One of his first acts as president was to change the country's official name to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
In 1990, the Soviet republic of Kirghizia decided to change its official name to the Socialist Republic of Kyrgyzstan, a title recalling the ancient Turkic origins of many of its people.
With respect to the wider leak inquiry, it is a crime for an official to reveal the name of a CIA undercover operative to someone without security clearance and the CIA always follows up such leaks.
First up will be details about pricing, packaging and an official name to replace the Blue code name.
The dealer explains that it will take a couple of weeks for the issued name to appear in the official database.
California law, by contrast, treats homosexual couples as equal to heterosexual couples in every respect except for the official name it applies to their relationships.
And it has found a clever way to extend the official domain-name system.
President Obama has tried to engage with America's long-time foe, Iran, issuing a video address to both the people and leaders of Iran and calling the country by its official name, the Islamic Republic Iran, to signal that Washington was not seeking regime change.
To prove his case, the undercover reporter traveled with the new documents to Chile, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela and was amazed to find out that his name was actually in the official Peruvian database.
The rooms, which open to the public on November 1st, bear the official and unwieldy name the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.
"The start of yuan clearing service in Singapore is one more step forward to the internationalization of the renminbi, " said Matthew Cannon, HSBC's head of global markets in Singapore, referring to the Chinese currency by its official name.
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An agency official declined to to name the foreign government, but said the FBI took various investigative steps, including looking at his travel history and checking databases for derogatory information.
His "Fisherman's Ring", the special signet ring which contains the Pope's name and is impressed to validate certain official documents, is expected to be destroyed along with the lead seal of the pontificate.
The veteran referee heard another official call his name and turned, only to be smashed in the face with a helmet by one of the players.
To make the car more national (it cannot be an official national car), Bambang changed the name from Hyundai Elantra to Bimantara Cakra.
Paris Insurge, Paris libere: that is the name Paris has given to the official celebrations - Paris in revolt, Paris liberated.
The airline, which operates under the official name Lion Mentari, is banned from European airspace due to safety concerns, according to the European Union.
The official would not allow his name to be used because a preliminary investigation into the matter is ongoing and no conclusions have been reached.
We almost missed it at Sony's pint-sized booth at the annual week-long CEA event in New York City -- the camera, which has yet to get an official name and model number assignment from Tokyo, is massively smaller than yesterday's snaps may have implied.
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The word "pension" in the oil fund's official name is a bit misleading as the benefits for Norwegians is not restricted to pensions.
According to the official, mail inside the apartment contained Mr. Thomas' name.
McLane said 82% of funds raised by the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the charity's official name, are devoted to programs and services that benefit survivors and their families.
The official, who would not allow his name to be used for security reasons, said the government in Baghdad was sending buses to Karbala to take some of the pilgrims out of the city.
The Vatican also said that the former Pope Benedict's Fisherman's Ring - the special signet ring which contains the pope's name and is impressed to validate certain official documents - had been scored, rather than destroyed, as earlier reports had suggested.
Every one of them conveyed the excitement of the choice, but refused to name Engelbert Humperdinck until it was official.
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His father, Rupert Murdoch, has yet to name an official heir to his media throne should the 79-year-old mogul die or decide to retire.
But its inclusion, and its receiving an official name, will have to wait until other researchers reproduce the results.
He also just formed a nonprofit to support the "New Orleans Chapel of the Santisima Muerte, " the official name of his public altar.
But the official said the change did not make it more difficult to get a name on the watch list and represented the collective thinking of the nation's intelligence agencies.
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