* 0. 998383 equatorial arc minutes ( traditional geographical miles )

These geographical units are now attempting to function as nations but are not naturally nations, being composed in many cases of peoples who are traditional enemies.

Koizumi moved the LDP away from its traditional rural agrarian base toward a more urban, neoliberal core, as Japan's population grew in major cities and declined in less populated areas, although under current purely geographical districting, rural votes in Japan are still many times more powerful than urban ones.

Map of highland tribes according to traditional geographical distribution.

This predicament indicates a tension between traditional motives for violence and the modern economic machine, which seems to generate violence simply as another means to profit, quite independent of geographical or ideological constraints.

Thessaly (, Thessalía — Thessalian:, Petthalia ) is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name.

Therefore, the geographical location commonly called " Indian Territory " was not a traditional territory.

In traditional times, rohe were defined according to prominent geographical features, including mountains, rivers, and lakes.

The church maintains the traditional structure dating to pre-Reformation times, a system of geographical parishes organized into dioceses.

Since the 18th century, the word " gazetteer " has been used interchangeably to define either its traditional meaning ( i. e. a geographical dictionary or directory ) or a daily newspaper, such as the London Gazetteer.

SHAPE retained its traditional name with reference to Europe for legal reasons although the geographical scope of its activities was extended in 2003.

Three European Union schemes of geographical indications and traditional specialities known as protected designation of origin ( PDO ), protected geographical indication ( PGI ), and traditional speciality guaranteed ( TSG ) promote and protect names of quality agricultural products and foodstuffs.

Digitizing is central to making a digital representations of geographical features, using raster or vector images, in a geographic information system, i. e., the creation of electronic maps, either from various geographical and satellite imaging ( raster ) or by digitizing traditional paper maps or graphs ( vector ).

Basque traditional music is a product of the region's historic development and its geographical location between the Cantabrian mountain range, the Ebro river and the Pyrenees.

An outdoors, natural museum, whose “ art galleries ” are its beaches, valleys and natural trails and whose “ collection ” is a set of geographical formations and traditional villages, disposed as art works in permanent exhibition, engraved in very ancient media, which are spread along the 130 km length of Bahia ’ s historical southern coastline.

The names can all be considered ad hoc creations, in lack of a traditional name for the island as a geographical unity.

Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu constitutes 18 rūnanga / rūnaka representing geographical areas, generally based around traditional settlements.

There are many dialects of the Tibetan language spoken in Amdo due to the traditional geographical isolation of many tribal groups, however the written Tibetan language is the same throughout Tibet.

Under the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union ( EU ), certain well-established meat products, including some local prosciutto, are covered by a Protected Designation of Origin ( PDO ) and other, less stringent designations of geographical origin for traditional specialties.

The 1980s also saw attempts to improve rugby league's popularity outside its traditional geographical boundaries.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

The traditional definition of Anatolia within modern Turkey

Using the traditional definition, the anode switches ends between charge and discharge cycles.

The traditional definition of the role of the conservator involves the examination, conservation, and preservation of cultural heritage using " any methods that prove effective in keeping that property in as close to its original condition as possible for as long as possible.

CECA's notoriety immortalized the name Capoeira Angola as definition of the traditional Capoeira style.

Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.

One centers on the definition of " traditional society.

( Form of Content, that Louis Hjelmslev distinguished from Form of Expression ) than how the word " house " may be tied to a certain image of a traditional house ( i. e. the relationship between signifier and signified ) with each term being established in reciprocal determination with the other terms than by an ostensive description or definition: when can we talk about a " house " or a " mansion " or a " shed "?

A consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive.

This is the traditional definition of " prime ".

The definition also covers activities which would fall within the traditional definition of money laundering as a process by which proceeds of crime are concealed or disguised so that they may be made to appear to be of legitimate origin.

The traditional definition of climate is pushed in to larger timescales with the further understanding of how the global oscillations cause both climate and weather disturbances in the synoptic and mesoscale timescales.

Modesto and Anderson reviewed the many previous definitions, and proposed a modified definition which they intended to retain most traditional content of the group while keeping it stable and monophyletic.

By Robert Graves's definition, a religion's traditional stories are " myths " if and only if one does not belong to the religion in question.

While not soaps in the traditional sense, these shows managed to appeal to wide audiences with their high drama mixed with humor, and are soap operas by definition.

The 2009 regulations changed the formal definition of blended Scotch whisky to achieve this result, but in a way that reflected traditional and current practice: before the 2009 SWR, any combination of Scotch whiskies qualified as a blended Scotch whisky, including for example a blend of single malt Scotch whiskies.

In traditional statements, the law provides an empirical definition of temperature and justification for the construction of practical thermometers.

Similarly, UNESCO includes both " oral tradition " and " traditional manifestations " in its definition of a country's cultural properties and heritage.

The second traditional definition comes from the 10th century Tantric scholar Rāmakaṇṭha, who belonged to the dualist school called the Śaiva Siddhānta: A tantra is a divinely revealed body of teachings, explaining what is necessary and what is a hindrance in the practice of the worship of God ; and also describing the specialized initiation and purification ceremonies that are the necessary prerequisites of Tantric practice.

It is one thing to give the traditional sort of definition of " God ," but it is quite another really to understand the terms used in the definition.

The traditional dictionary definition refers exclusively to the specific internal structure.