The system was established as a trade-off that provides a public benefit: the state agrees to grant a limited monopoly to an inventor in return for disclosing how the technology works.
New York has been on "orange" alert, or the second-highest level -- indicating a high risk of terror attack -- since the color-coded warning system was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
In California, emergency management officials activated their statewide threat assessment system, which was established after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Agricultural Market Information System, which was established last year and allows the world's major food producers to work off common data as well as providing a forum for discussion, has played an important part.
Vertu had chosen Android over Windows as an operating system because it was more established, chief executive Perry Oosting told the BBC.
The early fruit was the Bretton Woods monetary system, which established the rules governing commercial relations between the big industrial nations.
That agreement was superceded by another which established a mandate system of French and British control, sanctioned by the new League of Nations.
In the 20 years since it was first established, the national background check system has already kept more than 2 million dangerous people from buying a gun.
Through a specific system for monitoring the Convention established by UNESCO - which was the first of its kind in monitoring and evaluation of United Nations conventions - individual reports will be presented.
UNESCO: All Events | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
The Bush White House was slow to realise that the Soviet system was falling apart and clung too long to its well-established links with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader.
At this time the system of fixed currency rates established under the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944 was in disarray.
Under the scheme, which was established in 2005, permits for emitting CO2 are distributed under a system of national allocations.
The Absent Teacher Reserve pool was established in the 2005 teachers' contract, when forced job-placement within the school system ended.
These cases involve a complex web of federal laws and legal principles, including the patent system established under the Constitution, antitrust law, and the Hatch-Waxman Act, a 1984 law that was intended to give generic manufacturers an incentive to challenge patents.
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