Starting in 2007, after consulting the MLBPA, MLB has decided to allow the team with the best record in the league that wins the All-Star Game to choose whether to use the seven-day schedule ( 1-2-off-3-4-off-5 ) or the eight-day schedule ( 1-off-2-off-3-4-off-5 ).

Since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, league rules were changed to allow the Super Bowl home team to pick their choice of jersey.

The rules do not allow the person who kicked the ball to gain advantage from the kick, so the ball will automatically be passed on to the opposing team.

Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although, in practice, a team might only play one innings or none at all.

In mid-September 1994, with U. S. troops prepared to enter Haiti by force for Operation Uphold Democracy, President Bill Clinton dispatched a negotiating team led by former President Jimmy Carter to persuade the authorities to step aside and allow for the return of constitutional rule.

Wolverine and Beast went to re-recruit him back on to the X-Men but his parents refused to allow him to return to the team after what happened.

An exception was made to allow the use of tribal names if approved by that tribe ( such as the Seminole Tribe of Florida's approving use of their name for the team of Florida State University.

One of the benefits of sponsoring an offshore powerboat team, as stated by team owner and driver Bjørn Rune Gjelsten, is that in Formula One motor racing, 1 million will only allow a small space, whereas in offshore powerboating, this covers the whole of the boat.

Some multi-wrestler matches allow for a set number of legal wrestlers, and a legal wrestler may tag out to any other wrestler, regardless of team.

Primary objectives are ones which must be completed for victory, generally stealing secret documents or destroying a radar array ; however secondary objectives are ones which are optional-they do not have to be completed, but if they are they may aid the appropriate team, such as blowing out a door to allow access into a tunnel which shortens travel time or allows less-noticeable infiltration of the enemy base.

After the completion of Sonic 2, Yuji Naka made the final decision to only allow the Japanese members in the core development team to work on Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

However, since the home team has the last at-bat, the rules usually allow visiting teams to score an unlimited number of runs in the top half of an inning.

As with other sports, some states offer provisions to allow a team to end the game early by mutual decision of the coaches ( for instance, if a large lead continues to grow and the talent disparity is obvious ).

As the designated home team, Dallas was forced to wear its blue jerseys for the Super Bowl under rules in place at the time, which did not allow the home team its choice of jersey color, unlike the regular season and playoff games leading up to the Super Bowl.

There were reports of dissension among the Dolphin team arising from owner Joe Robbie's decision to allow married players to bring their wives at the club's expense.

Not wanting a repeat of that being the designated " home " team in Super Bowl XIII, the Cowboys were able to persuade the NFL to change the rule to allow the " home " team to choose so that they could wear their white jerseys.

They allowed 210 points and also scored an NFL best 456 points, becoming the first team since the 1972 Miami Dolphins to score the most points in the league and allow the fewest.

The purpose of a towpath is to allow a land vehicle, beasts of burden, or a team of human pullers to tow a boat, often a barge.

MLB also planned to introduce interleague play in 1997, but — with each league having an odd number of teams — interleague play would have had to be used throughout the entire season, to allow every team to play every day.

On 26 May 2006, the International Ski Federation decided to allow women to ski jump at the 2009 Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic and then to have a team event for women at the 2011 world championships.

Bonuses can only be answered by one team ( at the high school level, some formats allow the other team to answer parts of the bonus question which the first team fails to answer ; this is called rebounding or a bounce-back ).

These traits could be ones that allow him to fight off other males for control of territory or a harem, such as large size or weapons ; or they could be traits that females, for whatever reason, prefer in mates.

These calls may be used to coordinate the movement of herds and allow male elephants to find mates.

Another way is to allow for personality assessment amongst the team members, so that they will have a better understanding of their working style, as well as their fellow team mates.

He would not allow a local person to introduce him or his ticket mates at a rally.

It was to be the last tournament with only 8 participants, the last to award the winner of a match with only two points and the last tournament to allow the goalkeeper to pick up a ball received from the feet of his team mates.

Nevertheless, mating with extra-group males may allow the female to find potential mates in the future.

All of this visible information is designed to allow better command of the squad mates as the player will be able to recognize them as a person by their face or by their equipment allowing them to give the best orders to each member of the squad.

A typical launcher would allow the player to select which files to load from a menu, making it much easier to start.

Generally, assault rifles have mechanisms that allow the user to select between single shots, fully automatic bursts, or fully automatic fire.

This fate was averted when Wayne Davison developed trn, a set of patches to rn which gave it both threading at the article level and a new user interface that would allow users to select only the threads they desired, while remaining true to the original rn interface philosophy of do the right thing.

In order to determine the encoding in such cases, many browsers allow the user to manually select an encoding name from a list.

* Multipat-This test generates 5 commonly used test patterns to allow DS1 span testing without having to select each test pattern individually.

Smith organized a contest in conjunction with the fan magazine Movie Weekly to allow readers to select her new name.

When a user interacts with the package management software to bring about an upgrade, it is customary to present the user with the list of things to be done ( usually the list of packages to be upgraded, and possibly giving the old and new version numbers ), and allow the user to either accept the upgrade in bulk, or select individual packages for upgrades.

| Vertical Storytelling || Literary technique || the italicizing of words at the end of select sentences to remind the reader of a consequential moment in the narrative without adjusting the mechanics of the story to allow lengthy and potentially distracting text.

Modern pacemakers are externally programmable and allow the cardiologist to select the optimum pacing modes for individual patients.

** Use of / at the command line to allow the user to select a command from the history to edit / execute

In contrast to run and gun shooters such as Quake which allow players to carry full arsenals, tactical shooters place considerable restrictions on what players may be equipped with, so players have to carefully select weapons according to the situation and / or role in their team.

Despite this, a government usually tries to select a member of its own political party for the position, if it has enough deputies to allow that choice.

In contrast, modern screen based editors allow the user to interactively and directly navigate, select, and modify portions of the document.

Aerobics classes may allow participants to select their level of participation according to their fitness level.

Primaries allow political parties to select and unite behind one candidate.

Many engines allow rule developers to select between different conflict resolution strategies or to chain a selection of multiple strategies.

Browsers often allow a user to change their rendering engine's encoding setting on the fly, while word processors allow the user to select the appropriate encoding when opening a file.

Ranked ballots allow voters to rank candidates in order of preference, while ballots for first-past-the-post systems only allow voters to select one candidate for each position.

Modern TEMs are often equipped with specimen holders that allow the user to tilt the specimen to a range of angles in order to obtain specific diffraction conditions, and apertures placed above the specimen allow the user to select electrons that would otherwise be diffracted in a particular direction from entering the specimen.

Because the first year curriculum is always fixed, most schools do not allow 1L students to select their own course schedules, and instead hand them their schedules at new student orientation.

They hike across land, cross rivers, and camp at remote locations, and select campsites at will, if resource protection rules allow.

Many recent lotteries allow purchasers to select the numbers on the lottery ticket, resulting in the possibility of multiple winners.