The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.

; Lithoautotroph: An organism ( usually bacteria ) whose sole source of carbon is carbon dioxide and exergonic inorganic oxidation ( chemolithotrophs ) such as Nitrosomonas europaea ; these organisms are capable of deriving energy from reduced mineral compounds like pyrites, and are active in geochemical cycling and the weathering of parent bedrock to form soil

Although Epicureanism is a form of hedonism, insofar as it declares pleasure as the sole intrinsic good, its conception of absence of pain as the greatest pleasure and its advocacy of a simple life make it different from " hedonism " as it is commonly understood.

The post-read control is designed so that applications need not issue a search request after an update – it is bad form to retrieve an entry for the sole purpose of checking that an update worked because of the replication eventual consistency model.

The egg cell's cytoplasm and mitochondria ( and chloroplasts in plants ) are the sole means the egg is able to reproduce by mitosis and eventually form a blastocyst after fertilization.

Roman Catholicism had become the sole recognized religion ; the powerful democratic Catholic Popular Party, in many ways similar to the Centre Party in Germany, had been disbanded, and in place of political Catholicism the Holy See encouraged Catholic Action, ' an anaemic form of clerically dominated religious rally-rousing.

The Reform movement rejects the idea that halakha ( Jewish law ) is the sole legitimate form of Jewish decision making, and holds that Jews can and must consider their conscience and ethical principles inherent in the Jewish tradition when deciding upon a right course of action.

In its strongest form, this view may identify evil as an absence of God, who is the sole source of that which is good.

Although Epicureanism is a form of hedonism, insofar as it declares pleasure to be the sole intrinsic good, its conception of absence of pain as the greatest pleasure and its advocacy of a simple life make it different from " hedonism " as it is commonly understood.

The sea butterflies form the sole food source of their relatives, the Gymnosomata.

The United States Air Force, for example, has retrospectively contended that it never advocated MAD as a sole strategy, and that this form of deterrence was seen as one of numerous options in U. S. nuclear policy.

Livy is the sole source for identifying Inuus as the form of Faunus for whom the Lupercalia was celebrated: " naked young men would run around venerating Lycaean Pan, whom the Romans then called Inuus, with antics and lewd behavior.

Moréas announced that symbolism was hostile to " plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description ", and that its goal instead was to " clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form " whose " goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal ":

In fact, Gregg claimed joint authorship in another shorthand system published in pamphlet form by one Thomas Stratford Malone ; Malone, however, claimed sole authorship and a legal battle ensued.

In the new form of Party organization, the Politburo, and Stalin in particular, were the sole dispensers of communist ideology.

During Balash's reign Nestorian Christianity was established as the sole form of Christianity allowed in the Sassanid Empire.

The Covenanters were dedicated Scottish Presbyterians devoted to maintaining Presbyterianism as the sole form of church organisation in Scotland.

Their effect is unreliable and unpredictable and cannot form the sole basis of any treatment on the NHS.

This did nothing to channel his energies in a more positive direction, thereby leaving him with the pursuit of pleasure as his only outlet, as well as his sole form of rebellion against what he saw as disapproval and censure in the form of his father.

It has even been proposed that the very first form of life may have been a simple lipid vesicle with virtually its sole biosynthetic capability being the production of more phospholipids.

Coordinate dimensioning was the sole best option until the post-World War II era saw the development of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing ( GD & T ), which departs from the limitations of coordinate dimensioning ( e. g., rectangular-only tolerance zones, tolerance stacking ) to allow the most logical tolerancing of both geometry and dimensions ( that is, both form and sizes ).

In February 1996, the ruling ODP / MT merged with several small opposition parties to form the Congress for Democracy and Progress ( CDP ).

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.

Over the succeeding centuries, Capetians spread throughout Europe, ruling every form of provincial unit from kingdoms to manors.

Although worship of a trinity is considered to be not different from any other form of idolatry for Jews, it may be an acceptable belief for non-Jews ( according to the ruling of some Rabbinic authorities ).

In these latter cases, the form of government is not radically different from the presbyterian form, except that their councils of bishops have hierarchical jurisdiction over the local ruling bodies to a greater extent than in most Presbyterian and other Reformed churches.

The alternation between left and right was broken in the October 2000 elections when the Liberal Union and New Union parties won the most votes and were able to form a centrist ruling coalition with minor partners.

Within days, these officers joined with the Coordinating Committee of Democratic Associations to form a predominantly civilian, 25-member ruling body, the Transitional Committee for the Salvation of the People ( CTSP ).

In 1988 the Lakas ng Bansa headed by Ramon Mitra and PDP-LABAN ( Cojuangco Wing ) joined to form the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino or the LDP, causing a split in the ruling coalition and the unification of the Nacionalista Party.

Stevens took advantage of the dissatisfaction with the ruling SLPP among some prominent politicians from the Northern part of Sierra Leone to form the APC ; and Stevens used the Northern part of Sierra Leone as his political base.

It is therefore possible that the Chronicles account is a product of the circumstances of the 8th and 9th centuries being projected back into the past to create an origin story of the ruling kinship appropriate to the contemporary form of the kingdom.

This led to the political merger of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union ( ZAPU ) with the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union ( ZANU ) to form ZANU-PF and the appointment of Nkomo as Vice President.

Both the Centre and Res Publica parties said that they should get the chance to try and form the next government, while ruling out any deal between themselves.

As the portable face of ruling authority, coins were a compact form of standardized knowledge issued in large editions, an early mass medium that stabilized trade and civilization throughout the Mediterranean world of antiquity.

The Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .) ordains two types of presbyters or elders, teaching ( pastor ) and ruling ( leaders of the congregation which form a council with the pastors ).

The German term Hochstift was often used to denote the form of secular authority held by bishops ruling a prince-bishopric with Erzstift being used for prince-archbishoprics.

In reviewing the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) Bosnian Genocide Case in the judgement of Jorgic v. Germany on July 12, 2007 the European Court of Human Rights quoted from the ICJ ruling on the Bosnian Genocide Case to draw a distinction between ethnic cleansing and genocide. The term ' ethnic cleansing ' has frequently been employed to refer to the events in Bosnia and Herzegovina which are the subject of this case ... General Assembly resolution 47 / 121 referred in its Preamble to ' the abhorrent policy of ' ethnic cleansing ', which is a form of genocide ', as being carried on in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This body of theory later became the official ideology of some Communist states-but in a distorted form, with many of Lenin's works censored by the ruling elite.

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, ( from-kleptēs, " thief " and κράτος-kratos, " power, rule ", hence " rule by thieves ") is a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often without pretense of honest service.

For the Reformers, the culmination of this gradual corruption was typified, in a concentrated way, in the office of the Pope who took on ancient titles such as Pontifex Maximus and supreme power in the church, which they characterized in its final form as being an usurpatious throne of Satanic authority set up in pretense of ruling over the Kingdom of God.

The term " Communist state " is often used in the west to apply to states in which the ruling party subscribes to a form of Marxism-Leninism.