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word and premier
One proposal was " Denendeh " ( an Athabaskan language word meaning " our land "), as advocated by the former premier Stephen Kakfwi, among others.
In Canadian French, the equivalent of the English word " premier " is " premier ministre ", which is also the word used for " prime minister ".
In climbing to these positions of mainstream acceptance, both leagues had faced competition and absorbed the opposition to the fullest extent of the word, ultimately securing themselves as the premier organizations.

word and leader
For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.
The word is also most commonly used for the Islamic leader of the Ummah ; starting with Muhammad and his line of successors.
The Nova was one of the first 16-bit minicomputers and was a leader in moving to word lengths that were multiples of the 8-bit byte.
The founder and first leader of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, noted in his journal that this event was a literal fulfillment of the word of God and a sure sign that the coming of Christ is close at hand.
The word monarch is derived from the Greek μονάρχης ( from μόνος, " one / singular ," and ἄρχων, " leader / ruler / chief ") through the Latin: monarcha ( mono: " one " + arch " chief ") which referred to a single, at least nominally, absolute ruler.
The word " Moonie " is derived from the name of Sun Myung Moon, the founder and leader of the Unification Church.
Sun Myung Moon directed minister and civil rights leader James Bevel to form a protest by religious officials against the Chicago Tribune because of the newspaper's use of the word.
The pope ( from ; from ( pappas ), a child's word for father ) is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.
The leader of a gang was called the ' jemadar ': this is an ordinary Indian word and is now used as the rank of an Army officer ( Lieutenant ), who would command a similar number of men to a Thuggee gang-leader.
Ursus, would become the first of 117 " doges " ( doge is the Venetian dialect development of the Latin dux (" leader "); the corresponding word in English is duke, in standard Italian duce.
For several years Hebrew-English WordStar was the de facto WYSIWYG word processor leader until, inevitably, was ousted by younger competitors.
" Sankara, a charismatic leader, sought by word, deed, and example to mobilize the masses and launch a massive bootstrap development movement.
The capability is very rare ; in " The Andorian Incident ", the Andorians, whose technology is far superior to Starfleet's in many regards, are explicitly stated not to possess the technology, and in " Chosen Realm ", a group of alien religious extremists who hijack the ship is unaware of it to the point that when Archer, choosing himself when their leader insists on sacrificing a crew member, takes the captain at his word when told that the device disintegrates matter rather than teleporting it.
The Latin word prīnceps ( older Latin * prīsmo-kaps, literally " the one who takes the first "), became the usual title of the informal leader of the Roman senate some centuries before the transition to empire, the princeps senatus.
Exactly when the word bluegrass itself was adopted to label this form is not certain, but is believed to be in the late 1950s, and was derived from the name of the seminal Blue Grass Boys band, formed in 1939 with Bill Monroe as its leader.
The Doge of Venice (; Venetian: Doxe ; ; both derived from Latin dux, " military leader "), often mistranslated as Duke ( the Italian word for duke is " Duca "), was the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years.
Named for the leader of each group ( the Schmiedeleut, Dariusleut, and Lehrerleut, leut being based on the German word for people ), they settled initially in the Dakota Territory ; later, Dariusleut colonies were established in central Montana.
Clementia was seen as a good trait within a leader, it also the Latin word for " humanity " or " forbearance ".
The word itself derives from the Greek " στρατηγία " ( strategia ), " office of general, command, generalship ", in turn from " στρατηγός " ( strategos ), " leader or commander of an army, general ", a compound of " στρατός " ( stratos ), " army, host " + " ἀγός " ( agos ), " leader, chief ", in turn from " ἄγω " ( ago ), " to lead ".

