Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

In the East abbots, if in priests ' orders and with the consent of the bishop, were, as we have seen, permitted by the second Nicene council, AD 787, to confer the tonsure and admit to the order of reader ; but gradually abbots, in the West also, advanced higher claims, until we find them in AD 1489 permitted by Innocent IV to confer both the subdiaconate and diaconate.

However, Ambrose feared the consequences and prevailed upon the emperor to have the matter determined by a council of the Western bishops.

Athanasius may have accompanied Alexander to the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the council which produced the Nicene Creed and anathematized Arius and his followers.

It is true that the emperor intended it to be a strictly general or truly ecumenical council, at which the Protestants should have a fair hearing.

The canons and decrees of the council have been published very often and in many languages ( for a large list consult British Museum Catalogue, under " Trent, Council of ").

There are four " specialist sections ": Trade Union CND, Christian CND, Labour CND and Ex-Services CND, which have rights of representation on the governing council.

Some have held that a council is ecumenical only when all five patriarchs of the Pentarchy are represented at it.

) 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.

The Communist Party of Britain and The Socialist Workers Party, neither of which have any considerable power or influence, with not one seat in Parliament nor in a local council, both criticise the European Union from an ultra-left perspective and their " scepticism " is a form of left-wing euroscepticism although its adherents may reject the term.

Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 ( which caused Mary's suitor, the Duke of Norfolk, to lose his head ) to the Babington Plot of 1586, Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the royal council keenly assembled a case against her.

In Morocco, where king Mohammed VI is also Amir al-Muminin ( Commander of the Faithful ), the authorities have tried to organize the field by creating a scholars ' council ( conseil des oulémas ) composed of Muslim scholars ( ulama ), which is the only one allowed to issue fatāwā.

For instance, if a state fatwā council made abortion acceptable in the first trimester without any medical reason, that would have direct impact on official procedures in hospitals and courts in that country.

Gotland is the only Swedish county that does not have a county council, as well as having only one municipality and one telephony area code.

In 1969 it recommended a system of single-tier unitary authorities for the whole of England, apart from three metropolitan areas of Merseyside, Selnec ( Greater Manchester ) and West Midlands ( Birmingham and the Black Country ), which were to have both a metropolitan council and district councils.

Powers to restrict council budgets have remained in place ever since.

Anomalously, the city of Kilkenny is the only city in the Republic not to have a " city council "; it is still a borough but not a county borough and is administered by its eponymous county council.

Calvin protested that the council did not have the legal authority to overturn Berthelier's excommunication.

Emperor Barbarossa ordained that the city should have a ruling council of twenty members.

Nonetheless, libertarian Marxist tendencies such as autonomist Marxism and council communism have historically been intertwined with the anarchist movement.

Moreover, many men have larger breasts than women ", remarked a council spokesman.

* In the Palestinian National Authority, municipalities are localities with populations over 4, 000 and have 13-15 council members.

Since the enactment of EU legislation concerning the concentration of particulate in the air, environmental groups such as Greenpeace have staged large protest rallies to urge the city council and the State government to take a harder stance on pollution.

In a sense Molokans are Protestants for rejecting Orthodoxy, and like Presbyterians in that they have a council of dominant elders.

The Dressau city council attempted to convince Gropius to return as head of the school, but Gropius instead suggested Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

** Council of Pisa ( 1409 ) attempted to solve the Great Western Schism. The council is not numbered because it was not convened by a pope and its outcome was repudiated at Constance.

Since Edward was still a child, rule passed to a regency council dominated by Protestants, who attempted to establish their faith throughout the country.

The next day, after realizing his blunder, Bismarck attempted to reach a compromise with Wilhelm by agreeing to his social policy towards industrial workers, and even suggested a European council to discuss working conditions, presided by the German Emperor.

Frederick attempted to convoke a joint council with King Louis VII of France in 1162 to decide the issue of who should be pope.

In the early 1920s, the guild socialism of G. D. H. Cole attempted to envision a socialist alternative to Soviet-style authoritarianism, while council communism articulated democratic socialist positions in several respects, notably through renouncing the vanguard role of the revolutionary party and holding that the system of the Soviet Union was not authentically socialist.

A public consultation resulted in two to one approval, but there were some public objections, including from the Staines football team which attempted to present 134 signatures to the council but they were not received.

In 1717, four French bishops went even further, and attempted to appeal the papal bull to a general council ; the bishops were joined by hundreds of French priests, monks and nuns, and were supported by the parlements.

He attempted to gain admittance to the King ’ s council in 1774, ultimately failing.

Somerset attempted to protect his brother and called a council meeting that Thomas was supposed to attend in order to explain his actions.

In 2006 the council attempted to sell the property, but the sale fell through due to zoning regulations that limited redevelopment.

A dispute ensued between Mayor Croxton, who wanted to shutter all saloons in Bremerton, and three members of the city council, who attempted to block his efforts.

This council, held at Austerfield in 702, attempted to confiscate all of Wilfrid's possessions, and so Wilfrid travelled to Rome to appeal against the decision.

Some accounts state that Stigand did appear at the council which deposed him, but nothing is recorded of any defence that he attempted.

The manner in which the succession was to take place was first entailed by Robert I when female heirs were excluded and David II attempted unsuccessfully on several occasions to have the council change the succession procedure.

During his administration in Norway, he attempted to deprive the Norwegian nobility of its traditional influence exercised through the Rigsraadet privy council, leading to controversy with the latter.

In 1953, the mayor and city council of Grand Prairie went on a " land grab ", and attempted to annex nearly of then-unincorporated and largely undeveloped land in southern Dallas and Tarrant counties.

Barry is the stadium's most outspoken supporter on the council, whereas Fenty has attempted to distance himself from his initial support for the project.

The conservative Victorian state government and Melbourne city council attempted to suppress the anti-Vietnam War campaign by banning street leafleting and taking police action against anti-war demonstrations.

The privy council attempted to have Felton questioned under torture on the rack, but the judges resisted, unanimously declaring its use to be contrary to the laws of England.

Isagoras set about uprooting hundreds of people from their homes on the pretext that they too were cursed, and attempted to dissolve the council ( βουλή, boulê ).

The local council has recently attempted to address the situation by adding a new road layout to the town centre, with public transport and junction improvements to reduce traffic.

In 1914, Barceló, Muñoz Rivera and de Diego were members of an executive council that attempted to form an alliance between the Union and Republican Parties.

At the August 2004 AFL-CIO executive council meeting, Sweeney attempted to implement some of NUP's criticisms by announcing the formation of a task force to investigate organizing the Wal-Mart grocery and discount department store chain.