" Abravanel's conflicting passages regarding Blacks were written at different times and addressed different realms of discourse, the one abstract myth, the other actual living Blacks.

The Court then addressed the second of the four issues before it by providing a lengthy discourse on the elements of a proper charge to the jury regarding the concept of " reasonable doubt ".

Each year a new theme is addressed, and each participant scholar delivers a two hour lecture on a topic of his choice relating to the theme — his / her contribution to the ‘ banquet ’ of ideas — thereby attempting to draw these multifarious thinkers into productive intellectual discourse.

Mr. Lindsay addressed in a short but well adapted discourse on the solemn occasion.

The poem is addressed to the goddess Proserpina, the Roman equivalent of Persephone.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

The Roman Catholic Church considers that almost all of the ancient theological differences have been satisfactorily addressed ( the Filioque clause, the nature of purgatory, etc.

According to Suetonius, he was the first Roman Emperor who had demanded to be addressed as dominus et deus ( master and god ).

First Council of the Lateran ( 1123 ) addressed investment of bishops and the Holy Roman Emperor's role therein.

For the Roman Catholic Church, this issue was addressed in the 24 July 2003 letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which summarized and clarified earlier declarations.

# Paul is aware that there is some conflict between Gentile and Jewish Christians in the Roman church, and he addressed those concerns ( chapters thirteen and the first half of fourteen ).

This addressed the underlying problem that had caused the Social War decades earlier, where individuals outside Rome and Italy were not considered " Roman ", and thus were not given full citizenship rights.

# The First Apology addressed to Antoninus Pius, his sons, and the Roman Senate ;

# a Second Apology addressed to the Roman Senate ;

More problematic, and never properly addressed by Cumont or his successors, is how real-life Roman Mithraists subsequently maintained a quite complex and sophisticated Iranian theology behind an occidental facade.

The developments of Late Antiquity in the religious thought in the far-flung Roman Empire needs to be addressed separately, as this is the context in which Early Christianity itself developed as one of several monotheistic cults, and it was in this period that the concept of " pagan " developed in the first place.

The Second Vatican Council ( also known coloquially as Vatican II ) addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world.

Among his apologetic writings, the Apologeticus, addressed to the Roman magistrates, is a most pungent defense of Christianity and the Christians against the reproaches of the pagans, and an important legacy of the ancient Church, proclaiming the principle of freedom of religion as an inalienable human right and demands a fair trial for Christians before they are condemned to death.

* Also in the German Empire, the other ' heir ' to the Holy Roman empire, the emperor and empress, would be addressed as Imperial and Royal Majesty because of their ruling over the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire.

Bishop Turrubius of Astorga, astonished at the spread of this sect in Spain, had addressed the other Spanish bishops on the subject, sending a copy of his letter to Leo, who took the opportunity to exercise Roman policy in Spain.

At the Second Council of Ephesus ( commonly called the Robber Council of Ephesus ) in 449, Leo's representatives delivered his famous Tome ( Latin text, a letter ), or statement of the faith of the Roman Church in the form of a letter addressed to Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople, which repeats, in close adherence to Augustine, the formulas of western Christology.

According to Tacitus ( Annals 14. 35 ), Boudica, queen of the Iceni and a number of other tribes in a formidable uprising against the occupying Roman forces, addressed her troops from a chariot in AD 61:

* Novella Maioriani 1, De ortu imperii domini Majoriani Augusti, " The Beginning of the Reign of Our Lord Majorian Augustus ", opening speech of his reign, addressed to the Roman Senate ( given in Ravenna, on January 11, 458 );

In order to solve this same problem of the decline of the Roman population, in particular compared with the growth of the barbarians allocated within the imperial boundaries, Majorian addressed the problem of young women widowed and without children who never married because of the influence of religious clergy, to whom they destined their goods in their will.

He also showed great respect towards the Roman senate, as suggested by the message he addressed it on the eve of his crowning: he promised the senators he would not take into account the accusations of the informers, who were very feared as they were often instruments in the hands of the Emperors, used to cause the fall of influential figures.

