One particularly interesting application are large-scale observations, where the lensing masses are spread out over a significant fraction of the observable universe, and can be used to obtain information about the large-scale properties and evolution of our cosmos.

All political parties must be registered before the Federal Electoral Institute ( IFE ), the institution in charge of organizing and overseeing the federal electoral processes, but must obtain at least 2 % of votes in the federal elections to keep their registry.

After the United States government successfully used an injunction to outlaw the Pullman boycott in 1894 in In re Debs, employers found that they could obtain federal court injunctions to ban strikes and organizing activities of all kinds by unions.

Bradley Belt, former executive director of the PBGC ( the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that insures private-sector defined-benefit pension plans in the event of bankrupment ), testified before a congressional hearing in October 2004, “ I am particularly concerned with the temptation, and indeed, growing tendency, to use the pension insurance fund as a means to obtain an interest-free and risk-free loan to enable companies to restructure.

This was followed by a budgetary crisis that the government was unable to deal with, partly because of the large spending programmes the government had previously instituted, partly because he was unable to obtain support from within his government for necessary spending reductions and also because the federal Government declined to " bail out " the Victorian government as they believed Cain's overspending was significantly to blame.

The citizenship issue arose partly because of his high position within BSA, and the federal charter West was attempting to obtain for the BSA required its board members to be United States citizens.

The purpose of the Commission was to collect information, analyze issues, and obtain broad public input directed at improving the application of federal standards for measuring equal opportunity for men and women and boys and girls to participate in athletics under Title IX.

Sunderlage and his family occupied their land in the Township until the federal land sale of 1842 allowed them to buy the property and obtain the deed.

If a federal or provincial law has been held contrary to the division of power provisions of one of the various constitution acts, the legislature or parliament must either live with the result, amend the law so that it complies, or obtain an amendment to the constitution.

On January 8, 2007, Scarpelli pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges for accepting money from developers in exchange for using his official position to obtain approval for development projects.

The federal government most recently invoked these statutory provisions to obtain an injunction requiring the International Longshore and Warehouse Union return to work in 2002 after having been locked out by the employer group, the Pacific Maritime Association.

Special districts also obtain funds from federal, state, and local appropriations ; special assessments ; sale of property ; interest earnings ; and utility revenue.

He was brought before a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to obtain information on national security and transmit it to the public, but was not indicted.

He and federal agent Bob Waddell obtain evidence of Gallagher's donations to Quinn's political committee.

Since the enactment of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1989 ( FDICIA ), all commercial banks that accept deposits are required to obtain FDIC insurance and to have a primary federal regulator ( the Fed for state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System, the FDIC for " nonmember " state banks, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for all National Banks ).

Landrieu was able to obtain federal funds for the revitalization of New Orleans ' poor neighborhoods, and he promoted the involvement of minority-owned businesses in the city's economic life.

Those contemplating academia do well to obtain an appellate court clerkship at the federal level, since those clerkships provide a great opportunity to think at a very high level about the law.

He was closely involved in its most important activities, including efforts to better the lot of farmers living in Alberta's drought-ridden south, divest itself of money-losing railways, and obtain authority over natural resources from the federal government.

As a concession in order to obtain ratification, these states ceded their claims on the territory to the federal government: New York in 1780, Virginia in 1784, Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1785.

After a long period of agitation, U. S. women were able in 1920 to obtain the necessary votes from a majority of men to obtain the right to vote in all state and federal elections.

Following their mission to meet federal Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) housing goals, GSEs such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks ( FHLBanks ) have striven to improve home ownership of low and middle income families, underserved areas, and generally through special affordable methods such as " the ability to obtain a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with a low down payment ... and the continuous availability of mortgage credit under a wide range of economic conditions.

As a result the federal regulator, the Atomic Energy Control Board, because of the decision to delay the upgrade of the emergency shutdown systems at the station, required the corporation to obtain regulatory approval before restarting the units.

The facts of the underlying dispute are as follows: when King made his speech publicly to a large audience both live and televised it had not been submitted to the Register of Copyright to obtain federal copyright protection.

He was successful in restoring the authority of Maximilian in Holland, Flanders, and Brabant, but failed to obtain any repayment of the large sums of money which he had spent in these campaigns.

To obtain money he seized church lands and property, and used the funds to pay his soldiers.

However, they did take the opportunity to obtain free money and weapons.

To obtain new money to head off default on the government's loans, the king called an Assembly of Notables in 1787.

Wanting to obtain his own land in Livonia, he loaned Poland money and then claimed the castles they had pawned as his own instead of using them to pressure Poland.

In addition, money had to be paid to obtain " exit visas " to leave LTTE controlled areas.

This applies also to a person who, by criminal conduct, evades a liability ( such as a taxation liability ) – referred to by lawyers as " obtaining a pecuniary advantage " – as he is deemed thereby to obtain a sum of money equal in value to the liability evaded.

The Red Brigades then operated some high-profile political kidnappings ( e. g., Genoa judge Mario Sossi ) and kidnapped industrialists ( e. g., Vallarino Gancia ) in order to obtain ransom money which ( together with bank robberies ) were their main source of income.

Governments also obtain resources by creating money ( e. g., printing bills and minting coins ), through voluntary gifts ( e. g., contributions to public universities and museums ), by imposing penalties ( e. g., traffic fines ), by borrowing, and by confiscating wealth.

Then, in 1992, Justice John Toohey ran out of patience with Alan Skyring and Patrick Cusack's repeated attempts to obtain a re-hearing on their argument that the Commonwealth did not have the power to issue paper money.

Ono began telephoning and calling at Lennon's home, and when his wife asked for an explanation, he explained that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her " avant-garde bullshit ".

Henry IV was forced to give Bolesław II one third of his duchy including the towns of Środa Śląska and Strzegom and forced to pledge Krosno Odrzańskie, which he had obtained from the Dukes of Głogów in 1273 – 1274, in order to obtain the money for his ransom.

They were influential men who helped him obtain money for his energetic nuclear particle investigations.

She and Rawdon obtain credit by tricking everyone around them into believing they are receiving money from others.

In the Italian judicial system, pentiti can obtain personal protection, a new name, and some money to start a new life in another place, possibly abroad.

* Marcus Brutus begins to plunder the cities of Asia Minor, in order to obtain money and soldiers.

Despite his pioneering work with gas Murdoch never made any money from this invention due to his failure to obtain a patent.

He had already decided to turn to a third option: becoming a secret ally of France to obtain money and undermine the Dutch position.

To obtain money, Alfonso debased the coinage and then endeavoured to prevent a rise in prices by an arbitrary tariff.

Another of Duvalier's methods to obtain foreign money was to gain foreign loans, including 4 million USD from Cuban president Fulgencio Batista.

In fact, " hard money " advocates argue that central banks have utterly failed to obtain the objective of a stable currency.

Customers who had lost their arbitration cases against Morgan Stanley DW Inc. because of their inability to obtain these emails to demonstrate Morgan Stanley's misconduct received a token amount of money as a result of the settlement.

The script was worked on by Sonia Chernus and producer Bob Daley at Malpaso and Eastwood himself paid some of the money to obtain the screen rights.

The size of the house depends on how much money the player was able to obtain before the end of the game.