His efforts were not at first successful, for at the synod of Biterrae ( Béziers ), summoned in 356 by the Emperor Constantius with the professed purpose of settling the longstanding disputes, Hilary was, by an imperial rescript, banished with Rhodanus of Toulouse to Phrygia, where he spent nearly four years in exile.

A party platform or platform is a list of the actions which a political party, individual candidate, or other organization supports to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said peoples ' candidates voted into political office or the professed opinion ( s ) proposed as part of law ( s ) or otherwise made into social policies.

: He observed how those who professed the Faith of Islam had shattered its unity, sapped its force, perverted its purpose, and degraded its holy name.

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.

A complete picture is impossible -- partly because of the limitations of space, partly because for millions of individuals who professed allegiance to the Christian faith data are unobtainable.

The abbot is chosen by the monks from among the fully professed monks.

This solemn commitment tends to be referred to as the " Benedictine vow " and is the Benedictine antecedent and equivalent of the evangelical counsels professed by candidates for reception into a religious order.

In the Roman Catholic Church according to the norms of the Code of Canon Law 1983 a Benedictine abbey is a " religious institute ", and its professed members are therefore members of the " Consecrated Life ", commonly referred to as " Religious ".

Mather's most fatal influence over the trials was in composing the answer to the question of whether or not to allow Spectral evidence, that is, allowing the afflicted girls to claim that some invisible ghost of the defendant was tormenting them, and for this to be considered evidence of witchcraft by the defendant, even if the defendant denied it and professed their own strongly held Christian beliefs.

Art historian and the artist's great-grandson Joachim Pissarro notes that they “ professed a passionate disdain for the Salons and refused to exhibit at them .” Together they shared an “ almost militant resolution ” against the Salon, and through their later correspondences it is clear that their mutual admiration “ was based on a kinship of ethical as well as aesthetic concerns ”.

That oneness is symbolized in the open invitation to communion for all who have professed faith in Christ without regard to church affiliation.

Lycanthropy is the professed ability or power of a human being to transform into a wolf, or to gain wolf-like characteristics.

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

This is the received text of the Eastern Orthodox Church, with the exception that in its liturgy it changes verbs from the plural by which the Fathers of the Council collectively professed their faith to the singular of the individual Christian's profession of faith.

Mr. Pitt's case in ' 84 is the nearest analogy ; but then the people only confirmed the Sovereign's choice ; here every Conservative candidate professed himself in plain words to be Sir Robert Peel's man, and on that ground was elected.

Eusebius ( c. 275 – 339 ) professed his own doubts, see also Antilegomena, and is the earliest direct testimony of such, though he stated that the majority supported the text, and by the time of Jerome ( c. 346-420 ) it had been mostly accepted as canonical.

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.

Enfield is a professed fan of opera and fronted a Channel 4 documentary series on the subject.

He is a professed Marxist and like Visconti, who similarly employed many foreign artists during the late 1960s, Bertolucci uses his films to express his political views ; hence they are often autobiographical as well as highly controversial.

He believed that anomie is common when the surrounding society has undergone significant changes in its economic fortunes, whether for good or for worse and, more generally, when there is a significant discrepancy between the ideological theories and values commonly professed and what was actually achievable in everyday life.

Finally, the Creed is professed on Sundays and solemnities ,, and it is desirable that in Masses celebrated with the people the Universal Prayer or Prayer of the Faithful should usually follow.

Islam is the principal religion professed in the region.

The Ascension of Jesus is professed in the Nicene Creed and in the Apostles ' Creed.

The Ascension of Jesus is professed in the Nicene Creed and in the Apostles ' Creed.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi led the newly unified Japan into the first invasion ( 1592 – 1596 ) with the professed goal of conquering Joseon Dynasty Korea, the Jurchens, and eventually Ming Dynasty China, The high casualty rate of the Korean and Ming forces, and the large number of noses collected during the campaign was enough to build a large mound near Hideyoshi's Great Buddha, called the Mimizuka, or " the Mound of Ears ".

By the end of the 15th century was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties, but such was the influence of the Dominicans, and the weight of the arguments of Thomas Aquinas ( who had been canonised in 1323 and declared " Doctor Angelicus " of the Church in 1567 ) that the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 63 )— which might have been expected to affirm the doctrine — instead declined to take a position.

Besides altarpieces and portraits he painted pictures that told no story, whether biblical or classical, or if they professed to tell a story, neglected the action and simply embodied in form and color moods of lyrical or romantic feeling, much as a musician might embody them in sounds.

Enfantin stayed there two years, and might have entered Ali's service had he professed himself, as several of his followers did, a Muslim.

