Governing Sentence Examples

Phocas proved entirely incapable of governing the empire.

This advance did not merely remove the primary batteries from the subscribers' stations; it removed also the magneto-generator, and at the same time it modified considerably the conditions governing the exchange operating.

In regard to foreign affairs, the debut of the Left as a governing party was scarcely more satisfactory than its home policy.

Any one can obtain a gratuitous permit to clear and cultivate such lands; the laws governing ordinary agricultural lands then apply to them.

The proportional rents are fixed by the Mines Administration according to the wealth, area and facility of working of the mine, and are inserted in the imperial firman governing the mine, and must be paid before the minerals are exported.

The governing body consisted of 180 members, chosen from certain influential families, and the executive was entrusted to a select committee of artynae (from apTUVEav, to manage).

This plan provided for a representative governing body to be known as the Grand Council, to which each colony should elect delegates (not more than seven or less than two) for a term of three years.

William's writs show not only that he kept intact the old system of governing through the sheriffs and the courts of shire and hundred, but also that he found it highly serviceable.

For many centuries algebra was confined almost entirely to the solution of equations; one of the most important steps being the enunciation by Diophantus of Alexandria of the laws governing the use of the minus sign.

Lord's, as it is called, is the headquarters of the M.C.C. (Marylebone Cricket Club), the governing body of the game; here are played the home matches of this club and of the Middlesex County Cricket Club, the Oxford and Cambridge, Eton and Harrow, and other well-known fixtures.

The governing charter till 1835 was that of Henry VIII., granted in 1545 and confirmed by Edward VI.

Queenborough Castle was built about 1361 by Edward III., who named the town after Queen Philippa and made it a free borough, with a governing body of a mayor and two bailiffs.

By the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 a mayor, aldermen and a council replaced the capital burgesses, the older governing body.

The town grew up around the castle but never received a charter or had a governing body.

If the Roman aristocracy of his time had lost much of the virtue and of the governing qualities of their ancestors, they showed in the last years before the establishment of monarchy a taste for intellectual culture which might have made Rome as great in literature as in arms and law.

A new taste for philosophy had developed among members of the governing class during the youth of Lucretius, and eminent Greek teachers of the Epicurean sect settled at Rome at the same time, and lived on terms of intimacy with them.

The powers of the governing body of the City, moreover, are as peculiar in this direction as in that of municipal administration; and the act left the City as a county of a city practically unchanged.

This MS. gives us information which was unknown before, but upsets the received opinions as to the early governing position of the aldermen.

The governing charter in 1835 was that of Charles II., incorporating it under the title of the bailiffs and commonalty of the borough of Tamworth in the counties of Stafford and Warwick.

The supreme governing body in the Russian branch of the Orthodox Eastern Church is known as the Holy Synod.

Constance profited by his absence by governing the duchy, and in 1194 she had Arthur proclaimed duke of Brittany by an assembly of barons and bishops.

There are elaborate regulations governing the appointment and conduct of these chaplains.

About the same time he published a pamphlet advocating the reform of the Prayer Book, while a tract issued on the 15th of July, Sundry reasons against the new intended Bill for governing and reforming Corporations, was declared illegal, false, scandalous and seditious; Prynne being censured, and only escaping punishment by submission.

The affairs of the tribe are administered by the sheiks, or heads of clans and families; the position of sheik in itself gives no real governing power, his word and counsel carry weight, but his influence depends on his own personal qualities.

The governing body of the Hansa was the assembly of town representatives, the "Hansetage," held irregularly as occasion required at the summons of Lubeck, and, with few exceptions, attended but scantily.

He was disrated (becoming a captain on the retired list) in November 1862 on the ground that he had been too old to receive the rank of commodore under the act then governing promotions; and engaged in a long controversy with Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy.

The Armenian massacres in 1894 and 1895 revived all his ancient hostility to " the governing Turk."

Favourites, too, without governing entirely for him, played an important part in his reign.

It seems probable that the Eupatridae were the governing class, the only recognized nobility, the Geomori the country inhabitants of all ranks, and the Demiurgi the commercial and artisan population.

Latin literature ceased to be in close sympathy with the popular spirit, either politically or as a form of amusement, but became the expression of the ideas, sentiment and culture of the aristocratic governing class.

The president was chosen by the governing party, the Christian Democrats; the first vice-president by the Popular Socialists; the second vice-president by the Christian Democrats.

The belief in a God, all-wise, all-just and all-merciful, governing the world providentially for the best, pervades all his works, his correspondence and his life.

The reversion of such property was claimed for the local civil government, and the principles governing these rights were ultimately laid down by an order in council, which also determined military rights to restrict buildings within the range of forts.

Further, he not only created a style of his own, but, instead of taking the substance of his writings from Greek poetry, or from a remote past, he treated of the familiar matters of daily life, of the politics, the wars, the administration of justice, the eating and drinking, the money-making and money-spending, the scandals and vices, which made up the public and private life of Rome in the last quarter of the and century B.C. This he did in a singularly frank, independent and courageous spirit, with no private ambition to serve, or party cause to advance, but with an honest desire to expose the iniquity or incompetence of the governing body, the sordid aims of the middle class, and the corruption and venality of the city mob.

The old marshal vainly endeavoured to keep his own, Progressists within bounds in the Cortes of 1854-1856, and in the great towns, but their excessive demands for reforms and liberties played into the hands of a clerical and reactionary court and of the equally retrograde governing classes.

