The years were marked by persecution of the followers of the Paulician and Bogomil heresies — one of his last acts was to publicly burn at the stake Basil, a Bogomil leader, with whom he had engaged in a theological dispute.

Samuel answers the description of the " prophet like Moses " predicted in Deuteronomy 18: 15-22: like Moses, he has direct contact with Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, acts as a judge, and is a perfect leader who never makes mistakes.

Since the death of Medellín cartel leader Pablo Escobar in a police shootout during December 1993, indiscriminate acts of violence associated with that organization have abated as the " cartels " have broken up into multiple, smaller and often-competing trafficking organizations.

Khomeini has been criticized for these acts and for human rights violations of Iranians ( including his ordering of execution of thousands of political prisoners ;), but also lauded as a " charismatic leader of immense popularity ", and a " champion of Islamic revival " by Shia scholars.

He acts on the advice of the prime minister, who is the majority party leader in the National Assembly, and who, with a cabinet, conducts affairs of state.

One of his most notable acts during his short time as leader of the Soviet Union was in response to a letter from a 10 year old American child from Maine named Samantha Smith, inviting her to the Soviet Union.

The senior archbishop of the Anglican Communion is the Archbishop of Canterbury, who acts as leader of the Church of England and ' first among equals ' of the primates of all Anglican churches.

The executive political leadership is split between the Lord President, who keeps the ceremonial relics of the Time Lords, and the Chancellor, who appears to be the administrative leader of the Cardinals and who acts as a check on the power of the Lord President.

Blue Note was by then recording a mixture of established acts ( Rollins, Adderley ) and artists who in some cases had recorded before, but often produced performances for the label which by far exceeded earlier recordings in quality ( Blue Train is often considered to be the first significant recording by Coltrane as a leader ).

Clinton was now the leader of two different acts, Parliament and Funkadelic, which featured the same members but were marketed as creating two different types of funk.

He usually acts as the leader of the three brothers.

The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations.

In May of that year, the UDA's pressured leader Tommy Herron decided that responsibility for acts of violence committed by the UDA would be claimed by the " UFF ".

Bearded throwback to the sixties, hacker Richard Stallman serves as the movement's spiritual leader while Scandinavian Linus Torvalds acts as its mild mannered chief engineer ( as developer of the Linux kernel ).

* A 3 ’ leader sequence, 50 nucleotides in length, which acts as a transcriptional promoter.

The story marks the second appearance of Scrooge in a story but the first where he acts as the leader in a treasure expedition, a theme that Barks would later use often and is currently considered traditional for an Uncle Scrooge story.

He catches up with his mistress Juanita de Cordoba ( Karin Dor ), widow to a former first-hour wealthy " hero of the Revolution ", and herself now leader of the local underground resistance network: she acts undercover and collects information as Parra's lover.

** Bugs Bunny, a rabbit who acts as the de facto leader of the Looney Tunes and plays on their basketball team.

Azef became the new leader of the SRCO, and continued working for both the SRCO and the Okhrana, simultaneously orchestrating terrorist acts and betraying his comrades.

Excluding Pochi # 1 ( who acts as a leader figure to the others ), there are 28 of them, who refer to each other by their number.

It has not had an official leader since 2000, though party president Carrol Barbara Woolsey acts as its de facto leader.

#* Significance: The first platform ( 綱領 ) of the Party passed ; Mao Zedong attends ( as Hunan representative ); Zhang Guotao acts as top party official ; Chen Duxiu becomes first leader of CPC " Secretariat "; attended by two Comintern representatives ( during Shanghai meetings ).

The United States Army Command and General Staff College ( CGSC ) educates and develops leaders for full spectrum joint, interagency and multinational operations ; acts as lead agent for the Army ’ s leader development program ; and advances the art and science of the profession of arms in support of Army operational requirements.

Les troyens ( in English: The Trojans ) is a French grand opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

`` We ( the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry ) expect to establish closer relations with nations and their cultural activities, and it will be easy as a member of the fair staff to bring in acts '', explains Mrs. Geraghty.

Such explanations do not imply that humans are always consciously calculating how to increase their inclusive fitness when they are doing altruistic acts.

Ampicillin acts as a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme transpeptidase, which is needed by bacteria to make their cell walls.

The MK committed terrorist acts to achieve their aims, and MK was responsible for the deaths of both civilians and members of the military.

In 1533, three rectors of Aegina were punished for their acts of injustice and we have a graphic account of the reception given by the Aeginetans to the captain of Nauplia, who came to hold an enquiry into the administration of these delinquents.

By the time of Pope Martin V their signature was made essential to the validity of the acts of the chancery ; and they obtained in course of time many important privileges.

As the two couples began supporting each other during recording sessions, the sound of the girls ' voices convinced the songwriters to model their ' group ' on the like of MOR acts Blue Mink, Middle of the Road and The Sweet.

One of his first acts was to allow those peoples exiled by the Babylonians ( the Jews, among other captive peoples ) to return to their respective homes.

The report stated that British soldiers had concocted lies in their attempt to hide their acts.

The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Their abilities to govern were only limited by the decrees of the Senate or the people's assemblies, and the Tribune of the Plebs was unable to veto their acts as long as the governor remained at least a mile outside of Rome.

Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

One of Tramiel's first acts after forming Atari Corp. was to fire most of Atari's remaining staff, and to cancel almost all ongoing projects, in order to review their continued viability.

Pantheistic and polytheistic faiths make no such distinction ; gods and other beings of transcendent power often have complex, ignoble, or even irrational motivations for their acts.

The policy prohibited people who " demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts " from serving in the armed forces of the United States, because their presence " would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.

Patrick was charged for kidnapping, but he was acquitted with the reasoning: :" here parents are, as here, of the reasonable and intelligent belief that they were not physically capable of recapturing their daughter from existing, imminent danger, then the defense of necessity transfers or transposes to the constituted agent, the person who acts upon their belief under such conditions.

From this criticism to psychologism, the distinction between psychological acts and their intentional objects, and the difference between the normative side of logic and the theoretical side, derives from a platonist conception of logic.

The vegetative cover acts to reduce the velocity of the raindrops that strike the foliage and stems before hitting the ground, reducing their kinetic energy.

While the Russian Orthodox Church does recognize the first seven ecumenical councils as valid, some Russian Orthodox theologians believe that the infallibility of these councils ' statements derived from their acceptance by the faithful ( and thus from the infallibility of all believers ), and not from the acts of the councils themselves.

Definitions of evil vary, as does the analysis of its root motives and causes ; however, evil is commonly associated with conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological well-being and dignity, destructiveness, motives of causing pain or suffering for selfish or malicious intentions, and acts of unnecessary or indiscriminate violence.

" Sullivan appeared to the audience as an average guy who brought the great acts of show business to their home televisions.

Unlike many shows of the time, Sullivan asked that most musical acts perform their music live, rather than lip-synching to their recordings.