But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

But it is the wooden sculpture from Bali, the one representing two men with their heads bent backward and their bodies interlaced by a fish, that I particularly call to your attention.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

Ulyate made no comment but his face showed what he thought of poking ropes over lions' heads with poles, and of course these were the lions of fifty years ago, not the gentler ones of today, and this one was angry, with good reason.

Stilts and Shadow, on Pam's bed, appeared to be one cat -- rather large, as Siamese cats go, and, to be sure, having two heads and two tails.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.

Also during Summer of 2009 archaeologists discovered in Actium the ruins of the Temple of Apollo ( in Greek Ναός του Ακτίου Απόλλωνος ) and found two statues ' heads, one of Apollo, one of Artemis ( Diana ).

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

The most notable difference is the number of its heads: Most sources describe or depict three heads ; others show it with two or even just one ; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50 or even 100.

Classical critics have identified one of the earliest works of Cerberus as " the most imaginative ," that being a Laconian vase created around 560 BC in which Cerberus is shown with three-heads and with rows of serpents covering his body and heads.

A popular detachable design consists of a main arm that is attached to the weapon, a plate on one end that secures four or more individual bolts at a point on their shafts and at the other end a cover that secures their heads.

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta ( formed by the heads of the navy, air force, National Police, and a representative of the army, the head of the Army being president of the republic ), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta.

Drums with cylindrical shells can be open at one end ( as is the case with timbales ), or can have two drum heads.

( A chargé d ' affaires ad interim also heads the mission during the interim between the end of one chief of mission's term and the beginning of another ).

In regard to Jews getting " civil rights ," he wrote that this would only be possible if one managed " to cut off all their heads in one night, and to set new ones on their shoulders, which should contain not a single Jewish idea.

With a fair coin, the outcomes in different tosses are statistically independent and the probability of getting heads on a single toss is exactly ( one in two ).

It follows that the probability of getting two heads in two tosses is ( one in four ) and the probability of getting three heads in three tosses is ( one in eight ).

Since the probability of a run of five successive heads is only ( one in thirty-two ), a believer in the gambler's fallacy might believe that this next flip is less likely to be heads than to be tails.

More than 432 participants were from civil society, including 32 heads or representatives of non-governmental organizations, 225 media leaders, 149 leaders from academic institutions and think tanks, 15 religious leaders of different faiths and 11 union leaders.

A 2005 heads of agreement over the merger of the VCA and the university stated that the management of academic programs at the VCA would ensure that " the VCA continues to exercise high levels of autonomy over the conduct and future development of its academic programs so as to ensure their integrity and quality " and also that the college's identity will be preserved.

Media Arts and Sciences faculty and academic research staff are principal investigators / heads of the Media Lab's various research groups.

His responsibilities included coordinating the prestigious annual meeting of the Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together prominent corporate leaders, heads of State and government, as well as respected personalities from the academic, cultural and religious world.

Trevelyan College is noted in Durham for its friendly atmosphere and degree results ; it currently heads the collegiate academic league with 87. 2 % of those who graduated in 2006 doing so with first or upper second class degrees and has topped the collegiate academic league tables for 6 of the past 7 years ( as of 2010 ).

The Users Board is CARNet's advisory body consisting of all CARNet coordinators at CARNet member institutions as the representatives of the academic community, heads of county-level computer science councils as the representatives of school system users, and the CARNet CEO.

Since it is a research-led academic institution in nature, the Academic year 2003 performance evaluation showed has the highest number of research publications ( both in raw quantity and per graduate student heads ) of any academic division in the university.

Student welfare, and academics in general is headed by the respective deans ; examinations by the controller of examinations ; administration by the director of administration, while each of the academic departments, as well as research and placement departments are headed by the respective heads of departments.

The various deans of a university's various schools, colleges, or faculties generally report to the provost or jointly to the chief executive officer ( variously called president, chancellor, or rector ) and the provost, as do the heads of various interdisciplinary units and academic support functions, such as libraries, student services, the registrar, admissions and information technology.

Below deans in the administrative hierarchy are heads of individual academic departments and of individual administrative departments from groundskeeping to libraries to registrars of records.

The badge recognizes those 23 Air Force colonels ( and one brigadier general ) who have been appointed by the Congress under US Code Title 10 as permanent professors and heads of academic departments, and as the Dean of Faculty, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Academic department heads boycotted the first day of the 2008-09 academic year to protest another new policy setting aside positions for Christian faculty, a move seen by many as being part of the new dispensation's intention to impart a specific religious character to the famously secular institution.

