Also, in 1983 the term " dominion " was replaced with " realm " by letters patent.

The term dominion was chosen to indicate Canada's status as a self-governing colony of the British Empire, the first time it was used in reference to a country.

It provided for the establishment within a year of an Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations ( the first use by the UK Government of this term, rather than " British Empire ", in an official document ).

Seddon's plans focused mainly on establishing New Zealand dominion over Fiji and Samoa, but in the end, only the Cook Islands came under New Zealand's control during his term in office.

By the 1970s the term " dominion " was rarely used by the national government, and the Trudeau government was in favour of renaming Dominion Day, although it did not give official backing to the proposal.

In just about any area that fell under the crown's dominion, the term was made use of, and anyone of mixed Caucasian and conquered races could be properly described as being half-caste.

The term came into common use under the rule of the Mughals who referred to their dominion, centred on Delhi, as ' Hindustan '.

* 1931-The Statute of Westminster makes all existing dominions fully independent of the United Kingdom, and provides that all new dominions shall be fully independent upon the grant of dominion status-thus, the term ' dominion ' no longer indicated an autonomous jurisdiction under imperial control but a sovereign state that differed from most others merely in having the same head of state as the United Kingdom ( a situation similar to the period between 1603 and 1707, when Scotland and England had the same monarch but each had their own fully independent governments ).

However, the term " perfidious Albion " would have been soon used again by fascist powers in order to criticise the global dominion of the British empire, that drains resources and occupies territories while leaving nothing to emerging powers such as Italy or Germany which had limited colonial empires.

The term caliphate, " dominion of a caliph (' successor ')" ( from the Arabic خلافة or khilāfa, ), refers to the first system of government established in Islam and represented the leader's unity of the Muslim Ummah ( community ).

These critics claim the frequent use of the word, " dominion ", by Reconstructionist writers, strongly associates the critical term, Dominionism, with this movement.

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

It incites to ' counterpower ,' to ' positive ' criticism, to an irreducible dialogue ( like that between king and prophet in Israel ), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion ( in other words, of all things political ), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of " anarchism " ( so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century ).

New Brunswick premier Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley suggested the term ' Dominion ', inspired by Psalm 72: 8 ( from the King James Bible ): " He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Use of the term dominion was formalized in 1867 through Canadian Confederation.

No constitutional statute amends this name, and the subsequent Canada Act 1982 does not use the term dominion.

However, the Canadian constitution includes the preceding BNA Acts, where the term is used ; also, the Canada Act 1982 does not state that Canada is not a dominion.

For a time the outlook appeared hopeless, but Rezanov's skill, subtlety and address prevailed, and shortly before the assassination of Paul ( 1801 ) he obtained his signature to the momentous instrument which granted to the Russian-American Company, for a term of twenty years, dominion over the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, from latitude 55 degrees northward ; and over the chain of islands extending from Kamchatka northward to Alaska and southward to Japan.

* Jus ad rem, a term of the civil law, meaning " a right to a thing " -- distinguished from jus in re, which is dominion over a thing as against all persons.

Some Qur ' anic scholars have translated Dīn in places as " faith " Others suggest that the term " has been used in various forms and meanings, e. g., power, supremacy, ascendancy, sovereignty or lordship, dominion, law, constitution, mastery, government, realm, decision, definite outcome, reward and punishment.

Over the very long term, the Conservative leadership expected the Act to lead to a nominally dominion status India, conservative in outlook, dominated by an alliance of Hindu princes and right-wing Hindus which would be well disposed to place itself under the guidance and protection of the United Kingdom.

In Hinduism, the term generally denotes a powerful ruler, whose dominion extended to the entire earth.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.