He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

The phrase is often used as a warning to players making what might be perceived as minor violations, such as commenting upon other players ' possible hands.

The Twilights, formed in Adelaide, also made the trip to London, recording a series of minor hits, absorbing the psychedelic scene, to return home to produce covers of Beatles ' songs, complete with sitar, and the concept album Once upon a Twilight ( 1968 ).

One of the arguments he used against Sancho II in his Grandi non immerito text was his status as a minor upon inheriting the throne from his father Afonso II.

Accordingly, in cases of all but the most minor offences, the court or the prosecution ( depending upon local custom and the presiding judge's preference ) will engage in a plea colloquy wherein they ask the defendant a series of rote questions about the defendant's knowledge of his rights and the voluntariness of the plea.

The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Ravel's compositions rely upon modal melodies instead of using the major or minor scales for their predominant harmonic language.

Barak rebuffed Peres's attempt to secure the position of party president and upon forming a government in 1999 appointed Peres to the minor post of Minister of Regional Co-operation.

Lastly, Brust has a decided knack for slipping absorbing mysteries into the minor details of his stories ; mysteries that tend to fascinate his readers, once they notice them, and often form the kernel around which later books coalesce, even though their resolution still springs upon the reader unexpectedly when it finally comes.

Euclides is prompted to share his book when Terpsion wonders where he'd been: Euclides, who apparently can usually be found in the marketplace of Megara, was walking outside of the city and had happened upon Theaetetus being carried from Corinth to Athens with a case of dysentery and a minor war wound ; Euclides remarks that Socrates had made some uncanny predictions about Theaetetus needing to rise to fame.

Most states model their general jurisdiction trial court rules closely upon the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure with modifications to address types of cases that come up predominantly in state practice, and model their professional ethics rules closely upon models drafted by the American Bar Association with minor modifications.

The throne passed instead to his son Richard II, a minor, upon the death of Edward III.

Trevize decides upon Gaia, and through mental adjustments, Gaia makes Branno and Gendibal believe they have won minor victories, and that Gaia does not exist.

Several of the first humans were considered to have ascended upon their deaths and become minor deities.

By some of Hogarth ’ s adherents the book was praised as a fine deliverance upon aesthetics ; by his enemies and rivals, its obscurities and minor errors were made the subject of endless ridicule and caricature.

Among the minor Midrashim, esoteric attributes of Enoch are expanded upon.

This force was scattered after a minor engagement near Kingston upon Thames in which Buckingham's brother Francis was killed.

This section ends thirty-seven bars later with a quick descent of the strings on an A minor scale, and the first melody is resumed and elaborated upon in a strict fugato.

In modern Germany the laws frown upon treating a former convict any differently from the rest of the population after the convict has finished his or her prison sentence ; in cases of rather clever and fairly minor crimes not involving violence, this feeling is shared by most of the general population.

The reviewer for Time magazine commented that the ends visited upon the two main characters " seem appropriate but by no means tragic ", but that " Bowles scores cleanly with his minor characters: Arab pimps and prostitutes, French officers in garrison towns, a stupidly tiresome pair of tourists — mother & son.

' Ten days after the Battle of Flodden, the Lords of Council met at Stirling on the September 19, and set up a General Council of the Realm " to sit upon the daily council for all matters occuring in the realm " of thirty-five lords including clergyman, lords of parliament, and two of the minor barons, the lairds of The Bass and Inverrugy.

In the United States, gifts were showered upon the hostages upon their return, including lifetime passes to any minor league or Major League Baseball game.

During the early 20th century, Alicante was a minor capital that enjoyed the benefit of Spain's neutrality during World War I, and that provided new opportunities for the local industry and agriculture.

These adherents of ritualism, among whom were Percy Dearmer and others, claimed that the Ornaments Rubric prescribed the ritual usages of the Sarum Rite with the exception of a few minor things already abolished by the early reformation.

Manager Lee Fohl, who had taken over in early 1915, acquired two minor league pitchers, Stan Coveleski and Jim Bagby and traded for center fielder Tris Speaker, who was engaged in a salary dispute with the Red Sox.

Still, while pioneering Palestinian-Israeli peace talks through making early contact with Jewish and Israeli peace campaigners, including Matzpen, the DFLP simultaneously conducted numerous small bombings and minor assaults against Israeli targets, refusing to give up the armed struggle.

In 1903 there was a substantial increase in the number of women film several minutes long unclear, as a result of the great popularity of Georges Méliès ’ le Voyage dans la lune ( A Trip to the Moon ), which came out in early 1902, though such films were still a very minor part of production.

Microsoft had worked with Apple Computer to develop Desk Accessories and other minor pieces of software that were included with early Macintosh system software.

William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

He became a lector, a minor office in the Christian church, and his later writings show a detailed knowledge of the Bible, likely acquired in his early life.

The English king Æthelred the Unready set up an early legal system through the Wantage Code of Ethelred, one provision of which stated that the twelve leading thegns ( minor nobles ) of each wapentake ( a small district ) were required to swear that they would investigate crimes without a bias.

Scholars defending Luke's authorship say there is no reason for early Christians to attribute these works to such a minor figure if he did not in fact write them, nor is there any tradition attributing this work to any other author.

Upon its emergence in the early 17th century, the highland kingdom of Imerina was initially a minor power relative to the larger coastal kingdoms and grew even weaker in the early 18th century when King Andriamasinavalona divided it among his four sons.

The most striking early symptom is loss of short-term memory ( amnesia ), which usually manifests as minor forgetfulness that becomes steadily more pronounced with illness progression, with relative preservation of older memories.

Applications must be made at least three months early, and, with only minor exceptions ( e. g., Organ Scholars ), are mutually exclusive for first undergraduate degrees so, in any one year, candidates may only apply to Oxford or Cambridge, not both.

Several other minor refinements were made to stethoscopes, until in the early 1960s Dr. David Littmann, a Harvard Medical School professor, created a new stethoscope that was lighter than previous models and had improved acoustics.

The character later known as the Yellow Kid had minor supporting roles in the strip's early panels.

In any case, by the early 5th century, the trireme was becoming the dominant warship type of the eastern Mediterranean, with minor differences between the " Greek " and " Phoenician " types, as literary references and depictions of the ships on coins make clear.

Some of Mozart's early symphonies are Italian overtures, with three movements running into each other ; many are homotonal ( all three movements having the same key signature, with the slow middle movement being in the relative minor ).

One early minor poem was " Masters in this Hall " ( 1860 ), a Christmas carol written to an old French tune.

Stravinsky's first period ( which excludes some of his early minor works ) began with Feu d ' artifice ( Fireworks ) and included the three ballets he composed for Diaghilev.

However, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, financial crises were traditionally referred to as " panics ", e. g., the ' major ' Panic of 1907, and the ' minor ' Panic of 1910 – 1911, though the 1929 crisis was more commonly called " The Crash ", and the term " panic " has since fallen out of use.

The early leagues were specifically structured as minor leagues.

Ford soon dropped the " J " and worked for Universal Studios, playing minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F. B. I., Love, American Style, and Kung Fu.