With this, all Cathedral's academic leadership, including vice-principal, guidance director, business manager, librarians, and all department heads were lay people.

Like the biretta worn by lower clergy and the mortarboard worn by academics, the camauro derives from the academic cap ( the pileus ), originally worn to protect tonsured clerical heads from the cold.

The house tutor and heads of house work as a team to monitor the academic and personal progress of each student in the house tutorial group and house.

The Athenaeum ( or " Ath " as it is called informally ) hosts dinner and lecture events four times each week during the academic year, frequently featuring distinguished guest speakers including ambassadors, heads of state, poet laureates, musicians, and great intellectuals.

As heads of the colleges, the Provosts are to provide academic and administrative leadership for the Colleges and oversee the overall running of the Colleges.

Megacorporations control the lives of their employees and command their own armies ; the ten largest have extraterritoriality, such as now enjoyed by foreign heads of state.

The canal now heads directly to its terminus, passing through Burton upon Trent, Mercia Marina at Findern, the largest inland waterway marina in the United Kingdom, and then through wide locks ( the first being at Stenson ) to Shardlow and finally, Derwent Mouth.

* The Hindu minority in Muslim-majority Bangladesh has often been accused of dual loyalty to neighboring India by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and even by Sheikh Hasina who heads the largest political outfit in Bangladesh hailing secularism.

He or she is also responsible for appointing the heads of city departments, the largest of which are the Water Management Department ( formed by the consolidation of the former Water Department and Sewer Department under Richard M. Daley ) and the Streets & Sanitation Department.

Following criticism of the deal from U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman William H. Donaldson, who preceded Grasso as Chairman of the NYSE, and several pension fund heads ( who control some of the largest pools of equity investment capital in the U. S .), the Exchange board met and in a 13-to-7 vote asked Grasso to leave.

In addition, they also have the largest heads.

He also became a member of the prestigious Club of Madrid, the largest grouping of former democratically elected heads of state.

This means the reported number of heads never exceeds 16 ( 0-15 ), the number of sectors can be 255 ( 1-255 ; though 63 is often the largest used ) and the number of cylinders can be as large as 65, 536 ( 0-65535 ), limiting disk size to 128 GiB (≈ 137. 4 GB ), assuming 512 byte sectors.

It is a significant point on the Northwest Territories highway system, as all traffic that heads to the two largest population centres, Yellowknife to the north, and the nearby town of Hay River to the northeast, must pass through.

The river begins at Edmunds Lake, one of the Champlain Trail Lakes and near the community of Garden of Eden, and heads northwest through other Champlain Trail lakes to reach the largest, Jeffrys Lake.

According to Forbes magazine, he removed the heads of his two largest companies and personally negotiated with the Russian government, banks and other creditors to restructure his loan obligations.

Christian Dior S. A. () ( more commonly known as Dior ) () is a French luxury goods company controlled and chaired by businessman Bernard Arnault who also heads LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton-the world's largest luxury group.

Gabaldon was the site of the Sabani estate, the largest hacienda in Nueva Ecija during the second half of the 19th century, with 3, 000 heads of cattle and occupying more than 6, 000 hectares.

The Cabinet of the Philippines ( Filipino: Gabinete ng Pilipinas, usually referred to as the Cabinet or Filipino: Gabinete ) consists of the heads of the largest part of the executive branch of the national government of the Philippines.

Pope John Paul's funeral brought together the single largest gathering in history of heads of state outside the United Nations, surpassing the funerals of Winston Churchill ( 1965 ) and Josip Broz Tito ( 1980 ).

The next largest town in Kossi is Djibasso, the last major town on the road from Nouna that heads west into Mali.

From its source, it heads generally south, straight into Richland Township then Quakertown, the largest settlement along its entire course.

Buff-Buff is considered the leader of the animal heads and is also the largest.

The road then heads north to Middletown and Lower Lake before going around the southern and western sides of Clear Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake completely within California.

The summit was billed as the " largest gathering of world leaders in history ," and featured appearances of numerous heads of state and heads of government.

In the end, one scorpion, the largest of the group and presumably the alpha scorpion, kills all of the smaller ones, making it the last scorpion alive, and it heads for Mexico City.