The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.

Biafra claims that guitarist East Bay Ray had long expressed displeasure with Alternative Tentacles and with the amount of money he received from them, thus the original incentive for the discovery of the back payments.

East Bay Ray claims he received a fax from Alternative Tentacles purporting Biafra approved the licensing for the game, which Biafra denies happening.

* A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs claims to be the manuscript of John Carter relating his adventures on Mars, except for the first chapter explaining how the manuscript was received.

Governor Dinwiddie received orders from the British government to warn the French of British claims, and sent Major Washington in late 1753 to deliver a letter informing the French of those claims and asking them to leave.

Consequently Heinrich, who was of a rather inert disposition, relinquished his claims to the governorship, and in 1505 an agreement was made between the brothers by which Friesland was transferred to George, while Heinrich received an annuity and the districts of Freiberg and Wolkenstein.

In the 17th century, many claims of the island's rediscovery were made, spurred by the rivalry on the Arctic whaling grounds, and the island received many names.

This further angered both Greece and Bulgaria, because of the possible territorial claims of the new states to the Greek and Bulgarian parts of the region of Macedonia received after the Balkan Wars.

He claims to have received two months of training in weaponry and terrorist tactics in Syria as a member of the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine paid for by the Communist Bulgarian government, although this has been questioned.

In 1885, British claims to a West African sphere of influence received international recognition ; and in the following year, the Royal Niger Company was chartered under the leadership of Sir George Taubman Goldie.

Rather, each Orthodox group claims to be a non-exclusive heir to the received tradition of Jewish theology, while still affirming a literal acceptance of Maimonides ' thirteen principles.

While Fox launched an investigation, Abdul received numerous calls of support from celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey and Kelly Ripa ; Barbara Walters even addressed the camera during an episode of ABC's The View to say she was sad to be part of an operation that would report Clark's flimsy tabloid claims under the guise of a news story.

The reason a prelate of such transcendent merits received the cardinalate so late in life seems to have been that he had waived his claims to the elevation in favour of an older brother.

Busbecq, who claims to have received an account from an eyewitness, describes Mustafa's final moments.

The Permanent Commission denies that it received any money which it claims was instead used by others for translating and distributing their monthly reports in other nations.

" According to the 11 monthly bulletins of 1987 ( July being the only month without an issue ), the CPDH claims to have received information on 1, 236 abuses of all types.

With the exception of the Bishop of Augsburg, Henry IV received no support for his claims.

* This year, Dominic de Guzmán claims to have received the Holy Rosary from the Virgin Mary.

The terms of this treaty have, however, been seen as turning a Polish victory into defeat, as a result of Władysław's renunciation of Polish claims to Pomerania, Pomerelia, and Chełmno Land, for which he received only the town of Nieszawa in return.

McDowell claims to have received death threats after Generations release.

However, in his work Mein Kampf, Hitler claims that he received a membership card with the number 7.

He had received his Bachelor of Arts degree by 1598, and was a fellow and MA by 1600 ( though Bernard claims he did not gain his MA till 1601 ).

O ’ Brien, who had received $ 25, 000 from Hughes, didn ’ t actually have any documents but Meier claims to have wanted Richard Nixon to think he did.

In the final phase of his life in the years before his death in 1384 he increasingly argued for Scriptures as the authoritative centre of Christianity, that the claims of the papacy were unhistorical, that monasticism was irredeemably corrupt, and that the moral unworthiness of priests invalidated their office and sacraments.

Richard appears to have started to recognise John as his legitimate heir in the final years before his death, but the matter was not clear-cut and medieval law gave little guidance as to how the competing claims should be decided.

One theory of the origins of Freemasonry claims direct descent from the historical Knights Templar through its final fourteenth-century members who took refuge in Scotland whose King, Robert the Bruce was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church at the time, or other countries where the Templar suppression was not enforced.

" Choiseul's suggestion, advanced to the other ambassadors, was that they should press, in addition to the Jesuit issue, territorial claims upon the Patrimony of Peter: the cession of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin to France ; to Spain the duchies of Benevento and Pontecorvo ; for Naples an extension of territory adjoining the Papal States ; and for Austria an immediate and final settlement of the vexed question of Parma and Piacenza that had occasioned a diplomatic rift with Pope Clement XIII.

Universalist scholars such as Steven Pinker often see Malotki's study as a final refutation of Whorf's claim about Hopi, whereas relativist scholars such as John A Lucy and Penny Lee have criticized Malotki's study for mischaracterizing Whorf's claims and for forcing Hopi grammar into a pregiven model of analysis that doesn't fit the data.

** The Hillside Strangler, a serial killer prowling Los Angeles, claims a tenth and final victim.

Wilson claims his book was already complete by the time he and Shea read Pynchon's novel ( which went on to win several awards ), but they then went back and made some modifications to the text before its final publication to allude to Pynchon's work.

In February 1698, Codrington was told to regard the earlier 1694 orders as final, and the British entertained no further claims to the islands.

In 1988, Jordan renounced all claims to the West Bank but retained an administrative role pending a final settlement.

The final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses the moral qualities and virtues inherent in the ideal critic, who, Pope claims, is also the ideal man.

The original would have mandated uniform standards of size and weight for comparison shopping, but the final law only outlawed exaggerated size claims.

Its final and single attested version, dating to the Middle Bronze Age, aimed to legitimize Isin's claims to hegemony when Isin was vying for dominance with Larsa and other neighboring city-states in southern Mesopotamia.

The final story is similar to the first and claims that the committee had been arguing over the name while drinking in a store, and in an attempt to preserve his precious whiskey and profits, the host suggested the committee stop a local man with a mule pulling a cart and that they should name the parish whatever the man said.

When a final judgment is entered, the plaintiff is usually barred under the doctrine of res judicata from trying to bring the same or similar claim again against that defendant, or from relitigating any of the issues, even under different legal claims or theories.

The date and circumstances of his death are unknown but St. Monegunda of Chimay claims to be the final resting place for his remains, although this is unverified.

Hartmann claims it was chiefly this stay in Berlin which molded Keller's character into its final shape, toned down his rather bitter pessimism to a more moderate form, and prepared him ( not without the privations of hunger ), in the whirl of a large city, for an enjoyment of the more restricted pleasures of his native Zurich.

India claims that the accession is unconditional and final while Pakistan maintains that the accession is fraudulent.

The latest biography of Sickert-in the final chapter Sturgis refutes the notion that Sickert was Jack the Ripper, but also claims that if Sickert were still alive he would enjoy his current notoriety.

Also, in his biography The World of Christopher Marlowe, David Riggs claims the incident remained with the playwright, and massacres are incorporated into the final acts of three of his early plays, 1 and 2 Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta-see above for Marlowe and Machiavellism.

He apparently was indeed unwilling, no matter what the Israeli concessions, to sign an agreement that declared itself final and forswore any further Palestinian claims.

Yannes claims he had a feature-list of which three quarters made it into the final design.

Geoffrey Perret, in his biography of Eisenhower, claims that, in one draft of the speech, the phrase was " military-industrial-congressional complex ", indicating the essential role that the United States Congress plays in the propagation of the military industry, but the word " congressional " was dropped from the final version to appease the then-currently elected officials.

The length of coastline emerged as one factor in the final ( 2004 ) legislation to allocate fishing-rights in settlement of claims relating to commercial fisheries.

In any event, though film historian David Robinson claims that " the cylinder experiments seem to have been carried on to the bitter end " ( meaning the final months of 1890 ), as far back as September 1889 — while Edison was still in Europe, but corresponding regularly with Dickson — the lab definitely placed its first order with the Eastman company for roll film.