Using the automotive industry practice of "badge engineering," Mr. deSoto transformed a 1965 Chrysler New Yorker into a car he called the Conquest.
The current version of the Act, passed in 2008, incorporates a number of very significant amendments, which were again made to accommodate rapid advances in science as well as changes in public attitudes and clinical practice (Lovell-Badge, 2008).
Between the American Civil War and World War I, gold became the near-universal standard, "a symbol of sound practice and a badge of honor and decency," said Joseph Schumpeter, the great economist.
Meaning, could a doctor participating in Share Practice become a badge of honor?
The report also criticized the sheriff's practice of issuing honorary badges to "doctors, attorneys, clergy and various political supporters" -- and his refusal to divulge the names of the recipients.
I had no hunger for merit badges, I hated practice and I despised collecting weekly subscriptions from my customers, who often dodged me and rarely tipped.
The omission was understandable, as Ford wants to avoid the impression of badge engineering -- that practice of basing a new luxury car on a model from the parent company's volume division.
The most frequent assertion in the report involves the time-worn practice of sheriffs' giving away or selling hundreds of honorary badges to civilians -- Mr. Blumenthal counted 629 honorary badges given by the New Haven County sheriff, Frank J. Kinney.
The chevrons of sergeants and corporals were surmounted by a regimental badge on a red baize backing, a practice that continued through the inter-war years and beyond.
Heraldry, the practice of designing, displaying, describing, and recording coats of arms and badges, arose from the need to distinguish participants in combat when their faces were hidden by iron and steel helmets.
