Titus was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem, although his name occurs nowhere in the Acts of the Apostles.

Monmouthshire County Council, which requested that the Abergavenny Improvement Acts be repealed, is supporting plans for a new cattle market to be established about ten miles from Abergavenny at Raglan.

Christians explain that such selectivity is based on rulings made by early Jewish Christians in the Book of Acts, at the Council of Jerusalem, that, while believing gentiles did not need to fully convert to Judaism, they should follow some aspects of Torah like avoiding idolatry and fornication and blood, including, according to some interpretations, homosexuality.

The Acts of the Apostles records the Council of Jerusalem, which addressed the question of observation of biblical law in the early Christian community which included Gentile converts.

Moreover, Paul's description of the Council of Jerusalem ( Gal 2: 1 – 10 ) gives a different point of view from the description in Acts 15: 2 – 29.

Lake wonders why it would be necessary for the Jerusalem Council ( Acts 15 ) to take place at all if the issue were settled in Acts 11: 30 / 12: 25, as this view holds.

In rare cases, the Security Council can adopt resolutions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, related to " threats to Peace, Breaches of the Peace and Acts of Aggression ," which are legally binding under international law, and can be followed up with economic sanctions, military action, and similar uses of force through the auspices of the United Nations.

The Acts of the Council fully set forth the nature of Christ, countering Arian conceptions.

The Catholic Encyclopedia identifies at least four before the Council of Sardica ( 341 ), where a new form was presented and inserted in the Acts of the Council, though it was not agreed on.

* the letters of Cornelius Fronto, overwritten by the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon

Furthermore, the Acts of the Thirteenth Session of the Council state, " And with these we define that there shall be expelled from the holy Church of God and anathematized Honorius who was some time Pope of Old Rome, because of what we found written by him to Sergius, that in all respects he followed his view and confirmed his impious doctrines.

Some council-member states proposed an additional protocol to the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, addressing materials and " acts of racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer networks "; it was negotiated from late 2001 to early 2002, and, on 7 November 2002, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted the protocol's final text titled Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cyber-crime, Concerning the Criminalisation of Acts of a Racist and Xenophobic Nature Committed through Computer Systems, (" Protocol ").

He strengthened royal authority in the north of England through reform of the Council of the North, extended royal power and introduced religious reform in Ireland, and was the architect of legislation, the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542, which promoted stability and gained acceptance for the royal supremacy in Wales.

1 ( Berlin, 1971 ), and of which there is now an English translation and commentary — Richard Price, The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553, 2 vols ( Liverpool University Press, 2009 ).

In the next General Council of Constantinople ( 680 ) it was alleged ( probably falsely ) that the original Acts of the Fifth Council had been tampered with ( Hefele, op.

In 1896 a Privy Council report noted that there had been no prosecutions under the Foreign Enlistment Acts and considered them unenforceable.

The answers of Hormisdas are given in the Acts of the Council of Constantinople held under Mennas, in which he states his trust in the prudence and experience of Epiphanius, and recommends lenity towards the returning, severity to the obdurate.

Apart from Acts of parliament, Orders in Council are the main method by which the government implements decisions that need legal force.

Resolutions by the Security Council are legally binding if they are made under Chapter VII ( Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression ) of the Charter.

". On 17 April 1707, just two weeks prior to the Acts of Union coming into effect, Sir Henry St George, Garter King of Arms, presented several designs to Queen Anne and her Privy Council for consideration as the flag of the soon to be unified Kingdom of Great Britain.

Some scholars attribute to Luke the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, which is clearly meant to be read as a sequel to the Gospel account.

: " 6 ... such books as the Gospels of Peter, of Thomas, of Matthias, or of any others besides them, and the Acts of Andrew and John and the other apostles ... they clearly show themselves to be the fictions of heretics.

This contrasts with a federal system, in which sub-parliaments or state parliaments and assemblies have a clearly defined constitutional right to exist and a right to exercise certain constitutionally guaranteed and defined functions and cannot be unilaterally abolished by Acts of the central parliament.

The Liberals made reducing the power of the Lords an important issue of the January 1910 general election. It was held that the 1911 Act clearly permits the procedures specified in the Parliament Acts to be used for " any Public Bill ", and this was sufficient to dispose of the argument that the 1911 Act could not be used to amend itself.

There is a pseudepigrapha letter reporting on the crucifixion, purporting to have been sent by Pontius Pilate to the Emperor Claudius, embodied in the pseudepigrapha known as the Acts of Peter and Paul, of which the Catholic Encyclopedia states, " This composition is clearly apocryphal though unexpectedly brief and restrained.

