The Orthodox Churches would not accept the validity of any ordinations performed by the Independent Catholic groups, as Orthodoxy considers to be spurious any consecration outside of the Church as a whole.

In the creation-evolution controversy, creationists often call those who accept the validity of the modern evolutionary synthesis " evolutionists " and the theory itself as " evolutionism.

It made the same statement with regard also to later ordinations by those bishops, saying that, " as for those who have already thus unlawfully received ordination or any who may yet accept ordination from these, whatever may be the validity of the orders ( quidquid sit de ordinum validitate ), the Church does not and will not recognise their ordination ( ipsorum ordinationem ), and will consider them, for all legal effects, as still in the state in which they were before, except that the ... penalties remain until they repent " ( Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Decree Episcopi qui alios of 17 September 1976-Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1976, page 623 ).

The individualistic approach gives control to individual authors to write and spell as they wish ( within purported standard conventions ) and to accept the validity of differences.

However, few linguists who now study Khoisan languages accept their unity, and the name " Khoisan " is used by them as a term of convenience without any implication of linguistic validity, much as " Papuan " and " Australian " are.

Users have been willing to accept certificates and check their validity manually or to simply accept them.

Ellen Willis hypothesized in 1984 that this was, at least in part, because " most black and working-class women could not accept the abstraction of feminist issues from race and class issues "; the resulting narrow demographic base, in turn, limited the validity of generalizations based on radical feminists ' personal experiences of gender relations.

For simplicity's sake, the following discussion assumes the validity of the Altaic language family, although for linguists who do not accept Altaic a relation of Altaic to Uralic is obviously a non-starter, though some part of " Altaic " ( e. g. Turkic ) might be related to Uralic, in theory.

Some civil disobedients feel it is incumbent upon them to accept punishment because of their belief in the validity of the social contract, which is held to bind all to obey the laws that a government meeting certain standards of legitimacy has established, or else suffer the penalties set out in the law.

Even when he was young, he questioned the validity of superstitious customs and discrimination based on caste and refused to accept anything without rational proof and pragmatic test.

Some thinkers see rights in only one sense while others accept that both senses have a measure of validity.

Angelo, as the personification of the law, decides to enforce the ruling that fornication is punishable by death, and since he does not accept the validity of the marriage, Claudio is sentenced to be executed.

The reality of Juan Diego's existence has been questioned by a number of experts on the early religious history of New Spain including Bernardino de Sahagun, Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta, Stafford Poole, Louise Burkhart and David Brading, who argue that there is a complete lack of sources about Juan Diego's existence prior to the publication of the Nican Mopohua a century later, in 1649 ( they do not accept the validity of the Codex Escalada as historical evidence ).

The Allies had confidently expected that victory in a major set-piece battle would compel Louis XIV to accept peace on Allied terms, but after Malplaquet ( the bloodiest battle of the war ), that strategy had lost its validity: Villars had only to avoid defeat for a compromise peace settlement to become inevitable.

The PNCC in the United States and Canada entered into a state of " impaired communion " with the Utrecht Union in 1997, since the PNCC did not accept the validity of ordaining women to the priesthood, which most other Utrecht Union churches had been doing for several years.

Accordingly, it may accept the validity of some Reform and Reconstructionist conversions, but only if they include immersion in a ritual bath ( mikvah ), appearance before a rabbinical court ( beit din ) and, for men, circumcision ( brit milah ) or a symbolic circumcision for those already circumcised ( hatafat dam brit ).

A large number of Nez Perce, however, did not accept the validity of the treaty, refused to move to the reservation, and remained on their traditional lands.

The Spanish Cortes did not accept the validity of the Plan of Iguala nor the Treaty of Córdoba, and Spain only recognized Mexican independence in December 1836 ..

:" With every speech act, by virtue of the validity claims it raises, the speaker enters into an interpersonal relationship of mutual obligation with the hearer: The speaker is obliged to support her claims with reasons, if challenged, and the hearer is obliged to accept a claim unless he has good reason not to do so.

This prerogative had already been defended previously, when the Brazilian government decided not to accept the validity of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons ( TNP ) in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Orthodox Judaism refuses to accept any validity or legitimacy of intermarriages, and tries to avoid assisting them to take place.

Nor can we accept the theory that Americans who do not accept the Commandments ’ validity are outside the First Amendment ’ s protections.

