Adopting the name change, the council resolved to call on residents, businesses and public organisations to use the name Staines-upon-Thames, and to call on the Surrey County Council and Runnymede Borough Council to use Staines-upon-Thames for all official business.

In this environment, the Germantown city council decided that the name had to be changed ; and they resolved to rename the town after the first local soldier to die during the war.

The then Frodsham parish council resolved to style itself a town in 1992.

In April 2012 the council resolved to split the roles of Chairman and Mayor of Frodsham and separate votes are now held for each position-although the council also resolved to offer the Mayorship to the councillor who had served the longest since last being Mayor, or having been first elected.

" After a council with Louis XV it was resolved to unite all available forces, and at around 14: 00, Saxe made a final concerted effort to repulse the enemy.

This, resolved by the army council and ordered by the lord general, Fairfax, was carried out by Colonel Pride's regiment.

On May 25, a League council resolved to meet if no fifth arbitrator had been selected by June 25, or if a settlement was not reached by August 25.

The Committee resolved " to continue the general strike until the British Government changes its present policy in a fundamental manner "; the demands were threefold: ( 1 ) the prohibition of Jewish immigration ; ( 2 ) the prohibition of the transfer of Arab land to Jews ; ( 3 ) the establishment of a National Government responsible to a representative council.

At the council of rabbis held in the village of Zelva, Trakai Voivodeship, in 1781, it was resolved to uproot Hasidism.

In 1987 the parish council resolved to designate the parish a town under section 245 of the 1972 Act.

Not withstanding all this variety of absorbing interests he never felt at home in Göttingen ; his untravelled heart kept ever turning towards his native Bern ( where he had been elected a member of the great council in 1745 ), and in 1753 he resolved to resign his chair and return to Switzerland.

The Victorian council was singularly unimpressed that a rival Australia Day organisation had copied its idea – in 1978 it described its own winner, Dame Rae Roe, as ‘ the real Australian of the Year .’ The impasse was only resolved when the Fraser Government created the National Australia Day Council ( NADC ) in 1979.

In 1907 the town council resolved to open a museum devoted to the history of pottery making.

It would seem that various collective methods, perhaps instances of what Thorkild Jacobsen called primitive democracy, in which disputes were previously resolved through a council of one's peers, were no longer sufficient for the needs of the local community.

The council resolved to hold elections by thirds thereafter.

On June 30, 1686 the council resolved to license Newton's book, entitled Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Where a parish council ( whether the successor of a former borough or not ) has resolved to style itself a Town Council, then its chairman is entitled to the designation Town Mayor, though in practice, the word Town is often dropped.

The cardinals of the reigning pontiffs being greatly dissatisfied, both with the pusillanimity and nepotism of Gregory XII and the obstinacy and bad will of Benedict XIII, resolved to make use of a more efficacious means, namely a general council.

When the Bohemians entered into negotiations with Sigismund and the Council of Basel and, after prolonged discussions, resolved to send an embassy to the council, Prokop the Great was its most prominent member, reaching Basel on 4 January 1433.

He firmly refused to bind himself to comply in matters of religion with the decisions of a future council or diet, declaring that he was resolved to adhere until his grave to the doctrine contained in the Augsburg Confession.

The parish council resolved that Whaley Bridge should have the status of a town.

In all probability, the council will screen and endorse candidates for the Assembly and for Congress, and then strive to put its full weight behind these pre-primary favorites.

On Feb. 21 the council passed another resolution urging the taking of `` all appropriate measures to prevent the occurrence of civil war in the Congo, including the use of force, if necessary, in the last resort ''.

In this contested state of religious opinion, two leaders of the Arians, bishops Palladius of Ratiaria and Secundianus of Singidunum, confident of numbers, prevailed upon Gratian to call a general council from all parts of the empire.

In religion Alaric was an Arian, like all the early Visigothic nobles, but he greatly mitigated the persecution policy of his father Euric toward the Catholics and authorized them to hold in 506 the council of Agde.

But crucially citizens voting in both were not subject to review and prosecution as were council members and all other officeholders.

* All government matters within the jurisdiction of the Privy Council were to be transacted there, and all council resolutions were to be signed by those who advised and consented to them.

Instead, the council deposed him and tried him for heresy, simony, schism and immorality, finding him guilty on all counts.

The following year he convened a council at Alexandria at which he appealed for unity among all those who had faith in Christianity, even if they differed on matters of terminology.

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.

" In like manner let all men respect the deacons as Jesus Christ, even as they should respect the bishop as being a type of the Father and the presbyters as the council of God and as the college of Apostles.

In all three traditions, a canon was originally a rule adopted by a council ; these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

The founder, having heard that it was probable that Pope Gregory X, then holding a council at Lyon, would suppress all such new orders as had been founded since the Lateran Council, having commanded that such institutions should not be further multiplied, went to Lyon.

Dioscorus began the council by banning all members of the November 447 synod which had deposed Eutyches.

The situation continued to deteriorate, with Leo demanding the convocation of a new council and Emperor Theodosius II refusing to budge, all the while appointing bishops in agreement with Dioscorus.

In all likelihood an official record of the proceedings was made either during the council itself or shortly afterwards.

The council took great care to protect the legitimacy of the succession, ratified all his acts and a new pontiff was chosen.

The mayor's duties include running city council meetings and approves or vetoes all actions taken by the council members, and can vote in case of a tie.

Both the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church recognise as ecumenical the first seven councils, held from the 4th to the 9th century ; but while the Eastern Orthodox Church accepts no later council or synod as ecumenical, the Roman Catholic Church continues to hold general councils of the bishops in full communion with the Pope, reckoning them as ecumenical, and counting in all, including the seven recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church, twenty-one to date.

Although its decisions are accepted by all Christians, and still observed in full by the Greek Orthodox, and later definitions of an ecumenical council appear to conform to this sole biblical Council, no Christian church calls it a mere ecumenical council, instead it is called the " Apostolic Council " or " Council of Jerusalem ".

Although some Protestants reject the concept of an ecumenical council establishing doctrine for the entire Christian faith, Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox all accept the authority of ecumenical councils in principle.

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

Its present canon law requires that an ecumenical council be convoked and presided over, either personally or through a delegate, by the Pope, who is also to decide the agenda ; but the church makes no claim that all past ecumenical councils observed these present rules, declaring only that the Pope's confirmation or at least recognition has always been required, and saying that the version of the Nicene Creed adopted at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) was accepted by the Church of Rome only seventy years later, in 451.