Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

But none of this has prevented scientists, philosophers, and even historians of science, from speaking of the Ptolemaic system, in contrast to the Copernican.

He has his own system of shorthand, devised by abbreviations: `` humility '' will be `` humly '', `` with '' will be `` w '', and `` that '' will be `` tt ''.

No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.

The education program for retarded children conducted by the East Greenwich school system has pupils from at least one neighboring community.

but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.

Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.

For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.

As the Juniors entered the ring, Mr. Spring, the announcer, stated over the public-address system that this was the 28th year that Westminster has held the Finals of the Junior Competition.

A still more sophisticated system has been devised for determining the effective power of the heart itself.

Westinghouse has a similar system, with two classifications representing various levels of competence on the strictly technical side: consulting engineer or scientist, as the case may be, and advisory engineer or scientist.

What does Tri-State actually want to do, now that it has the meters under franchise and certain phases of its piping system in the `` patent applied for '' stage??

It is not clear whether this system bears any resemblance to the in vivo iodinating mechanism, and a system generating peroxide has not been identified in thyroid tissue.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

The population registration system still has important functions.

It does show one feature of the system that has not been previously described.

Although a somewhat technical subject, it has important political implications as the above discussion of the voting system indicated.

It has surrendered any claims of description in favor of psychological accounts of nothingness, as in Heidegger's system ( 1929 ).

The submarine has become increasingly attractive as an antisubmarine weapon system.

A water-soluble protein of quite low molecular weight ( ca. 10,000 ) has also been found in this system and partly characterized.

It has been stated previously that a minifying electrostatic system yields a lower resolution than a magnifying system or a system with unity magnification.

All the other parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions operated under the same system as the verbs.

Another possible source of the suanpan is Chinese counting rods, which operated with a decimal system but lacked the concept of zero as a place holder.

* Advanced Sound-ranging Programme, a portable, passive, acoustic sensing system for detecting and locating the source of artillery fire and loud detonations, operated by the Royal Artillery

The floppy based system was operated by the teacher who could send programs from his floppy disk, and data, to the student's disk-less systems thanks to the special BIOS in those systems.

During their heyday from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, most BBSes were run as a hobby free of charge by the system operator ( or " SysOp "), while other BBSes charged their users a subscription fee for access, or were operated by a business as a means of supporting their customers.

The system was originally built as a patchwork of local rail links operated by small private railway companies.

Quebec was settled as a French colony, and originally operated under the French civil law system, using the coûtume de Paris.

One system employed in these devices was the use of pegs and cams placed into a wooden drum at specific locations, which would sequentially trigger levers that in turn operated percussion instruments.

Under its 1990 constitution, Croatia operated a semi-presidential system until 2000 when it switched to a parliamentary system.

An extensive system of ferries, operated by Jadrolinija, serves Croatia's many islands and links coastal cities.

By regulating the processing parameters — especially the gases introduced, but also including the pressure the system is operated under, the temperature of the diamond, and the method of generating plasma — many different materials that can be considered diamond can be made.

In turn, lawyers and judges who operated the king's system of justice in a society strictly organized into groups would not question the right of a group to sue or be sued because to do so would bring into question the entire group-oriented society in which they operated.

Eventually, San Francisco became the only street-running manually operated system to survive — Dunedin, the second city with such cars, was also the second-last city to operate them, closing down in 1957.

The most historically significant nonlinear compositing system was the Cineon, which operated in a logarithmic color space, which more closely mimics the natural light response of film emulsions ( the Cineon system, made by Kodak, is no longer in production ).

The system is operated by two providers, Paymark Limited ( formerly Electronic Transaction Services Limited ) which processes 75 % of all electronic transactions in New Zealand, and EFTPOS NZ.

After reading a pamphlet by Doctor James Wilson, who operated a hydropathic establishment with James Manby Gully at Malvern, he stayed there for " some nine or ten weeks ", after which he " continued the system some seven weeks longer under Doctor Weiss, at Petersham ", then again at " Doctor Schmidt's magnificent hydropathic establishment at Boppart " ( at the former Marienberg Convent at Boppard ), after developing a cold and fever upon his return home.

From 1918, camp-type detention facilities were set up, as a reformed analogy of the earlier system of penal labor ( katorgas ), operated in Siberia in Imperial Russia.

Hanover has an extensive Stadtbahn system, operated by üstra.

Historically, the telephone system on the Isle of Man had been run as a monopoly by the British General Post Office, and later British Telecommunications, and operated as part of the Liverpool telephone district.

The Ranger III is a 165-foot ( 50 m ) ship operated by the National Park Service, said to be the largest piece of equipment in the National Park system.

The system will be operated using ( standard gauge ) electrically propelled light rail vehicles on a double track.

Jahangir would challenge the hegemonic claim over Afghanistan by the Safavid rulers with an eye on Kabul, Peshawar and Kandahar which were important centers of the central Asian trade system that northern India operated within.