The SPLC does not accept government funds, nor does it charge its clients legal fees or share in their court-awarded judgments.

The SPLC has said it does not accept any portion of monetary judgments.

However, there are some, such as Dean Zimmerman, who have argued that it is possible to accept the physical predictions of relativity while adopting an alternative interpretation of the theory ( For instance, see Lorentz ether theory ) in which there is a single privileged frame whose judgments about length, time and simultaneity are the " true " ones, even though there would be absolutely no empirical way to distinguish this frame from other frames, and no real experience could identify it.

" ( 1994 p. 5 ) Moral judgments are thought to be practical because they are thought to motivate those who accept them.

A nation has sovereignty within its borders, and must not accept judgments by and orders from other countries.

The European customs on which international law was based were to become, by force and fiat, the customs that others were to accept as law if they were to join this community as sovereign states.

Should they resign themselves to it, accept it as inevitable, and seek what solace they can as individuals, or should they join with others and fight back, even though they must live with the certainty that they cannot win?

The number of species is disputed, with some authorities accepting up to ten species, while others accept six or fewer.

Instead of encouraging people to accept that they made a mistake, it encourages people to deny their actions and blame others.

When Kaye asked to be released from his radio contract in mid-1946, he agreed not to accept another regular radio show for one year and also to limit his guest appearances on the radio programs of others.

Although ancient Greek philosophers believed in individual virtue ethics, philosophers like " Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics not accept the formal principle that whatever the good is, we should seek only our own good, or prefer it to the good of others.

Disputes over christological questions have led certain branches to reject some of the councils that others accept.

You stipulate that we should not ask for or accept anything but Holy Scripture, but you do it in such a way as to require that we permit you to be its sole interpreter, renouncing all others.

Some modern scholars maintain the Secret Gospel is a clumsy forgery, while others accept this text as being authentic.

Some authors scrupulously avoid such technology as faster-than-light travel, while others accept such notions ( sometimes referred to as " enabling devices ", since they allow the story to take place ) but focus on realistically depicting the worlds that such a technology might make possible.

Some local rulers were forced to accept its overlordship ; others were deprived of their territories.

The Knights strongly supported the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Contract Labor Law of 1885, as did many other labor groups, although the group did accept most others, including skilled and unskilled women of any profession.

Lex's attires primary consists of dark colors and is an inquisitive person, and it is that curiosity that drives him to attain as much power as possible as the series progresses, ultimately leading him to being Clark's greatest enemy, his conviction that he is ' needed ' to protect the world causing him to kill his own father and turn against everyone that he cannot control in the belief that he is ' protecting ' the world from the aliens or superhumans who might exert their authority, unable to accept the idea that they only seek to help others.

Some leading economists such as Kevin M. Murphy and Nobel laureate Gary Becker do not accept the Card / Krueger results, while some others, like Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, accept them.

Most MUDs are run as hobbies and are free to players ; some may accept donations or allow players to purchase virtual items, while others charge a monthly subscription fee.

The third Ecumenical Council ( Council of Ephesus of 431 ) reaffirmed the original 325 version of the Nicene Creed and declared that " it is unlawful for any man to bring forward, or to write, or to compose a different ( – more accurately translated as used by the Council to mean “ different ,” “ contradictory ,” and not “ another ”) Faith as a rival to that established by the holy Fathers assembled with the Holy Ghost in Nicæa " ( i. e. the 325 creed ) This statement has been interpreted as a prohibition against changing this creed or composing others, but not all accept this interpretation.

The extent to which contemporary Pagans use these sources differs ; many follow a spirituality which they accept is entirely modern, whilst others attempt to reconstruct or revive indigenous, ethnic religions as found in historical and folkloric sources as accurately as possible.

" is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God's myth where the others are men's myths: i. e. the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call real things.

Wace says Arthur created the Round Table to prevent quarrels among his barons, none of whom would accept a lower place than the others.

Sikhs have always being eager exponents of interfaith dialogue and will not only accept the right of other to practise their faith but have in the past fought and laid down their lives to protect this right for others.

However the majority of scholars accept Baur's identification, though others, including Lightfoot, argued extensively that the " Simon Magus " of the Pseudo-Clementines was not meant to stand for Paul.

According to a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views which was carried out in November 2009 ( taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and / or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students ) 44. 9 % of respondents accept or lean towards correspondence theories, 20. 7 % accept or lean towards deflationary theories and 13. 8 % epistemic theories.