This contrasts with a full alphabet, in which vowels have status equal to consonants, and with an abjad, in which vowel marking is absent or optional.

* Active duty, a status of full duty or service, usually referencing full service in the armed forces

Today Basque holds co-official language status in the Basque regions of Spain: the full autonomous community of the Basque Country and some parts of Navarre.

Treasury notes had full legal tender status and were not convertible for gold through the Bank of England, replacing the gold coin in circulation to prevent a run on sterling and to enable raw material purchases for armament production.

Candidate status — effectively, accreditation — was obtained in April 2005, and full membership in the Association was conferred in November 2006.

Both the Nationals and Liberals receive Country Liberal Party delegations, and the party president has full voting rights with the National Party and observer status with the Liberal Party.

Echols spent several months in a mental institution in Arkansas, and afterward received " full disability " status from the Social Security Administration.

Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state.

Finland became a full member of the European Union ( EU ) in January 1995, at the same time acquiring observer status in the EU's defence arm, the Western European Union.

In 1928 the club applied to the Association Internationale des Automobiles Clubs Reconnus ( AIACR ), the international governing body of motorsport, to be upgraded from a regional French club to full national status.

In order to attain full national status, Noghès proposed the creation of an automobile Grand Prix in the streets of Monte Carlo.

Hence, official judgment of status is the responsibility of the governing body in each country that is a full member of the International Cricket Council ( ICC ).

A Test match is a first-class match played between two ICC full member countries subject to their current status at the ICC and the application of ICC conditions when the match is played.

In 21 March at 6: 30 am ( The hour at which people got up, as the farm was full of loud and restless animals ) 1424, Hilversum received its first official independent status.

This gives the patient full control over the pump, and a full check on the pump ’ s status and activity.

Women are accorded full status as renunciates and are often called sadhvi, the feminine of the term often used for male munis, sadhu.

His political commitment to the Western powers achieved full sovereignty for West Germany, which was formally laid down in the General Treaty, although there remained Allied restrictions concerning the status of a potentially reunited Germany and the state of emergency in West Germany.

These entities have observer status with FATF, which does not entitle them to vote, but permits full participation in plenary sessions and working groups.

Higher ordination, conferring the status of a full Bhikkhu, is given only to men who are aged 20 or older.

Some have questioned whether these criteria are sufficient, as they allow less-recognized entities like the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) to claim full status as states.

Some authors saw the latter as languages which had not yet completely evolved to full Bantu status, whereas others regarded them as languages which had partly lost original features still found in Bantu.

At the 1958 Annual Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, trine immersion was no longer required for all members, women were given an ordination status equal to men, love feast was opened to members of any church, and bread and cup communion was permitted without having love feast.

* The Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, who leads the Coptic Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See, can also be granted the title of Cardinal Bishop by the Pope, without compromising his Patriarchal status.

The policies of the church are inclusive and liberal: there are no restrictions of gender, sexual orientation or marital status for a person considering entering the ministry ; interfaith marriages are recognized ; communion is offered to all Christian adults and children, regardless of denomination or age.

Many Mainline Protestants practice open communion, in which the bread and wine / juice is offered to the people without discrimination of age or denominational status.

In another field, the Commission made successful contact in the same year 2000 with the Priestly Union of St Jean-Marie Vianney in Campos, Brazil, which was admitted to full communion with the Roman Catholic Church and was granted the status of a Personal Apostolic Administration within that diocese.

What then is the status of such questions as: is society the ground of human existence or a means to an individual goal??

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

He maintained Catholicism's status as the official state religion but tried to curb the church's political powers and to encourage religious tolerance as a means of attracting Protestant immigrants and traders.

By many, education is understood to be a means of overcoming handicaps, achieving greater equality and acquiring wealth and status for all ( Sargent 1994 ).

Its traditional name, Alnair, means " the bright one " and refers to its status as the brightest star in Grus.

Ironically, given the status of the Western Isles as the last Gàidhlig-speaking stronghold in Scotland, the Gaelic language name for the islands – Innse Gall – means " isles of the foreigners " which has roots in the time when they were under Norse colonisation.

The foundation's nonprofit status also means that the Kamprad family cannot reap these profits directly, but the Kamprads do collect a portion of IKEA sales profits through the franchising relationship between INGKA Holding and Inter IKEA Systems.

Lesotho's status as an enclave also means that it is landlocked and largely dependent on South Africa.

He stated that within the drug trade firearms are used as status symbols, a means of protection and ... for executions ... to intimidate potential informants and to enforce debt repayment ".

The main difficulties that haunted its development during the first two decades are still there: deficiency of means for research and development of university centers, need for funds for empirical research, a shortage of academic literature, disproportion in allocation of resources between center and periphery, deteriorating status of political science in university curriculums ( at non-political-scientist departments ) etc.

" This denial of canonical status means Milingo had no authority to exercise any ministry.

Under ancient Roman penal practice, crucifixion was also a means of exhibiting the criminal ’ s low social status.

The plaintiffs also addressed the lower court's justification for limiting marital status to male-female couples — linking marital status to child rearing — noting that Vermont law recognizes same-sex couples ' right to adopt children, and to parent children conceived by natural and artificial means.

The maximum number of devices on an RS-485 line is limited to 32, which means that the host can frequently request status updates from each device and display events almost in real time.

There is now little debate about the general legal status of involuntary population transfers: Where population transfers used to be accepted as a means to settle ethnic conflict, today, forced population transfers are considered violations of international law.

Instead of traditional means of bands reaching their audiences through large music labels, bands began recording, manufacturing albums and merchandise, booking their own tours, and creating opportunities for smaller bands to get wider recognition and gain cult status through repetitive low-cost DIY touring.

On teleological or utilitarian grounds, the moral status of " black market organ donation " relies upon the ends, rather than the means.

The status vir consularis was, as we have seen, conferred upon Odaenathus ; the title rex, or king, is simply a Latin translation of mlk, or king ; imperator in this context simply means " victorious general "; and dux Romanorum looks like yet another version of corrector totius orientis " ( Potter, 263 ).

A key part of this analysis is the contention that one dimension of the social domain-tracking the illocutionary status of the transaction ( whether individual participants claim that their interests have been met, or not ) is very readily conferred to a computer process-independent of whether the computer has the means to adequately represent the real world issues underlying that claim.

As such, Dune is representative of a general trend beginning in 1960s American science fiction in that it features a character who attains godlike status through scientific means.

Through Raeder approved of Hitler as a man who believed that it was necessary for Germany to achieve " world power status ", he disapproved of Hitler's proposed means of attaining it.

* non-visual binaries — stars whose binary status was deduced through more esoteric means such as occultation ( eclipsing binaries ), spectroscopy ( spectroscopic binaries ), or anomalies in proper motion ( astrometric binaries ).

In other words, if we interpret the formal structure X of quantum mechanics by means of a structure Y ( via a mathematical equivalence of the two structures ), what is the status of Y?