word and provincial
Furthermore all legislation that is not a law in the strict sense of the word ( such as policy guidelines or laws proposed by provincial or municipal government ) can be tested on their constitutionality.
The word Zhejiang ( crooked river ) was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital.
During the Unified Silla Period ( AD 668 – 935 ), Korea was divided into nine Ju ( 주 ; ), an old word for " province " that was used to name both the kingdom's provinces and its provincial capitals.
" True to his word, he introduced legislation in the spring of 1916 giving women the vote in all provincial and municipal elections.
The word " Équateur " is French for the Equator, which lies less than south of the provincial capital of Mbandaka, a city on the Congo River.
The Dominion of Canada, however, continued to operate as before the Statute was passed-at Canada's request-because the federal and provincial governments could not agree on an amending formula for the Canadian Constitution, among other federal-provincial conflicts ( e. g., there was no Canadian citizenship until 1 January 1947, but Canadians were " British Subjects " prior to that date ; and court cases from provincial courts could by-pass the Supreme Court of Canada for direct appeal to the Privy Council in London, which also had power to overrule the Canadian Supreme Court, until 1947-because the provinces did not want Ottawa to have the last word in judicial disputes, and did not want a Canadian citizenship that would be distinct from imperial citizenship.
Bans were also provincial administrators in the Kingdom of Hungary, where each of the provinces was called banat ; the Croatian word for province was banovina.
Nevertheless, the Court of Appeals in Manitoba determined in 1991 that party's use of the word " Reform " at the provincial level was legal.
For the capital city of Rome, the word < span style =" font-variant: small-caps "> Roma </ span > replaces the two-digit provincial code.
After Poland regained independence, provincial sejms were restored in the Second Polish Republic, although they used the word sejm, not sejmik, as their names.
After Hepburn was appointed Premier, following the Liberal Party's victory in the 1936 provincial election, he was as good as his word and ensured that Albert Edward Matthews would be the last Ontario Lieutenant Governor to live in an official residence ; in 1937, after only 22 years and seven viceroys, Chorley Park was closed.

word and territorial
Further, the use of the word attempt in Paragraph 6 denotes future action and cannot be construed to justify territorial redress for past action.
Later in Eastern Christendom, after a process of title-inflation, multiplying the numbers of dioceses, metropolitans and ( arch ) bishops and reducing their territorial size, the use of the word was gradually modified and came to refer to the diocese of a bishop.
The use of the word territorial signified that the volunteers who served with the force were under no obligation to serve overseas — in 1910, when asked to nominate for Imperial Service overseas in the event of mobilisation, less than 10 % of the Force chose to do so.
Home ranges overlap extensively, so groups are not territorial in the strictest sense of the word.
A basic territorial community was perhaps called a laūks, a word attested in Old Prussian as " field ".
' Manor ' comes from the same root — territorial holdings granted to a lord who would remain there — hence it can be seen how the word ' Mansion ' came to have its meaning.
The word “ opole ” comes from Slavic, and means a basic territorial unit of Slavic tribes.
One suggested etymology of the word, from Edward Lye in the 18th century, is in the Icelandic territorial division hreppr, meaning ' district or tract of land '.
The Hungarian word megye is likely derived from Southern Slavic medja ( međa, међа ) meaning approximately territorial border.
The Hungarian word ispán ( county head ) is derived from the Southern Slavic word župan ( жупан ), which was used by the Slavs living in the Carpathian Basin before the arrival of the Hungarians and stood for the head of various territorial units.
In fact, prior to statehood, the territorial government requested that the state be named Deseret, another word for " Honeybee " according to Latter-day Saint belief.
This is how the word emerged, Talik is one of the Sultanate of Suguda Buayan but under the territorial jurisdiction of the Sultanate of Maguindanao and the Sultan at the time was Sultan Mangurun.
However, when a group of five businessmen offered the league $ 25, 000 for territorial rights, Commissioner Pay Kelly told Cullen that he " was a man of his word " and offered the franchise to him for the same price, in which Cullen accepted.
Kummeli comes from a Finnish word for a sea marker ( basically, a pile of stones, a cairn ) which indicates territorial waters.

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