Geometry is the study of the properties of figures that remain the same while the space is transformed in various ways --- more technically, it is the study of invariants under a set of transformations.

Two months after Dr. Adams ’ arrival, the Florida Legislature removed junior colleges from oversight by county school boards, and transformed their advisory boards into district boards of trustees.

In 1993, Sudan transformed into an Islamic totalitarian single-party state as al-Bashir abolished the Revolutionary Command Council and created the National Islamic Front ( NIF ) with a new parliament and government obtained solely by members of the NIF, and proclaimed himself President of Sudan.

The 1898 statute granted the Commissioner in Council “ the same powers to make ordinances ... as are possessed by the Lieutenant Governor of the North-west Territories, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly thereof .” In 1908, amendments to the Yukon Act transformed the Council into an elected body.

In 1995, Leeds City Council and Leeds Groundwork formed a partnership which, together with local residents and community groups, transformed the former colliery into a 50 hectare country park.

In 1918, the Finnish Senate was transformed into the Council of State ( or cabinet ) of Finland, and the position of Vice-Chairman of the Economic Division of the Senate was transformed into that of a Prime Minister.

As thinking developed, particularly in the context of decolonisation, and churches wanted to recognise the gifts of people of the South, the London Missionary Society transformed into the Council for World Mission – an organisation in which the United Reformed Church is no more important than the Church of South India ( for example )

The concept, defined as a dogma at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, holds that the substances of the offerings are literally transformed, while the appearance of bread and wine remain.

In 1946, the Council of People's Commissars was transformed into the Council of Ministers ( Sovmin ) at both all-Union and Union Republic level.

By the summer of 1979, the Council of Vietnam Veterans had transformed into Vietnam Veterans of America, a veterans service organization made up of, and devoted to, Vietnam veterans.

Soon after publishing the Stalin Constitution, the Central Executive Committee was transformed into the Supreme Council ( Verkhovna Rada ), which consisted of 450 deputies.

The Executive Council was transformed into a modern Cabinet, and its members, who had hitherto been answerable only to the colonial Governor, were made fully responsible to the legislature.

Part of the site has been transformed into a nature reserve called " The Sanctuary ", in conjunction with Derby City Council.

The Greater London Council carried out further strengthening work in 1973 by adding two concrete piers, which transformed the central span into a simple beam bridge.

The Legislative Council was transformed into a Legislative Assembly consisting mainly of elected members.

It became a unit within the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs in 1962, when the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space met for the first time, and was transformed into the Outer Space Affairs Division of that Department in 1968.

Likewise Lenin's position as chairman of RSFSR's Council of People's Commissars ( SNK ), which he held since the Revolution, would now to be transformed as the Chairman of the Union's SNK.

The Revolutionary Command Council was also renamed and transformed into the General Secretariat of the Congress.

Károlyi ruled Hungary through a National Council, transformed into the government that consisted of his party in alliance with the large Hungarian Social Democratic Party and the small Civic Radical Party led by Oszkár Jászi.

He transformed UNOVIS into a highly structured organization, forming the UNOVIS Council.

After Gamsakhurdia ’ s fall, he became Prime Minister in the Georgian interim government ( Military Council, later transformed into the State Council ) which was joined by Eduard Shevardnadze ) on 6 January 1992.

Among other things, it recommended that the Legislative Council be transformed into a Legislative Assembly of 32 members made up of three ex officio official members holding ministerial posts, four nominated unofficial members, and 25 elected unofficial members.

The revolution of 1918 transformed Hesse-Darmstadt from a monarchy to a republic, which officially renamed itself to " Volksstaat Hessen " ( People's State of Hesse ).

Li spent much of the 1990s expanding and managing an energy monopoly, State Power Corp. Because the company was staffed by Li's relatives, Li's management effectively transformed China's energy industry into a " family fiefdom ".

In 1934, the NKVD of the RSFSR was transformed into an all-union security force, the NKVD of the USSR ( which the Communist Party of the Soviet Union leaders soon came to call " the leading detachment of our party "), and the OGPU was incorporated into the NKVD as the Main Directorate for State Security ( GUGB ); the separate NKVD of the RSFSR was not resurrected until 1946 ( as the MVD of the RSFSR ).

The Congo Free State was transformed into a Belgian colony known as the Belgian Congo under parliamentary control.

Some of the right-of-way acquired in the 1960s for the Route 35 Freeway were transformed into a multi-use trail for bicycles and other vehicles to link the Wall Township Municipal Complext to the existing Edgar Felix Bikeway that runs from Manasquan to Allaire State Park.

Aristotle in his lost work The State of the Ithacians cited a myth according to which Cephalus was instructed by an oracle to mate with the first female being he should encounter if he wanted to have offspring ; Cephalus mated with a she-bear, who then transformed into a human woman and bore him a son, Arcesius.

Meanwhile, back in the Netherlands, the Dutch State church had also been transformed by the Enlightenment, a change represented in the minds of those opposed it, by the loss of any meaningful profession of faith as requisite for adult church members, and the singing of hymns ( in addition to psalms ) and other innovations in worship and doctrine.

Private land ownership was " transformed " to subsume under State and collective ownership.

In July 1994 the first academic year of California State University, Monterey Bay opened, and barracks were soon transformed into dorms.

The sanitarium became a boys ' training school for the state, and served as such until some time in the 1970s, when it was transformed into a N. Y. State prison facility.

Barbara M. Tucker, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Connecticut Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University, wrote that Colt's marketing techniques transformed the firearm from a utilitarian object into a central symbol of American identity.

In the last few years, the State Government promoted the total restoration of the Pelourinho, the biggest set of colonial style buildings in Latin America, today transformed into an important point for visitation by tourists, that will find there a synthesis of what best Bahia has to offer in specialized services, in regional and international cooking, in architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries and in music, with daily shows by the great artists of Bahia, famous in the country and abroad.

He was the originator of Kerala Land Reforms Act, which drastically transformed the land holding pattern among the people of the State of Kerala.

In 1918 the presidium had formed into a regular cabinet office and was transformed into what today is known as the Ministry of the State of Denmark ().

In 1889 it was purchased by the Portuguese State, and after the Republican Revolution of 1910 it was classified as a national monument and transformed into a museum.

In August 1989, under the leadership of Chernomyrdin, the Ministry of Gas Industry was transformed itself into the State Gas Concern, Gazprom, which became the country's first state-corporate enterprise.

It was transformed to Orenburg State Agricultural Academy in 1992.

The Serbian dinar replaced the Yugoslav dinar at par in 2003, when Yugoslavia was transformed into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

He collaborated with Hitler's Nazi regime and became the State President in 1939, when Czechoslovakia was overtaken by Germany and transformed into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic.

* From 1925-1935, Bidwell Mansion was once again transformed into another entity when it served as a dormitory for Chico State Teachers College students.

In 1824, after Mexican independence was consolidated, the kingdom was transformed into the State of Jalisco and the Territory of Colima.

In brief, the State has transformed from sole purveyor of geographic information to an institutional body of oversight.