The role of the president as the head of state has been, historically, largely ceremonial although the constitution was amended in 1991 to give the president some veto powers in a few key decisions such as the use of the national reserves and the appointment of key judiciary, Civil Service and Singapore Armed Forces posts.

The principal ceremonial occasion in the College year is the Service of Valediction, which takes place on the afternoon of the last day of Full Term in Trinity ( always a Saturday ).

In the British Army and the armies of many Commonwealth countries, a corps is also a grouping by common function, or an Arm or a Service ( e. g. Intelligence Corps, Royal Logistic Corps, Royal Corps of Signals ), performing much the same function as a ceremonial infantry or cavalry regiment, with its own cap badge, stable belt, and other insignia and traditions.

In 1998, when Warrington borough became a unitary authority, it remained in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, and continued to be served by Cheshire Police and Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling ( JBAB ) is responsible for providing installation support to 17, 000 military, civilian employees and their families, 48 mission and tenant units, including ceremonial units ( United States Air Force Honor Guard, USAF Band, USAF Chaplains, the Navy Ceremonial Guard ), various Army, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Joint Service commands and other DOD and federal agencies.

The College of Arms also undertakes and consults on the planning of many ceremonial occasions such as coronations, state funerals, the annual Garter Service and the State Opening of Parliament.

On 1 April 1998 Halton became an independent unitary authority, though it is still served by Cheshire Police and Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service, and forms part of Cheshire for ceremonial purposes, such as the Lord Lieutenancy.

Since 1992, was played during ceremonial events and oathtaking ceremonies in the Slovenian Territorial Defence in line with the draft Rules on Service in the Territorial Defence, adopted on 15 April 1992, and later in the Slovenian Armed Forces, based on a government decree from 1995, because it calls to the defence of the homeland.

Its reverse carries the theme of youth and features a National Service officer with his ceremonial sword standing against the tower of the SAFTI Military Institute, uniformed youths representing Singapore Red Cross, St John's Ambulance Brigade, Singapore Scout Association and the National Police Cadet Corps.

This was of a separate pattern from the British Service Dress adopted after the Boer War, and marked a departure in Canadian uniforms in that it was distinct from the scarlet / blue / rifle green uniforms traditionally worn to that point, the latter of which became " ceremonial " dress for parades and other functions apart from field training.

The Australian Service Nurses National Memorial is on ANZAC Parade, the principal ceremonial and memorial avenue of Canberra, the capital city of Australia.

* CSS Profile, College Scholarship Service Profile, a U. S. student aid application form

The United States Revenue Cutter Service, which merged with the United States Lifesaving Service in January 1915 to form the modern Coast Guard, began following the Navy's lead in the 1890s, with its cutters having parenthetical numbers called Naval Registry Identification Numbers following their names, such as ( Cutter No. 1 ), etc.

Britain's Royal Flying Corps ( which merged on 1 April 1918 with the Royal Naval Air Service to form the Royal Air Force ) was founded in 1912.

A playing card form was published by an official of Britain's Consular Service named William Henry Wilkinson, author of " Chinese origin of playing cards ," under the name of Khanhoo.

NNS and Westinghouse Electric Company jointly form Offshore Power Systems to build floating nuclear power plants for Public Service Electric and Gas Company.

The three Service Chiefs together with the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee form the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.

SMS ( Short Message Service ) is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones.

* April 1 – The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service are merged to form the Royal Air Force.

In 1946, the Grazing Service was merged with the General Land Office ( a product of the country's territorial expansion and the federal government's nineteenth-century homesteading policies ) to form the Bureau of Land Management within the Department of the Interior.

A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.

Service to Orlando will be expanded in the form of SunRail, a commuter rail line running from Volusia to Osceola County.

: Any magistrate, or in the absence of any magistrate any commissioned officer in Her Majesty's Naval, Military or Air Force Service or any police officer above the rank of inspector, in whose view a riot is being committed, or who apprehends that a riot is about to be committed by persons being assembled within his view, may make or cause to be made a proclamation in the Queen's name, in such form as he thinks fit, commanding the rioters or persons so assembled to disperse peaceably.