In a letter of 8 May 862 addressed to the patriarchs of the East, Nicholas called upon them and all their bishops to refuse recognition to Photius, and at a Roman synod held in April 863, he excommunicated Photius.

A short poem, published in 86, was addressed to him, and opened, " Quintilian, greatest director of straying youth, / you are an honour, Quintilian, to the Roman toga ".

The Apology letters were written and addressed by name to the Roman Emperor Pius and the Roman Governor Urbicus.

The freedmen could also officially speak for the Emperor, as when Narcissus addressed the troops in Claudius ' stead before the conquest of Britain.

A letter from the Emperor Honorius of 410 has traditionally been seen as a rejection of an appeal for help by the cities of Britain, but it was probably addressed to Bruttium or Bologna.

Turkic nomads addressed the Emperor of Tang China as Tian Kehan.

Also addressed in the synod was that Christians who stopped practising during Emperor Decius ’ s persecution could receive communion only after doing penance.

One of the letters is addressed to Emperor Justinian, the other to the Patriarch Menas.

For example, the decurions were to personally compensate the imperial treasury of all the taxes not exacted ; sometimes, oppressed by the debts collected in this way, the decurions abandoned their status, a problem already addressed by Emperor Julian ( 361 – 363 ).

On October 26, 458, the Emperor addressed a law, the Novella Maioriani 6, to the Praetorian prefect of Italy, Caecina Decius Basilius.

He also wrote a short account of a tour of inspection of the Black Sea coast in the traditional ' periplus ' form ( in Greek ) addressed to the Emperor Hadrian, the Periplus Ponti Euxini or " Circumnavigation of the Black Sea ".

Synesius composed and addressed to Emperor Arcadius a speech entitled De regno, full of topical advice as to the studies of a wise ruler, but also containing a bold statement that the emperor's first priority must be a war on corruption and a war on interpenetration of barbarians in Byzantine army.

This may be significant ; for example, when Italy deposed the Haile Selassie of Abyssinia ( Ethiopia ) and claimed his title, Emperor of Abyssinia, for the King of Italy ( Victor Emmanuel III ), not all states recognized this claim ( see diplomatic recognition ), and some letters of credence were addressed to the " King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia ," others to the " King of Italy.

" King George VI, as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, addressed his letters of credence to the " King of Italy "; however, as King of Ireland, on the advice of the Irish government of Éamon de Valera, he addressed his letters of credence to the " King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia ," because the Irish Free State, unlike the United Kingdom, recognized the King of Italy's imperial title.

The Emperor was addressed by the title " Lord of Ten Thousand Years " ().

For example, in ancient China, the Emperor would be thus addressed with " Wú huáng wànsuì, wànsuì, wànwànsuì " ( 吾皇萬歲 ， 萬歲 ， 萬萬歲 ; literally " my Emperor and reign for ten thousand years, ten thousand years, ten thousand of ten thousand years ").

Following the earthquake, for the first time, the Emperor addressed the nation in a pre-recorded television broadcast.

When the political factions addressed the Emperor of the future of Commagene, they were in line, were with the political reality of Roman rule and were prepared to live with the decision that Tiberius made.

A constant stream of petitions came out of Petrovsky Zavod addressed to General Leparskii and Emperor Nicholas I.

The letter was addressed to " John pope of the city of Rome ", written while the Emperor believed the pope to still be alive, but received by Pope Conon.

" The Apology letters were written and addressed by name to the Roman Emperor Pius and the Roman Governor Urbicus.

He carried a letter of recommendation from Bernard of Clairvaux addressed to Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ; he is listed among the notables present at the assembly held by Baldwin III of Jerusalem at Acre on 24 June 1148.

After Suleiman the Magnificent defeated the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V he had a treaty signed which addressed the latter with the plain title " King of Spain " rather than Roman Emperor, leading Suleiman to consider himself the true successor to Caesar.