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omission

[ō′mish·ən]
(geology)
The elimination or nonexposure of certain stratigraphic beds at the surface of any specified section because of disruption and displacement of the beds by faulting.
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(170) The offense under [section] 262 is an omissive offense that imposes a duty to act on the basis of another person's intentions.
The results of the numerical simulation show that the proposed PCA method based on the Gap metric has better performance in omissive judgement of fault, compared with the traditional PCA method and the one in European space.
The statistical population of the research includes all listed companies in Tehran stock exchange during 2008 to 2012 and determined sample were selected based on the following condition (the applied sampling method is systematic omissive method).
The parsing test result of WMT 2012 German corpus shows that the omissive German POS tags in the mapping table include "PWAV, PROAV, PIDAT, PWAT, PWS, PRF, $*LRB*, and *TN*," of which "*TN*" is a formal style (N is replaced in practical parsing results by the integer number such as 1, 2, etc.).
Another position contested the amendment, but by understanding, at least in this case, as secondary the literal content of the Fundamental Law; criticized the "positivist legalism" consistent in a sacred reverence to the constitutional text (which would have already been overtaken and subverted by the process of European integration); and added that, even in case of prohibition of the referendum by that text, "the referendum will always be constitutional and, in such case, the prohibiting or omissive rule clearly unconstitutional in substance" (40).
Nonetheless, the debate as to the nature of omissive conduct and the propriety of liability for omissions continues with little movement towards a generally satisfactory resolution or, apparently, improved understanding among theoretical adversaries.(2)