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" The term is traceable to the 1789 Form of Government of the PC ( U. S. A .) and the Presbyterian understanding of the pastoral office.
* Chief Relationship Officer or CRO – Companies have used this title to mean several different things: ( 1 ) officer responsible for key external relationships including Investor Relations, Government Relations and sometimes Public Relations or Communications ; ( 2 ) alternate term for Chief Human Resources Officer ; ( 3 ) alternate term for Chief Networking Officer
On 9 May 2008, the Falkland Islands Government asserted that the minefields which represent 0. 1 % of the available farmland on the islands " present no long term social or economic difficulties for the Falklands " and that the impact of clearing the mines would cause more problems than containing them.
Many in Hong Kong saw this as an adverse impact on one country, two systems, as the Central People's Government interpret the Basic Law to serve its need, that is, a two-year probation for Tsang, instead of a five-year term.
In parliamentary systems the head of state may be merely the nominal chief executive officer of the state, possessing executive power ( hence the description of the monarch's governments in the UK Commonwealth realms as His / Her Majesty's Government ; a term indicating that all power belongs to the sovereign and the government acts on Her Majesty's behalf, not parliament's ).
The most widely-held theory is that the military designation of GP begat the term Jeep and holds that the vehicle bore the designation GP ( for Government Purposes or General Purpose ), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep, in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV ( for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle ) has become known as the humvee.
The term Latino was officially adopted in 1997 by the United States Government in the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino, which replaced the single term Hispanic: " Because regional usage of the terms differs – Hispanic is commonly used in the eastern portion of the United States, whereas Latino is commonly used in the western portion.
Government initiative is spurred, because rational long term investment will be perceived as the better choice to increasing regulation.
The Regional Government ( Giunta Regionale ) is presided by the President of the Region ( Presidente della Regione ), who is elected for a five-year term and is composed by the President and the Ministers, who are currently 14, including a Vice President ( Vice Presidente ).
The term republic does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, but does appear in Article IV of the Constitution which " guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government.
In August 2009 as part of its third legislative term in the Scottish Parliament, the Government proposes to debate the Scottish referendum bill 2010, which would set out a planned referendum for 30th November 2010 on the issue of Scottish independence.
The election campaign was a relatively low-key affair, with the Government and Bracks largely running on their record, as well as their plans to tackle infrastructure issues in their third term.
* October 18 – The Fraser Government is re-elected for a third consecutive term in Australia with a reduced majority.
Government bonds are medium or long term debt securities issued by sovereign governments or their agencies.
In Victoria the term " secondary college " has largely replaced the term " high school " following the reforms of the Labor Government in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In the United Kingdom, the Sovereign is the de jure executive authority, even though executive decisions are made by the elected Prime Minister and his Cabinet on the Sovereign's behalf, hence the term Her Majesty's Government.
Later in July, the U. S. Government convinced Chamoun not to seek a second term and this allowed for Fuad Chehab to be elected Lebanon's new president.
A long term addition of 9 shillings ( which was subsequently increased to 10 shillings ) a week was provided for the allowances of all pensioners and for the long term sick, while the real value of most existing benefits was increased, ( such as family allowances, which were substantially raised in 1967 and 1968 ) with benefits rising at roughly the same rate as salaries over the course of the First Wilson Government, while family allowances were significantly increased.
I generally believe if a government is elected to power in the lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the three-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene ... Having said that ... if we do make up our minds at some stage that the Government is so reprehensible that an Opposition must use whatever power is available to it, then I'd want to find a situation in which ... Mr. Whitlam woke up one morning finding the decision had been made and finding that he had been caught with his pants well and truly down.
The term was also used in the introduction to the hugely influential US Government Document known as NSC-68 written in April 1950.

term and always
The term suggests that its followers support protectionism and / or nationalism, which is not always the case-in fact, some supporters of anti-globalization are strong opponents of both nationalism and protectionism: for example, the No Border network argues for unrestricted migration and the abolition of all national border controls.
The term is always positive since, according to the second law of thermodynamics, viscosity cannot add energy to the control volume.
The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.
Therefore we always called it an illness, or a malady — a far safer term for us to use.
Other major critiques are that the term is not defined well, and employs further terms that are not defined well, and therefore lacks explanatory power, that cultural imperialism is hard to measure, and that the theory of a legacy of colonialism is not always true.
The modern usage of the term carbine covers much the same scope as it always had, namely lighter weapons ( generally rifles ) with barrels less than 457. 2 mm ( 18 inches ).
In the United States and Canada, the term Conservative, as applied, does not always indicate that a congregation is affliliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the movement's central institution and the one to which the term, without qualifier, usually refers.
The term " storage " is often ( but not always ) used in separate computers of traditional secondary memory such as tape, magnetic disks and optical discs ( CD-ROM and DVD-ROM ).
The term " memory " is often ( but not always ) associated with addressable semiconductor memory, i. e. integrated circuits consisting of silicon-based transistors, used for example as primary memory but also other purposes in computers and other digital electronic devices.
Microsoft's guidelines call for always using the term context menu, and explicitly deprecate shortcut menu.
However, the term dialect always implies a relation between languages: if language X is called a dialect, this implies that the speaker considers X a dialect of some other language Y, which then usually is some standard language.
This is simply one term in the multipole expansion when the total charge (" monopole moment ") is 0 — as it always is for the magnetic case, since there are no magnetic monopoles.
Still, even in the 19th Century, the term " Dictator " did not always have negative connotations.
The term " potassium-sparing " refers to an effect rather than a mechanism or location ; nonetheless, the term almost always refers to two specific classes that have their effect at similar locations:
Nor does ethical egoism necessarily entail that, in pursuing self-interest, one ought always to do what one wants to do ; e. g. in the long term, the fulfillment of short-term desires may prove detrimental to the self.
There also exist planetary-mass objects that orbit brown dwarfs and other bodies that " float free " in space not bound to any star ; however, the term " planet " is not always applied to these objects.
" While the most desirable option is a varied and sufficient diet, this goal is not always achievable, at least not in the short term.
The term " genetically modified organism " does not always imply, but can include, targeted insertions of genes from one species into another.
The term Westdeutschland ( West Germany ) when used by West Germans was almost always a reference to the geographic region of Western Germany but not to the area within the boundaries of the Federal Republic of Germany.
However, this usage was not always consistent, as, for example, West Berliners frequently applied the term Westdeutschland to denote the Federal Republic.
The Gaelic triangular, wire-strung harp has always been known by the feminine term cruit but by 1204 was certainly known by the masculine term ' clàr ' ( board ) and, by the 14th century, by the feminine form of ' clàr ', i. e., ' clàirseach / clàrsach '.

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