The Hunnic menace to Sassanid lands continued until the reign of Khosrau I . Balash failed to take adequate measures to counter the Hephthalite incursions, and after a rule of four years, he was deposed in favor of Kavadh I, his nephew and the son of Peroz.
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Although the Rule of Four in general has remained constant for some time-- i . e ., that it takes four votes to grant a petition for certiorari-- the ancillary aspects of it have changed throughout the years and Justices have not always agreed about these aspects.
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He realizes that the entire book contains a message encoded by following a " rule of four ", in which the message starts with one letter, then moves to a letter four rows down, then ten columns right, then two rows up, then two columns left, and repeating.
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Justice Harlan felt that even if he disagreed with a grant of certiorari, the Rule of Four " requires that once certiorari has been granted a case should be disposed of on the premise that it is properly heard, in the absence of considerations appearing which were not manifest or fully apprehended at the time certiorari was granted ."
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Two books that already have been best sellers are expected to have continued success over the summer : " The Da Vinci Code " ( Doubleday ) by Dan Brown, dissects the origins of Jesus Christ and disputes long-held beliefs about Catholicism, while " The Rule of Four " ( Dial ) by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, follows two Princeton University students who try to solve the riddle of a fantastical love story published in 1499 and written in multiple languages.