Hengist, having previously " consulted with the Elders who attended him of the Angle race ," demanded Kent.

Irenaeus also writes that " The Elders witness to this, who in Asia conferred with John the Lord's disciple, to the effect that John had delivered these things unto them: for he abode with them until the times of Trajan.

The Elders of the Universe are ancient aliens who have often had great impact on many worlds, for billions of years, acting alone or as a group.

The Champion was among the ten Elders who sought to restart the universe by killing Galactus.

Today, the clergy includes men and women who are ordained by Bishops as Elders and Deacons and are appointed to various ministries.

Gustloff, who worked as a Swiss government meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1929 and put much effort in the distribution of the antisemitic book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to the point that members of the Swiss Jewish community sued the book's distributor, the Swiss branch of the German Nazi Party, for libel.

In the Percy Jackson series written by Rick Riordan, Silenus is a satyr who serves as a member of the Council of the Cloven Elders.

Desmond Tutu serves as the chair of the Elders, who will use their collective skills to catalyse peaceful resolutions to long-standing conflicts, articulate new approaches to global issues that are causing or may later cause immense human suffering, and share wisdom by helping to connect voices all over the world.

Desmond Tutu serves as the chair of The Elders — who will use their collective skills to catalyse peaceful resolutions to long-standing conflicts, articulate new approaches to global issues that are causing or may cause immense human suffering, and share wisdom by helping to connect voices all over the world.

These included the Council of Five Elders, who were sworn to keep peace and support the Toyotomi, the five-member Board of House Administrators, who handled routine policy and administrative matters, and the three-member Board of Mediators, who were charged with keeping peace between the first two boards.

As the conspiracy theorists chiefly name countries outside that area, the usage of Zionist in this context is misleading, and intended to portray Jews as conspirators who aim to control the world, as in the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

The Eight Great Eminent Officials (), abbreviated as the Eight Elders () were a group of elderly members of the Communist Party of China who held substantial power during the 1980s and 1990s.

Descendants of the Eight Elders who have benefited significantly from nepotism and cronyism constitute a group now known as " the Princelings " or the " Crown Prince Party ".

The Grand Master informs Ponyets that others who have attempted this have failed and have been punished with execution for both their attempt and for their failure ; Ponyets succeeds and convinces the Grand Master that the gold is appropriate for Askonian religious decoration, which pleases the Elders.

There were also Elders, the Putús ( Wampum belt readers and historians, who also dealt with the treaties with the non-natives and other Native tribes ), the women council, and the Grand Chief.

The foreword was written by former United States Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who resigned after suggesting that masturbation be promoted as a means of preventing young people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity.

Along with Ickis, he is one of the few monsters who can hear the Pool of Elders — the source of monster existence that is made of the very substance of fears.

Piper also desires to learn more about Leo's life as a Whitelighter and asks him to take her to meet The Elders, senior Whitelighters who act as the authoritative council for all of good magic.

Leo and Piper attempt to wed in secret during a solar eclipse, a phenomenon which prevents those " Up There " from looking down on Earth, but are caught in the act when The Elders are informed of the wedding by The Triad ( who have replaced The Council ), who in turn learned of the wedding through their demonic spy Cole Turner ( Julian McMahon ).

In the series finale, it is revealed that Phoebe falls in love with and marries a cupid named Coop ( Victor Webster ), who was initially sent by The Elders to help Phoebe find love again.

Phoebe also develops the power to trigger a vision in someone else with similar powers, " sharing " visions with Elders and knowing how to trigger a specific " trap " premonition in the evil witch Mitzy ( Jenny McCarthy ), who has temporary possession of her powers.

A Whitelighter acts in the service of The Elders who bestow these souls with their new angelic powers.

Joseph Smith, Jr. and Frederick G. Williams, two of the Presiding Elders on the committee, were absent, but Oliver Cowdery and Sidney Rigdon were present.

His death was kept secret by the Council of Five Elders to preserve morale, and Japanese troops were withdrawn from the Korean peninsula.

The church's Advisory Council of Elders, acting on a clause in church by-laws added in 1981, was to select a successor after his death, yet Armstrong reportedly worried about the ramifications if certain individuals, such as his son Garner Ted or evangelist Roderick Meredith were selected.

Two of the descendants of Elijah Abel were also ordained Elders, and two other black men, Samuel Chambers and Edward Leggroan, were ordained Deacons.

