The assembly had four main functions: it made executive pronouncements ( decrees, such as deciding to go to war or granting citizenship to a foreigner ); it elected some officials ; it legislated ; and it tried political crimes.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

Some scholars contend that the most ancient and genuine story told of only four sons of Aeolus: Sisyphus, Athamas, Cretheus, and Salmoneus, as the representatives of the four main branches of the Aeolic race.

On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

Today the archbishop fills four main roles:

The simple Aleut harpoon consisted of four main parts: the wooden shaft, the bone foreshaft, and the bonehead ( tip ) with barbs pointed backward.

Aimaks were originally known as chahar (" four ") Aymaqs: the Taimani ( the main element in the population of Ghor ), the Ferozkohi, the Temuri, and the Jamshidi.

Amakusa ( 天草 ), which means " Heaven's Grass ," is a series of islands belonging to Japan, off the west coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.

In front of it is the Neptunbrunnen, a fountain featuring a mythological group of Tritons, personifications of the four main Prussian rivers and Neptune on top of it.

In addition to the four main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke, other islands include:

The four main classes of molecules in biochemistry are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.

Population genetics is the study of allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four main evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow.

A second inner line of four frigates was positioned approximately west of the main line, roughly halfway between the line and the shoal.

Whittaker considered four main ecoclines in the terrestrial realm.

President Prieto had four main accomplishments: implementation of the 1833 constitution, stabilization of government finances, defeat of provincial challenges to central authority, and victory over the Peru-Bolivia Confederation.

The government (), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputy prime ministers, three of whom also serve as government ministers.

The government (), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputies, three of whom also serve as government ministers.

Geopolitically, the island is divided into four main segments.

Main inland waterways are the Magdalena – Cauca River system, which is navigable for 1, 500 kilometers ; the Atrato, which is navigable for 687 kilometers ; the Orinoco system of more than five navigable rivers, which total more than 4, 000 kilometers of potential navigation ( mainly through Venezuela ); and the Amazonas system, which has four main rivers totaling 3, 000 navigable kilometers ( mainly through Brazil ).

The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest-southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.

The four main stars that form the asterism are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Crucis.

The rhea's body is marked by the four main stars of Crux, while its head is Gamma Centauri and its feet are the bright stars of Musca.

Various peoples in the East Indies and Brazil viewed the four main stars as the body of a ray.

Giacometti's work on the project resulted in the four figures of standing women — his largest sculptures — entitled Grande femme debout I through IV ( 1960 ).

In Elizabethan gardens " the plants were almost incidental ", and instead the design focus was on sculptures, including four wooden obelisks painted to resemble porphyry and a marble fountain with a statue of two Greek mythological figures.

The interior houses a massive ambo ( 1194 ) with four columns mounted on notable sculptures of lions.

Today Globe Town is presented with four globe sculptures situated in four different corners of the town and is home to a large Bangladeshi community.

Also among Alexander's purchases from Josephine's estate were the first four sculptures by the neoclassical Italian sculptor Antonio Canova to enter the Hermitage collection.

Following the November, 2011 Spanish General Election, on June 1, 2012 the new conservative Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy reopened the monument to the public with the exception only of the base of the cross, in the past accessible by cable car or on foot, which will remain closed to ascent while the sculptures of the four apostles and the cardinal virtues forming part of the base of the cross are presently under engineering review and restoration for cracks and other deterioration.

The four facades of the building are decorated with coats-of-arms and ornamental sculptures ( by Edward Smyth ) representing Ireland's rivers.

The first four terrace walls are showcases for bas-relief sculptures.

At its north-western end ( originally the inflow of the River Westbourne ) in an area known as " The Italian Garden ", there are four fountains and a number of classical sculptures.

After creating four clay sculptures to memorialize his children, Ivan Meštrović died in early 1962 at the age of 79, in South Bend, Indiana at St. Joseph Hospital.

The horseshoe bench has four sculptures, the most outstanding one being an eagle that faces the entrance.

It is the creation of Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington of Connecticut, who purchased four plantations to open the garden to showcase her sculptures.

The pulpit is supported by plain columns ( two of which mounted on lions sculptures ) on one side and by caryatids and a telamon on the other: the latter represent St. Michael, the Evangelists, the four cardinal virtues flanking the Church, and a bold, naturalistic depiction of a naked Hercules.

On the plaza front of the building, designed by Boari, there are four Pegasus sculptures which were made by Catalan Agustí Querol Subirats.

The central axis of the garden is extended, beyond its wrought iron grill and gates opening to rue Auguste Comte, by the central esplanade of the rue de l ' Observatoire, officially the Jardin Marco Polo, where sculptures of the four Times of Day alternate with columns and culminate at the southern end with the 1874 " Fountain of the Observatory ", also known as the " Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde " or the " Carpeaux Fountain ", for its sculptures by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

In 2008, Caro opened his " Chapel of Light " installation in the Saint Jean-Baptiste Church of Bourbourg ( France ), and exhibited four figurative head sculptures at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

The Soviet Sphere includes sculptures of the four leaders of Lithuanian Communists, executed in the aftermath of the 1926 Lithuanian coup d ' état, and activists of the Lithuanian – Soviet War of 1918 – 1919.

Over the same period Hawkins exhibited four sculptures at the Royal Academy between 1847 and 1849, and was elected a member of the Society of Arts in 1846 and a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1847.

It consists out of four parts: surrounding, on door jamb, are naked sculptures of Adam and Eve on both sides, carried by lions ; and inside are numerous reliefs with every-day scenes organised in monthly calendar, and scenes from hunting ; and finally in the middle are scenes from the life of Christ: from Annunciation to Resurrection – positioned in arches around tympanum.

The monumental fountain has strikingly realistic sculptures of the head and forelimbs of four lifesize elephants truncated into the base of a tall column in the shape of the savoyan ( savoyarde ) cross, topped by a statue of de Boigne.

It has four exhibition rooms and an ample garden where we find permanent samples of painting and sculptures as well as arts and crafts.

The station includes four Olympic-themed works of art: three sculptures by the architect featuring different takes on the Olympic rings, and one long mural in concrete and aluminum by Jordi Bonet entitled Citius, Altius, Fortius (" stronger, higher, faster "-the Olympic motto ).