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By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.
This vision greatly influenced Senator J. William Fulbright in the goal of the Fulbright fellowships to promote international understanding and peace, and has guided many other international fellowship programs.
He was also a member of the UC Berkeley's Order of the Golden Bear which was a fellowship of students and leading faculty members formed to promote leadership within the student body.
The one-year fellowship seeks to promote public awareness of mental health issues, as well as to erase the stigma associated with them.
The fellowship does not promote itself, but rather attracts new members through public information and outreach.
A Constitution was adopted, containing the following preamble: " Whereas, in the providence of God, the time has come when it seems fitting more fully to manifest the essential oneness in the Lord Jesus Christ as their God and Saviour of the Churches of the Baptist order and faith throughout the world, and to promote the spirit of fellowship, service and co-operation among them, while recognizing the independence of each particular church and not assuming the functions of any existing organization, it is agreed to form a Baptist World Alliance, extending over every part of the world.
The report stated in part, " Members of the Old German Baptist Brethren Church in full fellowship and in good standing with the Church, believe and agree that the Old German Baptist Brethren ’ s interpretation of NT doctrine is scriptural and has been prompted by the Holy Spirit and it is their mind to remain in this fellowship and to teach, support and promote the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Associations promote fellowship by " corresponding " with ( sending representatives to ) other associations that they deem to be of " like faith and order ".
The Company also runs a lively social programme to promote friendship and good fellowship among its members and their guests.
One Sunday afternoon in 1898 six young men from Ottery St Mary, who were then living in London, met on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, and resolved to form a Society to promote good fellowship among Ottery people wherever they may be.
The Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches exists to increase fellowship between member congregations, promote evangelism and missions, and represent the congregations through membership in boards and organizations outside the FEBC.
The purpose of the fraternity is " to assemble college students in a National Service Fraternity in the fellowship of principles derived from the Scout Oath and Scout Law of the Boy Scouts of America ; to develop Leadership, to promote Friendship, and to provide Service to humanity ; and to further the freedom that is our national, educational, and intellectual heritage.
Annual events are organised to promote fellowship among the members, including an annual dinner and visits to places of interest.
The purpose of the association is to promote a sense of fellowship among Plasticville, USA collectors and to serve as an accurate source of information regarding all aspects of Plasticville collecting for its members and the general public.
The mission of the Ninety-Nines is to promote world fellowship through flight ; to provide networking and scholarship opportunities for women and aviation education in the community ; and to preserve the unique history of women in aviation.
The object of our fraternity is to promote good fellowship, to encourage studiousness, and to inspire its members in seeking the best in their chosen lines of study as well as in life.
In September 1991, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Todd established the Richard Cecil Todd and Clauda Pennock Todd Tripod Scholarship to promote the future academic opportunity of Phi Sigma Pi brothers who have excelled in embodying the ideals of scholarship, leadership, and fellowship.
BYX seeks to set itself apart from other fraternities in its incorporation of cell groups where, separate from weekly fraternity meetings, small groups of men gather weekly to edify college men through Bible study, worship, accountability, prayer, and fellowship to promote brotherhood among its members.
The Academy's purpose is " to establish and maintain an association of persons and organizations interested in science and scientific research in all of its branches ; to solicit financial and other support ; to cooperate with educational institutions, industries, and state agencies in fostering an interest in scientific matters, in promoting scientific investigations and in spreading knowledge of the sciences ; to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of papers on scientific subjects and facilities for their publication ; to provide opportunities for the cooperation and fellowship among its members ; and generally, in doing these things, to benefit not only its own members, but to promote the civic, agricultural, academic, industrial, and commercial welfare of the people of Virginia.
" Believing that the attainment of education as well as technical training is the aim of all true engineers, we band ourselves together to foster and promote fraternal relationships among electrical engineering students ; to strive at all times for the maintenance of a complete and lasting understanding and fellowship between faculty and students ; to unceasingly cherish and develop the character and ideals of service as the necessary attributes of the profession.
) was formed in 1998 to generate more activity and interest in clogging and competition, to promote a spirit of fun and fellowship, and to make sure the beginner clogger will get to enjoy competing as much as the clogger who has been in it for years.
The objective of the new Carnival was to promote a collective atmosphere of fellowship and to celebrate life, creative expression, and enjoyment.
The purpose is to facilitate communication, co-operation, fellowship and shared vision between Church Army societies and to promote the growth of the Church Army's ministry worldwide.