In January 1948, WJC President Stephen Wise, appealed to US Secretary of State George Marshall: “ Between 800, 000 and a million Jews in the Middle East and North Africa, exclusive of Palestine, are in ' the greatest danger of destruction ' at the hands of Muslims being incited to holy war over the Partition of Palestine ... Acts of violence already perpetrated, together with those contemplated, being clearly aimed at the total destruction of the Jews, constitute genocide, which under the resolutions of the General Assembly is a crime against humanity .“ The United States, however, did not take any follow-up action to investigate these pleadings.

Although Wentworth was successful in keeping New Hampshire from implementing harsh boycotts in response to the Townshend Acts, he was clearly troubled by both colonial resistance to Parliamentary acts and by the introduction of troops into Boston in 1768.

Pam Grier titled her memoir Foxy: My Life in Three Acts ( 2010 ), clearly influenced by this film.

This is clearly defined in various Acts of the Nova Scotia Legislature ; for example 1902 c. 1, Act respecting the Halifax &# 38 ; South Western Railway Co .; 1902 c. 2 ; 1903 c. 152 ; 1905 c. 1 ; etc.

( Acts 23: 8 states this clearly ).

In the first of its fifty-six canons the council condemned Adoptionism, and in the second repudiated the Second Council of Nicaea of 787, which, according to the faulty Latin translation of its Acts ( see Caroline Books ), seemed to decree that the same kind of worship should be paid to images as to the Blessed Trinity, though the Greek text clearly distinguishes between latreia and proskynesis ; this constituted a condemnation of iconoclasm.

The non-canonical Acts of Paul and Thecla speak of the efficacy of prayer for the dead, so that they might be " translated to a state of happiness.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

Although classical liberals aspired to a minimum of state activity, they accepted the principle of government intervention in the economy from the early 19th century with passage of the Factory Acts.

Now, the Queen of Australia is generally bound by constitutional convention to accept the advice of the Australian Prime Minister and state Premiers about Australian and state constitutional matters respectively, however the practice of Premiers advising the monarch has only become the convention since the passage of the Australia Acts ( 1986 ).

The Acts of Union of 1707 united Scotland with England into a new sovereign state called Great Britain, after 1801 known as the United Kingdom.

Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ; they secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which called on state legislatures to nullify unconstitutional laws.

A number of states followed suit and enacted " Little Norris-LaGuardia Acts " that imposed similar limitations on state courts ' powers.

" The Greek noun apostasia ( rebellion, abandonment, state of apostasy, defection ) is found only twice in the New Testament ( Acts 21: 21 ; 2 Thessalonians 2: 3 ).

The state of the roads in British urban towns was a matter of considerable concern in the 17th-18th centuries and a number of ' Paving Acts ' ( Acts of parliament ) were passed although they were not always effective as was the case of the 1623 Act for Colchester.

The Reconstruction Acts called for registering all adult males, white and black, except those who had ever sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and then engaged in rebellion ... Sheridan interpreted these restrictions stringently, barring from registration not only all pre-1861 officials of state and local governments who had supported the Confederacy but also all city officeholders and even minor functionaries such as sextons of cemeteries.

Psychiatry, supported by the State through various Mental Health Acts, has become a modern secular state religion according to Szasz.

The Force Acts, among other powers, allow the President to call up military forces when state authorities are either unable or unwilling to suppress violence that is in opposition to the constitutional rights of the people.

In the Bible, Tertullus ( a modification of " Tertius ") was a lawyer, who was employed by the Jews to state their case against Paul in the presence of Felix ( Acts 24: 1-9 ).

Until the 1980s, Acts of the Australian state of Victoria were numbered in a continuous sequence from 1857 ; thus the Age of Majority Act 1977 was No. 9075 of 1977.

The Tithe Acts of 1936 and 1951 established the compulsory redemption of English tithes by the state where the annual amounts payable were less than £ 1, so abolishing the bureaucracy and costs of collecting small sums of money.

Specific state Acts, are as follows:

The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act ( UAGA ), and its periodic revisions, is one of the Uniform Acts drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws ( NCCUSL ) in the United States with the intention of harmonizing state laws in force in the states.

In 1707, Acts of Union, ratifying the Treaty of Union that had been agreed the previous year, were passed by the parliaments of England and Scotland, thereby uniting the Kingdom of Scotland with the Kingdom of England ( which included the Principality of Wales ) into a new state with the name Great Britain.

It is sometimes referred to as a public school, although strictly speaking this only applies to the English schools covered by the Public Schools Acts, and is the term is traditionally used in Scotland for state schools.

* May 1-The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union which combine the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single realm under Queen Anne, with the support of Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.