The king was secured a minimum civil list of £1500 a year out of the native revenues; pensions were accorded to other members of the Buganda royal family; the salaries of ministers and governing chiefs were guaranteed; compensation in money was paid for removing the king's control over waste lands; definite estates were allotted to the king, royal family, nobility and native landowners; the native parliament or " Lukiko " was reorganized and its powers were defined; and many other points in dispute were settled.

The edict of Worms was entirely in harmony with the laws of Western Christendom, and there were few among the governing classes in Germany at that time who really understood or approved Luther's fundamental ideas; nevertheless - if we except the elector of Brandenburg, George of Saxony, the dukes of Bavaria, and Charles V.'s brother Ferdinand - the princes, including the ecclesiastical rulers and the towns, commonly neglected to publish the edict, much less to enforce it.

The governing council, which had been organized to represent him in Germany, fell rapidly into disrepute, and exercised no restraining influence on those princes who might desire to act on Luther's theory that the civil government was supreme in matters of Church reform.

His ideal was to restore the conditions which he supposed prevailed during the first three centuries of the Church's existence; but the celebrated Ecclesiastical Ordinances adopted by the town in 1541 and revised in 1561 failed fully to realize his ideas, which find a more complete exemplification in the regulations governing the French Church later.

In the same period the mediation of the Board settled disputes affecting 5560 establishments; and in the latter half of this period labour disputes involving hostilities and of the magnitude contemplatedby the statute governing the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration had almost disappeared.

Justina at Padua (1421), afterwards called the Cassinese, departed altogether from the old lines, setting up a highly centralized government, after the model of the Italian republics, whereby the autonomy of the monasteries was destroyed, and they were subjected to the authority of a central governing board.

The towns had municipal franchises, exercised by a governing body comprised of Spaniards, either immigrants from Old Spain, or Creoles, i.e.

For the classified service of the state and of the minor civil divisions, except cities, the commission makes rules (subject to the governor's approval and to statutory and constitutional provisions) governing the classification of offices, the examination of candidates for office, and the appointment and promotion of employees.

Though the Committee of Union and Progress took no open part in governing the country, and remained an unseen mysterious power, they had their nominees in the Ministry, and at the beginning of 1909 could already influence the policy of the Government.

I mean if I can to be one of the governing class."

In the case of bridges of large span the cost and difficulty of erection are serious, and in such cases facility of erection becomes a governing consideration in the choice of the type to be adopted.

Nerva seems nevertheless to have soon wearied of the uncongenial task of governing, and his anxiety to be rid of it was quickened by the discovery that not even his blameless life and mild rule protected him against intrigue and disaffection.

That science must be left free to determine the aims of her investigation, to select and apply her own methods, and to publish the results of her researches without restraint, is a postulate which Ultramontanism either cannot understand or treats with indifference, for it regards as strange and incredible the fundamental law governing all scientific research - that there is for it no higher aim than the discovery of the truth.

Probably the most ancient zodiacal representation in existence is a fragment of a Chaldaean planisphere in the British Museum, once inscribed with the names of the twelve months and their governing signs.

With regard to the fine boulevards of the Upper Town, it may be mentioned that about 1765 they were planted with the double row of lime trees which still constitute their chief ornament by Prince Charles of Lorraine while governing the Netherlands for his sister-in-law, the empress Maria Theresa.

He appoints a minister of public worship, and through him nominates the members of the governing body, the Oberkirchenrath or Consistorium or Directorium.

It must, however, be noted that one class of the measures taken to punish the old governing part of the population of Poland has been very favourable to the majority.

But after a few months Afzul Khan raised an insurrection in the northern province, between the Hindu Kush mountains and the Oxus, where he had been governing when his father died; and then began a fierce contest for power among the sons of Dost Mahomed, which lasted for nearly five years.

There is a governing body chosen from among the islanders, the constitution of which has been altered more than once owing to internal jealousies, &c. The island produces sweet potatoes, yams, melons, bananas and other fruits, arrowroot and coffee.

Such restorations are possible because of the intimate fitness of animals and plants to their environment, and because such fitness has distinguished certain forms of life from the Cambrian to the present time; the species have altogether changed, but the laws governing the life of certain kinds of organisms have remained exactly the same for the whole period of time assigned to the duration of life; in fact, we read the conditions of the past in a mirror of adaptation, often sadly tarnished and incomplete owing to breaks in the palaeontological record, but constantly becoming more polished by discoveries which increase the understanding of life and its all-pervading relations to the non-life.

We are at first inclined to think of Christianity itself, but it is certainly most improbable that at the time of the rise of Christianity the Babylonian teaching about the seven planet-deities governing the world should have played so great a part throughout all Syria, Asia Minor and Egypt, that the most varying sections of syncretic Christianity should over and over again adopt this doctrine and work it up into their system.

The great power exercised by the Roman Catholic church during the colonial period enabled it not only to mould the spiritual belief of the whole people, but also to control their education, tax their industries, and shape the political policies governing their daily life.

Meanwhile Mayhew had recognized the jurisdiction of Maine; 2 and though the officials of that province showed no disposition to press their claim, it seems that this technical suzerainty continued until 1664, when the Duke of York received from his brother, Charles II., the charter for governing New York, New Jersey, and other territory, including Martha's Vineyard.

There was a body of rules governing the comitia which were concerned with the time and place of meeting, the forms of promulgation and the methods of voting.

The rise to power of the equestrian order in Rome during the last century of the Republic had to some extent modified the old Roman principle that trade and commerce were beneath the dignity of the governing class; but long after the fall of the Republic the aristocratic notion survived in Rome that industry and handicrafts were only fit for slaves.

