As used in this Act, the term ' saline water ' includes sea water, brackish water, and other mineralized or chemically charged water, and the term ' United States ' extends to and includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States.

The term `` State '' means the several States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico ; ;

the term `` United States '' includes the several States and the District of Columbia, and excludes the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii.

The term `` State '' means the several States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico ; ;

the term `` United States '' includes the several States and the District of Columbia and excludes the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii.

While the term Lower Mainland has been recorded from the earliest period of non-native settlement in British Columbia, it has never been officially defined in legal terms.

* March 1 – Liberal British Columbia Premier Harlan Carey Brewster's term in office ends.

In Moe's autobiography, he said they each got $ 600 per week on a one-year contract with a renewable option ; in the Ted Okuda – Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts, the Stooges are said to have received $ 1, 000 among them for their first Columbia effort, Woman Haters, and then signed a term contract for $ 7, 500 per film ( equal to $ today ), to be divided among the trio.

The name Columbia was a poetic term for the Americas derived from Christopher Columbus.

Szasz first presented his attack on " mental illness " as a legal term in 1958 in the Columbia Law Review.

Hitchcock explained the term " MacGuffin " in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: " have a name in the studio, and we call it the ' MacGuffin '.

The term Northwest Plateau has been used to describe the inland regions, although they are commonly referred to as " the Interior " in British Columbia and the Inland Empire in the United States.

Michael Linton originated the term " local exchange trading system " in 1983 and for a time ran the Comox Valley LETSystems in Courtenay, British Columbia.

The term Lower 48 may or may not include the District of Columbia ( D. C .) ( which is not part of any of the 48 states ).

* Hugh L. White-former Columbia mayor and two term Governor of Mississippi

The term Columbia Symphony Orchestra was also used when, for contractual reasons, another orchestra could not appear under its own name.

In 1991, due in part to Social Credit's scandal-plagued final term in office under Premier William Vander Zalm and in part to the stellar performance of then – British Columbia Liberal Party ( BC Liberals ) leader Gordon Wilson in the televised leader's debate, the old Social Credit vote split between the BC Liberals, which garnered 33 % of the vote and BC Social Credit Party with 25 %.

BC Bud is a generic term for several potent Cannabis indica-dominant varieties ( e. g. BC Arctic Sun, BC God Bud ) also the more recently popular strain known as seaweed aka pinklady grown in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

The term " Successful " may however not be appropriate as Columbia not only made it an open system ( which was the exact opposite to what Biosphere 2 had been precisely designed for ) but also removed its organic soil, demonstrating a clear lack of understanding of the scope and vision of this facility and experiment.

William Templeton ( 1853 – January 16, 1898 ), butcher, was the sixth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving only one term in 1897.

Thomas Owen Townley ( August 18, 1862 – March 19, 1935 ) was a Canadian lawyer and the eighth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving one term in 1901.

Dr. William J. McGuigan ( July 18, 1853 – December 25, 1908 ) was the tenth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia and served one term in 1904.

Most of these ranges have endorheic valleys between them, which belies the image portrayed by the term Great Basin.

Nevertheless " Tocharian " remains the standard term for the language of the Tarim Basin manuscripts.

Historians generally agree that the adoption of the term " Uyghur " is based on a decision from a 1921 conference in Tashkent, which was attended by Turkic Muslims from the Tarim Basin ( Xinjiang ).

( Through an accident of naming, the term " Tocharian " now commonly refers to a branch of Indo-European languages spoken in the Tarim Basin between the 3rd and 9th centuries AD, and quite distinct from the Bactrian language spoken by the Tókharoi.

" Cowboy " is a term common throughout the west and particularly in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, " Buckaroo " is used primarily in the Great Basin and California, and " cowpuncher " mostly in Texas and surrounding states.

The cowboys of the Great Basin still use the term " buckaroo ", which may be a corruption of vaquero, to describe themselves and their tradition.

Basin modelling is the term broadly applied to a group of geological disciplines that can be used to analyse the formation and evolution of sedimentary basins, often but not exclusively to aid evaluation of potential hydrocarbon reserves.

Nevertheless " Tocharian " remains the standard term for the languages of the Tarim Basin manuscripts and for the people who produced them.

Historically, the term was invented by Russian Turkologists in the 19th century to replace the term Chinese Turkestan, which referred to the Tarim Basin in the southwestern part of Xinjiang province of the Qing Dynasty.

In China, the term Western Regions (; Uyghur: Qurighar ) referred to the regions west of the Yumen Pass, and more specifically the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang that had come under the Han Dynasty's control since 60 BC.

The term " East Turkestan " was popularized in academic works, but inconsistently: at times, the term East Turkestan only referred to area in Xinjiang south of the Tian Shan mountains, corresponding to the Tarim Basin ; the areas north of the Tian Shan mountains were called Dzungaria or Zungaria.

The term " Pacific Basin " includes the Pacific Rim and islands in the Pacific Ocean.

One of the better long term examples of this process is the Basin and Range province in Nevada and Utah.

The Highland Rim is a geographic term for the area in Tennessee surrounding the Central Basin.

The term " Highland " here is relative: it is certainly higher than the Basin it surrounds, but it nonetheless is seldom at an elevation above above sea level, and never more than about above sea level except where interrupted, primarily to the southeast, by outliers of the Cumberland Plateau.

In one of various usages, the term " Columbia Basin " refers to more or less the same area as the Columbia Plateau.

Usage of the term " Columbia Basin " in British Columbia generally refers only to the immediate basins of the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers and excludes that of the Okanagan, Kettle and Similkameen Rivers.

Residents of the area surrounding the confluence of the Columbia and Snake rivers — a region centering on the Tri-Cities, Washington metropolitan area — use the term " Columbia Basin " to refer to their own, much smaller region.

This sense of the term Columbia Basin has expanded from its early focus on the land irrigated by Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Project to include other irrigation districts such as the Yakima and Walla Walla valleys.

Some geographers also use the term Turpan-Hami Basin, which is understood as including the Turpan Depression along with the Hami Depression ( located to the east of the Turpan Depression, and to the southwest of the city of Hami ) and the Liaodong Uplift separating the two depressions.

The term thus encompasses the German state as specified in the Versailles Treaty and the Territory of the Saar Basin, which was re-integrated into Germany in 1935.