After the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea, the church structure was patterned after the administrative divisions of the Roman Empire wherein a metropolitan or bishop of a metropolis came to be the ecclesiastical head of a civil capital of a province or a metropolis.

The judicial branch's general structure is composed of four distinct jurisdictions ( civilian, administrative, constitutional, and special ).

In order to stimulate the economy and attract foreign partners, the government has revamped the legal and administrative structure governing investment.

As UCLA law professor Stephen Yeazell has pointed out, the most likely reason is that the abysmally poor transportation, communications, and administrative apparatus of medieval times made it impossible for the English sovereign to directly manage the entire country in terms of individuals ; it was easier to structure society by imposing obligations upon groups which were enforced by the sporadic use of force.

Rather, it is in reference to internal campaigns of opposition where the Covenant-breaker is challenging the unity of the Faith, causing internal division, or by claiming or supporting an alternate succession of authority or administrative structure.

Eritrea was to have its own administrative and judicial structure, its own flag, and control over its domestic affairs, including police, local administration, and taxation.

The usual pattern for building a railway terminus was to conceal the metal structure behind an elaborate facade: Eiffel's design for Budapest used the metal structure as the centrepiece of the building, flanked on either side by conventional stone and brick-clad structures housing administrative offices.

This arrangement has come about because as the area of London grew and absorbed neighbouring settlements, a series of administrative reforms did not amalgamate the City of London with the metropolitan area, and its unique political structure was retained.

As part of the government reform, the Orthodox Church was partially incorporated into the country's administrative structure, in effect making it a tool of the state.

Larger hotels may operate with an extensive management structure consisting of a General Manager who serves as the head executive, department heads who oversee various departments, middle managers, administrative staff, and line-level supervisors.

Its head, Keidanren president Doko Toshio, insisted that government agree to take its recommendations seriously and commit itself to reforming the administrative structure and the tax system.

Within the university ’ s administrative structure, the highest body is the university court.

Along with the state administrative hierarchy, there existed a parallel structure of party organizations, which allowed the Politburo to exercise large amounts of control over the republics.

During the 1920s, he first started to systematize and extend the Bahá ' í administration throughout the world where there existed Bahá ' í communities ; because the Bahá ' í community was relatively small and undeveloped when he assumed the leadership of the religion, he strengthened and developed it over many years to the point where it was capable of supporting the administrative structure envisioned by ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

* Tambo ( Incan structure ), an administrative building found along major Incan roads that was used for lodging, storage, and record-keeping

Sweden both grew through conquests and went through a complete overhaul of its administrative structure.

Thus during his lifetime, Shoghi Effendi prepared for the election of the Universal House of Justice, by establishing a strong administrative structure at the local and national levels.

The Confederation Congress finally set up a suitable administrative structure for the Federal government.

Carried within the information payload, which has its own frame structure of nine rows and 261 columns, are administrative units identified by pointers.

The Baoulé, like the Asante, elaborated a highly centralized political and administrative structure under three successive rulers, but it finally split into smaller chiefdoms.

Together they gathered Shakers " into order " in their own communities, established the administrative structure that would promote equality of the sexes, and began building the villages that would become the Shakers ' most visible sign of success.

Thus two Elders and two Eldresses formed the Ministry at the top of the administrative structure.

The agents went to work energetically, however, and started with an onslaught on the old administrative organization of the country, in a deliberate attempt to liquidate the very identity of the old federal structure.

The provinces are organized into 7 regions for census purposes ; however, they do not represent an administrative structure.

These amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were designed to help provide for more specialized rehabilitation facilities, for more sheltered and `` half-way '' workshops, for greater numbers of adequately trained personnel, for more comprehensive services to individuals ( particularly to the homebound and the blind ), and for other administrative improvements to increase the program's overall effectiveness.

These changes represent, in effect, a shift from ( 1 ) an administrative compilation of data obtained through procedures designed primarily to serve political and economic objectives to ( 2 ) a systematic sampling census of the whole African population.

Unlike most Common-law jurisdictions, the majority of civil law jurisdictions have specialized courts or sections to deal with administrative cases which, as a rule, will apply procedural rules specifically designed for such cases and different from that applied in private-law proceedings, such as contract or tort claims.

These were designed to be ' counties-to-themselves '; administrative divisions to sit alongside the new administrative counties.

However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maintain administrative stability, the viceroy will call to form a government the individual most likely to receive the support, or confidence, of a majority of the directly-elected House of Commons ; as a practical matter, this is often the leader of a party whose members form a majority, or a very large plurality, of Members of Parliament ( MPs ).

He also modified Gustavianum, designed a new conservatory for Linnaeus ' botanical garden and built the new Consistory house, which was to be the administrative core of the university.

IS-IS ( pronounced " i-s i-s ") is an interior gateway protocol, designed for use within an administrative domain or network.

In telecommunication, a controlled area is an area in which uncontrolled movement will not result in compromise of classified information, that is designed to provide administrative control and safety, or that serves as a buffer for controlling access to limited-access areas.

His chief administrative reforms were designed to secure centralized government and to limit the jurisdiction of feudal courts.

As well as being the first American commercial computer, the UNIVAC I was the first American computer designed at the outset for business and administrative use ( i. e., for the fast execution of large numbers of relatively simple arithmetic and data transport operations, as opposed to the complex numerical calculations required by scientific computers ).

The Imperial exam based on merit was designed to select the best administrative officials for the state's bureaucracy.

Additional buildings housing more laboratories as well as the organizational administrative offices were constructed in the 1990s, designed by Anshen & Allen.

Putrajaya, a new city designed to be the new administrative capital of Malaysia, was built by the federal government in Selangor.

The imperial examination ( 科舉, kējǔ ) was an examination system in Imperial China designed to select the best administrative officials for the state's bureaucracy.

The expansion project, designed by Odell Associates and Wood & Cort Architects, was completed in 1992, which resulted in expansion of the ticket lobby, baggage claim area and administrative office space.

In the 1990s, a new chancery building, designed by Roger Pegrum in a " stripped classical style " design, was constructed to house the offices of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General and associated administrative staff.

The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceaușescu regime as the seat of political and administrative power.

Where new premises are designed and constructed to house local governments, the concepts and functions of administrative council offices and of a civic town hall become separated.

It recently underwent an expansion, designed by Diamond and Schmitt Architects and costing in excess of $ 8 million, which added additional lecture halls and administrative offices as well as upgrades to Welch Hall's facilities.

" Luc Van den Brande, who headed a delegation from the Council of Europe, referred to the " overwhelming influence of the president's office and the president on the campaign " and said there was " abuse of administrative resources " designed to influence the outcome.

Cal Poly Pomona's dominant landmark is a futurist-styled administrative facility known as the CLA Building which was designed by Antoine Predock and opened in 1993.

This resulted in tension, as legal aid was not designed to offer advice to those seeking redress through administrative complaints processes.

The Town library, Lakeuden Risti church and central administrative buildings are designed by Alvar Aalto.