Some point to ancient religious texts, others to rigid classifications of more local definitions of community and identities by British imperial administrators.
Classifications are a blunt tool but they work for films, largely, so why not music?
A long list of games are banned or censored for the Australian market, as a result of more stringent classifications.
In the past year 40m classifications of galaxies have been submitted on 1m galactic objects in the Galaxy Zoo.
Based on the classifications of legal scholars, the economists divide civil-law countries into three groups.
John English, UDEX's managing director, compares the new classifications to a common currency that all parts of the supply chain can deal in.The system, which will be available on a secure website, will include details such as ingredients and calorie content.
Three years after Frontiero, the court adopted a new standard of heightened scrutiny for gender and sex classifications (ironically, in a case involving discrimination against young men), but it has never used anything but the rational basis test when examining discrimination by sexual orientation.
Because governments formulate criminal and social policies based upon classifications of harm, a new study published by the Lancet on November 1st makes interesting reading.
In a brief on behalf of Baby Veronica, Paul Clement, a conservative lawyer representing the child's guardian in the case, points out a connection to Palmore v. Sidoti, an equal-protection case: In Palmore, this Court struck down the use of racial classifications to remove a child from an appropriate custody placement.
Pro-reformers believe that better bank inspections and stricter rules on loan classification would help tackle the rot.Such ideas have met surprising resistance from Hakuo Yanagisawa, the minister in charge of financial affairs, who insists that bank inspections and loan classifications are tough enough already.
Earlier this year, it enforced stricter loan classifications, prompting Bank Mandiri and Bank Nasional Indonesia (BNI), the country's biggest and third-biggest banks respectively, to report a surge in non-performing loans.It is no coincidence, analysts say, that both are controlled by the state, which has reformed less than private owners.