The IERS was established in its present form in 1987 by the International Astronomical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, replacing the earlier International Polar Motion Service ( IPMS ) and the earth-rotation section of the Bureau International de l ' Heure ( BIH ).

The organization was formerly known as International Earth Rotation Service until 2003 when it formally changed its name to its present form, in which the organization chose to retain the acronym IERS.

The Corps of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, commonly just referred to as the Royal Marines ( RM ), are the marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service.

Following a review by Christopher Haskins, Baron Haskins of Skidby of several Government organisations involved in rural policy and delivery, the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 merged those parts of the Countryside Agency charged with environmental activity with English Nature and parts of the Rural Development Service to form Natural England.

Several Service elements were merged to form this production facility, which occupied the " A " and " B " Buildings at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia.

It was integrated with parts of both the Rural Development Service and the Countryside Agency from 1 October 2006, to form a new body called Natural England.

Dr. Lawrence was the recipient of the Award of Merit from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, the Gold Medal Award from the American Otological Society, the Distinguished Service Award form the Princeton Class of 1938, the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Audiology, etc.

Service resumed in 2010 in the form of another volunteer Police Department where officers worked without pay.

Some public bodies still cover the area of the former county of Avon: for example, Avon Fire and Rescue Service, the Avon Coroner's District, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, the West of England Strategic Partnership, Intelligence West, and until 2006 the Avon Ambulance Service ( now merged with the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire ambulance services to form the Great Western Ambulance Service ).

It began in 1848 and ultimately merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915

The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.

This is a prosecution for refusal to be inducted into the armed services, in violation of the provisions of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, 62 Stat. 604,622, 50, U.S.C. App. Aj 462 ( A ).

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

Attendance is required at the College Service of Worship or at the Sunday Evening Program or at any regularly organized service of public worship.

Attendance at the Chapel Service is voluntary.

The U.S. Forest Service cares for hundreds of thousands of campers in its 149 National Forests and is increasing its facilities steadily.

The Public Service Commission has ruled that this is not a public utility, subject to their many regulations.

even the famed Indian Civil Service is not fully adequate to the tremendous range of tasks it has undertaken.

A publicity release from Oregon Physicians Service, of which Harvey is president, quoted him as saying the welfare office move to Salem, instead of `` crippling '' the agency, had provided an avenue to correct administrative weaknesses, with the key being improved communications between F & A and the commission staff.

In that event, they note, the Revenue Service might declare the pension plan is discriminatory and deny it tax privileges under the law.

To appreciate the nature of the gamble, it should be realized that while college teaching is almost a public symbol of security, that security does not come as quickly or as automatically as it does in an elementary school system or in the Civil Service.

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).

* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

* 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.

The Twelve Traditions informally guide how individual AA groups function, and the Twelve Concepts for World Service guide how the organization is structured globally.

The island now forms the Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge and is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the U. S. Its defense is the responsibility of the United States ; though uninhabited, it is visited annually by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Public entry to the island is by special-use permit from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service only and is generally restricted to scientists and educators.

A most notable example of anachronism is the Service of St. Cyril from Skopje ( Скопски миней ), a 13th-century Middle Bulgarian manuscript from northern Macedonia according to which St. Cyril preached with " Bulgarian " books among the Moravian Slavs.

For foreign news, first a " generic minute " is recorded, then reports are to World Service radio, then the reporter talks to any other programmes that are on air.

A person or debtor can declare himself or herself bankrupt by lodging a debtor's petition with the Official Receiver, which is the Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia ( ITSA ).

It also set out in full the " propers " ( that is the parts of the service which varied week by week or, at times, daily throughout the Church's Year ): the Collect and the Epistle and Gospel readings for the Sunday Communion Service.

The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office.