Thubten Jigme Norbu, the elder brother of the present 14th Dalai Lama, describes these unfortunate events as follows:

Most Reformed churches would practice a balance between these, i. e., all believers who are united to a church of like faith and practice, and who are not living in sin, would be allowed to join in the Sacrament, sometimes with a requirement of pastoral or elder approval.

One or more of these elder chiefs might accompany a big force on an important mission, but there was no single " field marshal " in supreme command of all Zulu forces.

Many of Tenniel's political cartoons expressed strong hostility to Irish Nationalism, with Fenians and Land leagues depicted as monstrous, ape-like brutes, while " Hibernia "— the personification of Ireland — was depicted as a beautiful, helpless young girl threatened by these " monsters " and turning for protection to " her elder sister ", the powerful armoured Britannia.

The treaty's signatories include twenty Lithuanian dukes and one dowager duchess ; it specifies that five of these were elder and thus took precedence over the remaining sixteen.

The office of elder is another distinctive mark of Presbyterianism: these are specially ordained non-clergy called ruling elders and ministers of Word and Sacrament called teaching elders who take part in local pastoral care and decision making at all levels.

One of Africa's best-known elder statesmen, Nyerere was personally active in many of these organizations, and served chairman of the OAU ( 1984 – 85 ) and chairman of six front-line states concerned with eliminating apartheid in Southern Africa.

Examples of these beach organisms in the southeast US include plants like sea oats, sea rocket, beach elder, beach morning glory ( Ipomoea pes-caprae ), and beach peanut, and animals such as mole crabs ( Hippoidea ), coquina clams ( Donax ), ghost crabs, and white beach tiger beetles.

By the first millennium BC, a few of these groups had settled down into year-round agricultural communities that exploited the native flora, including sunflowers and marsh elder.

These rabbinical sources allege that it was on account of modesty and selflessness, and a prophetic vision of Joshua, that Jacob gave Ephraim precedence over Manasseh, the elder of the two ; in these sources Jacob is regarded as sufficiently just that God upholds the blessing in his honour, and makes Ephraim the leading tribe.

In fact according to the Shahnameh's account, at least 1, 500 years later after the Avesta, the nomadic tribes who inhabited these lands were ruled by Tūr, who was the emperor Fereydun's elder son.

The first of these comes from Historia de la provincia where Ximénez writes that he found various texts during his curacy of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango that were guarded with such secrecy " that not even a trace of it was revealed among the elder ministers " although " almost all of them have it memorized.

Care in using these forms is important because some agents have used their authority to steal the assets of vulnerable individuals such as the elderly ( see elder abuse ).

Years later, elder brother Paul de Musset would preserve these, and many other details, for posterity, in a biography on his famous younger brother.

Her elder son, the Earl of Harewood, however, wrote about his parents ' marriage in his memoirs The Tongs and the Bones and challenged these widespread rumours that the marriage was an unhappy one.

The head of these shrine area systems, the tengan sob ( sometimes tindana ) fulfilled the role of community elder and priest, along with the tengan dem, the ritual custodian and maintainer of the ritual center.

His two most important works are the Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum ( 1694 – 1699, in 12 volumes ), and the Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae published after his death, and continued by the elder Pieter Burmann ( 1704 – 1725 ), although these have not always been looked upon favourably.

The elder Bourbon branch ( as represented by Louis XVIII and later by its last scion, Henri, Comte de Chambord ) was prepared to grant ( octroyer ) a charter of liberties or constitution, but insisted that they ruled by " divine right " and conferred these liberties on their subjects of their own free will.

In one of these, the elder sits while gazing in the direction of the ancestral hill.

Romana te Paehangi an elder and relative of Hone stated that they would not pay any taxes and that ' they would die on account of these taxes '.

Strangely, his elder half-brother John apparently agreed to many of the rights to the Neville inheritance being transferred to Joan Beaufort – Salisbury would inherit these on her death in 1440.

The elder of these two works, the Shi Jing ( also familiarly known, in English, as the Classic of Poetry and as the Book of Songs or transliterated as the Sheh Ching ) is a preserved collection of Classical Chinese poetry from over two millennia ago.

However, it was these traits that earned Gian Gastone the disdain of his father and of his elder brother, Grand Prince Ferdinando ; Gian Gastone was thus granted a scant allowance by his father and therefore could not enjoy the " dissipations " of court.

Despite these hindrances, Bestuzhev, aided by his elder brother Mikhail, carried out his policy step by step.

He smiled, but now that he knew where the elder Seward was, he did not intend to go.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

Antonia Major was the elder sister to Antonia Minor, and the first daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony.

Edmund ( reigned 1016 ) was an elder half-brother of King Edward the Confessor, and Edmund's son Edward was in Hungary with King Andrew I, having left England as an infant after his father's death and the accession of Cnut as King of England.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

Even when this elder brother first displayed symptoms of delicate health, the notion that he might die young was never taken seriously, and he was betrothed to the Princess Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ).

Under Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes ( 1071 – 1078 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 1081 ), he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace, and in Epirus.

As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, Afonso was not expected to inherit the throne, which was destined to go to his elder brother Sancho.

He was believed to have arranged the poisoning of Alexios II's elder sister Maria the Porphyrogenita and her husband Renier of Montferrat, although Maria herself had encouraged him to intervene.

His elder brother, Tom, was already a physician and suggested to his younger sibling that he follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington.

Hellen, Graikos, Magnis, and Macedon were sons of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only people who survived the Great Flood ; the ethne were said to have originally been named after the elder son Graikoi but renamed later after Hellen who was proved to be the strongest.

Arcadius was born in Hispania, the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor.

" While his one-time acolytes The Rolling Stones and Cream made the front pages of music magazines all over the world, Korner was relegated to the role of ' elder statesman '.

He was also active as deacon and elder of the Reformed Church, and a member of the high court of Holland.

The elder D ' Israeli was content to remain outside organised religion.

The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.

His elder brother Jack, who was also in the World Cup-winning team, is a former defender for Leeds United and manager.

Though upon his elder brother's death Catullus lamented that their “ whole house was buried along ” with the deceased, the existence ( and prominence ) of Valerii Catulli is attested in the following centuries.

He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. ( 1845 – 1926 ) and Victoria Josephine Moor ( 1846 – 1885 ).