The assembly had four main functions: it made executive pronouncements ( decrees, such as deciding to go to war or granting citizenship to a foreigner ); it elected some officials ; it legislated ; and it tried political crimes.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

Some scholars contend that the most ancient and genuine story told of only four sons of Aeolus: Sisyphus, Athamas, Cretheus, and Salmoneus, as the representatives of the four main branches of the Aeolic race.

On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

Today the archbishop fills four main roles:

* The four main sculptures of the monument are:

The simple Aleut harpoon consisted of four main parts: the wooden shaft, the bone foreshaft, and the bonehead ( tip ) with barbs pointed backward.

Aimaks were originally known as chahar (" four ") Aymaqs: the Taimani ( the main element in the population of Ghor ), the Ferozkohi, the Temuri, and the Jamshidi.

Amakusa ( 天草 ), which means " Heaven's Grass ," is a series of islands belonging to Japan, off the west coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.

In front of it is the Neptunbrunnen, a fountain featuring a mythological group of Tritons, personifications of the four main Prussian rivers and Neptune on top of it.

In addition to the four main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke, other islands include:

The four main classes of molecules in biochemistry are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.

Population genetics is the study of allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four main evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow.

A second inner line of four frigates was positioned approximately west of the main line, roughly halfway between the line and the shoal.

Whittaker considered four main ecoclines in the terrestrial realm.

President Prieto had four main accomplishments: implementation of the 1833 constitution, stabilization of government finances, defeat of provincial challenges to central authority, and victory over the Peru-Bolivia Confederation.

The government (), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputy prime ministers, three of whom also serve as government ministers.

The government (), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputies, three of whom also serve as government ministers.

Geopolitically, the island is divided into four main segments.

Main inland waterways are the Magdalena – Cauca River system, which is navigable for 1, 500 kilometers ; the Atrato, which is navigable for 687 kilometers ; the Orinoco system of more than five navigable rivers, which total more than 4, 000 kilometers of potential navigation ( mainly through Venezuela ); and the Amazonas system, which has four main rivers totaling 3, 000 navigable kilometers ( mainly through Brazil ).

The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest-southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.

The four main stars that form the asterism are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Crucis.

The rhea's body is marked by the four main stars of Crux, while its head is Gamma Centauri and its feet are the bright stars of Musca.

Various peoples in the East Indies and Brazil viewed the four main stars as the body of a ray.

The earliest Buddhist texts explain that the four primary material elements are the sensory qualities solidity, fluidity, temperature, and mobility ; their characterization as earth, water, fire, and air, respectively, is declared an abstraction — instead of concentrating on the fact of material existence, one observes how a physical thing is sensed, felt, perceived.

The cardinal qualities of the style of Homer are well articulated by Matthew Arnold: he translator of Homer should above all be penetrated by a sense of four qualities of his author :— that he is eminently rapid ; that he is eminently plain and direct, both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words ; that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas ; and finally, that he is eminently noble.

The four books of the Georgics focus respectively on raising crops and trees ( 1 and 2 ), livestock and horses ( 3 ), and beekeeping and the qualities of bees ( 4 ).

In more analytic terms, it is " the representational faithfulness of information to the true state of the object that the information represents, where representational faithfulness is composed of four essential qualities or core attributes: completeness, currency / timeliness, accuracy / correctness and validity / authorization.

Concerning the role of clave in salsa music, Charley Gerard states: “ The clave feeling is in the music whether or not the claves are actually being played .” Every ostinato part which spans a cycle of four main beats, has a specific alignment with clave, and expresses the rhythmic qualities of clave either explicitly or implicitly.

Each year participants tour four or five different homes that have historical, architectural or cultural qualities, and proceeds from this fundraising event benefit the Facial Reconstruction Unit of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

In four less ideal types, one of the four qualities was dominant over all the others.

In the remaining four types, one pair of qualities dominated the complementary pair ; for example ; warm and moist dominated cool and dry.

The 8th-century alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan ( Latinized as Geber ) analyzed each classical element in terms of the four basic qualities.

To achieve basic objectives and implement fundamental qualities GAAP has four basic assumptions, four basic principles, and four basic constraints.

However, qualities such as refined technique, speed and flexibility have become increasingly important in the modern era as the legal throwing area has been reduced from 90 to 34. 92 degrees and throwing technique involves three to four controlled rotations.

The article addresses four main categories of business-based online communities, but states that a truly successful one will combine qualities of each of them: communities of transaction, communities of interest, communities of fantasy, and communities of relationship.

This provided an opportunity for Duncan to show his leadership qualities, and his inexperienced team lost only four games in the entire ACC season.

Venture capitalists are typically very selective in deciding what to invest in ; as a rule of thumb, a fund may invest in one in four hundred opportunities presented to it, looking for the extremely rare, yet sought after, qualities, such as innovative technology, potential for rapid growth, a well-developed business model, and an impressive management team.

These are said to possess the qualities of four respective devatas or gods — Isa, Agni, Niruthi and Vayu.

The book comprises twenty-four essays split into four sections which each deals with a particular aspect of brain function such as deficits and excesses in the first two sections ( with particular emphasis on the right hemisphere of the brain ) while the third and fourth describe phenomenological manifestations with reference to spontaneous reminiscences, altered perceptions, and extraordinary qualities of mind found in retardates.

Archaeological evidence exists showing that early man divided the four quarters of the horizon, or space, later a place of sacrifice, such as a temple, and attributed characteristics and spiritual qualities to each quarter.

Experimentally equipped with three narrow-chord wings and a more powerful engine, the Pup led to the Triplane, which was used by just four squadrons of the RNAS during 1917, but became well known for its startling fighting qualities, put to best use by Raymond Collishaw's famous ' Black Flight ' of ' Naval 10 ' ( No. 10 Squadron RNAS ).

Roger Ebert gave the film half a star out of four, calling it " callow, gauche, obvious and awkward, and designed to appeal to those with similar qualities ".

The breed has several other unusual qualities, such as dark blue flesh and bones, blue earlobes, and five toes on each foot ( most chickens only have four ).