While gun safety in different forms has existed since the creation of firearms, Jeff Cooper ( 1920 – 2006 ), an influential figure in modern firearms training, formalized and popularized the above-listed " Four Rules " of safe firearm handling.

While each state has its own rules of evidence, many states model their rules on the Federal Rules of Evidence, which themselves relate closely to the common-law mode of examination.

While married to Laura, Norman commissioned the 228 ft luxury yacht Aussie Rules, built by the Australian ferry builder Austal / Oceanfast.

While accepting that under Glass-Steagall financial firms could still have “ made, sold, and securitized risky mortgages, all the while fueling a massive housing bubble and building a highly leveraged, Ponzi-like pyramid of derivatives on top ,” the New Rules Project concludes that commentators who deny the GLBA played a role in the financial crisis “ fail to recognize the significance of 1999 as the pivotal policy-making moment leading up to the crash .” The Project argues 1999 was Congress ’ s opportunity to reject 25 years of “ deregulation ” and “ confront the changing financial system by reaffirming the importance of effective structural safeguards, such as the Glass-Steagall Act's firewall and market share caps to limit the size of banks ; bringing shadow banks into the regulatory framework ; and developing new rules to control the dangers inherent in derivatives and other engineered financial products .”

While at Merbein, Adam attended primary school at Merbein West Primary School in 1986, and it was there that he began to play Australian Rules football.

While most House committees maintain membership in a rough proportion to the full chamber ( If the majority party controls 55 % of the House, it will tend to have 55 % of committee seats ), membership on the Rules Committee is disproportionately in favor of the majority party.

While at the library, Panizzi undertook the creation of a new catalogue, based on the " Ninety-One Cataloguing Rules " ( 1841 ) which he devised with his assistants.

While Senator, Ferry was chairman, Committee on Rules ( Forty-third through Forty-fifth Congresses ), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads ( Forty-fifth and Forty-seventh Congresses ).

While there are still some straight hard rock songs, like " Don't Stop At The Top " and " Media Overkill ", there are also progressive rock songs such as " Walking On The Edge " and " Passion Rules The Game ".

While the Court did note that: " Daubert must be read in light of the specific text of the Federal Rules of Evidence, which differs from our own procedures ," the Court also stated in the same sentence that " the U. S. Supreme Court did list a number of factors that could be helpful in evaluating the soundness of novel science .".

While not accessible in ranked matches, custom matches can make use of user-defined " House Rules ".

While in the Senate, Smith served as chair of the Agriculture Committee, as Vice Chair of the Criminal Justice and Justice Appropriations Committees, and as a member of the Communications and Public Utilities, Environmental Preservation, Rules and Calendar, and Ways and Means Committees, as well as the Legislative Budget Commission.

While engagement authority is automatically granted by the establishment of a Kill Box, it does not relieve weapons system operators of the responsibility for complying with requirements such as commander ’ s designated target priority, Positive Identification ( PID ), Collateral Damage Assessments, Rules of Engagement ( ROE ), and Special Instructions ( SPINS ).

While Road Rules had stopped production until further notice after its thirteenth season, Real World had just finished wrapping its sixteenth season in Austin, Texas.

While the courts exercised rulemaking powers granted to them under the Act without Congressional intervention for nearly forty years, Congress refused to allow the Federal Rules of Evidence to go into effect after their approval by the Supreme Court in 1973.

However, the Rules Committee issued a report indicating at least a technical violation: " While there is a technical violation of clause 10 of rule XXI, the conference report complies with the rule by remaining budget neutral with no net increase in direct spending.

While on the Federal bench, he served on the committee that drafted the Federal Rules of Evidence and was named Special Master by the Supreme Court for four boundary disputes ( Texas v. Louisiana,, California v. Nevada,, Ohio v. Kentucky,, and Kentucky v. Indiana, ).

While on the Pan-African Parliament she was chairperson of the Committee on Rules, Privileges and Discipline a permanent committee of the Pan-African Parliament.

The difference is one of weight: While phylogenetic nomenclature bases the group on an ancestor with a certain trait, Linnaean taxonomy uses the traits themselves to define the group.

While other forms of church government are more likely to define " tyranny " as " the imposition of unjust rule ", a congregationally-governed church would more likely define tyranny as " transgression of liberty " or equivalently, " rule by one man ".

While creation myths are not literal explications they do serve to define an orientation of humanity in the world in terms of a birth story.

While ethnicity and culture play a large part in Jewish identity, they are not the only way Jews define themselves as Jews.

While many socialist currents advocated economic planning as an eventual substitute for the market for factors of production, some define economic planning as being based on worker-self management, with production being carried out to directly satisfy human needs, and contrast this with the concept of a command economy of the Soviet Union, which they characterize as being based on a top-down bureaucratic administration of the economy in a similar fashion to a capitalist firm.

* Niall Lucy points to the impossibility of defining the term at all, noting that: " While in a sense it is impossibly difficult to define, the impossibility has less to do with the adoption of a position or the assertion of a choice on deconstruction ’ s part than with the impossibility of every ‘ is ’ as such.

While a truly characteristic euphonium sound is rather hard to define precisely, most players would agree that an ideal sound is dark, rich, warm, and velvety, with virtually no hardness to it.

While Grothendieck topologies are most often used to define cohomology theories, they have found other applications as well, such as to John Tate's theory of rigid analytic geometry.

While jazz may be difficult to define, improvisation is clearly one of its key elements.

While some enthusiasts of certain types of jazz have argued for narrower definitions which exclude many other types of music also commonly known as " jazz ," jazz musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play.

While Wycliffe is credited, it is not possible exactly to define his part in the translation, which was based on the Vulgate.

While studying compositions of linear transformations, Arthur Cayley was led to define matrix multiplication and inverses.

While the above definition is the most general way to define a filter for arbitrary posets, it was originally defined for lattices only.

While this is common in modern systems, Mach was the first system to define tasks and threads in this way.

While it is clear that there are innate mechanisms that enable the learning of language and define the range of languages that can be learned, it is not clear that these mechanisms in anyway resemble a human language or universal grammar.

While it is possible to define some arbitrary, ad hoc cost function, frequently a particular cost will be used, either because it has desirable properties ( such as convexity ) or because it arises naturally from a particular formulation of the problem ( e. g., in a probabilistic formulation the posterior probability of the model can be used as an inverse cost ).

While real-world sound changes often admit exceptions ( for a variety of known reasons, and sometimes without one ), the expectation of their regularity or " exceptionlessness " is of great heuristic value, since it allows historical linguists to define the notion of regular correspondence ( see: comparative method ).

Barlow and Proschan define availability of a repairable system as " the probability that the system is operating at a specified time t ." While Blanchard gives a qualitative definition of availability as " a measure of the degree of a system which is in the operable and committable state at the start of mission when the mission is called for at an unknown random point in time.

While this approach does define a measure space, it has a flaw.

While the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the production, sale, and transport of " intoxicating liquors ", it did not define " intoxicating liquors " or provide penalties.

While classes define the type of data and functionality that objects will have, instances are " usable " objects based on the patterns of a particular class.

While some have attempted to describe the book as a horror story, many readers as well as the author would define the book as a love story.

While, older Upanishads such as the Brihadaranyaka, mention several times that the Self is described as Neti neti or not this-not this, Upanishads post Buddhism, like the Maitri Upanishad, define Ātman as only the defiled individual self, rather than the universal self.