The state's Department of Revenue has spent months conceiving rules for this new industry, ending the reefer-madness phase here in favor of buzz-killing specifics about cultivation, distribution, storage and every other part of the business.
In much of political philosophy, social institutions are conceived legalistically, as rules for the distribution of tangible benefits and burdens (such as money, health care, employment opportunities, and the like).
Law statements are straightforwardly conceived as inference rules, such that if "All As are Bs" is a law statement, then it permits the scientists to infer 'Ba' from 'Aa'.
The former state GOP chairman conceived the complicated rules for awarding presidential delegates in the state's primary, positioning the Cruz operation well in California's delegate hunt.
Otherwise, rules conceived and implemented locally might not be enforceable to outsiders who do not respect local customs and are beyond the reach of community-imposed punitive actions.
But he also indicated that it would take little ingenuity to get round such ill-conceived rules and noted that broadcasters conceded that it affected only a minuscule percentage of their coverage.
If politicians respond by issuing ill-conceived rules on pay that strangle the entrepreneurial spirit, the only thing that will end up getting derailed is a global economic recovery.
But the rule, conceived of in 1999, when the S.E.C. was fighting uphill to curb conflicts of interest in the auditing profession, never made it past the drafting stage.
4. Debate must be limited to the merits of the question (1610): "A member speaking, and his speech, seeming impertinent, and there being much hissing and spitting, it was conceived for a Rule, that Mr. Speaker may stay impertinent speeches".
Romania's recent cinema renaissance continued with the episodic film Amintiri din epoca de aur (Tales from the Golden Age), a patchy but watchable panorama of the absurdities of life under communist rule, conceived, written, and partly directed by Cristian Mungiu.