Similar matters arising in nonconformist bodies can only be tried by the ordinary secular courts, and generally depend upon the question whether a minister has done any act which is not in accordance with the rules governing the particular body of which he is a minister.

An excellent way to start a pupil is on a sure-footed horse without bridle, the master governing him by a leading rein until the pupil has acquired a firm seat and can be trusted with reins.

This consists in governing by the aid of the superiority of a centralized organization to the unorganized masses of the people, and the superiority of military power, arising from the fact that the armed force of the Government is opposed to a people who are defenseless or tired of the armed struggle.

The empire was divided between them, Honorius governing the two western prefectures (Gaul and Italy), Arcadius the two eastern (the Orient and Illyricum).

Whereas during the 19th century states were being cut out to suit the existing distribution of language, in the 20th the tendency seems to be to avoid further rearrangement of boundaries, and to complete the homogeneity, thus far attained, by the artificial method of forcing reluctant populations to adopt the language of the predominant or governing race.

Poland is another case of the difficulty of managing a population which speaks a language not that of the governing majority, and Russia, in trying to solve one problem by absorbing Finland into the national system, is burdening herself with another which may work out in centuries of unrest, if not in domestic violence.

The governing enactments for England are now the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, part iv., and the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act 1884, the latter annually renewable.

A mayor, aldermen and councillors received governing power by a charter of 1898.

In 1226 he was appointed chancellor by the council governing during the minority of Henry III.; and when the king in 1236 demanded the return of the great seal, Neville refused to surrender it, on the ground that only the authority that had appointed him to the office had power to deprive him of it.

Members did not suspect the reserve of strength and ability beneath what seemed to them to be the pose of a parliamentary fldneur; they looked upon him merely as a young member of the governing classes who remained in the House because it was the proper thing for a man of family to do.

Throughout Europe the governing classes regarded this "union of throne and altar" as axiomatic.

Its executive head is a director, chosen by the Governing Board.

He was also associated with Antonio Perez as one of the secretaries who acted as the agents of the king in all dealings with the various governing boards which formed the Spanish administration.

Its governing conception is that noble character may be associated with the most diverse creeds, and that there can, therefore, be no good reason why the holders of one sect of religious principles should not tolerate those who maintain wholly different doctrines.

After the annexation of the country in 1901 the relations between the governing power and the governed steadily improved.

The presbyters formed the governing body of the church.

His popularity had temporarily declined, and the fact that his proposals for parliamentary reform and Catholic emancipation had become the watchwords of the rebellious United Irishmen had brought upon him the bitter hostility of the governing classes.

But these gods have not on their shoulders the burden of upholding and governing the world, They are themselves the products of the order of nature - a higher species than humanity, but not the rulers of man, neither the makers nor the upholders of the world.

The increase of trade and a system of taxation provided the governing body with funds, which were used to fortify the city and in other ways to make life and property more secure.

Its work was practically that o governing Germany, and it was the most considerable encroachment which had yet been made on the power of the king.

The matter came before the diet, which was opened at Augsburg in July 1582, but the case was left undecided; afterwards, however, the Reichshofrat declared against the insurgents, although it was not until 1598 that Protestant worship was abolished and the Roman Catholic governing body was restored.

It was clear that in such a governing body neither Austria nor Prussia would be content with her constitutional position, and that the internal politics of Germany would resolve themselves into a diplomatic duel for ascendancy between the two powers, for which the diet would merely serve as a convenient arena.

This and other symptoms caused serious apprehension that some attempt might be made to alter the law of universal suffrage for the Reichstag, and it was policy of this kind which maintained and justified the profound distrust of the governing classes and the class hatred on which Social democracy depends.

The work itself, and the author's official connexion with India for the last seventeen years of his life, effected a complete change in the whole system of governing that country.

Sound industrial concerns were little touched by it, but speculation had become so general that every class of society was affected, and in the investigation which followed it became apparent that some of the most distinguished members of the governing Liberal party, including at least two members of the government, were among those who had profited by the unsound finance.

The Egyptian government wished to make a new attempt to recover the lost province, and the idea was certainly very popular among the governing class, but Sir Evelyn Baring vetoed the project on the ground that Egypt had neither soldiers nor money to carry it out.

The almspeople consisted of six " poor brethren " and six " poor sisters," and the teaching and governing staff of a master and a warden, who were always to be of the founder's surname, and four fellows, all " graduates and divines," among whom were apportioned the ministerial work of the chapel, the instruction of the boys, and the supervision of the almspeople.

He experimented in the outlying provinces of his empire; and the Russians noted with open murmurs that, not content with governing through foreign instruments, he was conferring on Poland, Finland and the Baltic provinces benefits denied to themselves.

It seems probable that the effect of the salts is inconsiderable, and that the governing condition is the temperature at which the cement has been burnt.

In Roman times the eastern half of the county formed part of the territory of the Silures, a pre-Celtic race, whose governing class at that time probably consisted of Brythonic Celts.

Governing Law.

The governing charter, which held force until the Municipal Corporation Act of 1835, was granted by James I.

The whites form an exclusive governing caste, as in Chile.

In the main he was right; but he forgot too much the provocation they had received, the usurpations and selfishness of the governing family, and the unpatriotic character of the king.

To frustrate the possibility of a French invasion of India, led by Napoleon in person, was the governing idea of Wellesley's foreign policy; for France at this time, and for many years later, filled the place afterwards occupied by Russia in the imagination of British statesmen.

