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The membership was: New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes ( Premier ) and William McMillan ( Colonial Treasurer ); Victoria, Duncan Gillies ( Premier ) and Alfred Deakin ( Chief Secretary ); Queensland, Sir Samuel Griffith ( Leader of the Opposition ) and John Murtagh Macrossan ( Colonial Secretary ); South Australia, Dr. John Cockburn ( Premier ) and Thomas Playford ( Leader of the Opposition ); Tasmania, Andrew Inglis Clark ( Attorney-General ) and Stafford Bird ( Treasurer ); Western Australia, Sir James George Lee Steere ( Speaker ); New Zealand, Captain William Russell ( Colonial Secretary ) and Sir John Hall.
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It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.
At any rate, the substance of Eichmann's testimony was that all his actions flowed from his membership in the party and the SS, and though the Prosecutor did his utmost to prove actual personal hatred of Jews, his success on this score was doubtful and the anti-Semitic lesson weakened to that extent.
But whether this was accompanied by a general lowering of the moral life of the membership we do not know.
Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.
At Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.
By 1964, membership had risen to 80, 000, and the ACLU was directly involved in a major expansion of civil liberties.
Later the same day Hitler received a postcard telling him that he had been accepted for membership of what was at that time the German Workers ' Party.
His membership in the NSDAP ended when it was temporarily outlawed in 1923 following the Beer Hall Putsch, in which Drexler had not taken part.
Steiner's continuing differences with Besant led him to separate from the Theosophical Society Adyar ; he was followed by the great majority of the membership of the Theosophical Society's German Section, as well as members of other national sections.
The Council of the European Union decided against Belarus in 1997: The PCA was not concluded, nor was its trade-related part ; Belarusian membership in the Council of Europe was not supported ; bilateral relations at the ministerial level were suspended and EU technical assistance programs were frozen.
Candidate status — effectively, accreditation — was obtained in April 2005, and full membership in the Association was conferred in November 2006.
Total membership was 8, 400 in 1905, 13, 000 in 1906 and 46, 100 by 1907 ( 8, 400, 18, 000, 38, 200 respectively for the Mensheviks ).
It eased the burden of the workers, and determined that membership of the ruling class was to be based on wealth ( plutocracy ), rather than by birth ( aristocracy ).
In the same year, the PRC was admitted to the United Nations in place of the Republic of China for China's membership of the United Nations, and permanent membership of the Security Council.
A second issue was the Columbia administration's failure to resign its institutional membership in the Pentagon's weapons research think-tank, the Institute for Defense Analyses ( IDA ).
In the early decades of the 20th century, churches sprang up in communities around the world, though in the last several decades of that century, there was a marked decline in membership, except in Africa, where there has been growth.
In 1930 she was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters ; in 1933 came membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which two years later organized the first major retrospective of her work.
In April 1926 Zinoviev was removed from the Politburo and in December, Trotsky lost his membership too.
At the Central Committee meeting of 22 November 1982, Kirilenko lost his membership in the Politburo ( after a decision within the Politburo itself ), and Nikolai Ryzhkov, the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee, was elected to the Secretariat.
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The membership of nearly 25, 000 women, all singing in English, includes choruses in most of the fifty United States as well as in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Wales and the Netherlands.
For many years the Democratic Progressive Party officially recognized several factions within its membership, such as the New Tide faction ( 新潮流系 ), the Formosa faction ( 美麗島系 ), the Justice Alliance faction ( 正義連線系 ) and Welfare State Alliance faction ( 福利國系 ).
On 10 December 2005, the New Zealand Herald quoted Tavola as saying that Fiji would have to find a way to resolve a stand-off between the PRC and Taiwan, over membership of the Suva-based Council of South Pacific Tourism Organisation ; China was resisting Taiwanese attempts to join the organization on an equal basis.
Eighteen countries acceeded to membership of the IRO: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Venezuela.
The Nationals hold a larger membership base than either the Liberal or Labor Parties, although in the larger eastern states its vote is in decline and its traditional supporters are turning instead to prominent independents such as Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Peter Andren in Federal Parliament and similar independents in the Parliaments of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, many of whom are former members of the National Party.
Papua New Guinea was admitted to membership in the United Nations on 10 October 1975.
For example, Episcopalians are extraordinarily well represented among the presidents, compared to a current membership of about 2 % of the population ; this is partly because the Episcopal Church had been the Church of England before the American Revolution and was the state religion in some states ( such as New York and Virginia ).
Household baptism implies that the rules for membership in Abraham's covenant have continued into the New Testament, the main difference is the sign of the covenant.
In January, 2012, The Fellowship of Presbyterians gathered to create a " New Reformed Body ," an alternative denomination to which congregations disaffected by the change in ordination standards could transfer their membership.
Benaud was awarded life membership by the New South Wales Cricket Association, but he returned it in protest in 1970 when his younger brother John was removed from the captaincy.
McVeigh was a registered Republican when he lived in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, and had a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military, but voted for Libertarian Party candidate, Harry Browne, in the 1996 presidential elections.
New membership proposals are considered annually.
The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
The Municipal Art Society of New York, founded in 1893, is a non-profit membership organization that fights for intelligent urban planning, design and preservation through education, dialogue and advocacy in New York City.
After extensive negotiations, involving detailed agreements about the UK's agricultural trade with Commonwealth countries such as New Zealand, British entry was vetoed by the French President, Charles de Gaulle, at a press conference in January 1963-much to the disappointment of Heath, who was a firm supporter of European common market membership for the United Kingdom.
Leading opponents of membership included Richard Crossman, who was for two years ( 1970 – 72 ) the editor of New Statesman, at that time the leading left-of-centre weekly journal, which published many polemics in support of the anti-EC case.
A former Institute secretary formed the New Swindon Co-operative Society in 1853 which, after a schism in the society's membership, spawned the New Swindon Industrial Society that ran a retail business from a stall in the market at the Institute.
Furthermore, both Brigham Young University and the University of New Mexico, then in the Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ), were also considered for membership in the new conference ; in anticipation of this possibility, the new conference trademarked not only the name " Big 12 " but also the name " Big 14 ", in case of future expansion.
The Mid-American Conference ( MAC ) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois.
He was removed from his position as New York State Librarian during a controversy over policies he had instituted at the Lake Placid Club restricting membership based on race and religion.
According to Terri McLean, author of New Harmonies, old-guard churches ( United Methodist is given as an example ) of the late 1990s were experiencing a rapid decline in membership and were under threat of disbandment within the next decade, a trend that has been going on since the 1980s.
He worked his way through Wayland Seminary and graduate school at Yale University, and became a prominent minister, leading Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York from 1908 – 1936, to a membership of 4, 000, the largest in the US at the time.
He strongly disagreed with New Left tendencies in the membership and strategies of the Dutch Labour Party.
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