The decision must be authorized by the Director of Civil Status, and requires a valid reason for changing the name, including long-term use of the new name ( in the Montreuil case cited below, the Quebec appeals court has considered five years ' use to be a sufficient reason ), difficulty of use due to spelling or pronunciation, or bearing a name that another person has made infamous.

A lawyer named Micheline Montreuil, a non-operative male-to-female transgender woman, had to undergo a lengthy process to have her name legally changed.

( Montreuil was initially prevented from changing her name despite this ruling on the grounds that she had not established general use, as normally required for a name change ; the Quebec appeals court finally authorized the change on November 7, 2002.

Montreuil is the name or part of the name of several communes of France:

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

Greek writers under Roman rule also recorded cult practices and beliefs pertaining to Mars under the name of Ares.

The name of the Angles is first recorded in Latinized form, as Anglii, in the Germania of Tacitus.

The legal and ritual opinions recorded in Rav's name and his disputes with Samuel constitute the main body of the Babylonian Talmud.

The first authoritative knowledge of the earliest ballroom dances was recorded toward the end of the 16th century, when Jehan Tabourot, under the pen name " Thoinot-Arbeau ", published in 1588 his Orchésographie, a study of late 16th-century French renaissance social dance.

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Its Cornish name, Goen Bren, is first recorded in the 12th century.

The Analects records 22 names that are most likely Confucius ' disciples, while the Mencius records 24 names, although it is quite certain that there have been many more disciples whose name were not recorded.

It is hardly conceivable that the Romans would have recorded such a form as Cimbri The name has also been related to the word kimme meaning “ rim ”, i. e. the people of the coast.

The album was recorded ar Karekare Beach, New Zealand, which gave its name to the opening track, " Kare Kare ".

It is possible that Constantine had other children, but like the name of his wife, or wives, this has not been recorded.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

One of the most attractive old streets is Smith Street and is the earliest street in Dartmouth to be recorded by name ( in the 13th century ).

For instance, if the login name of a user is unique, addresses and phone numbers for that user would be recorded with the login name as its key.

Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

In the Kojiki little more than his name and genealogy are recorded.

In Kojiki and Nihonshoki only his name and genealogy were recorded.

In Kojiki and Nihonshoki only his name and genealogy were recorded.

In Kojiki and Nihonshoki only his name and genealogy were recorded.

In Kojiki and Nihonshoki only his name and genealogy were recorded.

In Kojiki and Nihonshoki only his name and genealogy were recorded.

In Kojiki and Nihonshoki, only his name and genealogy were recorded.