Its present canon law requires that an ecumenical council be convoked and presided over, either personally or through a delegate, by the Pope, who is also to decide the agenda ; but the church makes no claim that all past ecumenical councils observed these present rules, declaring only that the Pope's confirmation or at least recognition has always been required, and saying that the version of the Nicene Creed adopted at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) was accepted by the Church of Rome only seventy years later, in 451.

Push proxies have two advantages: First, ultrapeer-leaf connections are more stable than routes which makes push requests much more reliable.

* 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

His reasoning for this is twofold: First, a failed check-raise gives other players the chance to see free cards that may improve their hand ; second, it makes it obvious to other players that you potentially have a very strong hand.

Image: Space shuttle Enterprise First Appearance. jpg | Space shuttle Enterprise makes its first appearance mated to a supportive propellant containers / boosters cluster

First, it is very difficult to conceive of a world wherein every man, woman, and child grew up in the same environment, because their spatial and temporal dispersion upon the planet Earth makes it impossible.

* July 27 – The de Havilland Comet, the Worlds First Jet-Powered Airliner, makes its first flight.

In Star Trek: First Contact, it is stated that but for Zefram Cochrane's historic warp flight, a passing Vulcan ship would have deemed Earth unready for contact and ignored the planet, and in the Enterprise episode " Fight or Flight " T ' Pol makes reference to a Vulcan policy of non-interference.

", his third robot story, makes the first mention of the First Law but not the other two.

Near the climax of The Caves of Steel Elijah Baley makes a bitter comment to himself thinking that the First Law forbids a robot from harming a human being.

* Philip V of Macedon makes a temporary peace ( the Peace of Phoenice ) with Rome on favourable terms for Macedonia ending the First Macedonian War.

For example, in his 2003 Oxford Shakespeare edition of Henry VI, Part 2, Roger Warren makes the same argument for The First Part of the Contention.

Declyn makes his vocal debut on " First Lullaby ", Jan tickled him, grabbed the mike, and the results are on tape.

A subsequent legal challenge to the impartiality of the sheriffs based on the provisions of the Convention led to the setting up of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland, which now makes recommendations to the First Minister, who nominates all judicial appointments in Scotland other than in the District Court.

Nominations are made to the First Minister, who in turn makes the recommendation to the Queen.

In such cases the first subsequent author who deals with the matter, makes a choice and publishes the decision in the required manner, the First Reviser, is to be followed.

First place makes the most money, second is rewarded with a little less than first, and so on.

Another tradition of the Last Night is that near the end, the conductor makes a speech thanking the musicians and audiences, mentioning the main themes covered through the season, noting the cumulative season's donations collected by the Promenaders ' Musical Charities raised over the season, and announcing the date of the First Night of the Proms for the next season.

* October 29 – Actor William Hartnell makes his last regular appearance as the First Doctor in the concluding moments of Episode 4 of the Doctor Who serial The Tenth Planet.

His run started with " Dangerous Habits " ( 41-46 ), which was the basis for the 2005 film Constantine, and dealt with John Constantine contracting lung cancer, and the desperate deal he makes with the First of the Fallen, and various other lords of Hell, to save himself.

Owing to the quarto title ( The First Part of the Contention ), and with the publication of True Tragedy in 1595, which makes no reference to 1 Henry VI, some critics have argued that 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI were written before 1 Henry VI.

* W G Grace makes his final appearance for England in Test cricket in the First Test at Trent Bridge.

Robert makes Urban emphasize reconquering the Holy Land more than aiding the Greeks ; the intervening decades and the events of the First Crusade had certainly shifted the emphasis.

First mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Ministry makes its first proper appearance in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

First I make preliminary watercolor sketches in quarter scale ( approximately Af inches ) in which I pay particular attention to the design principles of three simple values -- the lightest light, the middle tone, and the darkest dark -- by reducing the forms of my subject to these large patterns.

First, `` the Lord is my light ''.

The Serbs and the Greeks had a military advantage on the eve of the war because their armies confronted comparatively weak Ottoman forces in the First Balkan War and suffered relatively light casualties while the Bulgarians were involved in heavy fighting in Thrace.

The latter, guided solely by the light of nature, advances slowly by reasoning on sensible objects and effects, and only after long and laborious investigation is it able at length to contemplate with difficulty the invisible things of God, to discover and understand a First Cause and Author of all things.

The First Creation: Originally, good and evil existed in two completely separate realms, one the World of Light, ruled by the Father of Greatness together with his five Shekhinas ( divine attributes of light ), and the other the World of Darkness, ruled by the King of Darkness.

This was done probably in order to avoid German connotations in light of the recently concluded First World War as well as to capitalize on Adolph's distant relation to World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker.

First, as light is entering a drop of water, it slows down.

The First Doctor was also able to unlock it with his ring (" The Web Planet ", 1965 ) and repair it by using the light of an alien sun refracted through the ring's jewel (" The Daleks ' Master Plan ").

First was font axes ( morphing ), for example allowing fonts to be smoothly adjusted from light to bold or from narrow to extended — competition for Adobe's " multiple master " technology.

First incandescent light bulb by Joseph Wilson Swan.

Contributing factors include the following: First, the first officer's predisposition to overreact to wake turbulence ; second, the training provided by American Airlines that could have encouraged pilots to make large flight control inputs ; third, the first officer likely did not understand an airplane's response to large rudder inputs at high airspeeds or the mechanism by which the rudder rolls a transport-category airplane ; finally, light rudder pedal forces and small pedal displacement of the A300-600 rudder pedal system increased the airplane's susceptibility to a rudder misuse.

First the hydrometer is floated in the reference liquid ( shown in light blue ), and the displacement ( the level of the liquid on the stalk ) is marked ( blue line ).

Although he considered his small stature ( 1. 61 m ) and light weight an advantage to becoming an aviator, and he tried every means of securing service as a flyer, during the First World War Ravel was not allowed to enlist as a pilot because of his age and weak health.

* 4000 BC – First use of light wooden ploughs in Mesopotamia ( Modern day Iraq )

* Many of the First Nations of North America prized the birch for its bark, which due to its light weight, flexibility, and the ease with which it could be stripped from fallen trees, was often used for the construction of strong, waterproof but lightweight canoes, bowls, and wigwams.

* 50 BMG ( 12. 7 × 99mm NATO ): Originally designed to destroy aircraft in the First World War, this cartridge still serves an anti-materiel round against light armor.

Therefore, a number of physicists attempted to make measurements of indirect first order effects of light speed variations ( see First order aether-drift experiments ).

First light bulb turned on in rural Blanco County.

When the Blue Cloud and the Yellow Cloud rose high in the sky, First Woman saw the light of First Man's fire, and she went out to find it.

Under First Air Force, Moody trained replacement combat pilots as a Combat Crew Training Station for the Douglas A-26 Invader light bomber.

* First baseball game under artificial light

* First traffic light, 1962 ( Which was run over by the nightwatchman only 1 week later and was never reinstalled )

First used in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, the gun proved to be one of the best anti-aircraft guns in the world, as well as particularly deadly against light, medium, and even early heavy tanks.

* First battalion of combined light companies.