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This meeting was called to determine how these groups might cooperate to launch what is known as the Outdoor Education Project.
We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.
He further called upon the people of Providence to rebuke the meeting and avoid disgrace.
In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.
What was called an `` accidental meeting '' with Miss Packard in Washington turned her attention to Spelman.
Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.
One of these was now called the main meeting, kyria ekklesia.
A second time he was excommunicated ; but in 1146 he took the cross at the meeting of Vezelay called by Louis VII, and in August, 1147 embarked for the East in the Second Crusade.
During a visit of a delegation of Roman Catholic cardinals in Manhattan in January 2004, he said thata meeting like this doesn't signify in itself a breakthrough ”, and called fora theological dialogue that asks the tough questions, such as whether Catholicism allows for Jews to enter eternal paradise .”
He called a synod in Rome in the year 341 to address the matter, and at that meeting Athanasius was found to be innocent of all the charges raised against him.
The process for running a board, sometimes called the board process, includes the selection of board members, the setting of clear board objectives, the dissemination of documents or board package to the board members, the collaborative creation of an agenda for the meeting, the creation and follow-up of assigned action items, and the assessment of the board process through standardized assessments of board members, owners, and CEOs.
The lines between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks hardened in April 1905 when the Bolsheviks held a Bolsheviks-only meeting in London, which they called the Third Party Congress.
On his accession and following the so-called Millenary Petition, James I called the Hampton Court Conference in 1604 — the same meeting of bishops and Puritan divines that initiated the Authorized version of the Bible.
The orang kaya called a meeting with the Dutch admiral and forty of his highest-ranking men and ambushed and killed them all.
The first known European gambling house, not called a casino although meeting the modern definition, was the Ridotto, established in Venice, Italy in 1638 to provide controlled gambling during the carnival season.
Attlee became concerned with the power America possessed and therefore called a meeting of some foreign affairs ministers.
The ultimate end is meeting a requirements set typically provided in the time-domain called the Step response, or at times in the frequency domain called the Open-Loop response.
An annual meeting called " The Pol-Mil Talks " ( for Political-Military ) of all concerned is held at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to resolve pertinent issues.
*§ 211, there must be an annual meeting of shareholders for election of directors and ( d ) shareholder meetings can only be called if the constitution allows for it.
Some days after that meeting, the delegation was approached by three French agents ( at first identified as " X ", " Y ", and " Z " in published papers, leading the controversy to be called the " XYZ Affair ") who demanded substantial bribes from the commissioners before negotiations could continue.
A meeting called by Count Plunkett on 19 April 1917 led to the formation of a broad political movement under the banner of Sinn Féin which was formalised at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis of 25 October 1917.
" More immediately, though, he called for a massive build-up of U. S. arms production: " Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being ' directly assailed in every part of the world … The need of the moment is that our actions and our policy should be devoted primarily — almost exclusively — to meeting this foreign peril.
Madero then attended a meeting with the other revolutionary leaders – they agreed to a fourteen-point plan which called for pay for revolutionary soldiers ; the release of political prisoners ; and the right of the revolutionaries to name several members of cabinet.

called and officers
Parker called for abolition of the indiscriminate or uncontrolled right of taking depositions before officers of the court who had no authority to limit testimony.
But they left behind them large numbers of officers, variously called `` volunteers '' or `` mercenaries '', who now staff the army of Moise Tshombe in Katanga, the seceded province which, according to Tshombe, holds 65% of the mineral wealth of the entire country.
In modern firearms terminology this is often called a " New York reload " after the practice of New York Police Department officers carrying second ( and even third ) guns as backup.
In military usage in Spanish and German, a casino or kasino is an officers ' mess ; curiously, in Italian-the source-language of the word-a " casino " is either a brothel, a mess, or a noisy environment, while a gaming house is called a " casinò ".
The other officers may be called " deacons ", " elders " or " session " ( borrowing Presbyterian terminology ), or even " vestry " ( borrowing the Anglican term ) — it is not their label that is important to the theory, but rather their lay status and their equal vote, together with the pastor, in deciding the issues of the church.
Once called " The Black Dog " by his fellow officers for his relentless nature, he left the ISSP in disgust due to corruption and red tape, and turned to bounty hunting as a way to pursue justice.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 161 of 21 February 1961, called for the withdrawal of Belgian officers from command positions in the ANC, and the training of new Congolese officers with UN help.
While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.
Hefner called a press conference to allege that she had been driven to suicide by narcotics agents and federal officers.
Against the protests of the two women who had called 911, who recognized him from the neighborhood and insisted that he was a child and couldn't speak English, the officers turned him over to Dahmer.
When one of the officers checked the bedroom, he saw the photographs of mangled bodies and called for his partner to arrest Dahmer.
Notaries public ( also called " notaries ", " notarial officers ", or " public notaries ") hold an office which can trace its origins back to the ancient Roman Republic, before Cicero 106-43 B. C., when they were called scribae (" scribes "), tabellius (" writer "), or notarius (" notary ").
On a regular, periodic basis, party conferences are held to elect party officers, although snap leadership elections can be called if enough members opt for such.
Often, especially in larger congregations, the elders delegate the practicalities of buildings, finance, and temporal ministry to the needy in the congregation to a distinct group of officers ( sometimes called deacons, which are ordained in some denominations ).
Ranking within the legion was based on length of service, with the senior Centurion commanding the first century of the first cohort ; he was called the primus pilus ( First File ), and reported directly to the superior officers ( legates and tribuni ).
In April 1968, a group of senior military officers who called themselves the Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement led by Brigadier General John Amadu Bangura overthrew the NRC junta.
The FDN was controlled by former ‘ Somocista ’ ( as Pastora called them ) officers and men of the infamous National Guard.
Its Order No. 1 called for an overriding mandate to soldier committees rather than army officers.
In August 1999 the U. S. affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Race, Rights & Brutality: Portraits of Abuse in the USA ," prompted by high-profile excessive-force cases involving local and state police in Chicago, New York and other cities, that called on federal officials to better document excessive-force cases and to ensure that the officers responsible are prosecuted.
When danger loomed, all the burghers ( citizens ) in a district would form a military unit called a commando and would elect officers.
Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.

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