The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

Mr. Speaker, for several years now the commuter railroads serving our large metropolitan areas have found it increasingly difficult to render the kind of service our expanding population wants and is entitled to have.

moreover, residential mobility is so high in metropolitan areas that churches have to recruit constantly in their core stratum in order to survive ; ;

A crucial question, therefore, is what evangelism and mission actually mean in metropolitan Protestantism.

Missionary outreach by friendly contact looks somewhat different when one reflects on what is known about friendly contact in metropolitan neighborhoods ; ;

" It is clear ," Brooks concludes, " that the metropolitan church Canterbury must have been quite unable to provide any effective training in the scriptures or in Christian worship.

# He is the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Canterbury, which covers the southern two-thirds of England.

The real percentage of foreign residents is higher, since the Alicante metropolitan area is home to many Northern European retirees who are officially still residents of their own countries.

Bonn is located in the very south of the largest metropolitan area in Germany.

The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Canada's Queen at Confederation.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

It is the fourth most populous city in Turkey and equally one of the most industrialized metropolitan centers in the country.

Minsk has a digital metropolitan network ; waiting lists for telephones are long ; fixed line penetration is improving although rural areas continue to be undeserved ; intercity-Belarus has developed fibre-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities ( 1998 ); Belarus's fibre optics form synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries ' systems ; an inadequate analogue system remains operational.

Sometimes this carries jurisdiction over metropolitan bishops, but usually it is purely honorific.

; Metropolitan bishop: A metropolitan bishop is an archbishop in charge of an ecclesiastical province, or group of dioceses, and in addition to having immediate jurisdiction over his own archdiocese, also exercises some oversight over the other dioceses within that province.

In the Latin Rite, metropolitans are always archbishops ; in many Eastern churches, the title is " metropolitan ," with some of these churches using " archbishop " as a separate office.

In the Roman Catholic Church, the title is purely honorific and carries no extra jurisdiction, though most archbishops are also metropolitan bishops, as above.

Bayonne is now part of ' BAB ' ( Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ), a metropolitan area of almost 200, 000 people.

Copenhagen ( or ; ) is the capital of Denmark and its most populous city, with an urban population of 1, 213, 822 () and a metropolitan population of 1, 937, 611 ().

“ The last case of canonization by a metropolitan is said to have been that of St. Gaultier, or Gaucher, abbot of Pontoise, by the Archbishop of Rouen.

“ Acting in the place of the Roman Pontiff, he also confers the pallium upon metropolitan bishops or gives the pallium to their proxies .” The current Cardinal Proto-Deacon is Jean-Louis Tauran.

The Ferrocarril Domingo Faustino Sarmiento | Sarmiento Line is part of the extensive Rail transport in Argentina # Commuter network | Buenos Aires metropolitan rail system.

Cairo ( ;, literally " The Vanquisher " or " The Conqueror "), is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and its metropolitan area is the 16th largest in the world.

On the papal side, it was conceded that the bishops should receive investiture with the sceptre, that the episcopal elections should be held in the presence of the Emperor or his representatives, that in case of disputed elections the Emperor should, after the decision of the metropolitan and the suffragan bishops, confirm the rightfully elected candidate, and lastly, that the imperial investiture of the temporal properties connected to the sees should take place in Germany before the consecration.

Gregory was elected bishop of the new see of Nyssa in 372, presumably with the support of his brother Basil, who was metropolitan of Caesarea.

Monterrey and its metropolitan area are municipalities each of them governed by a democratically elected Presidente Municipal ( Municipal President ) or Mayor for a period of three years with no right to reelection.

Since 2001, these have been led by democratically elected local councils, each headed by a Nazim ( the word means " supervisor " in Urdu, but is sometimes translated as Mayor ). Some districts, incorporating large metropolitan areas, are called City District.

Since 1982, following the French government ’ s policy of decentralisation, overseas departments have elected regional councils with powers similar to those of the regions of metropolitan France.

In Belgium, the capital, Brussels, is administratively one of the federation's three regions, and is the only city subdivided, without the other regions ' provincial level, into 19 rather small municipalities, which each have an elected — formally appointed — Burgomaster ( i. e., Mayor, responsible to his / her elected council ); while Antwerp, the other major metropolitan area, has one large city ( where the boroughs, former municipalities merged into it, elect a lower level, albeit with very limited competence ) and several smaller surrounding municipalities, each under a normal Burgomaster as in Brussels.

In May 2000, Gun Barrel City voters elected their 13th Mayor, 21-year-old Entrepreneur and Newspaper Publisher, Randal Tye Thomas, who became a media and political celebrity in the Dallas, Texas metropolitan area.

Long-range transportation planning for the metropolitan area is provided by Metro, an elected regional government.

The plan for reduced government might have emulated Margaret Thatcher's approach that eliminated democratically elected upper-tier city and metropolitan region governments, replacing them with a collection of more politically amenable appointed special-purpose bodies dominated by patronage.

Since 1982, following the French government ’ s policy of decentralisation, overseas departments have elected regional councils with powers similar to those of the regions of metropolitan France.

After the repose of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Dorotheus of Prague and All Czechoslovakia, Archbishop Nicholas of Prešov was elected the new metropolitan, and the church's primatial see was moved from Prague to Prešov.

This reform created an indirectly elected Metropolitan Board of Works which initially provided basic infrastructure services for the metropolitan area.

In 1960, he was elected Chairman of the Multnomah County Republican Central Committee, thus becoming the youngest party chairman of a major metropolitan area in the country.

A Grand National Assembly elected as tsar Michael Romanov, the young son of the metropolitan Philaret.

After the metropolitan councils were disbanded under Margaret Thatcher, he was elected to, and led, Kirklees council from 1986-99.

The French National Assembly is made up of 577 deputies, 555 of whom ( 96. 2 % of the total ) are elected in metropolitan France, and 22 of whom ( 3. 8 % of the total ) are elected in overseas France.

Westhoughton has six councillors who are elected in two borough wards – Westhoughton North and Chew Moor ward and Westhoughton South ward – and they represent the area on the metropolitan borough council of Bolton.

It is the only directly elected metropolitan planning organization in the United States.

It consists of ten indirectly elected members, each a directly elected councillor from one of the ten metropolitan boroughs that comprise Greater Manchester.

In 1523, a Josephinian hegumen from Volokolamsk named Daniel was elected metropolitan.

Previously 39 members were elected: 13 from metropolitan Adelaide and 26 from the country.