No general law has been discovered governing these irregularities.

In spite of his good intentions, he was incapable of governing, and abandoned the power to his mother and his favourites.

The members were described as jurati (also burgenses, vicini, amici), although in some communes that term was reserved for the members of the governing body.

The number of the members of the governing body proper varies from twelve to a hundred, and its functions were both judicial and administrative.

The governing body consisted of a high steward, deputy steward, two water-bailiffs and 28 burgesses, but the cdrporation was abolished by the Municipal Corporation Act of 1883, and a Local Board was formed, which, under the Local Government Act, gave place in 1894 to an urban district council.

In 1618 the borough received its first charter of incorporation from James I., instituting a governing body of a mayor, 12 chief burgesses, and 12 assistant burgesses, with a recorder, deputy-recorder, townclerk and two serjeants-at-mace; a court of record every fortnight on Tuesday; and fairs at Michaelmas and on the second Tuesday after Trinity Sunday, which were kept up until within the last fifty years.

In a short time, however, the latter appears to have been assisted by a council, consisting of 13 consules (burgomasters) and 13 scabini (assessors), who collectively formed the governing and administrative body under the presidency of the bailiff.

The scheme met with keen opposition from the Mussulman governing classes and the ulema, or privileged religious teachers, and was but partially put in force, especially in the remoter parts of the empire; and more than one conspiracy was formed against the sultan's life on account of it.

From the time of its union with Russia at the Diet of Borga in 1809 till the events of 1899 (see History) Finland was practically a separate state, the emperor of Russia as grand-duke governing by means of a nominated senate and a diet elected on a very narrow franchise, and meeting at distant and irregular intervals.

In fact the special maxims usually placed under the head of taxation have really a wider scope as governing the whole financial system.

The chief reason for contracting local debt being the establishment of works that are, directly or indirectly, reproductive, the governing conditions are evidently to be found in the character and probable yield of those businesses.

Large pension charities are administered by the governing body, and part of the income of the hospital (about L60,000 annually) is devoted to apprenticing boys and girls, to leaving exhibitions from the school, &c.

An anthropomorphism which is specifically a " magomorphism " renders the sacred powers increasingly one with the governing element in society, and religion assumes an ethicopolitical character, whilst correspondingly authority and law are invested with a deeper meaning.

This was superseded by another in 1683 under which the governing body was to consist of a mayor and six aldermen.

The president of the governing body is appointed by the government, while the appointment of the remaining members is shared by the Swedish Academy, the Academy of Sciences and the City Council.

This school retains its separate governing board; whereas others of the class are under a central board.

The judges of the higher courts are appointed by the national executive, and those of the minor tribunals by the federal official governing the political division in which they are located.

Temple's new scheme of governing by a council which included the leaders of the Opposition, and which might have become a rival to the parliament, but this was an immediate failure.

Presbyterianism constituted a dangerous encroachment on the royal prerogative; the national church and the cavalier party were indeed the natural supporters of the authority of the crown, but on the other hand they refused to countenance the dependence upon France; Roman Catholicism at that moment was the obvious medium of governing without parliaments, of French pensions and of reigning without trouble, and was naturally the faith of Charles's choice.

A very valuable Report and Appendix (4 vols., 1884) was published, containing, inter alia, information on the constitution and powers of the governing bodies, the mode of admission of members of the companies, the mode of appointment, duties and salaries and other emoluments of the servants of the companies, the property of, or held in trust for, the companies, its value, situation and description.

Though a contingent of 700 was sent to Thermopylae and remained there with Leonidas to the end, the governing aristocracy soon after joined the enemy with great readiness and fought zealously on his behalf at the battle of Plataea (479).

Antonio Galvao, who, after governing the Moluccas with rare success and integrity, had been offered the native throne of Ternate, went home in 1540, and died a pauper in a hospital, his famous treatise only appearing posthumously.

The new buildings, on which an estimated amount of $150,000,000 had been expended up to April 1909, and numbering 25,000 at that date, were built under stringent city ordinances governing the methods of building employed, to reduce the danger from fire to a minimum.

They were members of the governing body known as the consulat, and in Latin documents are sometimes styled consiliarii, i.e.

By a law of April 1906 the U.S. consular service was reorganized and graded, the office of consul-general being divided into seven classes, and that of consul into nine classes; and on June 27 an executive order was issued by President Roosevelt governing appointments and promotions.

Gaul (Toulouse or perhaps Poitiers), and belonged, like Sidonius, to one of the great governing families of the Gaulish provinces.

The university is, moreover, rich in institutions for the promotion of medical and chemical science, for the most part housed in buildings belonging to the governing body.

The old king had sorrowfully confessed that God had not given him a son capable of governing his vast dominions, and had foreseen that Philip III.

In 1700 Peter the Great forbade the election of a new patriarch, and in 1721 he established the Holy Governing Synod to supply the place of the patriarch.

During the minority of Charles, Adrian was associated with Cardinal Jimenes in governing Spain.

Previously, the governing body consisted of seventy-five commissioners, of whom fifty were elected.

In 1910 that part of the law permitting municipalities to adopt these rules through their governing bodies was declared unconstitutional; but municipalities may adopt them by popular vote.

Later each of these twelve sold onehalf of his share to another associate, thus making twenty-four proprietors; and on the 14th of March the duke of York confirmed the sale, and gave them all the powers necessary for governing the province.

From the 26th of May to the 2nd of July 1776 the second provincial congress met at Burlington, Trenton and New Brunswick and for a time became the supreme governing power.

