( That corpus of law was a reflection of the power system in existence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Bluntly, there never was a Ptolemaic system of astronomy.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

This system was dependent upon identical maps and Thomas supplied them from a mobile lithograph press.

He was the first of 2,800,000 called to the Army through the selective service system.

The Suez-Hungary crisis proves that this system was not invented by the new Administration, but only made more consistent and more active.

Behind were privies, for there was no sewage system.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

As the Juniors entered the ring, Mr. Spring, the announcer, stated over the public-address system that this was the 28th year that Westminster has held the Finals of the Junior Competition.

) This is the same system as was used in the field-sequential color-TV system which preceded the present simultaneous system.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

The magnetic resonance absorption was detected by employing a Varian model Af broad line spectrometer and the associated 12-inch electromagnet system.

-- Matheson highest purity tank chlorine was passed through a tube of resublimed Af into an evacuated Pyrex system where it was condensed with liquid air.

This chlorine-carbon tetrachloride solution was illuminated for a day following which the flask was resealed onto a vacuum system and the excess chlorine distilled off.

The numbering system used in Tables 1 and 2 and Figures 1 and 2 was continued for the 21 growth centers.

The whole system was again reviewed and reorganized in 1933.

The system was not well adapted to conditions of life in urban centers.

The system tended to break down during the war, but was reactivated ; ;

The same system, with minor modifications, was developed in Ruanda-Urundi under Belgian administration.

Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.

The amount paid by the oil company to Tri-State for the use of its oil distribution system and the privilege of supplying all the homes, is subject to negotiation but naturally must be profitable to both parties.

Although a somewhat technical subject, it has important political implications as the above discussion of the voting system indicated.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

Initially a study of systems of polynomial equations in several variables, the subject of algebraic geometry starts where equation solving leaves off, and it becomes even more important to understand the intrinsic properties of the totality of solutions of a system of equations, than to find a specific solution ; this leads into some of the deepest areas in all of mathematics, both conceptually and in terms of technique.

Investigations and prosecutions of cadre who are suspect of corruption are conducted confidentially in a system run the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection which is separate from ordinary Chinese law enforcement and courts which are subject to influence by local cadre.

A subject of much scholarship by sociologists and anthropologists, the Hindu caste system is sometimes used as an analogical basis for the study of caste-like social divisions existing outside Hinduism and India.

Newfoundland never ratified the statute, so it was still subject to imperial authority when its entire system of government and economy collapsed in the mid-1930s.

Within this system, macroeconomic plans are used as a general guidelines and as government goals for the national economy, but the majority of state-owned enterprises are subject to market forces.

Just as in an alphanumeric system, the DDC is hierarchical ; it also uses some aspects of a faceted classification scheme, combining elements from different parts of the structure, to construct a number representing the subject content ( often combining two subject elements with linking numbers and geographical and temporal elements ) and the form of an item, rather than drawing upon a list containing each class and its meaning.

A value expressed using an encoding scheme may thus be a token selected from a controlled vocabulary ( for example, a term from a classification system or set of subject headings ) or a string formatted in accordance with a formal notation, for example, " 2000-12-31 " as the ISO standard expression of a date.

Before the fighting, the Parliament of England did not have a large permanent role in the English system of government, functioning as a temporary advisory committee, summoned by the monarch whenever the Crown required additional tax revenue, and subject to dissolution by the monarch at any time.

When such a system is subject to an impulse ( or any signal of finite duration ) it will respond with an output waveform which lasts past the duration of the input, eventually decaying exponentially in one or another manner, but never completely settling to zero ( mathematically speaking ).

An N < sup > th </ sup > order FIR filter can be implemented in a discrete time system using a computer program or specialized hardware in which the input signal is subject to N delay stages.

As the rule base is in everyday language ( the engine is untouchable ), expert system can be written much faster than a conventional program, by users or experts, bypassing professional developers and avoiding the need to explain the subject.

The verbal system lacks a distinctive future tense ( the present tense serves here ) and features special forms to express an action performed by an undetermined subject ( the " impersonal ").

The system has no central servers and is not subject to the control of any one individual or organization, including the designers of Freenet.

The European system will only be subject to shutdown for military purposes in extreme circumstances.

It was during this time that the mercenary pension system became a subject of disagreement.

Believing the system was impractical, the Academy rejected it, though they praised his mastery of the subject, and urged him to try again.

Vayiqra ( Leviticus ) forbids sexual intercourse between males, classifying it as a to ' eivah ( something abhorred or detested ) that can be subject to capital punishment under Jewish law, although Halakhic courts are not authorized to administer capital punishment in the absence of a Temple in Jerusalem and the entire judicial system as mandated by Jewish Law.

As a common law system, jurisdiction is conceptually divided between jurisdiction over the subject matter of a case and jurisdiction over the person of the litigants.

The Peace Conference adopted the principle that these territories should be administered by different governments on behalf of the League – a system of national responsibility subject to international supervision.

Any individual workflow within a system of workflows can be subject to some type of operational latency.

A library classification is a system of coding and organizing documents or library materials ( books, serials, audiovisual materials, computer files, maps, manuscripts, realia ) according to their subject and allocating a call number to that information resource.