was already an established, strictly observed rule.
Celibacy was advocated as an ideal rule of life for all monks and nuns by Gautama Buddha, except for Japan where it is not strictly followed due to historical political developments following the Meiji Restoration.
The practice of withholding the cup from the laity was confirmed ( twenty-first session ) as one which the Church Fathers had commanded for good and sufficient reasons ; yet in certain cases the Pope was made the supreme arbiter as to whether the rule should be strictly maintained.
* Anything that was included in a general rule, and was excluded to be susceptible to one rule that is according to its subject, it is only excluded to be treated more leniently but not more strictly.
* Anything that was included in a general rule and was excluded to be susceptible to one rule that is not according to its subject, it is excluded to be treated both more leniently and more strictly.
As a general rule, these icons strictly followed models and formulas hallowed by usage, some of which had originated in Constantinople.
though since the rule does not change the set of assumptions, this is not strictly necessary.
A 2001 Human Rights Watch report considered FARC-EP's refusal to admit children under fifteen years old into their forces to be " encouraging " but added that there is " little evidence that this rule is being strictly applied " and called on the group to demobilize all existing child soldiers and cease this practice in the future.
As far as the illegal snap is concerned, the non-call was promptly acknowledged by the officials and reported by NBC sportscasters during halftime, but the resulting three points were not taken away from the Bears ( Because of this instance, the NFL instructed officials to strictly enforce the 10-second run-off rule at the start of the 1986 season ).
Taken literally or strictly, theocracy means rule by God or gods and refers primarily to an internal " rule of the heart ", especially in its biblical application.
She was not strictly entitled to a role in Francis's government, because he was deemed old enough to rule for himself.
However, the court rule allowed the continuation of the gender segregation in public buses on a strictly voluntary basis for a one-year experimental period.
A rule of thumb is a principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable for every situation.
However, as time went on this rule of rank-graded apparel for officials was not as strictly enforced.
In her married life, the woman is supposed to remain faithful to her husband, but this rule is neither very strictly kept nor enforced.
In 1538 Cromwell deputed Richard Ingworth, Bishop of Dover and former Provincial of the Dominicans, to obtain the friars ' surrender ; which he did by drafting new injunctions that strictly enforced each order's rule, facing the friars with the choice of compliance with the king's wishes, or starvation.
All rulers of Shang Dynasty are already known only by their posthumous names, as the historical documents at the time strictly followed the rule.
He also decided to make umpires strictly enforce the balk rule and supported " social justice " as the only remedy for the lack of presence of minority managers, coaches, or executives at any level in Major League Baseball.
Buildings along the east-west axis are mostly directly accessible from the parade, which is generally considered to be " level two ", but later additions, such as 7 West, 9 West, 3 West North and 8 East, follow this rule less strictly.
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