According to the constitution, it is incumbent upon the King: to sanction and promulgate laws ; to summon and dissolve the Cortes Generales ( the Parliament ) and to call elections ; to call a referendum under the circumstances provided in the constitution ; to propose a candidate for prime minister, and to appoint or remove him from office, as well as other ministers ; to issue the decrees agreed upon by the Council of Ministers ; to confer civil and military positions, and to award honors and distinctions ; to be informed of the affairs of the State, presiding over the meetings of the Council of Ministers whenever opportune ; to exercise supreme command of the Spanish Armed Forces, to exercise the right to grant pardons, in accordance to the law ; and to exercise the High Patronage of the Royal Academies.

According to Lawrence and Wolff, in 1984, there was a consensus among scholars that Carthaginian children were sacrificed by their parents, who would make a vow to kill the next child if the gods would grant them a favor: for instance that their shipment of goods were to arrive safely in a foreign port.

According to their agreement, in exchange for a generous grant, the prince was guaranteed Judith's neutrality in his political contest with Zbigniew.

According to the Florida League of Cities FLC, the name first appeared in print as " Zarazote " on a 1763 land grant map.

According to the history of the Clapham family maintained by the College of Heralds, in 965 King Edgar of England gave a grant of land at Clapham to Jonas, son of the Duke of Lorraine, and Jonas was thenceforth known as Jonas " de Clapham ".

According to the original land grant, the railroad was to receive every odd numbered section for ten miles ( 16 km ) on each side of its track, but in eastern Kansas which was pretty well settled, much of this land wasn't available.

According to his mother's wishes, he visited both the wives of Vichitravirya to grant them each a son under the Niyoga system.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of, of which is land and or 0. 58 %, is covered by water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of, none of which is covered by water other than streams.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of, of which is covered by water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of, none of which is covered by water bodies other than streams.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of, all of it land.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of, all of it land.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of, of which is land and, or 1. 22 %, is water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the grant has a total area of 3. 2 square miles ( 8. 2 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), all land.

According to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Magen David Adom was boycotted by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which refused to grant the organization membership because " it was … argued that having an emblem used by only one country was contrary to the principles of universality.

According to Bede, before the battle Oswiu prayed to God and promised to make his daughter a nun and grant twelve estates for the construction of monasteries if he was victorious.

According to author / journalist Mark Bowden, a pattern developed in President Carter's attempts to negotiate a release of the hostages: Carter would latch on to a deal proffered by a top Iranian official and grant minor but humiliating concessions, only to have it scotched at the last minute by Khomeini.

According to the Peace of Augsburg, Augustus theoretically had the right to re-introduce Roman Catholicism ( see Cuius regio, eius religio ), or at least grant full religious freedom to his fellow Catholics in Saxony, but this never happened.

According to an MUM spokesperson, the university has received almost $ 18 million in grant support from the National Institutes of Health in the prior 15 years and " its researchers are strict about scientific standards because they work more often with other, larger universities ".

According to article 79 of the Italian Constitution the Parliament may grant amnesty ( article 151 c. p.

According to the Corriere della Sera, it would even have been him who convinced then president François Mitterrand ( PS ) to grant protection from extradition to left-wing Italian activists who took refuge in France and had broken up with their past.

According to Aethelstan's grant, Amounderness at that time stretched " from the sea along the Cocker to the source of that river, from that source straight to another spring which is called in Old English, " Dunshop ", thus down the riverlet to the Hodder, in the same direction to the Ribble and thus along that river through the middle of the channel to the sea ".

According to the General Accounting Office, from 1980 to 2001 the number of federal block grant programs went from 450 to 700.

According to the grant, Liberty University must match the 12 million dollars for construction and equipment.

According to Edward Webbe's Rare and Wonderfull Things, published in 1590, Oxford travelled as far as Sicily on his proto-Grand Tour.

According to the 17th century historian Anthony Wood Hayman was educated at Exeter College and the college register shows him matriculating on 15 October 1590 ( the register wrongly shows his age as eleven whereas in fact he was fifteen ).

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia Abiathar was deposed from office when he was deserted by the Holy Spirit without which the Urim and Thummin could not be consulted.

According to Lactantius, he came armed with plans to reconstitute the Tetrarchy, force Diocletian to step down, and fill the Imperial office with men compliant to his will.

According to another opinion, he did not join the first party so as not to compete, even involuntarily, with Jeshua ben Jozadak for the office of chief priest.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

According to the Italian Constitution, after his resignation from the office of President, Cossiga became lifetime senator, joining his predecessors in the upper house of parliament, with whom he also shared the title of President Emeritus of the Italian Republic.

According to Vermont he found misconduct, and continued to find it, from Amsterdam to the International office.

According to the Canadian Encyclopedia " its grand plaza and lower office buildings, designed by internationally famous US architect I. M.

According to the WMUR / Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire, just three months after taking office in January of 2005, Lynch's approval rating surpassed 50 % and has stayed upwards of 55 % throughout his tenure.

According to the now defunct Department for Constitutional Affairs, the Prime Minister is made a Privy Counsellor as a result of taking office and should be addressed by the official title prefixed by " The Right Honourable " and not by a personal name.

According to a UK site on work etiquette, the " fact that swearing is a part of everyday life means that we need to navigate a way through a day in the office without offending anyone, while still appreciating that people do swear.

According to Chaturvedy, "... Political scientists may serve as advisers to specific politicians, or even run for office as politicians themselves.

According to the Colombian government, FARC-EP had an estimated 6, 000 – 8, 000 members in 2008, down from 16, 000 in 2001, having lost much of their fighting force since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002.

According to Kilson the attitude of the Africans toward their chiefs became ambivalent: frequently they respected the office but resented the exactions made by the individual occupying it.

According to Athenaeus, Sappho often praised Larichus for pouring wine in the town hall of Mytilene, an office held by boys of the best families.

According to the Italian Constitution, the President of the Italian Republic is not accountable, and he is not responsible for any act of his office, unless he has committed high treason or attempted to subvert the Constitution.

According to author Brian Carroll, Lyons had been underestimated when he assumed office in 1932 and as leader he demonstrated: " a combination of honesty, native shrewdness, tact, administrative ability, common sense, good luck and good humour that kept him in the job longer than any previous Prime Minister except Hughes ".

According to the Department of Homeland Security, protection for former Vice President Cheney has been extended numerous times because threats against him have not decreased since his leaving office.

According to Photius, he was a comes, and held the office of " advocate " of the imperial treasury.

According to Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman, " Daley lasted 22 years in office partly because he resolved to ingratiate himself with black Chicagoans.

According to the New York Times, many " questionable " members allegedly involved in post office corruption were fired or resigned.

According to Roger of Wendover, William was present at Gisors in France in 1188 when Henry II of England and Philip II of France agreed to go on crusade: " Thereupon the king of the English first took the sign of the cross at the hands of the Archbishop of Rheims and William of Tyre, the latter of whom had been entrusted by our lord the pope with the office of legate in the affairs of the crusade in the western part of Europe.

According to Roland Keith, a field office director of the OSCE's Kosovo Verification Mission:

According to Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB major and senior archivist in the KGB intelligence central KGB office in the Yasenevo area of Moscow, Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov ( codenamed LEONID ), who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende.