Instituted by Diocletian, it was avidly pursued by Galerius who noticed that Constantius was well disposed towards the Christians, and saw it as a method of advancing his career prospects with the aging Diocletian.

Instituted by Royal Statute, it was originally a hiring fair when domestic servants and farmworkers would be hired for the year.

* African Initiated Church, a Christian church founded by Africans, also known as African Independent Church, African Indigenous Church or African Instituted Church

On the obverse is an image of Britannia surrounded by the motto, with the words " For Meritorious Service " at the bottom ; on the reverse is George V's Imperial and Royal Cypher, with the words " Instituted by King George V " at the bottom.

Instituted on 6 September 1886 by Queen Victoria in a Royal Warrant published in the London Gazette on 9 November, the first DSOs awarded were dated 25 November 1886.

Instituted in 1986 by Lieutenant Governor Lincoln Alexander, on the advice of the Cabinet under Premier David Peterson, the civilian order is administered by the Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former Ontario residents for conspicuous achievements in any field.

Instituted in 1989 by Lieutenant Governor David Lam, on the advice of the Cabinet under Premier Bill Vander Zalm, the order is administered by the Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former British Columbia residents for conspicuous achievements in any field, being thus described as the highest honour amongst all others conferred by the British Columbia Crown.

Instituted in 1984 when Lieutenant Governor Jean-Pierre Côté granted Royal Assent to the Loi sur l ' Ordre national du Québec ( National Order of Quebec Act ), the order is administered by the Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former Quebec residents for conspicuous achievements in any field, being thus described as the highest honour in Quebec and French America.

Instituted in 1979 when Lieutenant Governor Frank C. Lynch-Staunton granted Royal Assent to the Alberta Order of Excellence Act, the order is administered by the Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former Alberta residents for conspicuous achievements in any field, being thus described as the highest honour amongst all others conferred by the Alberta Crown.

Instituted by the Mughal emperor Akbar, mansabdari was a system common to both the military and the Civil department.

Instituted lectors are obliged, when proclaiming the readings at Mass, to wear an alb ( with cincture and amice unless the form of the alb makes these unnecessary )-the wearing of cassock and surplice is excluded-others who perform the same function are neither required nor forbidden by universal law of the Latin Church to do so: " During the celebration of Mass with a congregation a second priest, a deacon, and an instituted reader must wear the distinctive vestment of their office when they go up to the ambo to read the word of God.

* February 11-World Day of the Sick, Instituted by Pope John Paul II

Instituted in 1985 by Lieutenant Governor Frederick Johnson, on the advice of the Cabinet under Premier Grant Devine, the order is administered by the Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former Saskatchewan residents for conspicuous achievements in any field, being thus described in law as the highest honour amongst all others conferred by the Saskatchewan Crown.

Instituted in 2001, when Lieutenant Governor Arthur Maxwell House granted Royal Assent to the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador Act, the order is administered by the Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former Newfoundland and Labrador residents for conspicuous achievements in any field, being thus described as the highest honour amongst all others conferred by the Newfoundland and Labrador Crown.

Instituted in 1996 by Lieutenant Governor Gilbert Clements, on the advice of the Cabinet under Premier Catherine Callbeck, the order is administered by the Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former Prince Edward Island residents for conspicuous achievements in any field, being thus described as the highest honour amongst all others conferred by the Prince Edward Island Crown.

Instituted in 1999 when Lieutenant Governor Peter M. Liba granted Royal Assent to The Order of Manitoba Act,

Instituted on 2 August 2001, when Lieutenant Governor Myra Freeman granted Royal Assent to the Order of Nova Scotia Act, the order is administered by the Governor-in-Council and is intended to honour current or former Nova Scotia residents for conspicuous achievements in any field, being thus described as the highest honour amongst all others conferred by the Nova Scotia Crown.

Instituted in the first years of the University, L ' Acadien yearbook is an annual publication chronicling the events and student life on campus.

The Czechoslovak War Cross 1918 was awarded for acts of military valour during the years of World War I. Instituted on November 7, 1918, it was issued to Czechoslovak citizens and also, upon application, to citizens of Germany and Austria who had served in the Czechoslovak armed forces during the Great War with distinction and bravery and also during border conflicts with Poland and Hungary.

Instituted on April 1, 1941, as reward for men who attempted or managed to break the Allied sea blockade.

Instituted under a Garda Act its activities were to be devoted to auxiliary police and internal security work.

Stoddard wanted to develop the " Instituted Church " in order to preserve purity among the ministers.

Instituted in 1861 as an award equal in rank to the Order of the Red Eagle, it could only be awarded to commissioned officers ( or civilians of approximately equivalent status ), but there was a medal associated with the order which could be earned by non-commissioned officers and enlisted men.

Instituted in 1902, it is named after the physics professor Robert Thalén.

Instituted in 2008, the Biogen Idec Foundation is to improve the quality of peoples lives and contribute to the vitality of the communities in which they operate.

Instituted in March 1934, the medal is solid silver, with the obverse bearing a depiction of an eagle with a wreath in its talons, with the date 9. Nov.

* Instituted an accelerated audit program that has completed more than 772 of the 800 backlogged audits inherited from the former program

* Waite, Arthur Edward, A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry ( Ars Magna Latomorum ) and of Cognate Instituted Mysteries: Their Rites, Literature, and History, New York: Wings Books, 1994.

These include the Mumbai University Institute of Chemical Technology, formerly ( UDCT ), the Alkesh Dinesh Mody Instituted for Financial and Management Studies ( ADMI ), etc.

* John Abraham Award for Best Malayalam Cinema: Instituted by Federation of Film Societies of India-Kerala since 1998, distributed annually.

Instituted in 1851, the Order was awarded in five classes, with the First Class being the highest.

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Instituted in 1981, retrospective awards were dated back to 1955 ; prior to that, the League awarded the Leading Goalkicker Medal. The winners of the medal are:

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

For the year 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.

About 80 percent of these long-range requirements should be met by the year 2000.

* Aberdeen ( film ), a film ( 2000 ) directed by Hans Petter Moland, starring Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Headey

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

Unlike the Semitic Akkadians and their descendant Assyrians, whose Anatolian possessions were peripheral to their core lands in Mesopotamia, the Hittites were centred at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia by 2000 BC.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

For example, the creation of argon fluorohydride ( HArF ), a marginally stable compound of argon with fluorine and hydrogen, was reported by researchers at the University of Helsinki in 2000.

Public demonstrations usually take place without government interference, though one rally in November 2000 by an opposition party was followed by the arrest and imprisonment for a month of its organizer.

In implementing its strategy to regain political dominance over post-Soviet countries by taking over their economic infrastructure, the Russian state, since 2000, has acquired several key assets in the energy sector and Soviet-era industrial plants.

The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

Lawson repeatedly predicted the worldwide adoption of Lawsonian principles by the year 2000.

* Abduction ( novel ), a 2000 novel by novelist Robin Cook

It was rebuilt again by 1783 and this is the building that can be seen today, unchanged except for renovations done to it in 2000.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

La Passione di Gesù Cristo, critical edition by Elena Biggi Parodi, Suvini Zerboni, Milano 2000, XLIV, 222 pages.

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.

These were dated by the geologist Ferdinand A. Fouqué, somewhat arbitrarily, to 2000 B. C., by consideration of the superincumbent eruptive stratum.

And against the sack of Megara, she had to face the temporary capture of the castle of Aegina by Kemal Reis and the carrying off of 2000 Aeginetans.

As part of the introduction of mobile phone competition in Australia, the Australian government mandated GSM as the new standard for mobile networks, and required that Telstra close the AMPS network by 2000.

Altair was later observed to be flattened by infrared interferometric measurements made by the Palomar Testbed Interferometer in 1999 and 2000.