The formal adoption of the Puerto Rican flag as a national emblem by the Puerto Rican government can be traced to Albizu ( even while he denounced this adoption as the " watering-down " of an otherwise sacred symbol into a " colonial flag "); the revival of public observance of the Grito de Lares and its significant icons was a direct mandate from him as leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.

With the gradual adoption of the Vulgate as the liturgical Gospel text of the Latin Church, the Latin Diatessaron was increasingly modified to conform to Vulgate readings.

There are several versions of the text of the Second Amendment, each with slight capitalization and punctuation differences, found in the official documents surrounding the adoption of the Bill of Rights.

Before the adoption of WYSIWYG techniques, text appeared in editors using the system standard typeface and style with little indication of layout ( margins, spacing etc .).

They argue that, in interpreting a resolution of an international organization, one must look to the process of the negotiation and adoption of the text.

* 1150s – Gerard of Cremona translates Ptolemy's Almagest from Arabic into Latin, eventually leading to its adoption by the Catholic Church as an approved text.

The earliest labors of the Masoretes included standardizing division of the text into books, sections, paragraphs, verses, and clauses ( probably in the chronological order here enumerated ); the fixing of the orthography, pronunciation, and cantillation ; the introduction or final adoption of the square characters with the five final letters ( comp.

Other well-known songs by Kearney include " Down by the Glenside ( The Bold Fenian Men )", " The Tri-coloured Ribbon ", " Down by the Liffey Side ", " Knockcroghery " ( about the village of Knockcroghery ) and " Erin Go Bragh " ( Erin Go Bragh was the text on the Irish national flag before the adoption of the tricolour ).

The adoption of a new constitutional text required a two-thirds supermajority in the Constitutional Assembly, as well as the support of two-thirds of senators on matters relating to provincial government.

As the deadline for the adoption of a constitutional text approached, however, many issues were hashed out in private meetings between the parties ' representatives.

Probably because of its late adoption, and the length of the text ( the longest in the Ordinary of the Mass ), there are relatively few chant settings of it.

In the 1990s, the Conference held intensive efforts over three years to draft the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty text and its two annexes, but it did not succeed in reaching consensus on the adoption of the text.

The full text of the ballot initiative amendment read " When recognizing marriages entered into after the adoption of this amendment by the people, the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions shall define marriage only as the union of one man and one woman.

This led to the creation of the Union Internationale pour la Protection des Obtentions Végétales ( UPOV ) and adoption of the first text of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants ( UPOV Convention ) in 1961.

The annotation was recorded in close correspondence to the text ( for sample codices, see those collated by the North American Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Anthony in Arizona ) with neumes indicating the melodic tones and their duration used before the adoption of the Western system of staff and scales became established in medieval times.

The visual devices that Wee enlisted included 1 ) naked male models to represent man's essential selves, 2 ) tattoos, gestures and contortions to represent the adoption of foreign identities and 3 ) digital layering of ikat images and text as garments to signify the complexity of the final self that man presents to the world.

Critical Literacy is an instructional approach, stemming from Marxist Critical pedagogy, that advocates the adoption of " critical " perspectives toward text.

The text discuss the two levee districts which were created prior to the adoption of the current Constitution – the district for the Mississippi River and the district for the Yazoo River.

Having become a canonical text read on Israel's Remembrance Day, this poem was written in response to Chaim Weizmann's words in December 1947, after the adoption of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine, " No state is ever handed on a silver platter ...

On the demand of Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ), minor amendments were introduced, some of them after the voting and adoption by the Session the whole text of the bill, which was done through Efimov, the second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, who was in touch with Gorbachov over the telephone during the session ; however, all these amendments did not change the spirit of the bill.

The abacus was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.

* Disruption ( of adoption ) is also the term for the cancellation of an adoption of a child before it is legally completed.

Brewster pressed its adoption on those in authority at least as early as 1820, two years before Fresnel suggested it, and it was finally introduced into lighthouses mainly through Brewster's persistent efforts.

