In the system described by Irenaeus, " the Unbegotten Father " is the progenitor of Nous, and from Nous Logos, from Logos Phronesis, from Phronesis Sophia and Dynamis, from Sophia and Dynamis principalities, powers, and angels, the last of whom create " the first heaven.

The new Račan government amended the Constitution, changing the political system from a presidential system to a parliamentary system, transferring most executive presidential powers from the president onto the institutions of the Parliament and the Prime Minister.

Some critics of this approach feel that while these models approach biological reality as a representation of how the system works, they lack explanatory powers because complicated systems of connections with even simple rules are extremely complex and often less interpretable than the system they model.

Most constitutional monarchies employ a parliamentary system in which the monarch may have strictly ceremonial duties or may have reserve powers, depending on the constitution.

The Treaty of Lisbon abolished the pillar system and gave further powers to Parliament.

; Royal prerogative: Reserve powers of the Canadian Crown, being remnants of the powers once held by the British Crown, reduced over time by the parliamentary system.

However, if any democracy is not structured so as to prohibit the government from excluding the people from the legislative process, or any branch of government from altering the separation of powers in its own favor, then a branch of the system can accumulate too much power and destroy the democracy.

Decimal notation often refers to a base-10 positional notation such as the Hindu-Arabic numeral system ; however, it can also be used more generally to refer to non-positional systems such as Roman or Chinese numerals which are also based on powers of ten.

It was a neo-feudal system, where patrons were permitted considerable powers to control the overseas colony.

The separation of powers system is designed to distribute authority away from the executive branch — an attempt to preserve individual liberty in response to tyrannical leadership throughout history.

Though Finland has a primarily parliamentary system, the president has some notable powers.

Finland has a civil law system, based on Swedish law, with the judiciary exercising limited powers.

" The Constitution grants the Governor-General a wide range of powers, but in practice he or she follows the conventions of the Westminster system and ( with rare exceptions ) acts only on the advice of the Prime Minister of Australia or other ministers.

In 1815 at the Congress of Vienna, the major powers of Europe managed to produce a peaceful balance of power among the empires after the Napoleonic wars ( despite the occurrence of internal revolutionary movements ) under the Metternich system.

Historian Peter Longerich observes that Himmler's ability to consolidate his ever-increasing powers and responsibilities into a coherent system under the auspices of the SS led him to become one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich.

A head of state is an official who holds the highest position in a governance system of the state and has the vested powers to act as the chief public representative of a country.

The older the constitution, the more constitutional leeway tends to exist for a head of state to exercise greater powers over government, as many older parliamentary system constitutions in fact give heads of state powers and functions akin to presidential or semi-presidential systems, in some cases without containing reference to modern democratic principles of accountability to parliament or even to modern governmental offices.

# The ability for players familiar with the system's quirks to use the system to decrease the point cost of powers, leading to one character being much more powerful than another character of similar point value.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

To this end political authority is called upon to exercise its negative and coercive powers.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.

So far as the record is concerned, the Western powers have not acquiesced and should not do so.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

Prince Sihanouk's powers of prognostication some day may be confirmed but history is not likely to praise the courage of his convictions.

But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

Morrison points out that since our country is more urbanized than the Soviet Union or Red China, it is the most vulnerable of the great powers -- Europe of course must be written off out of hand.

The radiation loss from the anode surface was computed according to Af where Af is the mean of the fourth powers of the temperatures Af and Af calculated analogously to equation ( 1 ).

It appears in a form that is admirably suited to the powers of the digital computer.

`` However, evidence that the Axis powers are making significant preparations indicative of such an intention is being reported with increasing frequency from a variety of sources.

But the `` marvelous person '' that is supposed to result from Zen exhibits more Chinese practicality than Indian speculation -- he possesses magical powers, and can use them to order nature and to redeem souls.

Major to this effort is to get all world powers to withdraw to their own territories, say by 1970.

Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners ' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity.

The President is also provided a variety of powers, like defining the policy of the country.

Chemical analysis is an important element of national security among the major world powers with materials measurement and signature intelligence ( MASINT ) capabilities.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

The victorious powers divided the city into four sectors, analogous to the occupation zones into which Germany was divided.

Government powers in Croatia are divided into legislative, executive and judiciary powers.

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').

By the turn of the 19th century they became new powers, having divided Poland between them, with Sweden and Turkey having experienced substantial territorial losses to Russia and Austria respectively as well as pauperisation.

Berlin, although within the Soviet zone, was also divided among the four powers.

Crucially, Cannon exercised these powers to maintain discipline within the ranks of his own party: the Republicans were divided into the conservative " Old Guard ," led by Cannon, and the progressives, led by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Fourteen mandate territories were divided up among seven mandatory powers: the United Kingdom, the Union of South Africa, France, Belgium, New Zealand, Australia and Japan.

In subsequent years the powers of the king were divided among various elected magistracies.

The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830, whose neutrality and integrity was protected by the Treaty of London 1839 ; thus it served as a buffer state between the European powers France, Prussia ( after 1871 the German Empire ), the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands until World War I. Belgium is divided between the Flemings in the north and the French-speaking or the German-speaking population in the south.

Poznań is divided into 42 neighbourhoods ( osiedles ), each of which has its own elected council with certain decision-making and spending powers.

During Britain's participation in the Seven Years War, for example, the powers of government were divided equally between the Duke of Newcastle and William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, leading to them both alternatively being described as Prime Minister.

#: All but thirty submarines to be sunk and the rest of the German Navy was to be divided equally between the three powers.

#: The German merchant marine was to be divided equally between the three powers, and they would distribute some of those ships to the other Allies.

In 1916, however, the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France determined that parts of the Mashreq would be divided between those powers rather than forming part of an independent Arab state.

Under this model, the state is divided into branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that no branch has more power than the other branches.

Uruguay is divided into 19 departments whose local administrations replicate the division of the executive and legislative powers.

Government powers in Vietnam are divided into legislative, executive and judiciary powers.

The War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ) was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the feared possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch.

Germany was divided between the western powers and the Soviet Union ; all areas recaptured by the Soviet Union ( East Germany and eastward ) were essentially transitioned into Soviet puppet states under communist rule.