Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

According to chemistry historian Henry Leicester, the influential 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Reactions by Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall led to the replacement of the term " affinity " by the term " free energy " in much of the English-speaking world.

Free from many of the elements that accompany science fiction in general — whether that be space aliens, giant robots, or laser guns — the series delegates itself towards presenting a world that is quite similar to our own albeit showcasing some technological advances.

The EFA stands for " a Europe of Free Peoples based on the principle of subsidiarity, which believe in solidarity with each other and the peoples of the world.

This way any seeming paradoxes are resolved as one can have a world with an Omnipotent, Omniscient and Free God, while simultaneously actualizing the possibility of free agency within the created order such as that seen in human beings.

Free deeds, he suggests, are those for which we are fully conscious of the motive for our action ; freedom is the spiritual activity of penetrating with consciousness our own nature and that of the world, and the real activity of acting in full consciousness.

According to a broad definition of slavery used by Kevin Bales of Free the Slaves ( FTS ), an advocacy group linked with Anti-Slavery International, there were 27 million people in slavery in 1999, spread all over the world.

Groups such as the American Anti-Slavery Group, Anti-Slavery International, Free the Slaves, the Anti-Slavery Society, and the Norwegian Anti-Slavery Society continue to campaign to rid the world of slavery.

It lays out ten ideals: Free inquiry as opposed to censorship and imposition of belief ; separation of church and state ; the ideal of freedom from religious control and from jingoistic government control ; ethics based on critical intelligence rather than that deduced from religious belief ; moral education ; religious skepticism ; reason ; a belief in science and technology as the best way of understanding the world ; evolution ; and education as the essential method of building humane, free, and democratic societies.

* June 8 – The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act is passed, the first of its kind in the world.

Yet he led Britain into war for three main reasons: because he believed the British government had an obligation to British South Africans ; because he thought that the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, and the Cape Boers aspired to a Dutch South Africa, and that the achievement of such a state would damage Britain's imperial prestige around the world ; and because of the Boers ' treatment of black South Africans.

According to one report, in 1924, shortly after the Irish Free State's establishment, the new dominion had the " lowest birth-rate in the world ".

Now the HP Alliance and Wizard Rock have come together to fight for a Potterwatch movement in the real world to fight back against Big VoldeMedia from further pushing out local and foreign news, minority representation, and the right to a Free Press.

Due in no small part to the influence of transnational economic bodies such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the G7, G8, G20, and trade agreements between nations with differing degrees of industrialization such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the European Union, AFTA, ACTA and TPP, regions of economic exchange have become more integrated across the world than ever before and supply chains for vital commodities and products previously maintained within national borders have became distributed across international lines.

Free jazz and the influence of world musicians on the medium pushed jazz singing nearer to avant-garde art music.

* Free Global Wireless: syndicating the free wireless communities and blogs of the world

Orange gave its name to other Dutch-influenced parts of the world, such as the Oranges ( West Orange, South Orange, East Orange, Orange ) in New Jersey, USA, and the Orange Free State in South Africa.

Sheldon Richman, editor of the libertarian journal, The Freeman, also sees the IMF imposing “ corporatist-flavored ‘ neoliberalism ’ on the troubled countries of the world .” The policies of spending cuts coupled with tax increases give “ real market reform a bad name and set back the cause of genuine liberalism .” Paternalistic supranational bureaucrats foster “ long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change .” Free market economist Richard M. Salsman goes further and argues the IMF “ is a destructive, crisis-generating global welfare agency that should be abolished .” “ In return for bailouts, countries must enact such measures as new taxes, high interest rates, nationalizations, deportations, and price controls .” Writing in Forbes, E. D. Kain sees the IMF as " paving the way for international corporations entrance into various developing nations " and creating dependency.

On July 3, 2010 was inaugurated the first Free Software Street of the world in Berga, during a ceremony attended by Mr. Richard Stallman.

Cobden therefore believed that Free Trade would pacify the world by interdependence ( see Cobdenism ), an idea also expressed by Adam Smith in his The Wealth of Nations and common to many liberals of the time.

* Free will, control exercised by rational agents over their actions and decisions

Free will, seen this way, is about freedom to make decisions without duress ( and so is a version of Kantian positive practical free will, i. e., Kantian autonomy ), as opposed to an impossible and unnecessary freedom from causality itself.