Despite the official names " National Comics " and " National Periodical Publications ", the line used the logo " Superman-DC " throughout ( the DC logo could be seen on their covers and ads as early as 1940 ), and the company became known colloquially as DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1977.

The adoption of the ITRs in 1988 is often taken as the start of the wider liberalization process in international telecommunications, though a few countries, including United States and United Kingdom, had made steps to liberalize their markets before 1988.

These were developments that had begun before the Industrial Revolution, but the adoption of James Watt's more efficient steam engine from the 1770s reduced the fuel costs of engines, making mines more profitable.

Once approved by the Commission, standards are sent to the Council, the political body of ICAO, for consultation and coordination with the Member States before final adoption.

Numerous scholars ( including Koch and Ammon ) have noted that Madison had the words " void, and of no force or effect " excised from the Virginia Resolutions before adoption.

In European countries where the metric system was established well before the adoption of the SI standard, there is still carry-over of usage from the precursor cgs and MKS systems.

There have been some changes to the board since the original: the colors of Mediterranean and Baltic Avenues ( which changed from purple to brown ), the colors of the GO square ( which changed from red to black ), the adoption of a flat $ 200 Income Tax ( formerly the player's choice of $ 200 or 10 % of their total holdings, which they must calculate before making their decision ), and increased $ 100 Luxury Tax amount ( upped from $ 75 ).

Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to four terms before the adoption of the Twenty-second Amendment.

Its adoption suggests that not all such transmissions are equal, and each must be evaluated separately before establishing blanket international policy regarding active SETI.

Several revisions were proposed before its adoption, which chiefly differed in the way in which peace and war were distinguished ( including the possibility of a situation, such as unrest, which was neither peace nor war ), and whether the executive or the legislature would have the authority to authorize quartering.

Initially, before its adoption in contexts other than social dance, the minuet was usually in binary form, with two sections of usually eight bars each, but the second section eventually expanded, resulting in a kind of ternary form.

In fact this situation has only been historically realized temporarily such as in the Israeli kibbutz or the very early Soviets before the adoption of state capitalism and entrenchment of the communist party as a New Class, or in isolated or preliminary form such as in the final phase of the Second Spanish Republic, or various experimental utopian communities ; although in embryonic form.

In 1912, for example, Eugene Debs ( a founding member of the IWW ) polled 6 % of the popular vote as the Socialist Party presidential candidate — a significant portion of the popular vote considering that this was 8 years before the adoption of universal suffrage in the U. S. Some political scientists would, in part, attribute the lack of an American labour party to the single member plurality electoral system, which tends to favour a two-party system.

In some U. S. States, informed consent laws ( sometimes called " Right To Know " laws ) require that a woman seeking an elective abortion be given factual information by the abortion provider about her legal rights, alternatives to abortion ( such as adoption ), available public and private assistance, and medical facts ( some of which are disputed — see fetal pain ), before the abortion is performed ( usually 24 hours in advance of the abortion ).

However, the blocks in Salt Lake City became irregular during the late 19th century when the LDS Church lost authority over growth and before the adoption of zoning ordinances in the 1920s.

Thomas J Talley says that the adoption of the Babylonian term occurred even before the captivity.

Illegitimacy and its attendant stigma were usually the impetus for a mother's decision to put her children " out to nurse " with a baby farmer, but baby farming also encompassed foster care and adoption in the period before they were regulated by British law.

The vagueness of this clause caused difficulties many times before the Twenty-fifth Amendment's adoption:

According to the General History of Chile by Diego Barros Arana, the last time the Flag of the Transition was unfurled was at the ceremony to commemorate the Battle of Rancagua, two weeks before the adoption of the current national flag.

Since the 2006 adoption of the new statute of Catalonia, Aranese is co-official with Catalan and Spanish in Catalonia ( before, this status was valid for the Aran Valley only ).