Francis and Henry both professed a friendly attitude towards the marriage of the lovers, but Suffolk had many political enemies, and Mary feared that she might again be sacrificed to political considerations.

KKR's offer was guaranteed, whereas management's lacked a " reset ", meaning that the final share price might have been lower than their professed $ 112 per share.

Demetrius, who seems to have been placed by nature in our times that he might prove that we could neither corrupt him nor be corrected by him ; a man of consummate wisdom, though he himself disclaimed it, constant to the principles which he professed, of an eloquence worthy to deal with the mightiest subjects, scorning mere prettinesses and verbal niceties, but expressing with infinite spirit, the ideas which inspired it.

However, one might argue that such a definition is very partisan: Karadžić himself eloquently and explicitly professed that his aim was to unite all native štokavian speakers whom he identified as Serbs.

In 1779, during the Revolutionary War the Continental Army's Sullivan Expedition came into Western New York to suppress Senecas who had professed loyalty to the British or might do so.

" The court argued that if polygamy was allowed, someone might eventually argue that human sacrifice was a necessary part of their religion, and " to permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself.

The king professed ( our ) Law, and there might be in the country more than four thousand monks, who were all students of the hînâyana ( Hinayāna ).... ( The monks )... were all students of Indian books and the Indian language.

In 385 or 386 the emperor and his mother Justina, along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially military, professed Arianism.

Chaplin concluded the film with a six-minute speech in which he looked straight at the camera and professed his personal beliefs.

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

In her famous " Golden Speech " of 30 November 1601, Elizabeth professed ignorance of the abuses and won the members over with promises and her usual appeal to the emotions:

For instance, they interpret the exhortation to defend one ’ s faith “ with gentleness and reverence ” in 3: 15-16 as a response to Pliny executing Christians for the obstinate manner in which they professed to be Christians.

While he was sick with a fever, he professed his full belief in Christ and asked God to take control of his destiny.

Afterwards, Gustavus Adolphus made a round of other Protestant German courts with the professed intention of inspecting a few matrimonial alternatives.

Despite his pragmatic acceptance of the new power balance in the Pacific after World War II and his strong support for the American alliance, he publicly professed continued admiration for links with Britain, exemplified by his admiration for Queen Elizabeth II, and famously described himself as " British to the bootstraps ".

In a 1996 interview, McVeigh professed belief in " a God ", although he said he had " sort of lost touch with " Catholicism and " I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs.

Harald undoubtedly professed Christianity at that time and contributed to its growth, but with limited success in Denmark and Norway.

At first, he professed to rule only with the advice of a council formed of the nobles, but when his power became established, he dispensed with this show of republican government, and then gave himself the appearance of a legitimate title by protecting an impostor who professed to be the caliph Hisham II.

" One would expect the dreamer to have some associations with this image, and the professed lack of any perceived significance or familiarity whatsoever should make one suspicious.

If she, and the order, determine that she may have a vocation to the life, she receives the habit of the order ( usually with some modification, normally a white veil instead of a black, to distinguish her from professed nuns ) and undertakes the novitiate, a period ( that lasts one to two years ) of living the life of a nun without yet taking vows.

J. Barmby, Hormisdas made several demands: ( 1 ) The emperor should publicly announce his acceptance of the council of Chalcedon and the letters of Pope Leo ; ( 2 ) the Eastern bishops should make a similar public declaration, and in addition anathematize Nestorius, Eutyches, Dioscorus, Aelurus, Peter Mongus, Peter the Fuller, and Acacius, with all their followers ; ( 3 ) everyone exiled in this dispute should be recalled and their cases reserved for the judgment of the Apostolic See ; ( 4 ) those exiles who had been in communion with Rome and professed Catholicism should first be recalled ; and ( 5 ) bishops accused of having persecuted the orthodox should be sent to Rome to be judged.

The last remaining obstacle to his marriage to Hérminie was the difference in their professed religions ; he converted to Roman Catholicism, with the comtesse de Vaux acting as his sponsor.

Wyatt's professed object was to experiment with the English tongue, to civilise it, to raise its powers to those of its neighbours.

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Their marriage was the occasion for the jointly-issued " Edict of Milan " that reissued Galerius ' previous edict allowing Christianity to be professed in the Empire, with additional dispositions that restored confiscated properties to Christian congregations and exempted Christian clergy from municipal civic duties. The redaction of the edict as reproduced by Lactantius-who follows the text affixed by Licinius in Nicomedia on June 14 313, after Maximinus ' defeat-uses a neutral language, expressing a will to propitiate " any Divinity whatsoever in the seat of the heavens ".