Something like 1100 citizens ( including the members of the council of 500 ) held office each year.

The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia remarks that " Undeniably secular and ambitious, his moral life was not above reproach, and his unscrupulous methods in no wise accorded with the requirements of his high office ... the heinous crimes of which his opponents in the council accused him were certainly gravely exaggerated.

On the one and the same account they glorify them and they degrade and diminish them ; yes, further, they openly condemn them to disgrace and civil degradation ; they keep them religiously excluded from council chamber, rostrum, senate, knighthood, and every other kind of office and a good many distinctions.

The remaining constitutional functions of the Monarch are to open the annual session of the Riksdag, to chair the foreign advisory committee, to preside at the special cabinet council when a new Prime Minister takes office, and to be kept informed by the Prime Minister on matters of state.

In some places alternative titles such as " premier ", " chief minister ", " first minister of state ", " president of the council " or " chancellor " were adopted, but the essentials of the office were the same.

In some countries, like Switzerland and San Marino, the head of state is not a single person but a committee ( council ) of several persons holding that office.

Changes in the council occur typically only if one of the members resigns ( merely four incumbent members were voted out of the office in over 150 years ); this member is almost always replaced by someone from the same party ( and often also from the same linguistic group ).

The sheikhs of the emirates then decided to form a council to coordinate matters between them and took over the development office.

In May of the same year Pitt was promoted to the more important and lucrative office of paymaster-general, which gave him a place in the privy council, though not in the cabinet.

* The Regulating Act creates the office of governor general, with an advising council, to exercise political authority over the territory controlled by The British East India Company.

Cathedrals are often associated with significant secular organisations such as the office of the local mayor and council, the local court, the local regiment, schools, sporting organisations and service clubs.

Upon taking office, Paul II was to convene an ecumenical council within three years.

The council also passed five canons condemning Nestorius and Caelestius and their followers as heretics and a sixth one decreeing deposition from clerical office or excommunication for those who did not accept the Council's decrees.

The Borough is generally an area of mixed development, with council estates, major office developments, social housing and high value residential gated communities side by side with each other.

They also have considerable budgets managed by a regional council ( conseil régional ) made up of representatives voted into office in regional elections.

In 2004 the council was granted funding from Advantage West Midlands to build a new Eco-Park on the outskirts of the town on the other side of the A49, with space for new " environmentally friendly " office buildings and a park & ride facility.

All council members are elected to four-terms of office.

Later, Quimby briefly flees the city thinking his corruption has been exposed and is deemed to have " abandoned office " and is replaced by a short-lived " council of learned citizens " headed by Lisa Simpson, Professor Frink, Comic Book Guy, Lindsey Naegle, Dr. Hibbert, and Principal Skinner.

The office wing held the council room that was used for interrogating prisoners, the Bastille's library, and servants ' quarters.

He was a strong supporter of the Revolution, and in 1792, on the creation by the Legislative Assembly of an executive council, Monge accepted the office of Minister of the Marine, and held this office from 10 August 1792 to 10 April 1793, when he resigned.

The building also included office shops, council chambers, storerooms and market stalls.

This was the first time that four parties were represented on the council and the Mayor of Kingston Jeremy Thorn officially opened the new Independent Group's office at the Guildhall.

It was the site of the highest concentration of council housing in England but is now best known as the location of the prestigious Canary Wharf office complex.

This protest resulted in 32 councillors being ordered to repay to the council the interest the council had lost as a result of budgeting delays, and also being disqualified from office.

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.