This little-noticed leap second was a crude solution to a problem that began five years earlier, when atomic clocks replaced the rotation of the earth as the authoritative instrument for measuring time.
Governments that face simple actor settings are able to directly influence actor behavior, and are therefore more likely to resort to authoritative policy instruments [ 7].
Thus, different strands of regulation studies share an agreement on the subject of regulation (the state), the object (the behaviour of nongovernmental actors), the instruments (an authoritative set of rules), or the domain of application (e.g., the economy).
Steve, the skipper, silent and authoritative, looks at his navigation instruments.
Alice Neary's performance was exemplary, always authoritative in the interaction with other instruments and, most memorably, investing the passage where her arpeggiated cello line was mirrored in gentle pizzicato by the orchestral cellists with a misty, ethereal quality.
Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments was pungent, bright-toned and crisply authoritative rather than elegiac.
It offers the government's most authoritative view to date on whether investors, using specialized instruments known as index funds and commodity swaps, have contributed to the sharp run-up in oil prices since 2002.
His "Chain 2" is dancing and delicate, and has the solo instrument spinning through a variety of violinistic characters: authoritative and fanciful, dreamy and humorous, athletic and morose.
To ears seasoned by other recitals and guided by Mr. Latry's authoritative 2002 Deutsche Grammophon CD survey of Messiaen's organ works, the instrument provided all the brilliance, tonal variety and penetration required by French music, Messiaen's included.
Even those unaware of his authoritative performances and recordings with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, a period-instrument ensemble from San Francisco, might have heard him conduct a "Messiah" with the Philharmonic in 2003 or 2007.
6) Parenting style (potential moderating variable) was measured with the Parental Authority Questionnaire-Revised, containing 30 items, with three subscales indicating authoritative (democratic), permissive, and authoritarian (autocratic) parenting [ 49]. 7) The FACES II instrument's family cohesion subscale (16 items) was used to assess family cohesion (potential moderating variable) [ 50].