Jewish communities in Russia were governed internally by local, dominantly theocratic administrative bodies, called the Councils of Elders ( Qahal, Kehilla ), constituted in every town or hamlet possessing a Jewish population.

Integralism being a mass movement, there were marked differences in ideology among its leaders under the influence of various international fascist and quasi-fascist contemporary movements, as in the issue of anti-Semitism: Salgado was more or less indifferent to it, while Gustavo Barroso, the party's chief doctrinnaire after Salgado, was known for his militant antisemitic views, being the translator into Portuguese of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as well as the author of various antisemitic works of his own ( Judaism, Freemasonry and Communism ; Sinagogues in São Paulo ).

Under Deng Xiaoping, important decisions were always taken in Deng's home with a caucus of eight senior party cadres, called " Eight Elders ".

Deng ruled as paramount leader although he never held the top title of the party, and was able to remove three party leaders ; some members of Eight Elders were instrumental in removing Hu Yaobang in 1987, and Zhao Ziyang in 1989.

The Council of the Order formed Lodges which were run by a Regional Commander and three Elders.

The term refers either to individual Elders, or to the Council as a whole ; under the first two shoguns, there were only two Rōjū.

Elders and deacons were required to subscribe and adhere to it, and ministers were required to preach on a section of the Catechism each Sunday so as to increase the often poor theological knowledge of the church members.

The episode reveals that Paige was given up to protect her from the wrath of The Elders if they were to discover her Whitelighter heritage.

The elections to the Yerevan City Council of Elders were held in May 2009, where the RPA gained the overwhelming majority of mandates and formed the largest faction in the Council of Elders.

That committee of Presiding Elders, consisting of Joseph Smith, Jr., Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams, stated that the Lectures were included " in consequence of their embracing the important doctrine of salvation ," and that the Lectures, together with the church-regulatory sections that followed, represent " our belief, and when we say this, humbly trust, the faith and principles of this society as a body.

The committee proposed to delete the " Lectures on Faith " on the grounds that they were " lessons prepared for use in the School of the Elders, conducted in Kirtland, Ohio, during the winter of 1834-35 ; but they were never presented to nor accepted by the Church as being otherwise than theological lectures or lessons.

They were joined in 1925 by Ion Moţa, translator of the antisemitic forgery known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and future ideologue of the Legion.

U. S. President Bill Clinton's surgeon general, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, tried to encourage the use of these practices among young people, but her position encountered opposition from a number of outlets, including the White House itself, and resulted in her being fired by President Clinton in December 1994.

The clan's Elders have been known to punish violations of these unwritten rules with greater ferocity and resolve than the Traditions of the Camarilla.

Each of the four Watchtowers ( representing the Elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water ), is collectively " governed " by a hierarchy of spiritual entities which runs ( as explained in Crowley's Liber Chanokh ) as the Three Holy Names, the Great Elemental King, the Six Seniors ( aka Elders ) ( these make a total of 24 Elders as seen in the Revelation of St. John ), the Two Divine Names of the Calvary Cross, the Kerubim, and the Sixteen Lesser Anegls.

Sabri stated, " Anyone who studies The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and specifically the Talmud will discover that one of the goals of these Protocols is to cause confusion in the world and to undermine security throughout the world.

Encausse and Carrère predicted that this syndicate was a Jewish conspiracy, and the Anti-Zionist nature of these articles, compounded by Encausse's known connection to the Tsar of Russia, may have contributed to the false allegation that Papus was the author who forged The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

In 2008, the series had a series of interviews with people who are of ' older age ', and these interviews were re-titled ' Elders with Andrew Denton ' instead of the usual ' Enough Rope ' banner.

Elders of the tribe made reference to these transformed states when predicting the future and fortunes of the tribe.

In these cases, a High Priest is called to oversee the direction of both the High Priests and Elders, and is set apart as the Melchizedek Priesthood Group leader, under the direction of the Stake President.

Each of these electorates has its own local government, known as Councils of Elders.

Like his Imperial Japanese Army counterpart, Col. Yasue Norihiro, he held to an anti-Semitic ideology, believing strongly in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion ; but these beliefs led him to think that attracting Jews to settle in Japanese-controlled Asia was in the Empire of Japan's best interests.

Each of these six clans select representatives that advise and shape Government policy & processes through various Councils and Teams such as: Elders Council, General Council, Executive Council, Land Use Team, Education Advisory Committee, Family Council, and the Housing Team.

Elders are often the ones who tell these stories to the children.

Each church will have a number of Elders and these Elders are the spiritual leaders of the assemblies.