The Free State Senate was subordinate to Dáil Éireann ( the lower house ) and could delay but not veto decisions of that house.

In November 1977, a group of unemployed and workers led by Vladimir Klebanov, a former coalminer from the Donbas region of the Ukraine, announced the formation in the Soviet Union of the Association of Free Trade Unions of Workers ( AFTU ) whose purposes were to meet obligations achieved by collective bargaining ; to induce workers and other employees to join free trade union associations ; to implement those decisions of the Association which concern the seeking of justice and the defense of rights ; to educate Association members in the spirit of irreconcilability toward wastefulness, inefficiency, deception, bureaucracy, deficiencies, and a negligent attitude toward national wealth.

McDonald was later forced to resign from the bench after the Winnipeg Free Press uncovered a pattern of questionable behaviour in his decisions.

Each umpire has the primary responsibility for decisions in one half of the field, and is the only one allowed to award a Penalty Corner, Penalty Stroke or goal in their half of the field or a Free hit in their Shooting Circle ( see diagram ).

The 1923 Free State Land Act adopted many proposals for a final land settlement from decisions reached during the Irish Convention in 1918 under the chairmanship of Horace Plunkett.

In keeping with many other decisions of the newly independent state the Provisional Government and later the Free State government continued with the same practices and policies of the British administration with regard to corporate taxation.

Specific functional responsibilities of the Council of Ministers included directing and planning the national economy ; solving problems growing out of membership in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( Comecon — see Appendix B ); coordinating and implementing social policy decisions that have been agreed upon with the support and concurrence of the Free German Trade Union Federation ( Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund -- FDGB ); instructing and controlling subordinate levels of government, i. e., the councils at district, county, and community levels that implemented the laws and decisions of the central government ; improving the functioning of the system of " democratic centralism " within the state apparatus ; and carrying out the basic foreign policy principles of the socialist state.

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The Free Software Definition, written by Richard Stallman and published by Free Software Foundation ( FSF ), defines free software as a matter of liberty, not price.

" Furthermore, historian Clarence E. Walker said, " Free black people were ' matter out of place '.

Free neutrons are able to cause many nuclear reactions in a variety of substances no matter their energy, because in many substances they give rise to high-energy nuclear reactions, and these ( or their products ) liberate enough energy to cause ionization.

The Act establishing the Irish Free State was silent on the matter, although the Irish Free State ( Consequential Provisions ) Act 1922 had abolished the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, whose involvement was required in the election process ; the office of Clerk of the Crown had also been abolished in Ireland.

Violent ethnic rivalry is the subject matter of Jewish sociologist Ludwig Gumplowicz's Der Rassenkampf (" Struggle of the Races ", 1909 ); and more recently of Amy Chua's notable study, World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability ; and Kevin B. MacDonald's controversial works on the Darwinian-evolutionary politics of Judaism, which have been called anti-Semitic and white-supremacist.

The Committee on Evil Literature was a committee set up by the Irish Free State's Department of Justice in 1926 to look into censorship of printed matter.

Hence, no matter what the decision of the Supreme Court may be on that abstract question, still the right of the people to make a Slave Territory or a Free Territory is perfect and complete under the Nebraska bill.

The matter of affiliation with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) is in dispute.

For example, if the union was approved by her parents, the husband of patrician daughter was granted membership in the patrician society Zum Sünfzen of the Imperial Free City of Lindau as a matter of right, on the same terms as the younger son of a patrician male ( i. e., upon payment of a nominal fee ) even if the husband was otherwise deemed socially ineligible.

The matter was later referred to as the Free State open-toilet saga by the media after the discovery of a similar problem in Tshiame near Harrismith and national political figures such as Julius Malema, Helen Zille and Mangosuthu Buthelezi got involved in the debate.

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The Free Software Definition, written by Richard Stallman and published by Free Software Foundation ( FSF ), defines free software as a matter of liberty, not price.

Up until the late 1990s, jus soli, in the Republic, was maintained as a matter of statute law, the only people being constitutionally entitled to citizenship of the Irish state post-1937 were those who had been citizens of the Irish Free State before its dissolution.

The exact division of territorial waters as between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State was to be a lingering matter of controversy for a number of years.