The governing body in a borough is the council elected by the burgesses.

In such a united district the governing body is a joint board constituted in manner provided by the order, and it has under the order such of the powers of a district council as are necessary for the purposes for which the united district is created.

A populous section of a town, in order to promote certain financial ends, is commonly incorporated as a village without however becoming a governing organization distinct from the town.

The governing classes are of course Russians, who constitute also the merchant and artizan classes.

He was also a man of education and intelligence, superior to those among whom he lived, with natural talents for governing and gaining the esteem of others.

In that city Ser Piero followed his profession with success, as notary to many of the chief families in the city, including the Medici, and afterwards to the signory or governing council of the state.

Conceiving that the motions of the universe and its parts are due to the desire which it and they feel towards the supreme external mind and its several thoughts, so that the cosmical order planned by the divine mind is realized in the phenomenal universe, Aristotle thus secures the requisite unification, not indeed of mind and matter, for mind and matter are distinct, but of the governing mind, the prime unmoved movent, since it and its thoughts are one.

The governing body consists of a municipal corporation and a town council.

The present governing charters were issued by James I.

In 1808 they formed a governing committee consisting of the metropolitan, another bishop, and four or five boiars under the presidency of General Kusnikov.

The native whites form the governing class, and enjoy most of the powers and privileges of political office.

The governing body was at first an executive committee of three citizens, but in 1845 this committee was abolished and a governor was chosen.

The governing body of the abbey consists of abbot, prior and the "convent" of canons (Stiftsherren).

The cause of the downfall of the dynasty, splendid and enlightened as any of its predecessors, was the system of governing by means of great feudatories, which also proved fatal to the Solanki rajas of Anhilvada.

Fosterage, the custom of sending children to be reared and educated in the families of fellow-clansmen, was so prevalent, especially among the wealthy classes, and the laws governing it are so elaborate and occupied such a large space, that some mention of it here is inevitable.

He excels as an expositor of the governing Hebrew ideas such as holiness, righteousness, Spirit of God, Messianism.

Though nothing was as yet systematized, the governing principle is laid down that the sin of the member affects the whole body, and therefore the society is bound to deal with it both from pity for the sinner, and for the sake of its own purity.

In the rest of the Midlands and in East Anglia they were only a governing oligarchy of scanty numbers.

France was ruined for a generation, England was exhausted by her effort, and (what was worse) her governing classes learnt in the long find pitiless war lessons of demoralization which were to bear fruit in the ensuing struggle of the two Roses.

This might have been more tolerable if the Lancastrian party had shown any governing power; but both while Somerset was their leader, down to his death in the first battle of St Albans, and while iii 1456-1459 Exeter, Wiltshire, Shrewshury and Beaumont were the queens trusted agents, the condition of England was de.

The governing and controlling body was naturally to be a council appointed at home.

His connexion with the college, indeed, was interrupted in 1831, when a disagreement with the governing body caused De Morgan and some other professors to resign their chairs simultaneously.

The constitution was unworkable and the governing authorities were mutually hostile.

Of the generals, some, like Jourdan, were honest republicans; others, like Bernadotte, believed themselves capable of governing France.

In the course of the Revolution we can discover no well-organized party, no governing mind.

On the other hand if our belief in the necessity of causal connexion is the result of custom, to custom will be due also the belief in a necessity governing human actions observable everywhere in men's ordinary opinions and practice.

This dualism of governing principles, conscience and self-love, in Butler's system, and perhaps, too, his revival of the Platonic conception of human nature as an ordered and governed community of impulses, is perhaps most nearly antici pated in Wollaston's Religion of Nature Delineated (1722).

Wollaston's theory of moral evil as consisting in the practical contradiction of a true proposition, closely resembles the most paradoxical part of Clarke's doctrine, and was not likely to approve itself to the strong common sense of Butler; but his statement of happiness or pleasure as a " justly desirable " end at which every rational being " ought " to aim corresponds exactly to Butler's conception of self-love as a naturally governing impulse; while' the " moral arithmetic " with which he compares pleasures and pains, and endeavours to make the notion of happiness quantitatively precise, is an anticipation of Benthamism.

This is partly due to the fact that Reid builds more distinctly than Price on the foundation laid by Butler; especially in his acceptance of that duality of governing principles which we have noticed as a cardinal point in the latter's doctrine.

It is subject, as a whole, to the ministry of education; for internal administration its governing body is a synod of five prelates, presided over by the archbishop of Belgrade, who is also the metropolitan of Servia.

After the battle of Kossovo Servia existed for some seventy years (1389-1459) as a country tributary to the sultans but governing itself under its own rules, who assumed the Greek title of " despot."

Francis Bacon's prescient dream, however, of a living astronomy by which the physical laws governing terrestrial relations should be extended to the highest heavens, had long to wait for realization.

Gravitation was thus shown to be the sole influence governing the movements of planets and satellites; the figure of the rotating earth was successfully explained by its action on the minuter particles of matter; tides and the precession of the equinoxes proved amenable to reasonings based on the same principle; and it satisfactorily accounted as well for some of the chief lunar and planetary inequalities.

The governing body is the General Assembly, consisting of ministers and laymen.

England, his chief enemy, was persistently active; and rebellion both of the governing and the governed broke out everywhere.

His appointment was three times renewed, on each occasion with the expressions of the highest esteem on the part of the governing body, and his yearly salary was progressively raised from 180 to l000 florins.

