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  • and the superiority of papal authority to that of councils. Under Pope Julius II, Cajetan was also instrumental in granting to Ferdinand of Spain the ...
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  • In some countries, notably France, academic councils called Academies are responsible for supervising all aspects of University education in ...
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  • plans began, a total of 702 local municipal councils have been formed. These are headed by elected mayors. The Malian legal system is largely ...
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  • * Alberigo, Giuseppe. The Oecumenical councils from Nicaea I to Nicaea II (325-787). (Conciliorum oecumenicorum generaliumque decreta, 1.) Turnhout: ...
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  • Because the Eastern Orthodox Church emphasizes the authority of councils, which belong to all the bishops, it stresses the canonical uses more ...
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  • to her new converts that synods forbade it and councils legislated against it. The Council of Ancyra in 314 decreed five years penance to consulters ...
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  • Province of Awa. Katsu argued before government councils in favor of a unified Japanese naval force, led by professionally trained officers and disregarding ...
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  • in the hands of local government: the municipal councils or ethnic governments such as—in the district of Judea and Jerusalem—the Sanhedrin and ...
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  • a number of other aristocratic administrative councils. Due to his prominence in the pre-revolutionary government in France, he was beheaded at ...
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  • elected to office and to aspire to service in the councils of national power." ==Notes== ==References== * Escott, Paul D. Military Necessity: ...
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  • in the UK and several divisions of the Research Councils UK (UKRC) announced the availability of extra funding to their grantees for such publication fees. ...
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  • was rejected as heresy by the Ecumenical Councils, although it is still prevalent ... personae, considerably influenced the Councils of Nicea (325) and of Constantinople ...
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  • local sanhedrins sometimes functioned as town councils, in addition to the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. The parties of the Pharisees and Sadducees ...
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  • The regions are divided into 27 neighborhood councils. Local communities are administered by village or city councils. ==Economy== ...
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  • the sultan is assisted and advised by five councils, which he appoints. The sultan presides over a nine-member Council of Ministers, or cabinet, ...
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  • interest in and, as she thought, a part in the councils and efforts of the Moderates. At last, the day before the September massacres, she fled, befriended ...
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  • began electing worker and soldier councils modeled after the soviets ... In contrast to Russia one year earlier, the councils were not controlled ...
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  • Nativity was redecorated with mosaics showing the councils of the church. An ally of King Amalric I of Jerusalem, emperor Manuel I Comnenus of Byzantium ...
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  • were used to hold family or tribal councils, weddings and adat ceremonies, and meetings to choose a successor when a tribal leader died. ...
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  • resembling the county and parish councils in England, and placed the autonomous administration of the peasant communes under the supervision ...
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