Its status as an official geological period was ratified in 2004 by the International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS ), making it the first new geological period declared in 120 years.

Its duties have expanded over the years, and today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, include conducting the nation's monetary policy, supervising and regulating banking institutions, maintaining the stability of the financial system and providing financial services to depository institutions, the U. S. government, and foreign official institutions.

Its official name is Our Lady of Dolours.

Its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States.

Its official language is French, although many of its inhabitants also speak Antillean Creole ( Créole Martiniquais ).

Its official news publication is The Final Call Newspaper.

Its official language is Swiss German.

Its standardized form, commonly called Filipino, is the national language and one of two official languages of the Philippines, the other being English.

Its official name was the German Reich ( Deutsches Reich ).

Its functions had been fully absorbed into official government machinery in the British Raj and its private army had been nationalised by the British Crown.

Its aim was to prevent middle-class citizens from evading their responsibilities by financially putting into question the neutrality of the under-sheriff, the official entrusted with impanelling juries.

Its official name is Tokyo Metropolis, highlighting its special designation.

Its charter had been granted by an Anglican king and seems to have assumed that the Church of England would be its official church.

Its official establishment was deferred with the outbreak of World War II until August 23, 1948.

Its later use in legislation waned in favour of providing a schedule of local government areas and became mostly obsolete with the official creation of Greater London in 1965.

Its official debut came two nights later at the Sixth Annual Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival.

Its official population count was 761, 137 inhabitants in 2006 ; however, some estimates indicate its population to be as high as 1. 2 million ; the population in 1960 was only 70, 000.

Its GDP per capita was € 62, 374 in 2003, according to INSEE official figures.

Its official release was on October 17, 2007, but many stores began selling it five days in advance due to an internet leak of the album.

Its web site contains a link to the official rules of Pétanque and a link to a list of its national members.

Its official journal is Albanian Official Journal.

Its releases lag behind the official releases, due to its small development team and the concurrent development of the technology used to port the user interface.

Its official dedication took place on 1 July 2000, with Queen Margrethe II, and King Carl XVI Gustaf as the host and hostess of the ceremony.

Its domain is the powerset of A ( with the empty set removed ), and so makes sense for any set A, whereas with the definition used elsewhere in this article, the domain of a choice function on a collection of sets is that collection, and so only makes sense for sets of sets.

Its detailed definition depended on Simon Newcomb's Tables of the Sun ( 1895 ), interpreted in a new way to accommodate certain observed discrepancies:

Its best-known decision is its definition of papal infallibility.

Its definition presumes an underlying and reliable transport layer protocol, and Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ) predominates for this purpose.

Its definition varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its religious origin as an integral part of Judaism, to its later Christian, New Age, or Occultist syncretic adaptions.

Its definition includes a method to register new content types and other MIME attribute values.

Its best known definition comes from Aristotle, who considers it a counterpart of both logic and politics, and calls it " the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford ( 1857 ) that had held that black people could not be citizens of the United States.

Its definition does not cover final status.

Its operational definition of Palestine refugee for persons qualifying for UNRWA assistance says " whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948, and 1967 conflicts ," descendants are also eligible for registration.

Its purposes to achieve the reformation of the church, the definition of dogma and the reunion of Christendom.

Its initial political stance – in the June 1919 Manifesto – includes, however, many elements that would not be normally associated with fascism in the classic definition, including support for democracy ( indeed, the fascist manifesto actually called for greater democratic rights ) and a limited number of social ideas.

Its value depends on the measurement conditions that need to be documented, whereas the IP according to definition is mostly unambiguous ; although there is some dependency on frequency and tone spacing, depending on the physics of the device-under-test.

Its first recorded use in English was in 1625 as atollon-Charles Darwin recognized its indigenous origin and coined, in his The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, the definition of atolls as ".. circular groups of coral islets [...] and word is synonymous with ' lagoon-island '.

" Its value lies in the increased degree of precision and diversification made possible: Although the id is unconscious by definition, the ego and the super-ego are both partly conscious and partly unconscious.

Its most familiar modern uses are in the fields of transport, building and construction, communications, mapping, and the definition of legal boundaries for land ownership.

Its data definition language, unlike its executable statements, was not English-like ; rather, data structures were defined by filling in pre-printed forms.

Its definition varies: it can refer to only the superficial structures in this region, or it can be used to include both superficial and deep structures.

Its usual symbols are,, σ or k, the first three used for one definition, the last for another.

Its definition is attributed to the 17th-century Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius.

Its lyrics mimic the modern definition of Thermidor.

Its definition can be extended to include investments made to acquire lasting interest in enterprises operating outside of the economy of the investor.

" Its brief definition of " open standard " ( or " free and open standard ") is " a published specification that is immune to vendor capture at all stages in its life-cycle.

" Its more complete definition as follows: