Some have suggested that the title " Acts " be interpreted as " The Acts of the Holy Spirit " or even " The Acts of Jesus ," since 1: 1 gives the impression that these acts were set forth as an account of what Jesus continued to do and teach, Jesus himself being the principal actor.

Shortly after they returned, bringing John Mark with them, they were appointed as missionaries to Asia Minor, and in this capacity visited Cyprus and some of the principal cities of Pamphylia, Pisidia, and Lycaonia ( Acts 13: 14 ).

The Epistle of James in the New Testament is traditionally attributed to him, and he is a principal author of the Apostolic Decree of Acts 15.

Even after the Acts of Union 1707, burghs continued to be the principal subdivision.

The Acts of Union 1707 came in the middle of the long period of supremacy in London of Sir Godfrey Kneller, a German portraitist who had eventually succeeded as principal court painter the Dutch Sir Peter Lely, whose style he had adopted for his enormous and formulaic output, of greatly varying quality, which was itself repeated by an army of lesser painters.

On 10 August 1904, the Governor, Admiral Sir Frederick Bedford, designated 6 principal executive offices of the Government under section 43 ( 2 ) of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899.

This can easily be understood by considering the direction of the greatest principal stress, the direction of the force that ' pushes ' the rock mass during the faulting.

In the case of normal faults, the rock mass is pushed down in a vertical direction, thus the pushing force ( greatest principal stress ) equals the weight of the rock mass itself.

Another national peasant organization, the National Union of Peasants ( Unión Nacional de Campesinos — UNC ), claiming a membership of 40, 000, was affiliated with the CGT for many years and was a principal force within the confederation.

Currently, the Krakatoa volcano has re-emerged from the ocean, and is the principal force in the on-going formation of a new island, Anakrakatoa, or " Child of Krakatoa ".

Linus Benedict Torvalds (; born December 28, 1969 ) is a Finnish American software engineer and hacker, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel.

Screw dislocations may slip in the direction of any lattice plane containing the dislocation, while the principal driving force for " dislocation climb " is the movement or diffusion of vacancies through a crystal lattice.

Among the various free trade agreements that Morocco has ratified with its principal economic partners, are The Euro-Mediterranean free trade area agreement with the European Union with the objective of integrating the European Free Trade Association at the horizons of 2012 ; the Agadir Agreement, signed with Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, within the framework of the installation of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area ; the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement with United States which came into force on 1 January 2006, and lately the agreement of free exchange with Turkey.

In the case of the Earth, the principal sources of tidal force are the Sun and Moon, which continuously change location relative to each other and thus cause nutation in Earth's axis.

The Liberal Party ascent marked the decline of Brazil, which had supported the Colorados as the principal political force in Paraguay, and the rise of Argentine influence.

There are anomalies for all paradigms, Kuhn maintained, that are brushed away as acceptable levels of error, or simply ignored and not dealt with ( a principal argument Kuhn uses to reject Karl Popper's model of falsifiability as the key force involved in scientific change ).

* United States Navy SEALs, the principal special operations force of the U. S. Navy

The United States Navy's Sea, Air, and Land Teams, commonly known as the US Navy SEALs, are the U. S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command ( NSWC ) and SOCOM.

A force field confined to a collimated beam with clean borders, is one of the principal characteristics of tractor and repulsor beams.

He was one of the principal negotiators with Lothair III in attempting to force the monks of Monte Cassino to submit themselves to the authority of the papacy.

This attractive force, along with other intermolecular forces ) is one of the principal factors responsible for the occurrence of surface tension in liquid water.

Douglas's absence from his power base in the Lothians and the Scottish marches encouraged Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Sir David Fleming of Biggar, both firm supporters of Robert III, to take full advantage to become the principal political force in the area.

Under the area defense strategy, which had determined the army's organizational structure until 1993, the army was divided into three principal elements: the standing alert force ( Bereitschaftstruppe ) of active units, including the air division ; the mobile militia ( Mobile Landwehr ), organized as eight mechanized reserve brigades to be deployed to key danger spots in the event of mobilization ; and the stationary militia ( Raumgebundene Landwehr ) of twenty-six reserve infantry regiments organized for territorial defense.

Its principal mission is to defend the nation, but it serves more as an internal security force.

Sheriffs and their deputies may serve as the principal police force.

Sheriffs may also patrol outside of the city or town limits, or inside by agreement with the city ; in these areas, sheriffs and their deputies serve as the principal police force.