A wave of Clericalism and ultra-Catholic influences swept over the land, affecting the middle classes, the universities and learned societies, and making itself very perceptible also among the governing classes and both dynastic parties, Liberals and Conservatives.

He was, however, entirely free from personal ambition, and had no desire to be general over a number of dependent houses, so that he desired that _all congregations formed on his model outside Rome should be autonomous, governing themselves, and without endeavouring to retain control over any new colonies they might themselves send out - a regulation afterwards formally confirmed by a brief.

The oldest governing authority was the meeting of the heritors or landowners of the parish.

He deposed the governing oligarchy, changed the constitution of the town, forbade all alliances and laid the foundations of a castle.

Evesham received two later charters, but in 1688 that of 1605 was restored and still remains the governing charter of the borough.

He wasn't allowed to tell Rhyn, due to Immortal laws governing the dealings between deities.

In the matter of seven days, Gabriel had come close to breaking more Immortal Codes governing Death's actions in the mortal world than his predecessor did over hundreds of thousands of millennia.

The laws and magic governing the mate of an Immortal are much more forgiving.

It was the precedent in case law governing consent to treatment.

Also, the showery airflow governing the past few days seemed now to have moved on.

But these constitutive measures were not enough; the governing aristocracy for the time being was also directly assailed.

The power to perform these audits are mandated by the law governing the SAI.

Others sported red berets, symbolic of the governing Fifth Republic Movement party.

Managing the modern bank The 1998 Bank of England Act made changes to the Bank's governing body too.

Ricky Gervais ' s celebrity boxing bout has landed the BBC in trouble with the sport's governing body.

Predictably, the financial markets favor a continuation of the economic policies pursued by the governing coalition.

Eight out 10 people backed the compulsory use of such data without first seeking consent - provided there were tight rules governing its use.

Interestingly tho geographical contiguity was never a major consideration governing Greece and Turkeys ' membership.

To help finance its governing activities, the Company had in 1773 acquired a monopoly of opium cultivation in Bengal.

Its governing document is a trust deed dated 25 July 1995.

Environmental crimes affect significant numbers of people, while the range of laws governing such crimes crosses the public/private law divide.

However, the preparation of 'final accounts ' may be a requirement of the charity's governing document.

Many schools provide drinking fountains, but such provision is at the discretion of the head teacher and the governing body.

Every commandment is a royal edict, a statute which God hath made for the governing of the world.

They can undermine the governing elite 's monopoly of information in authoritarian systems.

At the basis of solution of such equations is a discretisation of the governing equations on a given mesh.

Section 25 allows for school governing bodies that wish to collaborate but not federate to set up joint committees.

An additional co-opted governor representing the minor authority is included in primary schools governing bodies.

Will he tell us which complete imbecile drew up the contracts governing the surgical center?

Mella headed the provisional governing junta of the new Dominican Republic.

They aimed to engineer the bacteria to contain a switch governing their sensitivity to the sugar maltose.

To find a qualified osteopath, contact their governing body for a list of local practitioners.

In very poetical terms it means " governing rightly and doing justly " .

We cannot make an Order to do anything which overrides a specific prohibition in the charity's governing document.

There are no specific statutory provisions governing secrecy in relation to companies.

The rules governing eligibility for international representation have created a political quagmire for several sports in Northern Ireland.

So a group of us organized what was in effect Oxford's first sit-in in the governing building.

And while it does this, a governing body must ensure the solvency of the college and safeguard its assets.

As John earl of Carrick he had had some success governing in his father's stead but he was disabled in a hunting accident.

Rules governing the circulation of Cabinet memoranda and consultation with the Treasury took on a greater stringency than ever before.

Each subschema subentry holds an operational attribute called governing subentry, whose value is its own distinguished name.

A number of suggestions have been made today for further changes in the law governing succession to the Throne.

In the following year he received an appointemnt as student interpreter in the China consular service, and after serving for a short time at the Ningpo vice-consulate, he was transferred to Canton, where after acting as secretary to the allied commissioners governing the city, he was appointed the local inspector of customs. There he first gained an insight into custom-house work.

The organism in this way is regarded as a machine, constructed from the particles of the seed, which in virtue of the laws of motion have arranged themselves (always under the governing power of God) in the particular animal shape in which we see them.

The town was to be the centre of this colony, where missionary work and religious liberty were to be promoted, and it remained the home of the governing board of the Moravian Church in the South.

The fact that a question of which Smith had given the solution in 1867, as a corollary from general formulae governing the whole class of investigations to which it belonged, should have been set by the Academie as the subject of their great prize shows how far in advance of his contemporaries his early researches had carried him.

A permanent place in the history of German literature belongs to Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August Wilhelm as the critical leaders of the Romantic school, which derived from them most of its governing ideas as to the characteristics of the middle ages, and as to the methods of literary expression.

It will probably be inevitable for American railway rates to trend somewhat upward in the future, as they have gradually declined in the past; but the process apparently cannot be accomplished without considerable friction with the governing authorities.

When Nitti was forced by the impossibility of governing the country to resign for the third and last time on May 20 1920, the return of Giolitti was the inevitable alternative.

And a genitive with prefixed d does not require the governing noun to precede it immediately, as must be the case when the construct is used.

The city is now governed under a charter of Charles II., confirming that of 1464, the governing body, consisting of a lord mayor, 12 aldermen and 36 councillors.

Foreign companies are permitted to transact business in Venezuela, subject to the laws relating to nonresidents and also to the laws of the country governing national companies.

