High-ranking members of the armed forces also occupied leading roles in the group, with General Blakeney joined by the likes of General Ormonde Winter, Brigadier-General T. Erskine Tulloch, Admiral John Armstrong and Colonel Sir Charles Rosdew Burn, who combined a role on the Grand Council of the British Fascisti with that of Conservative Party MP for Torquay.

High-ranking members of the Haitian National Intelligence Service ( SIN ), which had been set up and financed in the 1980s by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) as part of the war on drugs, were involved in the coup, and were reportedly still receiving funding and training from the CIA for intelligence-gathering activities at the time of the coup, but this funding reportedly ended after the coup.

* Other Uniforms — High-ranking officers occasionally wore white uniforms ( or white jackets ), and staff officers were issued distinctive staff service uniforms.

High-ranking officers, and sometimes their wives, such as the Major General Riedesel and his wife and Major General William Phillips were sought as guests on the social scene.

High-ranking Begs were allowed to wear the Queue.

" High-ranking military and police officers of the RVN, from major to general, along with mid and high-ranking intelligence officers, members of the RVN executive, judicial and legislative branches, including all elected members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and, finally, leaders of " reactionary " ( i. e. non-communist ) political parties in South Vietnam, were ordered to report to various sites bringing enough " paper, pens, clothes, mosquito-nets, personal effects, food or money to last a month

High-ranking Confederate officers and some political prisoners were housed in former laundress quarters and open-bay barrack rooms inside the fort.

High-ranking diplomatic visits to South Africa repeatedly attempted to persuade Mbeki to take a harder line with Robert Mugabe over violent state-sponsored attacks on political opponents and opposition movements, expropriation of white-owned farms by ZANU-PF allied " war veterans ", sanctioning against the press, and infringements on the independence of the judiciary.

High-ranking politicians and royalty from all around the world applauded as the teams from their respective countries paraded by.

High-ranking politicians and top level government officials that dominate global political scene and foreign affairs, headline major current events, play a pivotal role in domestic and international politics have a tremendous impact in day-to-day media have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

* January 19 – High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.

" High-ranking North Korean official Kim Yong-nam said, " While we wanted to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the country with General Secretary Kim Jong-Il, we celebrated on our own.

High-ranking members of the ulama class achieve the status of marja ' al-taqlīd ( pl.

High-ranking officials and Buddhist monks therefore agreed unanimously to assign the throne to Chao Chaiyaset.

High-ranking officials helped achieve SNI security goals through their government positions.

High-ranking mothers with older immature daughters also reject their infants significantly more than those without older daughters, and tend to begin mating earlier in the mating season than expected based on their dates of parturition the preceding birth season.

High-ranking males from different groups will display, vocalize, and fight among themselves.

High-ranking members of the Mexican Mafia who are locked in private cells for 23 hours of each day are still able to communicate with their associates, through methods which range from tapping in code on prison plumbing pipes to smuggled letters. The primary goal of the Mexican Mafia is to control all drug trafficking in all areas that they have been established.

High-ranking members of the U. S. Ku Klux Klan in the mid-1920s offered Calles $ 10, 000 to help fight the Church.

High-ranking officer dress saber of early 20th century was a modern composite of traditional kilij, " mameluke " and European cavalry saber.

( bottom ) High-ranking commanders.

Since the destruction of the Second Temple, and ( therefore ) the cessation of the daily and seasonal temple ceremonies and sacrifices, Kohanim in traditional Judaism ( Orthodox Judaism and to some extent, Conservative Judaism ) continue to perform a number of priestly ceremonies and roles such as the Pidyon HaBen ( redemption of a first-born son ) ceremony and the Priestly Blessing, and have remained subject, particularly in Orthodox Judaism, to a number of restrictions, such as restrictions on certain marriages and ritual purity ( see Kohanic disqualifications ).

In many denominations, such as Methodism, Presbyterianism, and Lutheranism, the roles of clergy are similar to Roman Catholic or Anglican clergy, in that they hold an ordained pastoral or priestly office, administer the sacraments, proclaim the word, lead a local church or parish, and so forth.

Other priestly / elder roles within the tendaalun include the suo sob who performs ritual animal slaughter to the earth deity, the zongmogre who

Within this American context, Marty wrote that Americans approved of " religion in general " without being particularly concerned about the content of that faith, and attempted to distinguish " priestly " and " prophetic " roles within the practice of American civil religion, which he preferred to call the public theology.

The Chavin religion was possibly led by or involved priestly roles.

The Essenes were often of Levite or Cohen heritage and this may further explain the frequent ' priestly heritage ' claims of several Nazerean families of India.

The two powerful groups making up the community — the priestly families who controlled the Temple and who traced their foundation-myth to Moses and the wilderness wanderings, and the major landowning families who made up the " elders " and who traced their own origins to Abraham, who had " given " them the land — were in conflict over many issues, and each had its own " history of origins ", but the Persian promise of greatly increased local autonomy for all provided a powerful incentive to cooperate in producing a single text.

The druids, the Celtic priestly caste who were believed to originate in Britain, were outlawed by Claudius, and in 61 they vainly defended their sacred groves from destruction by the Romans on the island of Mona ( Anglesey ).

For these reasons there is a widespread scholarly view that the sacrificial rules of Leviticus 1 – 16 were introduced after the Babylonian exile, when circumstances allowed the priestly writers to describe the rituals so as to express their worldview of an idealised Israel living its life as a holy community in observance of the priestly prescriptions.

The transition from the older Egyptian scripts to the newly adapted Graeco-Coptic script was in part due to the decline of the traditional role played by the priestly class of ancient Egyptian religion, who unlike most ordinary Egyptians, were literate in the temple scriptoria.

Just as tribal elders were consolidated and transformed into kings and bureaucrats, so too were shamans and adepts changed into priests and a priestly caste.

Judaism does not have clergy as such, although according to the Torah there is a tribe of priests known as the Kohanim who were leaders of the religion up to the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70AD when most Sadducees were wiped out ; each member of the tribe, a Kohen had priestly duties, many of which centered around the sacrificial duties, atonement and blessings of the Israelite nation.

Conferences, usually delivered by the prior, on this important part of the Christian and priestly life were given especially to the interns.

In the years just prior to the Second Vatican Council, the only men ordained as deacons were seminarians who were completing the last year or so of graduate theological training, who received the order several months before priestly ordination.

Following the recommendations of the council ( in Lumen Gentium 29 ), in 1967 Pope Paul VI issued the motu proprio Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem, restoring the ancient practice of ordaining to the diaconate men who were not candidates for priestly ordination.

Although the missions were considered temporary ventures by the Spanish hierarchy, the development of an individual settlement was not simply a matter of " priestly whim.

According to the book of Exodus, Aaron and his sons were the first priests appointed as the priestly system was established by God.

The Levites as a tribe were later ordained for the priestly service after answering a call to take the LORD ’ s side after the idolatry centered around the golden calf.

Castrated members of the priestly caste were forbidden to enter certain parts of the temple, to approach the altar, or to make sacrifices, although they could eat their share of the offerings ( Lev.

Moreover, the Torah already provided some ways for all Jews to lead a priestly life: the precepts concerning unclean meat were perhaps intended originally for the priests, but were extended to the whole people ( Leviticus 11 ; Deuteronomy 14: 3 – 21 ); the prohibition of cutting the flesh in mourning for the dead ( Deuteronomy 14: 1 – 2, Leviticus 19: 28 ; comp.

They were divided into 24 groups, each group consisting of six priestly families.

King David assigned each of the 24 priestly clans to a weekly watch ( Hebrew mishmeret משמרת ) during which its members were responsible for maintaining the schedule of offerings at the Temple in Jerusalem ().

If a town were overcome by besieging troops, all women of priestly stock found in it are ineligible be married to priests or to remain married to priests, but if they had witnesses, even a slave, or even a bondswoman, these may be believed.