Eventually he gained formal adoption and inclusion of the Twelve Traditions in all future editions of the Big Book.

Previously, the Canadian federal constitution could be amended by solitary act of the Canadian or British parliaments, by formal or informal agreement between the federal and provincial governments, or even simply by adoption as ordinary custom of an oral convention or unwritten tradition that was perceived to be the best way to do something.

For example, while in a conversion to Judaism a convert must accept basic Jewish principles of faith, and renounce all other religions, the process is more like a form of adoption, or changing national citizenship ( i. e. becoming a formal member of the people, or tribe ), with the convert becoming a " child of Abraham and Sarah.

However, in January 69, his hopes were dashed by Galba's formal adoption of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus, whom Galba had previously named a recipient in his will.

The security and continued prosperity of the wealthy estate must have necessitated formal ties with local kings or chieftains, which explains the adoption of the distinctly Thracian royal name " Όloros " into the family.

Historically some societies have enacted specific laws governing adoption where others have tried to achieve adoption through less formal means, notably via contracts that specified inheritance rights and parental responsibilities.

England and Wales established their first formal adoption law in 1926.

Since the Union of Horodlo of 1413, local nobility was assimilated into the traditional clan system by means of the formal procedure of adoption by the szlachta ( Polish gentry ).

One form of norm adoption is the formal method, where norms are written down and implemented ( e. g., laws, legislation, club rules ).

Since the adoption of the current constitution of Germany in 1949 the formal title of the office in the German language is once again Bundeskanzler.

While the Basic Law was modified rather than replaced by a constitution as such, it still permits the adoption of a formal constitution by the German people at some time in the future.

Livia Drusilla, ( Classical Latin:, ) ( 30 January 58 BC – 28 September AD 29 ), after her formal adoption into the Julian family in AD 14 also known as Julia Augusta, was an empress of Rome as the third wife of the emperor Augustus Caesar, as well as his adviser.

The Council now styles itself the " London Borough of Bexley " in common with its formal name, although it previously styled itself " Bexley London Borough " until 1999 ( possibly to maintain the link with its predecessor, Bexley Municipal Borough ), and " Bexley Council " from 1999 to October 2007, when it reverted to its full formal name in conjunction with the adoption of a new Council logo bearing this name alongside the 1965 Coat of Arms.

The DVB-T2 specification was approved by the DVB Steering Board in June 2008 and sent to ETSI for adoption as a formal standard.

Born in Algeria, his mother was the only child of Prince Louis II and Marie Juliette Louvet ; she was later legitimized through formal adoption and subsequently named heiress-presumptive to the throne of Monaco.

Echoing Wallerstein's global perspective to an extent, imperial historian Bernard Porter views Britain's adoption of formal imperialism as a symptom and an effect of her relative decline in the world, and not of strength: " Stuck with outmoded physical plants and outmoded forms of business organization, now felt the less favorable effects of being the first to modernize.

One is the pidato adat ( ceremonial orations ) which are performed by panghulu ( clan chiefs ) at formal occasions such as weddings, funerals, adoption ceremonies, and panghulu inaugurations.

With formal adoption ( inauguration ) of the Amendment IX to the Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the anthem Hey, Slavs gained constitutional sanction on November 25, 1988.

Inspired by his leadership, forces against institutionalization gathered momentum, and the practice of formal adoption gained popularity.

The amendment, the first ever to the TRIPS Agreement, was circulated to WTO members for formal adoption.

In 2007, Geldof applied to a British court for and was granted formal adoption of Tiger Lily and a change of her surname to Geldof, despite opposition from Hutchence's mother and sister.

Another common obstacle to the adoption of formal business rule management is resistance from employees who understand that their knowledge of business rules is key to their employment.

The thought expressed in this book expands substantively on W. W. Greg ’ s groundbreaking theory that argued for the adoption of formal bibliographic principles ( Greg 29 ).

As seen in the B. family, there must be an attempt to help the client develop conscious awareness of the problem, especially in the absence of a formal request for assistance.

( A formal proof for all finite sets would use the principle of mathematical induction to prove " for every natural number k, every family of k nonempty sets has a choice function.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

* Cone ( formal languages ), an abstract family of languages that contains the languages with a regular grammar

# Community organizations: range from informal family or kinship networks, to more formal incorporated associations, political decision making structures, economic enterprises, or professional associations at a small, national or international scale.

Additionally, this family of formal languages can be obtained by regular expressions.

* In the early 1970s, Ted Patrick — a man with plenty of street smarts but, at the time, no formal training in counseling — believed that members of his family were being brainwashed by David Berg, the leader of a group called the Family International, now known as " The Family.

In an English-speaking context, family names are most often used to refer to a stranger or in a formal setting, and are often used with a title or honorific such as Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, Dr, and so on.

Any formal or informal group — a family, a church, a club, a business, a trade union — may be said to have government.

Also, developments in fertility awareness since the 1960s have given rise to natural family planning organizations such as the Billings Ovulation Method, Couple to Couple League and the Creighton Model FertilityCare System, which actively provide formal instruction on the use and reliability of natural methods of birth control.

This is simpler for the government and family members than the formal process for commitment under mental health laws.

In many countries women have limited access to property following restrictive inheritance and family laws, under which only men have actual or formal rights to own property.

She was forced to end her formal studies because her family, like many others, was financially ruined during the Panic of 1837.

The graduation is an important and formal family event, like christening, wedding, and funeral.

Being exterior to the individual person, social facts may thus also exercise coercive power on the various people composing society, as it can sometimes be observed in the case of formal laws and regulations, but also in situations implying the presence of informal rules, such as religious rituals or family norms.

It is generally considered inappropriate for a man to remove his jacket during a formal social event, but when hot weather and humidity dictate, the ranking man ( of the royal family, the guest of honor ) may give men permission by noticeably taking off his jacket.

Researchers at NICTA and its spinout Open Kernel Labs have recently performed such a formal verification of seL4, a member of the L4 microkernel family, proving functional correctness of the C implementation of the kernel.

In 1975, Olson's family received a $ 750, 000 settlement from the U. S. government and formal apologies from President Gerald Ford and CIA Director William Colby, though their apologies were limited to informed consent issues concerning Olson's ingestion of LSD.

His formal coronation took place in June 1974, and soon thereafter the strains between the Wangchucks and Dorjis were relieved with the return that year of the exiled members of the latter family.

The Allenby family lodged a formal complaint against Columbia about the portrayal of their ancestor.

Party officials were looking for promising candidates with backgrounds similar to Lysenko's: born of a peasant family, without formal academic training or affiliations to the academic community.

Addresses to the Emperor were always to be formal and self-deprecatory, even by the closest of family members.

When the Family Court was established, an attempt was made to make the court less formal and more ‘ family friendly ’, with a proposal that wigs should not be worn, although gowns would be retained.

Hu Yaobang was born into a poor peasant family, and received little formal education.