In Luke 1: 3-4, the author states that he decided to “ write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed .” Theophilus is Greek for lover of God and it is suggested that he may either be an individual who recently converted to the faith or a Roman official of whom the church is seeking acceptance from.

With the official cessation of violence by some of the major paramilitary organisations and the creation of the power-sharing executive at Stormont in Belfast under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the Saville Inquiry's re-examination of the events of that day is widely hoped to provide a thorough account of the events of Bloody Sunday.

The Chinese recorded the first official account of the practice in 2300 BC, but it is generally believed that gambling in some form or another has been seen in almost every society in history.

Modern approaches take into account the problems of overcount and undercount, and the coherence of census enumerations with other official sources of data.

Nor does he account for the deviousness of the Duke of Hamilton, the official leader of the various factions opposed to the Union, who seemingly betrayed his former colleagues when he switched to the Unionist / Government side in the decisive final stages of the debate.

After the execution, the Queen ordered Bacon to write the official government account of the trial, which was later published as A DECLARATION of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex and his Complices, against her Majestie and her Kingdoms ... after Bacon's first draft was heavily edited by the Queen and her ministers.

The current account deficits are financed by inflows of foreign direct investment, official grants and loans, and commercial borrowing by the private sector.

The 9 / 11 Commission Report has since confirmed that the bulk of the funds used to finance the assault were not sent through the hawala system, but rather by an official inter-bank wire transfer to a SunTrust Bank in Florida, where two of the conspirators had opened a personal account.

In January 1901 he was also chosen, by Pope Leo XIII himself, according to an official account, to deliver condolences on behalf of the Vatican to Edward VII of the UK after the death of Queen Victoria.

Robyn has also confirmed on her official Twitter account that she will be touring Australia sometime in 2012.

Theo Barker explains in the official account of the Brewery, that it all began with a Captain Richard Marsh who in 1678 is recorded in the Faversham Wardmote Books as contributing by far the largest of the ‘ Brewers Fines ’ made at that date.

Using the current official IAU constellation boundaries — and taking into account the variable precession speed and the rotation of the ecliptic — the solstices shift through the constellations as follows ( expressed in astronomical year numbering in which the year 0

In October 2004, the UPEI administration undertook an official campus plan to improve the aesthetics of modern buildings constructed since the amalgamation which do not enhance the original SDU design, and to take overall campus aesthetics into account for future developments on and adjacent to the campus.

" This, and the fact that the voyages " were contrary to the rules stipulated in the Huangming zuxun, Ancestral Injunctions of the August Ming ," the royal founding documents laid down by the Hongwu Emperor, account for the Ming " neglect " of Zheng He in official accounts and the scant records of the voyages available for later historians.

Banks worked with Sir George Staunton in producing the official account of the British mission to the Chinese Imperial court.

According to this account, Magnus I of Norway ( reigned 1034 – 1047 ) visited the court of Harthacnut in Denmark, received with all official honors.

This demand had no official weight, however, and Constantine appears to have attempted to make peace with Theodore and Platon ( who, on account of his marriage, were now his relatives ), inviting them to visit him during a sojourn at the imperial baths of Prusa in Bithynia.

" Seymour Hersh goes on to refute the official account, describing it as " in fact a debacle, plagued by squabbling between the services, bad military planning and avoidable deaths of American soldiers, as well as the escape of key al-Qaeda leaders, likely including Osama bin Laden.

These conflicts continued after the journey with the problem of who should write the official account of the travels.

As a result, the official account was written by Cook, and the Forsters were deprived of the right to compile the account and did not obtain payment for their work.

This report was the first account of Cook's second voyage ( it appeared six weeks before the official publication ) and was intended for the general public.

Platina's account is not mentioned in official records.

If the currency being withdrawn from the ATM is different from that which the bank account is denominated in ( e. g.: Withdrawing Japanese Yen from a bank account containing US Dollars ), the money will be converted at an official wholesale exchange rate.

The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.

The whole official City apparently has an intense hatred toward birds.

L'Institut pour La Recherche Scientifique En Afrique Centrale ( IRSAC ) has sponsored well-designed field investigations and has cooperated closely with the government of Ruanda-Urundi in the development of its official statistics.

As in Maryland, a District court has approved an official plan of school desegregation in Delaware.

Even then, as you go into the house oppressed by the knowledge that something is cooking and that your house has passed under this unaccountable, official control, could you go on forgetting that you still had that ridiculous hat on your head and you were still carrying that childish horn in your hand??

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

But the simple truth is that higher education has never really been an official American Catholic project ; ;

certainly not in the same sense that the establishment of a parochial school system has been a matter of official policy.

Baseball commissioner Ford Frick has ruled that Ruth's record will remain official unless it is broken in 154 games.

Carson McCullers, after a long, painful illness that might have crushed a less-indomitable soul, has come back with an absolute gem of a novel which jumped high on best-seller lists even before official publication.

The Anglican Communion has no official legal existence nor any governing structure which might exercise authority over the member churches.

The use of a single official language, which modern scholarship has dubbed Official Aramaic or Imperial Aramaic, can be assumed to have greatly contributed to the astonishing success of the Achaemenids in holding their far-flung empire together for as long as they did.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, beginning on 23 September 1991 the official name of the nation has been the Republic of Armenia ( Armenian: Hayastani Hanrapetut ' yun ).

According to a World Bank official, a country that has around 12 percent rate of growth or even lower, at the range of 7 to 8 percent, can afford a level of public debt of up to 50 percent.

Since the 1998 – 99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.

MCC ’ s wish for it to be seen by as wide a range of cricket enthusiasts as possible has led to its being mistaken for an official trophy.

Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.

English has been given official status by 28 of the 50 state governments.

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

It has the widest geographical and racial distribution of all the official languages of South Africa, and is widely spoken and understood as a second or third language.

Religious use in Brazil was legalized after two official inquiries into the tea in the mid-1980s, which concluded that ayahuasca is not a recreational drug and has valid spiritual uses.

The official party flag also has the emblem of the party incorporated onto the flag.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.