After thirty years of schism, the Council of Pisa had sought to resolve the situation by deposing the two claimant popes and elected a new pope, Alexander V. The council claimed that in such a situation, a council of bishops had greater authority than just one bishop, even if he were the bishop of Rome.

The position of decurion, member of the city council, had been an honor sought by wealthy aristocrats and the middle classes who displayed their wealth by paying for city amenities and public works.

Aluma regularly sought advice from a council composed of heads of the most important clans.

In the period after the Flanders Campaign which led to the French occupation of the Netherlands from 1794-1815, Haarlem's economy was severely depressed and the city council sought a local hero.

When the city council appealed to him to rescind that order, on the grounds that it would cause great hardship to women, children, the elderly, and others who bore no responsibility for the conduct of the war, Sherman sent a written response in which he sought to articulate his conviction that a lasting peace would be possible only if the Union were restored, and that he was therefore prepared to do all he could do to quash the rebellion:

For the initial period Raffles was said to be the most sought after housing in the city by council tenants.

She nominated a moderate chancellor, Michel de l ' Hôpital, who urged a number of measures providing for civic peace so that a religious resolution could be sought by a sacred council.

At this council Lanfranc obtained the confirmation of primacy that he sought ; nonetheless he was never able to secure its formal confirmation by the papacy, possibly as a result of the succession of Gregory VII to the papal throne in 1073.

Notwithstanding their call for elected representation as opposed to a system whereby the governor appointed council members, these nationalists insisted that they were loyal to the British Crown and that they merely sought an extension of British political and social practices to Africans.

The traditional council chiefs, mature men who sought consensus and looked to the future of their people, and their followers on the one hand, were opposed by the younger and more militaristic Dog Soldiers on the other.

In the early 1990s, London's Hackney council sought to shut down Sh!

The rebels believed that the right of citizens to participate in the political process through the election of representatives as the most important right, and they sought to make the legislative council elective rather than appointed.

Anastasius, annoyed at this answer, and irritated because Macedonius would never release him from the engagement he had made at his coronation to maintain the faith of the church and the authority of the council of Chalcedon, sought to drive him from his chair.

Once he reached this conclusion, he called a local council of bishops and sought their advice.

In addition, any tree in the UK can be covered by a tree preservation order and it is illegal to conduct any work on a tree, including deadwooding or pruning, before permission has been sought from the local council.

A motion proposed by De Rossa and General Secretary Des Geraghty sought to stand down the existing membership, elect an 11 member provisional executive council and make several other significant changes in party structures was defeated.

In 1066, William of Normandy introduced a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics before making laws.

A political reversal led to a change in local government, and the new council sought to pre-empt the previous central government's decision by holding a project competition in 1859, which Cerdà lost ; nevertheless, Cerdà's design prevailed, much to the chagrin of the major property owners.

However, he sought the opinion ( October 11 ) of a small council formed of the president of the cabinet ( Charles Dupuy ), the minister of foreign affairs ( Hanotaux ), the minister of justice ( Guérin ), and himself.

As a member of the city council Gutiérrez was a key backer of the 1986 gay rights ordinance – which sought to ban discrimination based upon gender & sexual orientation.

In 1066, William of Normandy brought a feudal system, where he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics before making laws.

Fearing for the safety of children, the council of city fathers sought to move the schoolhouse, but its benefactor, Mr. Wilson had died and his estate was willed to family members still living in the area.

The council sought permission from the family with a proviso that they would move the building immediately now for the benefit of the children, and build a finer new school somewhere outside the Old Pasadena area soon thereafter.

The town's council was reorganized in 1874, and Refugio began to revive as it became a marketing and shipping center for the hides, wool, cotton, and livestock produced in the area.

Ambrose tries to revive the pier crossing swords with the local council who have a scheme to redevelop the entire seafront, personally enriching themselves while ruining him.

In 2002, to capitalize on the large number of Mainland Chinese visitors who were visiting South Korea, the Inchon city council planned to revive its moribund Chinatown at a cost of US $ 6. 2 million ( worth about 6. 5 billion South Korean won ).

Elected to the central council was Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of Marwan Barghouti who is serving five life sentences in Israel for his role in terrorist attacks on civilians in Israel during the Second Intifada.

The central argument of council communism, in contrast to those of Social democracy and Leninist communism, is that workers ' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural and legitimate form of working class organisation and government power.

However, almost all have a central council, elected by the voters, and an executive officer, assisted by various department heads, to manage the city's affairs.

In 2009, it was determined that the G20, originally a forum of finance ministers and central bank governors, would replace the G8 as the main economic council.

The central government includes an assembly of all citizens and a new council of 500 members.

At the county level there is a county administrative board led by a governor appointed by the central government of Sweden, as well as an elected county council that handles a separate set of issues, notably hospitals and public transportation for the municipalities within its borders.

Built on a large area of council-owned land, the city council and Italian national government were recently involved in a trade-off with the Putin government in Moscow, exchanging the piece of land on which the church stands, for, albeit indirectly, a military barracks near Bari's central railway station.

The increased spending of the council led the national government to reduce and eventually end the GLC's central government grant as punishment.

Karlsruhe was the seat of the central council of Baden Jewry.

District 5, which covers the central portion north of downtown, is represented by Jones ; he is currently serving in his second term and is the most senior council member, as a result.

The local Tesco has proposed the redevelopment of the central town area as has the town council.

Though Hals was the biggest town, the site of its municipal council was the town of Gandrup since the location was more central.

Thus, in 1808 he was placed by Napoleon upon the council of the Imperial University, and in this capacity he presided ( in the years 1809, 1811 and 1813 ) over commissions charged to examine the state of the higher educational establishments in the districts beyond the Alps and the Rhine which had been annexed to France, and to report upon the means by which these could be affiliated with the central university.

With the Eternal Alliance, the three cantons remained politically independent, with a central council to deal with disputes among the members, and with promises of military assistance.

A well-organized civil service network, the ‘ Civilian Administration of the Mountain ’ ( CAM ), was set up on October 1, 1983 at Beiteddine, headed by an eight-man supreme council that included a central committee and a general congress.

The town's compact size, clean environment, central location and supportive council and community have been cited as the reasons for this.

The government explained that the declaration was in response to the central government's " domination over the provincial council authorities ".

The tree figure signifies the Onondaga Nation, capital of the League and home to the central council fire.

The district council has its headquarters in Whataupoko, in the central city.

Since their foundation, " The Burgh ," have been based at James Y. Keanie Park ( named after the builder who donated the land The club was built upon ), but have much-delayed plans afoot to relocate within the next couple of years to a new ground at the more central Thomas Shanks Memorial Park less than one mile away, built in conjunction with the local council: the perpetually poor drainage at Keanie Park resulting in the regular postponement of home fixtures during the winter months has been a severe financial drain on the side.

In 1990 he became policy advisor for the central board, specializing in labour relations and working conditions, he also served as representative of the central board in its dealings with the central works council.

Halifax is the main commercial, cultural and administrative centre of the borough, with numerous high street chain stores, markets, central library, borough council offices, public transport hub, central police station and the further and higher education college, as well as other major local organisations.