The king, Prince Charles and the governing circle appreciated the merits of their faithful lieutenant less than did his enemies Waller and Fairfax, the former of whom wrote, "hostility itself cannot violate my friendship to your person," while the latter spoke of him as "one whom we honour and esteem above any other of your party."

They include a great number of revenue regulations, laws on civil matters such as mortgage, bankruptcy, rights of way, companies, etc., and laws governing the procedure of courts, all of which adhere to Western principles in the main.

Throughout Europe the governing classes regarded this " union of throne and altar " as axiomatic. For the pope, as eldest legitimate sovereign and protagonist against the Revolution, Consalvi obtained from the Congress of Vienna the restitution of the States of the Church in practically their full extent.

Membership of the governing council, which selected from its own body the four rationales or burgomasters, was confined to men of approved "wisdom," and wisdom was measured in terms of money.

But when the sovereigns power decayed, the imperial cities were really free republics, governing themselves according to their own ideas of law and justice (see COMMUNE).

At last a compromise was effected, and Newcastle undertook the work of bribing, whilst Pitt undertook the work of governing (see CHATHAM, WILLIAM PITT, 1ST EARL OF).

The signee of this permit has read the rules and regulations governing this event and agrees to be bound by them.

So a group of us organized what was in effect Oxford 's first sit-in in the governing building.

As John earl of Carrick he had had some success governing in his father 's stead but he was disabled in a hunting accident.

Once strategic and business plans are in place the governing body will have a continuing responsibility to ensure that the organization follows them.

This signal is used in the N p governing circuitry and for generation of a cockpit tachometer signal.

The regulations governing the use of electricity have been tightened considerably over the years.

Vasopressin cells display phasic discharge patterning that reflects bistability in the mechanisms governing membrane excitability.

Educate yourself on the laws governing adoption in your state.

Additionally, you should look into the insurance, governing bodies, audits, and compliance with regulation in relation to the reputation of the storage entity.

If you want to purchase lottery tickets online, it's important that you know the rules and regulations governing this type of purchase.

The Association of American Feed Control Officials is a governing body that substantiates Wellness' claims of providing total/balanced nutrition for your cat.

Your kitten's lifestyle is the real governing factor for a vaccination schedule.

Because there are no uniform codes governing greywater recycling, it is always best to contact your local city officials to see if greywater recycling is accepted in their jurisdiction.

The Association of Interior Designers (ASID) is the premier organization governing decorators.

If you are renting the space, consult management before bringing in an electrician because many rentals have rules governing the use of outside professionals.

People Magazine reports that TLC has issued a statement saying that they comply with all governing laws for every one of their shows, including Jon and Kate Plus 8.

Although there are a number of hotels and motels that welcome pets, each one has its own set of rules and regulations governing that stay, so you'll need to check with your intended hotel to get all the details.

Each facility in the network has it's own set of criteria governing adoptions, but Iams Home 4 the Holidays shelters work together to match the needs of the pets with the desires of the families.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, "There are no official rules governing the labeling of organic foods for pets at this time..."

In the United States, individual states oversee the laws governing the licensing requirements of assisted living facilities.

The bill, which defines terms like "heinous", "cruel", and "depraved" does not define a specific governing body to control the sales and guide retailers.

Sensorineural hearing loss-Hearing loss caused by damage to the nerves or parts of the inner ear governing the sense of hearing.

Teachers must provide the rules governing written language.

All states have laws governing compulsory education.

Under federal law governing special education, every child in public schools who is determined through assessment to have special mental disability needs has an IEP.

If you are thinking of burying your pet in your backyard, check with your local municipality for laws governing pet burial on residential property.

You don't have to understand each rule governing hospice care in order to be an effective consumer advocate for you or a family member.

One of the things to keep in mind when working with color is the element governing each sector of your home.

Five elements of feng shui are important principles governing this Chinese philosophy of placement.

The chi energy is the essence of Tao and becomes the energy governing the natural flow of life.

Each state has its own rules and regulations governing official vital records.

The Republic adapted a similar governing structure to that of the United States.

Displaced workers granted unemployment benefits must adhere to all rules governing the acceptance of an unemployment check or risk discontinuation of funds.

Part of the employee training deals with ensuring that employees are exposed to and complying with all applicable laws governing mortgage lending practices.

Fortunately, FHA (or its governing entity, Department of Housing and Urban Development - HUD) has in place certain guidelines which restrict the amount of money a buyer must pay for closing costs.

Regulations governing how private health coverage is sold vary from state to state.

We Want You on Our Team is a campaign run by USA Swimming, the national governing body for competitive swimming.

But before you donate your car, be sure you understand the tax rules governing those benefits.

With so many filing the suggested retail price and costing the government tax revenue, the rules governing car donations was changed in 2005.

The planet Mercury is responsible for governing the way one communicates.

A natal chart incorporates the zodiac into several governing planets and houses.

The personality profile of a Virgo is one of many depths and sides, but the overall governing force in this sun sign is the quest for perfection in an imperfect life.

The governing planet of a Capricorn is slow-moving Saturn, and some astrologers suggest that Capricorns define their approach to life in a similar fashion as Saturn; they are slow, considerate and not quick to jump into things.

The governing energy of the cycle is known as chi.

Instead, the birth year and governing energy cycles are of primary interest.

The Pisces personality is made up of two governing factors.

Providers may be required to keep detailed time sheets on the arrival and departure of the children, with both the parents and provider signing off on claim schedules periodically to be turned into the governing agency.

Laws governing tattoo shops and artists vary from one municipality to the next, but they are generally built around health and safety issues.