... Rather than deploy additional forces to Iraq, we believe the way forward is to begin the phased redeployment of our forces in the next four to six months, while shifting the principal mission of our forces there from combat to training, logistics, force protection and counter-terror.

Voivode ( derived from Old Slavic, literally meaning " warlord ") is a Slavic title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force ( warlord ).

However, if the principal does not inform third parties and it is reasonable for the third parties to rely upon the power of attorney being in force, the principal might still be bound by the acts of the agent, though the agent may also be liable for such unauthorized acts.

The MNLA was partly a re-formation of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army ( MPAJA ), the MCP-led guerrilla force which had been the principal resistance in Malaya against the Japanese occupation.

While the rail infrastructure dates from colonial and early republican times, passenger service along the principal Havana to Santiago corridor is increasingly reliable and popular with tourists who can purchase tickets in Cuban convertible pesos.

The ECMWF strategy puts the early warning of severe weather as its principal goal.

Sir Robert Garran noted as early as 1901 that the governor-general was distinguished from other Empire governors-general by the fact that " the principal and most important of his powers and functions, legislative as well as executive, are expressly conferred on him by the terms of the Constitution itself.

Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor (" a very expensive luxury ") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937 ; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming.

Baby Doc's kleptocracy left the regime vulnerable to unanticipated crises, exacerbated by endemic poverty, most notably the epidemic of African swine fever virus — which, at the insistence of USAID officials, led to the slaughter of the creole pigs, the principal source of income for most peasants ; and the widely-publicized outbreak of AIDS in the early 1980s.

Since the principal consumer application is for Internet access, ISDN was mostly superseded by DSL in the early 21st century.

This included Leon Trotsky, the principal critic of Stalin among the early Soviet leaders.

The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity ( mauvaise foi, literally, " bad faith ") and an " authentic " way of " being " became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work L ' Être et le Néant ( Being and Nothingness ) ( 1943 ).

Cultivation spread from China in the early 20th century, when seeds were introduced to New Zealand by Mary Isabel Fraser, the principal of Wanganui Girls ' College, who had been visiting mission schools in Yichang, China.

The leading figure behind the establishment of the society as a more organised body during this early period seems to have been Matthew Boulton: his home at Soho House in Handsworth was the principal venue for meetings, and in 1776 he is recorded as planning " to make many Motions to the Members respecting new Laws, and regulations, such as will tend to prevent the decline of a society which I hope will be lasting.

The animals which are now the principal sources of meat were domesticated in conjunction with the development of early civilizations:

The principal building on the piazza is the town hall, once the Palazzo dei Priori ( built late 13th, early 14th century ) which was for many years the Palazzo Comunale.

When the Spanish arrived in western Nicaragua in the early 16th century, they found three principal tribes, each with a different culture and language: the Niquirano, the Chorotegano, and the Chontal.

In early classifications of African languages, one of the principal criteria used to distinguish different groupings was the languages ' use of prefixes to classify nouns, or the lack thereof.

However, the play's principal source, the Spanish Diana Enamorada, would not be translated into French or English until 1578, meaning that someone basing a play on it that early could only have read it in the original Spanish, and there is no evidence that Oxford spoke this language.

The early style and presentation of Roxy Music was influenced by the art school backgrounds of its principal members.

Actress Stacey Nelkin was cast in the part of Mary but the character was cut from the film early on in principal photography due to budget constraints.

The Dartmoor Worker is a collection, first assembled in 1966, of newspaper articles originally written for The Western Morning News by the principal authority on Dartmoor and its history, William Crossing, in the early 1900s.

Although Seymour I. Rubinstein was the principal owner of the company, Rob Barnaby was the sole author of the early versions of the program ; starting with WordStar 4. 0, the program was built on new code written principally by Peter Mierau.

By the early 1st millennium BC, the population of Epirus consisted of three principal clusters of Greek-speaking tribes: the Chaonians in northwestern Epirus, the Molossians in the centre and the Thesprotians in the south.

Bahrain became a principal centre of knowledge for hundreds of years stretching from the early days of Islam in the 6th century to the 18th century.

" Lingard departed from usual Catholic practice by using early Greek manuscripts rather than the Latin Vulgate as the principal basis for the translation.

The outer convection zone of early F stars is expected to be very shallow and absent in A-type dwarfs, yet the acoustic flux from the interior reaches a maximum for late A and early F stars provoking investigations of magnetic activity in A-type stars along three principal lines.

In some other regions, the suggested planting time for the principal crop is early spring ( typically in February or the beginning of March in the Northern Hemisphere ).