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1 Drucker itemised four characteristics of the nature of decisions .
2 The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets .
3 While precise indicators of the numbers of laws depend upon more precise definition of what are considered as laws ( there is a variety of different types of order , statute and regulation ) , one crude indicator for the expansion of legislation in the United States is that the Federal Register grew from 2,355 pages in 1936 to 60,221 pages in 1975 ; another indicator for Britain is found in the Index to the Statutes — the index listing legislation for , the period from 1235 to 1935 takes up 788 pages , while that for 1936 to 1982 takes up 978 pages .
4 They are only suffered in such places in order to appear respectable in the eyes of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers ( AFBD ) .
5 In a Raman spectrum , the intensity of a band depends on the squares of the derivatives of components of the polarizability tensor , .
6 This advisory section of the descriptor gives an indication to tutors of the range of contexts within which a module could be offered and the subject matter which would assist in the achievement of the Outcomes .
7 In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity .
8 Set against this is the felt reality ; the constraining influences of the number of individuals a person has to interact with at any one moment and the problem of time .
9 Choice of themes and situations is governed by religious , cultural and educational considerations of the country of countries for which the course is planned .
10 Thus , for example , the prison service may wish to pursue the twin goals of the punishment of offenders and at the same time their rehabilitation .
11 Supporters of the nexus of contracts model of the company go further , seeking to deprive the ‘ problem ’ of weak shareholder control even of its status as a problem , and thereby to legitimate the replacement of control by means of shareholder democracy with control through markets .
12 Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with .
13 News of the Polish plan comes hot on the heels of the introduction of restrictions on currency convertability that threaten to wipe out the Slovakian market ; both developments underline the degree of risk that is still attached to operating in the region .
14 The correlation between a legal obligation on the one hand and a subjective right on the other admits of no exception ; as distinct from what is said to be the situation in municipal law , there are certainly no obligations incumbent on a subject which are not matched by an international subjective right of another subject or subjects , or even … of the totality of the other subjects of the law of nations .
15 Records of their findings now comprise the Library of Visitation Books of the College of Arms , and a number have been published by the Harleian Society .
16 The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood .
17 Japanese kites , and there are almost a score here to set beside nearly 90 examples from China , tend to be either square or diamond-shaped and to be emblazoned with fearsome images of the heads of actors from the Kabuki stage .
18 Ironically , one graduate of the 1980s remarks , in the same publication , that she finds the idea of being called an embroiderer quite amusing because it conjures up images of the edges of tablecloths ’ .
19 The outcome of numerous studies into different aspects of the behaviour of groups is a considerable store of useful and practicable knowledge about the working of groups .
20 In spite of these limitations , various aspects of the behaviour of copolymers , plasticized polymers , and the chain length dependence of T g , can be predicted in a reasonably satisfactory manner .
21 We may be appalled by what we find , but there is also consolation in discovering even trivial aspects of the lives of parents and ancestors whose histories we identify with our own .
22 From time immemorial children have raised playthings , particularly dolls , to a place in their lives not unlike the place that ‘ gods ’ occupy in some aspects of the lives of adults .
23 In addition to explaining the risks of financial loss , the warning notice also explains a number of key aspects of the operation of futures markets which may not be readily apparent to the private investor such as : ( 1 ) The treatment of collateral and the fact that a customer may lose a proprietary interest in the collateral and not receive back the same assets that he deposited .
24 The study of politics ought to have been transformed by the theory of voting and aspects of the theory of games , which underlie public choice .
25 Confining our attention here to sub-aerial volcanic activity , we have already considered some aspects of the distribution of volcanoes at the global scale in the three previous chapters .
26 Programming is the context used to develop an understanding of many aspects of the application of computers .
27 ( 2B ) For the purposes of this Act , the quality of goods includes their state and condition and the following ( among others ) are in appropriate cases aspects of the quality of goods — ( a ) fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied , ( b ) appearance and finish , ( c ) freedom from minor defects , ( d ) safety , and ( e ) durability .
28 One of the more striking aspects of the table of results is the way in which it highlights certain configurations of sentences which are almost invariable across all groups .
29 Thirdly , it includes most aspects of the study of principles of language usage , for there seems to be a general principle of the following kind : for each systematic set of constraints on the use of language , there will be a corresponding set of inference-procedures that will be applied to language understanding ( see Levinson , 1979a ) .
30 Bertalanffy ( 1972 ) distinguished three aspects of the study of systems .
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