certainly not in the same sense that the establishment of a parochial school system has been a matter of official policy.

Using former slaves in the military was official government policy after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

* 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

: The name " Republic of China " is not listed as Taiwan's " official name " under the " Government " section, due to U. S. acknowledgement of Beijing's One-China policy according to which there is one China and Taiwan is a part of it.

* setting the official interest rate – used to manage both inflation and the country's exchange rate – and ensuring that this rate takes effect via a variety of policy mechanisms

Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, the Labour Party's official policy, supported by Attlee, was to oppose rearmament and support internationalism and collective security under the League of Nations.

" In 2010 this was written into the church's Handbook, which directs official church policy and programs.

Among the official changes to the organization during the modern area include the ordination of black men to the priesthood in 1978, reversing a policy originally instituted by Brigham Young.

Bell appealed both requirements, citing that the rules do not apply to cable companies and that they constituted proactive rate regulation by the CRTC, which goes against government official policy direction that the regulator only intervene in markets after a competitive problem has been proven.

While the new ex-colonial states appeared to follow the blueprint of the idealized state-centralized government, territory enclosed by defined borders, and citizenry with defined rights -, as well as accessories such as a national flag, an anthem, a seat at the United Nations and an official economic policy, they were in actuality far weaker than the Western states they were modeled after.

The U. S. Secretary of State is analogous to the foreign minister of other nations and is the official charged with state-to-state diplomacy, although the president has ultimate authority over foreign policy ; that policy includes defining the national interest, as well as the strategies chosen both to safeguard that and to achieve its policy goals.

It is generally believed that current NASCAR owners have agreed never to use the No. 3 in Sprint Cup competition again, although this is not official NASCAR policy.

" Don't ask, don't tell " ( DADT ) was the official United States policy on homosexuals serving in the military from December 21, 1993 to September 20, 2011.

Dignity and Respect, the U. S. Army's 2001 training guide on the homosexual conduct policy, gave official guidelines on what can be considered credible information of someone's homosexuality.

Racial discrimination differentiates individuals on the basis of real and perceived racial differences and has been official government policy in several countries, such as Papua New Guinea in the apartheid era.

Beginning with the 1967 election, the indigenous population abandoned its traditional policy of shunning the official political system and participated actively.

The government's official policy is one of nonalignment.

During the Cold War, Finland's foreign policy was based on official neutrality between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, while simultaneously stressing Nordic cooperation in the framework of the Nordic Council and cautious economic integration with the West as promoted by the Bretton-Woods Agreement and the free trade treaty with the European Economic Community.

This was reversed in the 2000s, when Tarja Halonen and Erkki Tuomioja made Finland's official policy to resist other EU members ' plans for common defense.

Its duties have expanded over the years, and today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, include conducting the nation's monetary policy, supervising and regulating banking institutions, maintaining the stability of the financial system and providing financial services to depository institutions, the U. S. government, and foreign official institutions.

Biblical scholar Paul Achtemeier believes that persecution of Christians by Domitian would have been in character, but points out that there is no evidence of official policy targeted specifically at Christians.

Orwell also uses the technique of false document in an appendix to the same novel, titled " The Principles of Newspeak ," where Orwell offers a linguistic guide to Oceania's official language, Newspeak from the perspective of the country's ruling party, along with policy prescriptions for how the language may develop in the future.

Since 1972, the Roman Catholic Church uses the name " Anointing of the Sick " both in the English translations issued by the Holy See of its official documents in Latin and in the English official documents of Episcopal conferences.

* Episcopal Conference, an official assembly of bishops in a territory of the Roman Catholic Church

* Episcopal see, the official seat of a bishop, often applied to the area over which he exercises authority

However, each of the 44 member churches in the Anglican Communion are free to adopt and authorise their own official documents, and the Articles are not officially normative in all of them ( e. g., The Episcopal Church USA, which relegates them to " Historical Documents ").

The first official organization in the United States occurred in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1784, with the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the Christmas Conference with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the leaders.

Subsequently, under his leadership, the Archdiocese of Chicago established official covenants with both the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago and the Evangelical Lutheran Metropolitan Synod.

The Continuing churches in the United States reject the 1979 revision of the Book of Common Prayer made by the Episcopal Church and use the 1928 version or prior official versions of the Book of Common Prayer for their services instead.

In 1968, the School became independent, breaking official ties with the Episcopal Church.

The official logo or symbol of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was originally authorized by Bishop B. Julian Smith for the Centennial General Conference held in Memphis, 1970.

It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its School of Theology is an official seminary of the church.

For the 18th-century English church in the United States ( which would become the Episcopal Church after the American Revolution ), latitudinarianism was the only practical course since it was a nation with official pluralism and diversity of opinion and diffusion of clerical power.

There was no official Episcopal Church in City of Fairfax until the Rev.

As of August 2009 the official name of the church is the Anglican Orthodox Southern Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

The Catholic Bishops ' Conference of the Philippines ( CBCP ) (,, Hiligaynon: Komperensya sang mga Obispo nga Katoliko sang Pilipinas ) is the Episcopal Conference of the Philippines, and as such is the official organization of the Catholic episcopacy and what is commonly referred to as the Philippine Catholic Church.

On July 9, 2012, the Episcopal Church passed a resolution approving an official liturgy for blessing same-sex unions.

* Episcopal High School's official website

" Article VIII is official doctrine not only for The United Methodist Church, and its counterpart for the Church of the Nazarene, but for many other Wesleyan denominations as well, such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the British Methodist Church, and other denominations associated with the Holiness movement.

It was founded in 1803 as Christ's Church by the Protestant inhabitants of New Orleans, and is today the official seat of the Bishop of Louisiana, in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana.

It also includes Calton Hill, the shops and offices on the northern side of Princes Street, Bute House, the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland, St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, the Edinburgh Playhouse, the Edinburgh Waterfront, the stretch of the Water of Leith from Dean Village to Leith Harbour, the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Western General Hospital and the private schools of Fettes College, the Edinburgh Academy, The Mary Erskine School and Stewart's Melville College and Telford College.

Although ARCIC had just completed the major document on Marian theology in 2003, Pope John Paul II suspended official talks between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, owing to the consecration of Gene Robinson, a homosexual man in a non-celibate relationship, as a bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States.

The only Episcopal seminary located in the Far West, CDSP has, since 1911, been designated the official seminary of the Episcopal Church's Eighth Province, the Province west of the Rocky Mountains.