While Nomic is traditionally capitalized as the proper name of the game it describes, it has also sometimes been used in a more informal way as a lowercased generic term, nomic, referring to anything with Nomic-like characteristics, including games where the rules may be changed during play as well as non-gaming situations where it can be alleged that " rules lawyers " are tinkering with the process used to amend rules and policies ( in an organization or community ) in a manner akin to a game of Nomic.

While " absolute discretion " appears to leave some freedom for manoeuvre for a president in deciding whether to initiate contact with the opposition, " own counsel " has been interpreted by some lawyers as suggesting that no contact whatsoever can take place.

While the west leaves resolution of conflict to the interpretations of law through contracts and lawyers.

While Prince's lawyers claimed that the use of such representations constituted copyright infringement, the Prince Fans United claimed that the legal actions were " attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince.

While Charles ' father and lawyers are on the phone with her pleading to settle quickly, Jean says she doesn't want any money at all, just for Pike to tell her it's over to her face.

While Barton resigned the brief, he lost a motion on the right of ministers to act in their professional capacity as lawyers in actions against the government, and immediately resigned as Attorney-General.

While the members of the nobility wished to be gentle with Devereux, the lawyers and judges felt differently, recommending fines and confinement in the Tower of London.

While the ulama are well versed in legal fiqh ( jurisprudence ) being Islamic lawyers, some of them also go on to specialize in other fields, such as hadith or tafseer.

While early graduates of Alcorn had limited horizons, more recent alumni are successful physicians, lawyers, pharmacists, dentists, educators, administrators, managers, and entrepreneurs.

While it is true that such acts were covered by Crimen Sollicitationis, canon lawyers have argued that the secrecy provisions of the document " would not have tied the hands of a bishop ... who wanted to report a crime by a priest to the police.

While studying, Gaudron attempted to obtain articles of clerkship ( then five years in duration ), but was not successful ; as she later said, " Many distinguished lawyers took a lot of trouble and effort to explain to me that it was not their policy to take on women as articled clerks.

While the name may refer to black and white outfits once worn by European advocates or lawyers, the actual etymology is unknown.

While the lawyers he hired sorted it out, Maler lived in Paris, where he gave lectures on Mexican antiquities and studied and read everything about Mesoamerica he could find in the city.

While comparing the YOA to the YCJA, the former focuses more on a youth ’ s choice to retain counsel and the role of lawyers in the criminal justice system.

While lawyers were prominent throughout the colonies, merchants were important in the northern colonies, while planters were more involved in the south.

While his taste for efficiency was unpopular with lawyers, his personal popularity amongst Nova Scotians rose for the first time.

While there is no known case of identity theft involving Westlaw, the company responded to the controversy by announcing it had eliminated access to full SSNs for 85 percent of its clients who previously could retrieve this information, mostly lawyers and government agencies.

While some prosecutors asserted that the results " linked " Williams to the killings, defense lawyers called the test results inconclusive.

While current lustration laws require the verification of those who serve in public offices, PiS wants to expand the process to include university professors, lawyers, journalists, managers of large companies, and others performing " public functions ".

While on the bench Judge Hoar was known for his critiquing of younger lawyers ; one of these young lawyers who impressed Hoar was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. After the American Civil War, Hoar opposed the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

While traveling the circuit and serving as attorney general in Illinois, McDougall became friendly with many fellow lawyers, including Douglas, Edward D. Baker and Abraham Lincoln.

While doctors and farmers are still valuable, lawyers are unnecessary — but if civilization is to be rebuilt, scientific knowledge is the most valuable skill of all.

While not made public at the time, in February 2004 the High Court ordered the SIS to release summary of its allegations to Zaoui's lawyers, who then released it to the media.

While collateral attacks on criminal convictions, such as state level habeas corpus petitions, are usually considered to be technically civil cases, because they are not brought by a prosecutor and do not seek to convict someone of a crime, these suits are, in both states, appealed to the criminal court of last resort, rather than the civil court of last resort.

" While Social Darwinism became popular throughout Western Europe and the United States, the paternalistic French-style " civilizing mission " ( In French: mission civilisatrice ) appealed to many European statesmen both in and outside of France.

While these cards, such as Matrox Mystique, S3 ViRGE, and ATI 3D Rage, offered unquestionably inferior 3D acceleration, their lower cost and simplicity often appealed to OEM system builders.

While accepting the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist Video that year for " Sleep To Dream ", Fiona Apple appealed to her audience not to be enamored of celebrity culture.

While artists in the North found limited opportunity to produce the religious iconography which had long been their staple — images of religious subjects were forbidden in the Dutch Reformed Protestant Church — the continuing Northern tradition of detailed realism and hidden symbols appealed to the growing Dutch middle classes, who were replacing Church and State as the principal patrons of art in the Netherlands.

While Metal Gear Solid 2 appealed gamers with the discussion of these, the bewildering maze of dialogue and plot revelation in the final hours of the game, left a sour taste in the mouths of many gamers, who expected the Hollywood-style resolution of its forerunner.

While these writers were all more or less academic, and appealed to the cultured few, four poets of the people addressed a far wider public: Verdi ( 1779 – 1820 ), of Bordeaux, who wrote comic and satirical pieces ; Jean Reboul ( 1796 – 1864 ), the baker of Nîmes, who never surpassed his first effort, L ' Ange à l ' enfant ( 1828 ); Victor Gelu ( 1806-188 ~), relentless and brutal, but undeniably powerful of his kind ( Fenian ci Grouman ; dix chansons provençales, 1840 ); and, greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the felibres, Jacques Jasmin, whose poems, both lyrical and narrative, continue to find favour with men of the highest culture and literary attainments, as with the villagers for whom they were primarily intended.

While Albani's thematic would have appealed to Poussin, he lacked the Frenchman's muscular drama.

While this eclecticism appealed to the band's fans, it also made them difficult for a major label to market – some of their later albums, especially Introducing Happiness, were described by critics as playing more like compilation albums than the work of a single band with a coherent and unified vision.

While in lesser sentences, the judges verdict would be final, in more serious crimes, the sentence could be appealed to the Provincial Appeals Court.

While addressing itself to the governments and peoples of all the belligerent countries, the congress at the same time appealed to ' the class-conscious workers of the three most advanced nations of mankind and the largest states participating in the present war, namely, Great Britain, France and Germany.

While this was soon discontinued as a rail service because of poor patronage, better shields and electric locomotive traction appealed to engineers for more ambitious schemes.

While the Texans waited for their artillery, Bradburn appealed for reinforcements from Colonel Piedras, stationed at Nacogdoches north, and Colonel Elosúa at San Antonio, about to the west.

While vaudeville is typically associated with the middle class of people, the machine also found its way into more sophisticated venues, where it appealed to the artistic tastes of high society.

While in Germany, Victoria showed an interest in the Nazi Party, which appealed to her because of its anti-Bolshevik stance and her hope that the movement might help restore the Russian monarchy.

While the convictions were being appealed in April 1981, President Ronald Reagan pardoned both men.

While this was going on messengers from the Sultans went to the Moslem commanders in the Vijayanagaran army and appealed to their religious duty of Jihad and secured their alliance to launch a subversive attack.

While it is commonplace for PBS and similar stations to show underwriters ' messages that resemble commercials, it is illegal for educationally licensed stations, like KMTP, to show advertisements that do not meet the standards for underwriting announcements., KMTP appealed the decision in 2005, but the fine was upheld, prompting KMTP to file a lawsuit against the FCC in U. S. District Court the following year.

While both sides appealed to the Commission for help, the war continued.