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One legacy not drawn from the Group was anonymity, which came about due to AA wishing to avoid the publicity-seeking practices of the Oxford Group and to not promote, Wilson said, " erratic public characters who through broken anonymity might get drunk and destroy confidence in us.
Wilson regarded himself as a " man of the people " and did much to promote this image, contrasting himself with the stereotypical aristocratic conservatives who had preceded him.
The belief in an American mission to promote and defend democracy throughout the world, as expounded by Abraham Lincoln and later by Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush, continues to have an influence on American political ideology.
Cindy Wilson rejoined the group on two of the new songs and a major tour ( with co-headliners the Pretenders ) to promote the collection.
During a grueling cross-country tour to promote the League, Wilson suffered a series of strokes.
The Wilson Labour Government ( 1964 – 1970 ) came to power at a time when British manufacturing industry was in decline and decided that the remedy was to promote more mergers, particularly in the motor industry.
The documentary was the final appearance of Carl Wilson with the original Beach Boys and the last time the original band were together to promote an album until the 50th anniversary reunion album That's Why God Made the Radio in 2012.
Inspired by the rhetoric of " self-determination " espoused by President Woodrow Wilson, in September 1918 Briggs launched a monthly publication of his own called The Crusader as a means to promote the idea of the repatriation of blacks to a decolonized Africa, an idea akin to the contemporary notion of Zionism.
Sea of Tunes was a music publishing company, founded in 1962 by Murry Wilson, father to three of the Beach Boys ( Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson ), and uncle of another member ( Mike Love ), to publish and promote the original songs written by Brian and Mike.

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There are other countries where, with skillful diplomacy, we may be able by our aid to give encouragement to those groups in government which would like to press forward with economic and social reform measures to promote growth.
These protists live as individual amoebae until starved, at which point they aggregate and form a multicellular fruiting body in which some cells sacrifice themselves to promote the survival of other cells in the fruiting body.
He believed that the Endowment exists to promote information on the nations ' rights and responsibilities under existing international law and to encourage other conferences to codify this law.
Olav Hammer suggests that anthroposophy carries scientism " to lengths unparalleled in any other Esoteric position " due to its dependence upon claims of clairvoyant experience, its subsuming natural science under " spiritual science ", and its development of what Hammer calls " fringe " sciences such as anthroposophical medicine and biodynamic agriculture justified partly on the basis of the ethical and ecological values they promote, rather than purely on a scientific basis.
* Chalmers Alternative Sports-a student association organizing trips and other activities working to promote alternative sports.
A cabal is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interests in a church, state, or other community, often by intrigue.
The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), founded in 1994 to promote open standards for the World Wide Web, brought Netscape Communications and Microsoft together with other companies to develop a standard for browser scripting languages, called " ECMAScript.
These are diuretics which do not promote the secretion of potassium into the urine ; thus, potassium is spared and not lost as much as in other diuretics.
At the same time, many environmentalists have been turning toward other means of persuasion, such as working with business, community, and other partners to promote sustainable development.
The Centres implement labor and industrial policy, provide employment and immigration services, and promote culture ; maintain highways, other transport networks and infrastructure ; and protect, monitor and manage the environment, land use and water resources.
Like other European nations, Sweden tried to protect and promote its national interests during the Finnish Civil War and World War I.
The Hong Kong Government has also set up the Hong Kong Tourism Board with offices in other countries and regions to promote tourism.
The law, however, while containing commandments intended to promote the true fear of God, had other prescriptions of a purely pedagogic nature, which necessarily ceased when Christ, their end, appeared ; of such temporary and merely relative regulations were circumcision, animal sacrifices, the Sabbath, and the laws as to food.
Since independence was granted in 1963 relations have been usually amicable, both being part of the Commonwealth of Nations, a successor to the empire which aims to promote mutual co-operation, democracy and other cultural values and ties with each member state.
It is possible that by increasing oligodendrocyte cholinergic stimulation, AChEIs and other cholinergic treatments like nicotine could promote myelination during development and myelin repair in older age.
People all around the world are encouraged to wear Headbands to work and other social events to promote character building and confidence in the workplace and other social environments.
Buzan also uses popular assumptions about the cerebral hemispheres in order to promote the exclusive use of mind mapping over other forms of note making.
* In the early 20th century, Manuel José Estrada Cabrera, President of Guatemala, tried to promote a " Cult of Minerva " in his country ; this left little legacy other than a few interesting Hellenic style " Temples " in parks around Guatemala.
They were established to " promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term — in other words, the knowledge of God.
Whether in fact a person's actions promote and fulfill his own life or not is a question of fact, as it is with all other organisms, but whether a person will act to promote his well-being is up to him, not hard-wired into his physiology.
As the sod thins, weeds encroach into the pasture in some parts of the United States, whereas in most other parts of the worlds overgrazing can promote thick swards of native unpalatable grasses that hamper the spread of weeds.

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