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.

But there are smaller snippets of tradition preserved in the Historia Brittonum: in Chapter 31, we are told that Vortigern ruled in fear of Ambrosius ; later, in Chapter 66, various events are dated from a Battle of Guoloph ( often identified with Wallop, ESE of Amesbury near Salisbury ), which is said to have been between Ambrosius and Vitolinus ; lastly, in Chapter 48, it is said that Pascent, the son of Vortigern, was granted rule over the regions of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion by Ambrosius.

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

There are few exceptions to this rule: Haemophilus influenzae meningitis is often associated with subdural effusions that are mistaken for subdural empyemas.

Swapping among three parties often helps satisfy tastes when trying to get around the rule that money is not allowed.

This is often called the " no hiding " rule, since it prevents players from placing their first shots where their opponent must traverse completely though the guarded centre ring to hit them and avoid fouling.

In modern times this rule is often interpreted to include other vegetables of the onion genus, as well as coriander.

Conjunction introduction ( often abbreviated simply as conjunction ) is a valid rule of inference of propositional logic.

Therefore, some violations like suicide would be punished by separation from the community, such as not being buried in a Jewish cemetery ( in practice, rabbis often rule suicides to be mentally incompetent and thus not responsible for their actions ).

Majority rule is often listed as a characteristic of democracy.

Many casual disc golfers often choose whether to play with the 2-meter rule at the beginning of a round.

Dictatorships are often characterized by some of the following traits: suspension of elections and of civil liberties ; proclamation of a state of emergency ; rule by decree ; repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures ; these include single-party state, and cult of personality.

Reforms are usually proposed by thinkers who aim to redress societal ills or institute societal changes, most often through a change in the education of the members of a class of people — the preparation of a ruling class to rule or a working class to work, the social hygiene of a lower or immigrant class, the preparation of citizens in a democracy or republic, etc.

As there is no offside rule in Australian rules football, players can be tackled from any direction, and often blindsided.

As there is no offside rule in Australian rules, tackling is more often when chasing a player down rather than frequent on head on contact.

Alice now discards three of her own cards, and replaces them with three from the top of the deck ( Note: in a player-dealt casino game there is often a rule that the dealer must discard before picking up the deck, but this is a home game so we won't worry about such details ).

A formal language is often defined by means of a formal grammar such as a regular grammar or context-free grammar, also called its formation rule.

In the ensuing two centuries, the city experienced turbulent periods of Ostrogothic rule, during which the city was often troubled by warfare between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines, which may have caused the population to fall to as few as 1, 000 people.

The former is often thought to reflect degeneration in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalinism ; the latter, life under totalitarian rule.

In popular culture, such as movies and TV shows, this rule is often violated, even by characters who should be trained in gun safety such as military personnel or law enforcement officers.

Although not relevant to actual play, the name of the game's designer is often prominently mentioned on the box, or at least in the rule book.

The end of Roman rule in Britain enabled the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, which is often regarded as the origin of England and the English people.

However, under Roman rule the Britons continued to worship native Celtic deities, such as Ancasta, but often conflated with their Roman equivalents, like Mars Rigonemetos at Nettleham.

The atomic mass of these isotopes varied by integer amounts, called the whole number rule.

Some non-benzene-based compounds called heteroarenes, which follow Hückel's rule, are also aromatic compounds.

In 790 he was named abbot of Centulum, also called Sancti Richarii monasterium ( Saint-Riquier ) in northern France, where his brilliant rule gained for him later the renown of a saint.

The area had been under the rule of the Buddhist and then Hindu dynasty called the Kabul Shahis since the 5th century.

To balance the situation, the Crawford rule requires that when a player first reaches a score one point short of winning, neither player may use the doubling cube for the following game, called the Crawford game.

This is sometimes called plutocracy ( rule by wealth ) or kleptocracy ( rule by theft ).

In its " Agreement ", on August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile asserted that Chilean democracy had broken down and called for " redirecting government activity ", to restore constitutional rule.

Between 1673 and 1681, the Emperor Kangxi suppressed an uprising of three generals in Southern China who had been denied hereditary rule to large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor ; he also put down a Ming restorationist invasion from Taiwan, called the Revolt of the Three Feudatories.

A sequence of rule applications is called a derivation.

At the foundation of the new rule, they were called Hermits of St Damiano, or Moronites ( or Murronites ), and did not assume the appellation of Celestines until after the election of their founder to the Papacy as Celestine V. The fame of the holy life and the austerities practised by the hermit in his solitude on the Mountain of Majella, near Sulmona, attracted many visitors, several of whom were moved to remain and share his mode of life.

Under Ottoman rule, in Ottoman Turkish, Crete was called Girit ( Ottoman Turkish: كريت, as recorded by Piri Reis ).

The government during 1653 to 1659 is properly called The Protectorate, and took the form of direct personal rule by Oliver Cromwell and, after his death, his son Richard, as Lord Protector.

Parliament was actively hostile towards the Spanish throne, and thus, when called by James, hoped for a crusade under the leadership of the king to rescue Protestants on the continent from Habsburg rule.

Although Chernenko had called for renewed détente with the West, little progress was made towards closing the rift in East − West relations during his rule.

In the preface to the law code, he states, " Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared Marduk, the chief god of Babylon ( The Human Record, Andrea & Overfield 2005 ), to bring about the rule in the land.

An exception to this rule occurs if one side has called a witness, but it is either understood, or soon becomes plain, that the witness is hostile to the questioner's side of the controversy.

* 1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg ( also called the Philippine Dynasty ).

In China and East Asia, rulers justified their rule using a similar concept called the Mandate of Heaven.

The supposed " after Passover " rule is called the Zonaras proviso, after Joannes Zonaras, the Byzantine canon lawyer who may have been the first to formulate it.

The region was first referred to as Ma ' ikele Bahr (" between the seas / rivers ," i. e. the land between the Red Sea and the Mereb river ), renamed under Emperor Zara Yaqob as the domain of the Bahr Negash, called Midri Bahri ( Tigrinya: " Sea land ," though it included some areas like Shire on the other side of the Mereb, today in Ethiopia ) until the modern day, when its name was changed to Mereb Mellash ( beyond the river Mereb ) under the rule of Yohannes IV, the locals referred to this area as Midri Bahri.

A related rule is called the 50 / 50 rule, which means 50 % credit is earned when an element of work is started, and the remaining 50 % is earned upon completion.

Atoms that do not obey their rule are called " electron-deficient " when they have too few electrons to achieve a noble gas configuration, or " hypervalent " when they have too many electrons.