The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

At that time Ormsby-Gore, speaking for the government in Commons, said, " The draft as originally put up by Lord Balfour was not the final draft approved by the War Cabinet.

In 1832, John Russell had been nicknamed " Finality John " because of his statement that the 1832 Reform Act had just been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords would be the " final " expansion of the vote in Britain.

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.

* Final Judgment in U. S. v. Microsoft ( injunction including final settlement terms approved by the court ) ( note that the copy posted on the district court's web site is actually an earlier version that the court declined to approve ).

The final standards were approved in April 2001 and became enforceable on June 25, 2001.

The term tapeout currently is used to describe the creation of the photomask itself from the final approved electronic CAD file.

Many guidelines and requirements are stated in detail, but there is no final guideline about the process or standards by which membership might be finally approved or denied.

Christian approved a plan by which a formal state church should be established in Denmark, all appeals to Rome should be abolished, and the king and diet should have final jurisdiction in ecclesiastical causes.

Texts were then edited and rewritten as required, and the Syndicate approved and had all final books published under the Syndicate's name.

The Committee approved the final conference bill on July 24, 2002, and gave it the name " the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002.

In December 2009, the King of Bhutan approved the final plan to build a long broad gauge rail link between Hashimara in West Bengal and Toribari in Bhutan.

The final border approved in 1923 followed a 10-meter wide strip along the lake's northeastern shore, cutting Syria off from the lake.

The final sale of the Padres to MountainStar Sports was approved on September 26, 2012.

" An athlete, after assuming a full and final set position, shall not commence his (/ her ) starting motion until after receiving the report of the gun, or approved starting apparatus.

In the 2010 Primary Election, the Miami-Dade County Commission was empowered via a charter amendment to abolish Islandia ; On December 6, 2011, Miami-Dade County Commissioners unanimously approved an ordinance to abolish the city although final action is subject to public hearing.

The State's final road and bridge plans were approved in early 1960, and the developer's dredging permit was granted in December of that year.

The two approved and offered Mirkin a freelance job writing one of the final nine episodes of show's first season, pending their commissioning by NBC.

On March 13, 1974, the final report of the Government Study Commission recommended a Home Rule Charter, which was approved on May 21, 1974 by a vote of 1, 375 to 546.

The County Council had the final say, however, and approved the territory divisions.

Before the film's release he viewed a near-final version of The Undiscovered Country, and according to the film's producer and Kelley's biographer, approved a final version of the film.

The final decisions of Liaison Conferences were formally disclosed and approved at Imperial Conferences over which Emperor Hirohito presided in person at the Tokyo Imperial Palace.

Following first ground tests in late 1953 the initial design was heavily reworked and the final design was not approved until May 1954.

Z ( named zed or zee ) is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

* RFC 1142-IS-IS protocol specification ( IETF )-Note: this is a copy of DP 10589 ( Draft Proposal ) and differs in many significant details from the final version of ISO / IEC 10589

This is the current convention in countries that use the ISO basic Latin alphabet for published and final written work, as well as digital ( World Wide Web ) media.

The initial submission to the ISO was based heavily on Yale and was a joint effort between both states, but they could not agree on the final draft.

The initial submission to the ISO was based heavily on Yale and was a joint effort between both states, but they could not agree on the final draft.

Scanian was in the 15th edition of the Ethnologue ( 2005 ) classified as a regional language by SIL International, but before the latest update ( 2009 ), the Swedish representative to ISO / TC 37, the technical committee overseeing ISO 639, required that Scanian be removed from the ISO / DIS 639-3, the draft just prior to the final draft FDIS, or a positive vote from Sweden would not be forthcoming.

The Observatoire was not, however, associated with or responsible for the final ISO 639-6 standard which was a partial result of this collaboration, and which was approved and published by ISO in 2009.

( 1 character, classification of layer information by the scale of final drawing, ISO code )

To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.

* A freely available rather final version of Israeli standard 5194-bidirectional text editing

Money was primarily a standardized medium of exchange, and final means of payment, that serves to measure the value of all goods and commodities in a standard of value.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).

By the early 2000s, the CD largely replaced the audio cassette player as standard equipment in new automobiles, with 2010 being the final model year for any car in the US to have a factory-equipped cassette player.

Ironically, one of the benefits to come out of the EISA standard was a final codification of the standard to which ISA slots and cards should be held ( in particular, clock speed was fixed at an industry standard of 8. 33 MHz ).

In 1907, Puccini made his final revisions to the opera in a fifth version, which has become known as the " standard version ".

Some forms rather more familiar to Modern Japanese speakers begin to appear – the continuative ending-te begins to reduce onto the verb ( e. g. yonde for earlier yomite ), the-k-in the final syllable of adjectives drops out ( shiroi for earlier shiroki ); and some forms exist where modern standard Japanese has retained the earlier form ( e. g. hayaku > hayau > hayɔɔ, where modern Japanese just has hayaku, though the alternative form is preserved in the standard greeting o-hayō gozaimasu " good morning "; this ending is also seen in o-medetō " congratulations ", from medetaku ).

Torvalds remains the final authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.

It is standard practice to allow at a minimum, one more competitor than the number of scoring positions to return to the final round, though 12 plus ties and automatic qualifying distances are also potential factors.

* 1799 December 10The French National Assembly specifies the platinum metre bar, constructed on 23 June 1799 and deposited in the National Archives, as the final standard.

Yet GUTs are clearly not the final answer ; both the current standard model and all proposed GUTs are quantum field theories which require the problematic technique of renormalization to yield sensible answers.

By the time of the Summer Olympics, the NOCs had affiliated separately, though they fielded a joint team with a standard uniform as Olympic qualifying rounds had been completed before the final demise of the Soviet Union.

The sampling resolution is typically at least 12 or more bits per sample resolution ( 16 is standard ), for a final data rate in the range of 96-128 kbit / s.

He also shows that at a future date the Lord will lift up his hand to the Gentiles, and set up his standard, and then gather the tribes of Israel one final time.

The final goal is to agree on an open standard for interoperability of open source

The children's sports show This Week in Baseball began being shown in widescreen in 2009, while Sunday political talk program Fox News Sunday converted to HD when Fox News Channel launched their new HD facilities in November 2008 ( before the network's widescreen presentation effort went into effect in September 2010, it was the final Fox News program to be produced to fit the 4: 3 safe area, as Fox News Channel itself converted to a full-time widescreen presentation on both their HD and standard definition channels in 2009 ).

Social security benefits were markedly increased during Wilson's first two years in office, as characterised by a budget passed in the final quarter of 1964 which raised the standard benefit rates for old age, sickness and invalidity by 18. 5 %.

The third edition of The Elements of Style ( 1979 ) features 54 points: a list of common word-usage errors ; 11 rules of punctuation and grammar ; 11 principles of writing ; 11 matters of form, and 21 reminders for a better style, in Chapter V. The final reminder, the 21st, " Prefer the standard to the offbeat ", is thematically integral to the subject of The Elements of Style, yet does stand as a discrete essay about writing lucid prose.

" In particular, the standard subroutine calling convention marked the final parameter word by setting its high bit.