However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

To avoid the possibility of plebeians obtaining control of the census, the patricians removed the right to take the census from the consuls and tribunes, and appointed for this duty two magistrates, called censores ( censors ), elected exclusively from the patricians in Rome.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

Northwest Orient's Seattle operations manager, Al Lee, approached the aircraft in street clothes ( to avoid the possibility that Cooper might mistake his airline uniform for that of a police officer ) and delivered the cash-filled knapsack and parachutes to Mucklow via the aft stairs.

Another common house rule is that the bottom card of the deck is never given as a replacement, to avoid the possibility of someone who might have seen it during the deal using that information.

A " mixed " control system such as the latter is not desirable and modern FBW aircraft normally avoid it by having more independent FBW channels, thereby reducing the possibility of overall failure to minuscule levels that are acceptable to the independent regulatory and safety authority responsible for aircraft design, testing and certification before operational service.

He also argued that the current framework is moral, both because proving mamzer status sufficiently beyond all doubt is already so difficult that it is rare, and because the mere existence and possibility of mamzerut status, even if rarely enforced, creates an important incentive for divorcing parties to obtain a get ( Jewish religious divorce ) to avoid the sin of adultery.

Not entering a business to avoid the risk of loss also avoids the possibility of earning profits.

A pipe should be allowed to cool before removing the stem to avoid the possibility of warping it.

Chevron said that one way to keep enjoying what they were doing was to avoid making a new album, although he did say that there still is a possibility in the future for new music, but certainly not in the near future.

Fiber Bragg grating temperature sensors are used within nuclear power facilities to monitor reactor core temperatures and avoid the possibility of nuclear meltdowns.

He said that the test would " allow us to avoid the possibility of a brain-dead candidate ".

To avoid the possibility of people stepping on each other's toes, the server only accepts changes made to the most recent version of a file.

Condition number six is required to avoid cooperation breakdown through backwards induction — a possibility suggested by game theoretical models.

In his Memoirs, Sherman noted political pressures in 1864 – 1865 to encourage the escape of slaves, in part to avoid the possibility that "' able-bodied slaves will be called into the military service of the rebels.

Care must therefore be taken to avoid them unless they are compensated by another valuable asset, such as the possibility to develop an attack.

Ian Hacking noted that traditional " Dutch book " arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

This flag is based on the Coat of arms of Luxembourg and is used as the ensign to avoid the possibility of Luxembourg's ensign being confused for that of the Netherlands.

Most dramatically, the Galileo space probe was deliberately destroyed at the end of its mission by crashing it into Jupiter, to avoid the possibility of contaminating the Jovian moon Europa with bacteria from Earth.

( This was to avoid, as one possibility, Britain's expulsion from the Commonwealth.

While many myths indicate Zeus and Leda to be the parents of Helen of Troy, the author of the compilation of myth called Bibliotheke notes the possibility of Nemesis being the mother of Helen ; Nemesis, to avoid Zeus, turns into a goose, but he turns into a swan and mates with her.

To avoid the possibility of the aether wind being blocked by solid walls, his mountaintop observations used a special shed with thin walls, mainly of canvas.

Salem officially became a city on December 31, 1967, to avoid the possibility of annexation into the city of Roanoke.

Beginning with the capture of an agent named Owens, codenamed Snow, MI5 began to offer enemy agents the chance to avoid prosecution ( and thus the possibility of the death penalty ) if they would work as British double-agents.

In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.

By making these data available to local public health officials in real time, most models of anthrax epidemics indicate that more than 80 % of an exposed population can receive antibiotic treatment before becoming symptomatic, and thus avoid the moderately high mortality of the disease.

The exact splitting algorithm is implementation dependent, only the flatness criteria must be respected to reach the necessary precision and to avoid non-monotonic local changes of curvature.

These " politically neutral " groups tend to avoid global conflicts and view the settlement of inter-human conflict as separate from regard for nature-in direct contradiction to the ecology movement and peace movement which have increasingly close links: While Green Parties and Greenpeace, and groups like the ACTivist Magazine for example, regard ecology, biodiversity and an end to non-human extinction as absolutely basic to peace, the local groups may not, and may see a high degree of global competition and conflict as justifiable if it lets them preserve their own local uniqueness.

To avoid tariff evasion ( through re-exportation ) the countries use the system of certification of origin most commonly called rules of origin, where there is a requirement for the minimum extent of local material inputs and local transformations adding value to the goods.

On September 21, 2003, after 14 years in space and 8 years in the Jovian system, Galileos mission was terminated by sending the orbiter into Jupiter's atmosphere at a speed of over per second, to avoid any chance of it contaminating local moons with terrestrial bacteria.

Drinking and cooking water must be drawn from local water sources ( Lake Superior and inland lakes ) and filtered, treated, or boiled to avoid parasites.

They used their superior firepower and fast getaway cars to elude local law enforcement agencies and avoid arrest.

The Fly publishes the scandal in a local tabloid-to the dismay of Bletch, who presumably wants to avoid negative press on the cast.

To avoid the solidification of local loyalties during a cadre's term in office, the central government freely and frequently transfers party cadres around different regions of the country, so a high ranking cadre's career might include service as governor or party secretary of several different provinces.

These young targets, where local life would not have formed yet, avoid any interference with local life.

* Lex Fori-In many cases, courts simply avoid this complicated and expensive analysis by applying their local law to the parties ' entire property, even if there is a foreign element.

Nevertheless, with the unprecedented crisis of the country's housing crisis, smaller local savings banks (" caja ") that representing a little portion of banking system, are known to have delayed the registering of bad loans, especially those backed by houses and land, to avoid declaring losses.

He was an obsessive collector of stories, and developed an innovative method of recording what he heard at the feet of local story-tellers using carvings on twigs, to avoid the disapproval of those who believed that such stories were neither for writing down nor for printing.

For example, to avoid being harassed by local law enforcement, the group would have to roll the world's Law Level or lower on 2d6.

Thus for a short time, hardware producers created proprietary implementations of local busses on their motherboards to give graphics cards direct access to the processor and system memory-and avoid the limitations of the ISA bus.

Among other things, line numbers, comments and names of local variables are discarded during packing, so that, unlike the typical interpreted BASICs of the time, comments and intelligible variable names incur no runtime cost and were therefore not a ' burden ' programmers learned to avoid to maximize runtime execution time or memory efficiency.

Therefore it has a certain “ ambition ” to avoid local peaks in the fitness landscape.

Patient can be prosecuted under existing federal, state, or local laws for providing false name, address, or other information to avoid payment, receiving bills, or to hide fugitive status.

By making these data available to local public health officials in real time, most models of anthrax epidemics indicate that more than 80 % of an exposed population can receive antibiotic treatment before becoming symptomatic, and thus avoid the moderately high mortality of the disease.

It is traced to below-market-cost corn meal residents had been purchasing to avoid the high cost of the local mill.