Each gang may have its own rules governing the addition of rings to the spider web tattoo.

In addition, European laws governing the legal sleeping arrangements in hotels are strict and many hotels have their own rules.

The act is a blueprint for companies to govern their financial activities.As a result of this act, ethical awareness in the workplace has risen as well as scrutiny from governing officials.

States have regulations governing language that must be used in the names of corporations, Limited Liability Corporations, Professional Corporations, and other specific business forms.

Most franchises require a substantial deposit and have rules governing aspects of the business such as marketing and promotions, product selection, and even where the franchise may be located.

Since there is no governing body overseeing the production of diet supplements, quality substances are not always used in the manufacturing process.

The pills and herbal supplements on the market today are not overseen by any governing agency, and their side effects can be quite severe, if not deadly.

It's important to note that there may be some risk when following a diet that heavily relies on dietary supplements, especially those that are not evaluated by any sort of governing body.

There is a national governing Pétanque body and club and for many, this is a great way to relax while on vacation.

F.F.P.J.P. is the governing body of rules for boules in France.

Pétanque America is an American governing body and source of information for those who want to play.

The candles represent the seven governing principles of Kwanzaa.

There are also guidelines in place governing the number of hours per week a minor may work.

The Prime Directive, the governing set of rules that maintains the purity of exploration and cultural contact, has not been written.

If you can imagine that all time exists at once, then you quickly realize that the timeline philosophy governing our world is false.

Over the years, the governing body of domain registrations added several new extensions.

Rhyn snorted and faced Sasha, the brother charged with governing Australia, and the first to abandon the Council in favor of serving the Dark One.

The foundation was closely modelled on Winchester College, with its warden and fellows, its grammar and song schoolmasters, but a step in advance was made by the masters being made fellows and so members of the governing body.

Once more, in the doctrine of sin and redemption, the governing idea is God's fatherly purpose for His family.

This governing oligarchy was known as " the patricians."

These triumphs, however, had all been obtained by force of arms; the more difficult task now awaited Cromwell of governing England by parliament and by law.

Copper is not yet universally employed, price being the governing factor in its employment; moreover, the conducting quality of the iron used for telegraphic purposes has of late years been very greatly improved.

Alcohol has undergone various oscillations, according to the legislation governing distilleries.

The popolo was the governing or upper class.

Elisa Bonaparte and her husband, Bacciocchi, rulers of Lucca and Piombino, became the heads of the administration in Tuscany, Elisa showing decided governing capacity.

The patriarchate was abolished and its jurisdiction transferred by a council at St Petersburg in 1721 to a Holy Governing Synod.

The governing synod is the final court of appeal.

The governing synod now sits at St Petersburg, but appoints delegated commissions, with a portion of its jurisdiction, in Moscow and Georgia.

The wealth of the burghers during this period was equalled by their turbulent spirit of independence; feuds were frequent, - against the rival city of Bruges, against the counts, or, within the city itself, between the plebeian crafts and the patrician governing class.

The governing body now consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors.

These branch, and may be packed or interwoven to form a very solid structure; but each grows in length independently of the others and retains its own individuality, though its growth in those types with a definite external form is of course correlated with that of its neighbors and is subject to the laws governing the general form of the body.

This conception of,the plant as an aggregate or colony of independent vital units governing the nutrition, growth and reproduction of the whole cannot, however, be maintained.

In provincial matters each province is independent, holds its own synods, makes its own laws, and elects its own governing board; but the General Synod meets, on the average, every ten years at Herrnhut, and its regulations are binding in all the provinces.

The rules governing elections to the zemstvos were taken as a model for the electoral law of 3906 and are sufficiently indicated by the account of this given below.

On principles governing railway rates in general, and specifically in England, see Acworth, The Railways and the Traders (London, 1891).

On comparative railway legislation and the principles governing it, see Hadley, Railroad Transportation; its History and its Laws (New York, 1885).

The fundamental condition governing the design of all tractive machinery is that the wheels belonging to the axles to which torque is applied shall roll along the rails without slipping, and exert a tractive force on the train.

Similarly, the subsidence of malaria during cold weather and its seasonal prevalence find an adequate explanation in the conditions governing insect life.

He immediately set about introducing certain urgent reforms, suppressed all subsidies to the press, and declared his intention of governing according to law and justice.

It was then governed by consuls, but various changes of constitution supervened in the direction of enlarging the governing body.

The supreme governing authority was vested in magistrates called Cosmi, answering in some measure to the Spartan Ephori, but there was nothing corresponding to the two kings at Sparta.

Succeeding begums have taken a great interest in the work of governing the state, which they carried on with marked success.

A governing charter, under the title of mayor and burgesses, was given by James II.

Thus a confederation was formed of which the Brahman peshwa or head was at Poona, governing the adjacent territories, while the members, belonging to the lower castes, were scattered throughout the continent of India.

Again, with the accession of large territories, the Order became a governing aristocracy; the original care for the sick, and even the later crusading zeal of the period of conquest, gave way, when conquests were gained and administration was needed, to the problem, half military, half political, of governing a frontier state.

The development of the powers of the central government has been less than that of the functions of local governing authorities.

Local governing authorities now discharge economic functions of enormous importance and complexity, involving sums of money larger than sufficed to run important states a generation ago.

The chief direct result in the life of the Egyptian people was the virtual destruction of the governing caste of the Mamelukes, the Turks finding it easy to rid themselves of their surviving chiefs and to re-establish the authority of the Sultan.