The table below shows the Lao consonant, its name, its pronunciation according to the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ), as well as various romanisation schemes, such as the French-based systems in use by both the US Board of Geographic Names and the British Permanent Committee on Geographical Names ( BGN / PCGN ), the English-based system in use by the US Library of Congress ( LC ), Royal Thai General System of Transcription ( RTSG ) used in Thailand, and finally its Unicode name.

Addition of the other university systems or individual institutions to the Permanent University Fund would require an amendment to the Texas Constitution.

Dawkins also identifies two categories of agnostics ; Temporary Agnostics in Practice ( TAPs ), and Permanent Agnostics in Principle ( PAPs ).

It also had two essential wings: the Permanent Court of International Justice, and the International Labour Organization.

The Permanent Mandates Commission supervised League of Nations mandates, and also organized plebiscites in disputed territories so that residents could decide which country they would join.

Permanent members of the Security Council are also given a veto shield to protect their vital interests.

Each ministry also has a Permanent Secretary, who is a senior civil servant.

* Guest host ( also: Permanent guest host )

The presbytery also maintains a Permanent Judicial Commission, which acts as a court of appeal from sessions, and which exercises original jurisdiction in disciplinary cases against minister members of the presbytery.

Every synod elects a Permanent Judicial Commission, which has original jurisdiction in remedial cases brought against its constituent presbyteries, and which also serves as an ecclesiastical court of appeal for decisions rendered by its presbyteries ' Permanent Judicial Commissions.

See also, Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend.

The CIIR report also questioned the independence of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, referring to an article in the Washington Post which claims that the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization funded by the US government, allocated a concession of US $ 50, 000 for assistance in the translation and distribution outside Nicaragua of its monthly report, and that these funds were administered by Prodemca, a US-based organization which later published full-page adverisments in the Washington Post and New York Times supporting military aid to the Contras.

" The IACHR also continued to meet with representatives of the Permanent Commission and report their assessments in later years.

Since the 1996 reorganization, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), while leading an independent agency, has also reported to the Secretary of State, as does the United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( also known as the Permanent Representative ).

The Convention also established the International Narcotics Control Board, merging the Permanent Central Board and the Drug Supervisory Board.

The Conference led to the signing of the Hague Convention ( of 1899 ) that led to rules of declaring and conducting warfare as well as the use of modern weaponry, and also led to the setting up of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

The FCO is managed from day-to-day by a civil servant, the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who also acts as the Head of the Diplomatic Service.

Permanent wetlands are preferred, including ornamental lakes, but Black Swans can also be found in flooded pastures and tidal mudflats, and occasionally on the open sea near islands or the shore.

He also presides over the Permanent Deputation, however, he doesn't have the right to vote in the Permanent Deputation except in those cases where the Permanent Deputation exercises a judicial function.

** used for people, see National identification number and Unique Identification Authority of India, see also Permanent account number ( PAN )

# Permanent: This can also be written as.

* His / Her Excellency ( abbreviation HE, oral address Your Excellency ) — most Ambassadors, High Commissioners and Permanent Representatives to International Organizations ; sometimes also the Presidents of the Republics, Governors of provinces and the Prime Minister.

In addition to the Permanent Fund, the state also maintains the Constitutional Budget Reserve, a separate savings account established in 1990 after a legal dispute over pipeline tariffs generated a one-time payment of more than $ 1. 5 billion from the oil companies.

Permanent anchors come in a wide range of types and have no standard form.

There have been a number of proposals for reform of the calendar, such as the World Calendar, International Fixed Calendar, Holocene calendar, and, recently, the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar.

Often enormously complicated matters, ICJ cases ( of which there have been less than 150 since the court was created from the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1945 ) can stretch on for years and generally involve thousands of pages of pleadings, evidence, and the world's leading specialist public international lawyers.

Permanent magnets have persistent magnetic fields caused by ferromagnetism.

Indigenous peoples have argued, through various international forums such as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Convention on Biological Diversity, that there are four pillars of sustainable development, the fourth being cultural.

The theory of Permanent Revolution considers that in many countries, which are thought under Trotskyism to have not yet completed a bourgeois-democratic revolution, the capitalist class oppose the creation of any revolutionary situation.

Permanent year-round urban settlement may have been prompted by intensive agricultural practices.

* In the Monty Python short " The Crimson Permanent Assurance ", business clerks-turned-pirates sail a pirated building and attack competing businesses to build a business empire, when the narrator reads " or so it would have been, if certain modern theories concerning the shape of the world had not proved to be disastrously wrong.

In March 2007, the Order announced without prior discussion to the Fellows or students its intention to withdraw from its ministry as a Permanent Private Hall of the University, for financial and personnel reasons and because the University appeared to be insisting on a more collegiate model for the Permanent Private Halls which, it was argued, would have made it untenable for the Friars, given their declining numbers of suitable personnel.

The Irish Government have, therefore, requested the British Government to apply immediately to the United Nations for the urgent dispatch of a Peace-Keeping Force to the Six Counties of Northern Ireland and have instructed the Permanent Representative to the United Nations to inform the Secretary General of this request.

The Permanent Fund Dividend is a dividend paid to Alaska residents that have lived within the state for a full calendar year ( January 1st-December 31st ) This means if residency is taken on January 2nd, the " calendar year " wouldn't start until next January 1st. However, an individual is not eligible for a permanent fund dividend for a dividend year when

Bands including the Beach Boys featuring John Stamos, Blue Rodeo, Great Big Sea, Paul Brandt, Flock of Seagulls, Sloan, and Collective Soul as well as various others have all had shows in Kenora, most of them underneath Kenora's New Permanent Tent.

In recent years, some international organizations, such as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or the European Union, have designated their Permanent Representatives in third countries as Ambassadors, although they do not represent sovereign entities.

The ministry and the armed forces have been controlled by the during these periods by either a Minister of State, Deputy Minister for defence, and of recently the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence.

Since the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940, the theory of Permanent Revolution has been maintained by the various Trotskyist groups which have developed since then.

Permanent filters are now also common, made of thin perforated metal sheets or fine plastic mesh that restrain the grounds but allow the coffee to pass, thus eliminating the need to have to purchase separate filters which sometimes cannot be found in some parts of the world.

The portrait, which cannot be removed from the wall ( because of a Permanent Sticking Charm in place ), notifies the Prime Minister of the Minister for Magic's arrival and, after they have been notified, the Minister for Magic appears in their office via the fireplace which has specifically been hooked up to the floo network.

Lawful Permanent Residents generally do not have the right to vote, the right to be elected in federal and state elections, the ability to bring family members to the United States ( permanent residents are allowed to sponsor certain family members, but this is often not practical due to long approval delays ), or eligibility for federal government jobs.

Permanent streams have no native fish, but there are naturalized populations of trout including rare Paiute cutthroat trout which is protected from angling.