The supreme object of their lives is now fulfilled, says the wife, her husband has achieved immortality.

It is the purpose of Armed Forces Day to give Americans an opportunity to honor men of the Armed Forces, those who have made the supreme sacrifice, those who remain to preserve our security.

Closely related to this function is the fact that the religious system provides a body of ultimate ends for the society, which are compatible with the supreme eternal ends.

The answer the authors give to it, therefore, is of supreme importance.

For style and assurance, for a supreme and regal bearing there is still no one who can touch her.

at the supreme delights to be found in one of the world's finest restaurants, La Bonne Auberge, which is situated on the seacoast twenty miles west of the Nice airport ; ;

Advaita Vedanta differs from the view that karma is a law of cause and effect but instead additionally hold that karma is mediated by the will of a personal supreme god.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.

A jurisdiction's supreme court is that jurisdiction's highest appellate court.

* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Qur ' an and Sunnah " the " supreme law " but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

Similarly, in the Greek Magical Papyri, the term " Aion " is often used to denote the All, or the supreme aspect of God

*" God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

This is provided for in Article II of the Constitution, which states that the President " shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court.

Barbadian law is rooted historically on English common law, and the Constitution of Barbados implemented in 1966, is supreme law of the land.

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

In a non-stock corporation with no general voting membership, e. g., a typical university, the board is the supreme governing body of the institution ; its members are sometimes chosen by the board itself.

Even so, its first recorded use in the function of a constitution ( supreme law of the land ) is with Sarsa Dengel beginning in 1563.

Courts generally interpret statutes that create new causes of action narrowly – that is, limited to their precise terms — because the courts generally recognize the legislature as being supreme in deciding the reach of judge-made law unless such statute should violate some " second order " constitutional law provision ( cf.

In the United States, the power of the federal judiciary to review and invalidate unconstitutional acts of the federal executive branch is stated in the constitution, Article III sections 1 and 2: " The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

While Israeli law is undergoing codification, its basic principles are inherited from the law of the British Mandate of Palestine and thus resemble those of British and American law, namely: the role of courts in creating the body of law and the authority of the supreme court in reviewing and if necessary overturning legislative and executive decisions, as well as employing the adversarial system.

According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the President is the head of state while the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising supreme executive power.

Paradoxically the council is weakest in areas that register 4- and 5-to-1 in the party's favor, strongest where Democrats and Republicans compete on a fairly even basis.

If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

A certain vagueness may also be caused by tactical appreciation of the fact that the present council meeting is a semipublic affair, with no fewer than six Soviet correspondents accredited.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

The Fa ' asamoa is the language and customs, and the Fa ' amatai the protocols of the " fono " ( council ) and the chiefly system.

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.

* 1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.

Amasis would send one of his eunuchs to capture Phanes, but the eunuch is bested by the wise council man and Phanes flees to Persia, meeting up with Cambyses providing advice in his invasion of Egypt.

This expression encapsulated the right of citizens to take the initiative: to stand to speak in the assembly, to initiate a public law suit ( that is, one held to affect the political community as a whole ), to propose a law before the lawmakers or to approach the council with suggestions.

At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Adhemar showed great zeal for the crusade ( there is evidence Urban II had conferred with Adhemar before the council ) and having been named apostolic legate and appointed to lead the crusade by Pope Urban II, he accompanied Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, to the east.

Also, supporters of this view would characterize Luke ’ s portrayal of the Roman Empire as positive because they believe Luke “ glosses over negative aspects of the empire and presents imperial power positively .” For example, when Paul is before the council defending himself, Paul says that he is “ on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead ” ( Acts 23: 6 ).

The mayor presides over and is a voting member of the council.

The municipalities merged in the course of the latest municipal reform of the 1970s are also called Stadtbezirke ( quarters or districts ), and are Ortschaften (“ settlements ”) in terms of Baden-Württemberg ’ s Gemeindeordnung ( municipal code ), which means, each of them has its own council elected by its respective residents ( Ortschaftsrat ) and is presided by a spokesperson ( Ortsvorsteher ).

Angus () is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area.

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

The trackbed from Accrington to Baxenden is now a linear treelined cycleway / footpath. As of November 2011 Hyndburn borough council has plans to re-open the rail link to manchester.

The city is governed by a " strong " mayor system who appoints two council members and / or city residents to serve at the mayor's pleasure on the board of public works and safety.

Achduart ( Gaelic: Achadh Dhubhaird ) is a small hamlet in Coigach, in Wester Ross in northwestern Scotland, now within the Highland council area.

Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.

The Bundesrat (" federal council ", performing the function of an upper house ) is the representation of the Federal States ( Bundesländer ) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian House of Lords.

Each borough is governed by a borough council ( Bezirksamt ) consisting of five councilors ( Bezirksstadträte ) and a borough mayor ( Bezirksbürgermeister ).

The borough council is elected by the borough assembly ( Bezirksverordnetenversammlung ).

The seat of the municipal council is the island's main town, Rønne.