* 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.

The proposed admission to the union of California as a state set off a debate as to whether a prohibition of slavery should be made a condition of admission.

On March 14, 2002, an agreement was signed to transform the FRY into a loose state union called Serbia and Montenegro ; it took effect on February 4, 2003.

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

( a ) ' High Court ' means the high court for a state or a union territory and includes the court of the judicial commissioner in any union territory.

Others state that for those who accept that Christians can be homosexual, the sexual ethic aspired to corresponds to the model indicated in scripture and the tradition of the church for heterosexuals ; this entails commitment and fidelity expressed through monogamy and lifelong partnership or union.

One form describes the primeval state as an eternal union of two parents, and the creation takes place when the two are pulled apart.

According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

The Governor of New South Wales is the state viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared with 15 other sovereign nations in a form of personal union, as well as with the six other jurisdictions of Australia, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom.

Where one person is head of state of multiple sovereign countries ( such as in a personal union ), there may be need to appoint a permanent representative in each ( or excepting in the head of state's country of primary residence ).

It was also a full economic union ; indeed, most of its 25 articles dealt with economic arrangements for the new state known as " Great Britain ".

The Duchy of Warsaw was replaced with the Kingdom of Poland, a residual Polish state in personal union with the Russian Empire, ruled by the Russian tsar.

On December 1, King Abdullah announced the union of Transjordan with Arab Palestine west of the Jordan, the new state name being the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

( 5 ) The union and discipline of the Christian republic, which gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman empire.

The capital of the state is Chandigarh which is administered as a union territory and is also the capital of Punjab.

(, ), on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony ( Niedersachsen ), Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( later described as the Elector of Hanover ).

Offshore corporate funds are used for non-US investors, which would otherwise be subject to more complex tax issues by investing in a tax-transparent entity such as a partnership, and US entities that do not pay tax such as state, corporate, private and union pension funds, which would otherwise be subject to unrelated business income tax in the United States.

The new state pledged that it will take steps to bring about the economic union of the whole of Eretz Israel and appealed:

* 1859 – Political and state union of Moldavia and Wallachia ; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as Domnitor in bouth Principalities.

In America the phrase could be used as slang describing the act of getting married legally, rather than as one specifying an informal union not recognised by church or state.

A new type of entity, the union territory, replaced the classification as a Part C or Part D state.

This jurisdiction is entrenched and its authority could only be denied by a member state if that member State asserts its sovereignty and withdraws from the union.

In many developed countries, these functions have been assumed by the state ; however, the provision of professional training, legal advice and representation for members is still an important benefit of trade union membership.

With multiple member districts the still fragmentary local party organizations could have operated more effectively and parties might have been encouraged to state their positions more clearly.

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

The main reasoning behind this decision was that the state would effectively be taking the lives of innocent hostages in order to avoid a terrorist attack.

As with other learned professions, each state has certain ( fairly similar ) requirements for becoming licensed as a registered Professional Engineer ( PE ), but in practice such a license is not required to practice in the majority of situations ( due to an exception known as the private industry exemption, which effectively applies to the vast majority of American engineers ).

It effectively established the first Islamic state.

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Since becoming an institution of the state, aside from official commitment to communism and Marxism-Leninism, the party also has de facto unrecognized factions including consumerist and neoliberal figures including business people on the right who effectively support capitalism, as well as factions on the left that oppose the right in the party, and other factions.

For Adorno and Horkheimer state intervention in the economy had effectively abolished the tension in capitalism between the " relations of production " and " material productive forces of society ," a tension which, according to traditional critical theory, constituted the primary contradiction within capitalism.

To achieve this a backup operation is done occasionally or continuously, where each desired database state ( i. e., the values of its data and their embedding in database's data structures ) is kept within dedicated backup files ( many techniques exist to do this effectively ).

When receiving diplomats — who formally represent the sovereign — the receiving head of state grants certain privileges and immunities to ensure they may effectively carry out their duties, on the understanding that these are provided on a reciprocal basis.

While conventional tax credit systems are structured to treat all private school participants equally, neovoucher systems effectively delegate to individual private taxpayers ( those owing money to the state ) the power to decide which private schools will benefit.

The Byzantine empire also produced three women who effectively governed the state: the Empress Irene and the Empresses Zoe and Theodora.

In the late 20th century, Belgium became a federal state in which the Dutch-speaking part was given autonomy as the Flemish Community () and the Flemish Region (); these two entities were effectively merged, and Flanders now refers to the territory of the Flemish Community, which additionally has partial jurisdiction over Brussels.

When a Governor-General is overseas on official duties or unable to perform official functions, or the office is vacant, the senior state governor is appointed as Administrator of the Commonwealth, and is effectively acting Governor-General.

Recent wars, such as support of the American Revolutionary War, compounded by the loss of the North American colonies, had effectively bankrupted the state.

Between 1922 and 1991, the history of Russia is essentially the history of the Soviet Union, effectively an ideologically based state which was roughly conterminous with the Russian Empire before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

Soon the content of every newspaper, book, novel, play, film, broadcast and concert, from the level of nationally-known publishers and orchestras to local newspapers and village choirs, was subject to supervision by the Propaganda Ministry, although a process of self-censorship was soon effectively operating in all these fields, leaving the Ministry in Berlin free to concentrate on the most politically sensitive areas such as major newspapers and the state radio.

Perhaps the most noteworthy event occurred in 529 when the Neoplatonic Academy of Athens was placed under state control by order of Justinian, effectively strangling this training-school for Hellenism.

Following the dissolution of the Republican Party in 1876, the True Whig Party dominated the Liberian government until the 1980 coup, eventually creating what was effectively a one-party state.

Translated as " Army First ", it effectively transformed North Korea into a military dictatorship rather than a traditional communist state.

In the Soviet Union for example, the General Secretary of the Communist Party did not necessarily hold a state office like president or prime minister to effectively control the system of government.

Multilevel systems can be used as well, if they possess two states that can be effectively decoupled from the rest ( e. g., ground state and first excited state of a nonlinear oscillator ).

" The party is both socialist, advocating state ownership of the means of industrial production and the redistribution of agricultural land ( in practice, Syria's nominally socialist economy is effectively a mixed economy, composed of large state enterprises and private small businesses ), and revolutionary, dedicated to carrying a pan-Arab revolution to every part of the Arab world.