The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China ( which is not operative in the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao ) makes it a crime to release a state secret.

In the film I, Robot, Calvin is played by Bridget Moynahan and serves as an operative who " makes the robots seem more human " and is completely dependent on the Three Laws of Robotics.

Steve then makes an emotional plea to his boss, Oscar Goldman, to save Jaime's life by implementing bionics, even going so far as to commit Jaime to becoming an operative of the Office of Scientific Intelligence ( OSI ), a branch of the CIA.

Later on, Irulan spies on Reverend Mother Mohiam's clandestine meeting with a Spacing Guild operative ; their conversation makes her realize that there is more to what is happening on Arrakis than meets the eye.

The Cabinet makes an appearance in ' Blood Syndicate ' # 20 when Dharma fires Oro, who has been a Syndicate associate, police officer, and a Shadow Cabinet operative.

The law is only operative in those counties in which the county board of supervisors, by resolution, authorizes its application and makes a finding that no voluntary mental health program serving adults, and no children's mental health program, was reduced in order to implement the law.

An associate of a senior Hezbollah operative is thought to have been on the same flight, although this may have been a coincidence.

This brigade performs the task of crowd control, combating terrorism, to assist border guards in case of complications of operative conditions on border.

After finishing his National Service in 1959 in the Royal Artillery as a B2 radar operator, he worked as a mill operative on the fourth floor at Townhead Mill in Rochdale and travelled home each weekend to Heswall on a scooter borrowed from his sister.

The convention became operative on December 26, 1934.

operative carrying on a flirtatious relationship with Solo was also added to the film ; Craig does not appear in the television episodes.

The Perchlorate Best Management Practices were adopted on December 31, 2005 and became operative on July 1, 2006.

In 1793, Chopart performed operative procedure on a lip using a flap from the neck.

In 1814, Joseph Carpue successfully performed operative procedure on a British military officer who had lost his nose to the toxic effects of mercury treatments.

* The Poetic Function focuses on " the message for its own sake " and is the operative function in poetry as well as slogans.

Surgery ( from the cheirourgikē, via, meaning " hand work ") is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and / or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.

They focus on the operative phrase calling for " secure and recognized boundaries " and note that the resolution calls for a withdrawal " from territories " rather than " from the territories " or " from all territories ," as the Arabs and others proposed ; the latter two terms were rejected from the final draft of Resolution 242.

The story centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of a fellow MI6 operative, Commander John Strangways and his secretary, Mary Trueblood.

Sir Christopher Wren has since the eighteenth century been claimed by the Lodge of Antiquity No. 2, one of the four founding Masonic Lodges of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717, to have been its Master at the Goose and Gridiron at St. Paul's churchyard, while he was rebuilding the cathedral: he is said to have been " adopted " on 18 May 1691 ( that is, accepted as a sort of honorary member or patron, rather than an operative ).

Of primary importance is the initial operative staging of the disease to obtain adequate information on which to base future decisions about therapy.

The Perchlorate Best Management Practices were adopted on December 31, 2005 and became operative on July 1, 2006.

A CH-46 helicopter lands on the ship's deck with a musical band, along with Playmate Jordan Tate ( Erika Eleniak ) and a group of caterers who are really a band of mercenaries led by ex-CIA operative Bill Strannix ( Tommy Lee Jones ).

The characters ' efforts to succeed or hold on to their success are interwoven with the efforts of a political operative and a local businessman to stage a concert rally before the state's presidential primary for a populist outsider running for president of the United States on the Replacement Party ticket.

Although the Red Skull has no superhuman abilities, he possesses an intellect and inventive genius on the level of supervillains such as Doctor Doom, and is a highly gifted subversive strategist and political operative.

* In the same month, JRA operative Yū Kikumura was arrested with explosives on the New Jersey Turnpike highway, apparently to coincide with the USO bombing.

Costner would play a CIA agent stationed in a coastal Italian town in order to keep an eye on a KGB operative.

Known for his authenticity and realism, Hammett drew on his experiences as a Pinkerton operative.

Set in the very near future, the threat of a catastrophic assault on the West, discovered on a senior al-Qaeda member's computer, compels the leaders of the US and the UK to attempt a desperate gambit — to substitute a seasoned British operative, retired Col. Mike Martin ( of The Fist of God ), for an Afghan Taliban commander being held prisoner at Guantánamo Bay.

Webb, tracing the impostor Bourne through Kowloon and Macau, tracks him to mainland China, where he encounters Echo, another former Medusa operative, who is also tracking down the impostor Bourne, who he personally trained.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

Institutionalization Though undoubtedly all six processes are operative within the whole social system and its subsystems, two processes that are of crucial importance to this study will be singled out for particular emphasis.

The process of social control is operative insofar as sanctions play a part in the individual's behavior, as well as the group's behavior.

`` Culturally induced social cohesion resulting from common norms and values internalized by members of the group '' is operative in the boundary maintenance of the group as well as in the process of socialization.

The objection will be raised that the most important role of philosophy in relation to social science has been omitted, namely the status of ultimate value questions and norms operative in the social sciences.

The spirit of the Marine Corps was present and operative before any of the present members of it came into it.

The technological, operative approach, which she calls extraverted, and the mystic, contemplative, psychological one, which she calls introverted are not mutually exclusive, but complementary instead, as meditation requires practice in the real world, and conversely.

The Spetzler-Martin grading system developed at the Barrow Neurological Institute is utilized by neurosurgeons to determine operative versus nonoperative management when approaching these lesions.

By the end of 1918-1919, some units had been created: secretly operative, investigatory, of transportation, military ( special ), operative, and instructional.

By 1921, it changed once again, forming the following sections: directory of affairs, administrative-organizational, secretly operative, economical, and foreign affairs.

For 26 years ( 1863 – 1889 ) he was connected with the medical faculty of the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, being elected professor of operative surgery in 1870 and professor of the principles and practice of surgery in the following year.

The many blind people who do entrain to the 24-hour light / dark cycle have eyes with functioning retinas including operative non-visual light-sensitive cells.

It is more frequently used in the operative setting in the US.

Apart from learning these, the student of Āyurveda was expected to know ten arts that were indispensable in the preparation and application of his medicines: distillation, operative skills, cooking, horticulture, metallurgy, sugar manufacture, pharmacy, analysis and separation of minerals, compounding of metals, and preparation of alkalis.

However, none of these new local authorities has yet become fully operative.

In addition, some countries — including Australia, Canada and the United States — have developed their own adaptations of ICD, with more procedure codes for classification of operative or diagnostic procedures.

* 2003 – In an effort to discredit U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame is a CIA " operative ".

The significance is clear, however, of the manner in which Justin identifies the historical Christ with the rational force operative in the universe, which leads up to the claim of all truth and virtue for the Christians and to the demonstration of the adoration of Christ, which aroused so much opposition, as the only reasonable attitude.

He served as both an NKVD and KGB operative.