Candidates for the presidency must be approved by the Council of Guardians, a twelve member body consisting of six clerics ( selected by Iran's Supreme Leader ) and six lawyers ( proposed by the head of Iran's judicial system and voted in by the Parliament ).

The Guardian Council of the Constitution (, Shora-ye Negahban-e Qanun-e Assassi ), also known as the Guardian Council or Council of Guardians, is an appointed and constitutionally-mandated 12-member council that wields considerable power and influence in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

If the Majlis and the Council of Guardians cannot decide on a case, it is passed up to the Expediency Council for a decision.

The Council of Guardians also functions similar to a constitutional court.

However, with the help of Captain Archer's knowledge of the future cooperation between humans and Xindi against the Sphere Builders, the Xindi Council began to split over the issue of whether the " Guardians " were the real enemy or not.

All acts of the Majles ( legislative body ) must be reviewed for conformity with Islamic law and principles by the Council of Guardians, which is composed of six clerics appointed by the Supreme Leader and six Muslim jurists ( legal scholars ) nominated by the Head of the Judiciary and elected by parliament.

It increased the power and number of clerics on the Council of Guardians and gave it control over elections as well as laws passed by the legislature.

* The Council of Guardians, Official website.

" In 1992, however, he was one of 39 incumbents from the Third Majles and 1000 or so candidates rejected that winter and spring by the Council of Guardians, which vets candidates.

* Parliamentarians in Iran end their sit-in of the country's parliament but vow to continue fighting the mass disqualification of reformist candidates by the conservative Council of Guardians.

In 2004, Mohammad Reza Khatami, along with other prominent members such as Elaheh Koulaei, Mohsen Mirdamadi, and Ali Shakouri-Rad were barred from standing in the parliament elections by the Council of Guardians.

It is in the area of Wiltshire Council, on which all three elected members for Devizes belong to a local political party, the Devizes Guardians, led by Nigel Carter.

* Clergy members of Guardians Council at one point:

While officially ranking as the last ( 30th ) candidate of Tehran in the Iranian Parliament election, 2000 after some recounts by the Council of Guardians which had led to annulment of 700, 000 Tehrani votes and removal of Alireza Rajaei and Ali Akbar Rahmani from the top 30, Haddad-Adel collected the most votes from Tehran four years later, in Iranian Parliament election, 2004, when many reformist candidates where not allowed to run.

This decision, by the conservative Council of Guardians vetting body, " shattered any pretense of Iranian democracy ", according to some observers.

The letter was read to journalists by Mohsen Armin, one of the organizers of the MPs sit-in criticizing the vettings of the Council of Guardians.

The letter was read to journalists by Mohsen Armin, one of the organizers of the sit-in by MPs criticizing the vetting of candidates by the Council of Guardians.

In January 2004, shortly before the 2004 Iranian legislative elections ( the 7th Parliament ), the conservative Council of Guardians ended Iranian voters ' continued support for reformists by taking the unprecedented step of banning about 2500 candidates, nearly half of the tot, including 80 sitting Parliament deputies.

In the majlis ( parliament ) much of the president's reforming legislation was vetoed by the Council of Guardians, a committee of clerics appointed by the supreme leader to ensure that laws conform with Islamic precepts.

As a member of the parliament, Nabavi has been one of the major critics of the Council of Guardians, the body which both vets candidates for political office and can veto legislation passed by parliament.

The Barnsley Rural Sanitary District which included most of the Barnsley Poor Law Union of which Cudworth was a part was abolished under the 1894 Local Government Act when the Barnsley Rural District Council with elected councillors took over the responsibilities previously administered by the Poor Law Guardians.

The Council is considered by the Roman Catholics, Eastern Catholic Churches, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Old Catholics, and various other Western Christian groups to have been the Fourth Ecumenical Council.

This decree, however, is not considered valid by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, since it was never approved by Pope Gregory XII or his successors, and was passed by the Council in a session before his confirmation.

The Eastern Orthodox Church accepts the first seven ecumenical councils, with the Council in Trullo considered a continuation of the sixth.

To be considered Ecumenical Orthodox accept a Council that meets the condition that it was accepted by the whole church.

) The Council of Florence is an example of a council accepted as ecumenical in spite of being rejected by the East, as the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon were rejected by those whom the church considered to have thereby ceased to belong to the church.

It can be said that there is no right or wrong way to dance it ; however, certain styles of the dance are considered correct " form " within the technical elements documented and governed by the National Dance Council of America.

One of the decisions made by the First Council of Constantinople ( the second ecumenical council, meeting in 381 ) and supported by later such councils was that the Patriarch of Constantinople should be given equal honor to the Pope of Rome since Constantinople was considered to be the " New Rome ".

A modified version of this proposal was accepted by Cromwell and the Council of Officers and less than a month after the dissolution of the Rump, during May 1653, letters in the name of the Lord-General and the Army Council were sent to Congregational churches in every county in England to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

Moritz Busch recounts that Otto von Bismarck confided that, after the capture of Rome, Pius IX considered leaving Rome and reopening the Council elsewhere:

The Third Lateran Council and the Fourth Lateran Council are generally considered to be of much greater significance than Lateran I.

The Pope presented seventy-one decrees ; the Council considered these along with the organization of the Fifth Crusade and with measures against heretics.

Serious violations of certain fundamental treaty obligations is sometimes considered a valid reason for the relevant international community to depose a head of state, as the United Nations Security Council or certain alliances may do.

On July 11, the United Nations Security Council considered imposing sanctions on the Zimbabwe.

The British government referred the problem to the League's Council, but Finland would not let the League intervene, as they considered it an internal matter.

According to the Council of the League of Nations, meeting of August 1920: " draft mandates adopted by the Allied and Associated Powers would not be definitive until they had been considered and approved by the League ... the legal title held by the mandatory Power must be a double one: one conferred by the Principal Powers and the other conferred by the League of Nations ,"

A poll of non-English speakers by the British Council in 2004 found that " oi " was considered the 61st most beautiful word in the English language.

One of his first official acts was to summon the Lateran Council of 649 to deal with the Monothelites, whom the Church considered heretical.

#: Allied troops were to withdraw immediately from Tehran and that further stages of the withdrawal of troops from Iran should be considered at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to be held in London in September, 1945.

On 15 November 1215 Innocent opened the Fourth Lateran Council, considered the most important church council of the Middle Ages.

* Counter-Reformation, the period of Catholic revival beginning with the Council of Trent, sometimes considered a response to the Protestant Reformation

It is also thought that if formal independence were declared, Taiwan's foreign policies would lean further towards Japan and the United States and the desirable option of United Nations Trusteeship Council is also considered.