Search results for "Councils" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ===Neighborhood councils=== Voters created neighborhood councils in the Charter Reform of 1999 ...40 KB (5,759 words) - 07:54, 9 March 2023
- with one third elected from provincial councils, another third from local ... Unlike other cities, Kabul City has two independent councils or administrations ...23 KB (3,393 words) - 06:47, 28 February 2023
- of Musset and Skidegate have Band Councils that experience varying degrees of influence and control by Canada's federal government. The ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- The Story of Christ and the Seven Ecumenical Councils. Hendrickson Publishers, 2008. ISBN 9781598562996 * Roey, A. van, and Pauline Allen. Monophysite ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 05:26, 5 April 2021
- During his minority, three 'continual councils' lasting from June 1377 to January 1380 were responsible for the general governing of ...19 KB (3,042 words) - 21:42, 8 December 2022
- families who sat alone in the town councils and held all administrative ... an opportunity to gain power in the urban councils as Luther’s proposed reformed ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 23:30, 4 December 2022
- was not universal, but regional councils in the West published official canons that included these books as early as the fourth and fifth centuries. ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- policy, which was often decided at church councils, the most widely attended ... affirming the ancient tradition of church councils as the supreme ecclesiastical ...30 KB (4,691 words) - 14:08, 7 May 2024
- a precedent for subsequent ecumenical councils of bishops' to create ... * Davis, S.J., Leo Donald, The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325 ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 17:21, 28 March 2024
- from the control of the church to burgh councils, and the burghs also founded ... In Scotland, the burgh councils were able to update the curricula ...25 KB (3,841 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- * Alberigo, Giuseppe. The Oecumenical councils from Nicaea I to Nicaea II (325-787). (Conciliorum oecumenicorum generaliumque decreta, 1.) Turnhout: ...11 KB (1,751 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- of Nations to a suspension from the councils of the Commonwealth, allowing ... Municipal governments, with city and town councils presided over by mayors ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils." To minimize the risk of foreign machinations and inducements, the electoral college members ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 17:11, 8 October 2023
- The regions are divided into 27 neighborhood councils. Local communities are administered by village or city councils. As the capital of Guyana ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- assisted by executive and legislative councils. Beneath the governor-general ... into the three presidencies. The Indian Councils Act of 1861 restored legislative ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- Joffrey became an adviser to, and member of, many arts councils and organizations, among them the dance section of the International Theater ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
- position that scriptures should be interpreted by councils of the faithful rather than by authorities of the church. Marcilius was one of the ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- Knights had been summoned to previous councils, but the representation ... of individual rulers waned and various councils and wiece grew stronger ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- accept the teaching of the early ecumenical councils (for instance, followers of Charles Finney) nevertheless align themselves more with Pelagius than ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- The presidents of the General and Regional Councils are elected by the members of those councils The 47 seats of the unicameral General Council ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- by its advocacy of workers' councils, which had spontaneously ... The failure of the workers' councils to develop into a national ...43 KB (6,140 words) - 05:41, 11 August 2023
- ===Local councils=== Since 1994, Malta has been subdivided into 68 local councils or districts ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- were released and armed. Impromptu councils wrested municipal control ... narrow streets of Budapest, revolutionary councils arose nationwide, assumed ...73 KB (10,504 words) - 12:26, 4 February 2023
- epistle of the New Testament by a series of councils in the fourth century. Today, virtually all denominations of Christianity consider this book to ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- schools are under the control of local councils (Local Education Authorities ... Academic councils called académies (academies) are responsible for ...32 KB (4,665 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- formed clearly defined communities governed by councils with chieftains has leaders. Evidence of shamanistic religious ceremonies and burying dead in ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 11:25, 26 June 2022
- them with sovnarkhoz, or regional economic councils. Although he intended these economic councils to be more responsive ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- as opposed to those of the church councils. He left behind 19 volumes of his writings and more than 700 letters. After the conquest of Constantinople ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
- document would be referenced, such as Church councils, papal letters, ancient texts or commentaries. The points of disagreement and contention among these ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- union, anarcho-syndicalists argue that labor councils will work outside of the workplace and within the community to encourage community and consumer ...27 KB (3,759 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- Jewish Christians being punished by local Jewish councils (Matthew 10:17) may be best understood with reference to the dominance of the House of Shammai ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- Africa with a series of local and regional councils and guidelines on personal law. He initiated similar organizational structures in India. While in ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- united the English and Scotland's Privy Councils and decentralized Scottish administration by appointing justices of the peace in each shire to ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- right of asylum was confirmed by all following councils. In England, King Ethelbert made the first laws regulating sanctuary in about 600 C.E ...14 KB (2,186 words) - 00:16, 12 April 2023
- ===Councils=== In 1855 the Nez Perce attended the council at Walla Walla along with other Columbia Plateau tribes. Led by Chief Old Joseph who ...36 KB (5,544 words) - 23:25, 14 November 2022
- In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- Private Member's bill to force local councils to hold meetings in public ... Livingstone, and six Metropolitan County Councils (MCCs). The government claimed ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- are home to five of the strongest humanities councils in the U.S. The Nebraska State Legislature created the first-ever state endowment fund for ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it…. Where does security lie, anyway - security against the ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- Tribal councils in the United States and Canada have a somewhat different ... Bands may and do withdraw from tribal councils. Furthermore, the authority ...37 KB (5,635 words) - 16:06, 27 July 2021
- likewise in the same year. Both of these African councils reported their acts to the pope and asked him to confirm their decisions. Soon after this, five ...15 KB (2,270 words) - 11:00, 13 February 2022
- 434. The decrees of the first three councils—Nicæa, Constantinople ... , containing the canons of the ecumenical councils, the ecclestical councils ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- with five districts of legal and religious councils known as sanhedrin (Greek: συνέδριον, "synedrion"): And when he had ordained ...39 KB (6,358 words) - 14:51, 7 June 2023
- Councils elected by universal suffrage govern most towns. Supported largely by property taxation, the councils are responsible for the regulation ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 17:13, 30 January 2024
- support and encouragement from governors, city councils, school boards, and the U.S. Congress. President Clinton established the Commission on ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- After the unification, 16 sub-councils were formed, and later increased to the present 23. Sub-councils consist of geographically clustered wards ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- The Indian Township and Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy tribal councils form the Passamaquoddy Joint Tribal Council which is responsible for issues ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- hold to a greater role for tradition and church councils. Roman Catholic tradition also affirms the special teaching authority of the pope, whose pronouncement ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 11:58, 7 May 2024
- divisions, with municipal and town councils in urban areas and district and village councils in rural areas. The island of Rodrigues forms the ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- popular collectives such as workers' councils, or it may be indirect, ... of government through workers' councils (in Russian, soviets) in ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
