Accordingly, “ moved by the same purposes ” the fathers “ apportioned equal prerogatives to the most holy see of new Rome ” because “ the city which is honored by the imperial power and senate and enjoying privileges equaling older imperial Rome should also be elevated to her level in ecclesiastical affairs and take second place after her .” The framework for allocating ecclesiastical authority advocated by the council fathers mirrored the allocation of imperial authority in the later period of the Roman Empire.

His depiction of how members of the council were elected to the senate, for example, aimed to emphasise the way the electoral system prevented factionalism from occurring, instead making sure that “ public benefits are largely extended among the citizens ” rather than narrowly amongst “ one family ”.

The senate of Macao complained to the viceroy of Goa, of the contempt with which the Chinese authorities treated them, confessing however that, “ it was owing more to the Portuguese themselves than to the Chinese .” The Chinese were obliged to restrict the commerce of Portugal to the port of Macao, in 1631.

In De Nostri Temporis Studiorum Ratione (" On the Order of the Scholarly Disciplines of Our Times "), presented at the commencement ceremonies of 1708, Vico argued that whoever “ intends a career in public life, whether in the courts, the senate, or the pulpit ” should be taught to “ master the art of topics and defend both sides of a controversy, be it on nature, man, or politics, in a freer and brighter style of expression, so he can learn to draw on those arguments which are most probable and have the greatest degree of verisimilitude ” ( however, in his " Scienza Nuova ", Vico denounces as " false eloquence " one defending both sides in controversies ).

A month after the election, Edge replaced Johnson as the manager of his senate reelection campaign amid rumors that Johnson was unhappy about the “ hands off ” policy that Edge had taken during the recent election in which Johnson ’ s leadership had been threatened.

Johnson ’ s successor as leader of the Atlantic County Republican organization, Frank “ Hap ” Farley, is mentioned once, in connection with events that transpired while Edge was out-of-state during his second term as governor, and Farley, as state senate president, was acting governor.

Finally, on 7 < sup > th </ sup > January 49 BCE, the senate under Lentulus and Marcellus passed the “ final decree ” ( senatus consultum ultimum )< ref > Caesar, < i > B. C .</ i > i. 5 ; the tribunes Antonius and Cassius fled with Caesar's envoy, the younger Curio, from Rome to meet Caesar at Ravenna.

On June 6, 2008, the Independent reported that the United States was applying pressure to the government of Iraq to sign a “ strategic alliance ” ( not a “ treaty ”, which would require approval of the US senate ), giving US forces broad freedom in continuing to operate in Iraq.

As chairman of the finance committee, Fessenden prepared and carried through the senate all measures relating to revenue, taxation, and appropriations, and, as declared by Charles Sumner, was “ in the financial field all that our best generals were in arms .”

He was a Representative from New Mexico ; born on Greenwood plantation, near Bayou Sara, Louisiana., April 3, 1861 ; attended the public schools ; moved to the Territory of New Mexico in 1879 and worked on a cattle ranch until 1881 ; acted as post trader at Fort Stanton ; engaged in the mercantile and stock business until 1886 ; deputy treasurer of Lincoln County in 1886 and 1887 ; elected county clerk in 1888, county assessor in 1890, and sheriff in 1892 ; member of the Territorial senate in 1894 and 1896, serving as president the latter year ; lieutenant of the First Volunteer Cavalry, known as “ Roosevelt ’ s Rough Riders ,” in the Spanish-American War ; sheriff of Otero County in 1899 ; resigned to join the Eleventh Volunteer Cavalry ; lieutenant, provost marshal, and provost judge, with service in the Philippine Islands from December 16, 1899, to March 20, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Camarines, Philippine Islands, in 1901 ; chief of police of the city of Manila, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Isabela 1903-1905 ; Governor of the Province of Samar from 1905 to 1907, when he resigned ; Governor of the Territory of New Mexico 1907-1911 ; upon the admission of New Mexico as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from January 8, 1912, to March 3, 1913 ; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1912 ; engaged in the hotel business in Socorro, N. Mex.

When Jaffeir tells Belvidera of the plot to destroy the senate, she recognizes the corruption of the senate, but does not condone the plan of the conspirators ( 4 ): she says to Jaffeir, “ Can thy great heart descend so vilely low, / Mix with hired slaves, bravoes, and common / stabbers ,… and take a ruffian ’ s wages / To cut the throats of wretches as they sleep ?” ( 8 ).

Sen. Freyling Stevens, a powerful lawyer, introduced the senate version of what would become known as the “ Minnesota gag law ,” for which he is credited with authorship.

The 1940s were an unstable period for the OBP, with a “ senate ” ( as its sponsoring organization was called ) existing in name only and a weak premier who had to be replaced soon after the 16th Session.

Plutarch wrote: " The senate, much commending their public spirit, caused the temple to be built and a statue set up in it at the public charge ; they, however, made up a sum among themselves, for a second image of Fortune, which the Romans say uttered, as it was putting up, words to this effect, “ Blessed of the gods, O women, is your gift .”"

The piece " Battle of the Heroes " that was played in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, during the battle sequence between the Jedi Master Yoda, and Emperor Palpatine, the Dark Lord of the Sith, in the senate chamber on Coruscant, and the simultaneous battle between Anakin Skywalker ( Darth Vader ) and Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mustafar, was inspired by Duel of the Fates but rewritten in a tragic mode.

The Senate deeply resented peace with Alaric ; in 407, when Alaric marched into Noricum and demanded a large payment for his expensive efforts in Stilicho's interests, the senate, " inspired by the courage, rather than the wisdom, of their predecessors ," preferred war.

As things were, the catastrophic scale of the loss inspired the Roman senate and people to set aside the current legal peacetime constraints, that no man could be consul a second time until ten years had passed since his first consulship: and instead, Gaius Marius was immediately proposed ( in his absence ) and elected as consul, only three years after his first consulship, and then for a further four successive years after that.

A senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Jackson of Washington has been going over the State Department and has reached some predictable conclusions.

The senate quickly whipped through its meager fare of House bills approved by committees, passing the three on the calendar.

King Alexander tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution of his own initiative, introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Serbia the system of two chambers ( skupština and senate ).

He was either slain by the senate or disappeared during the 38th year of his reign.

However, passage of a bill by the state assembly alone does not change the law and the state senate and governor had not yet endorsed the bill.

During the 1573 Polish election, Albert Frederick attempted to gain acceptance to the Polish senate but was opposed by the powerful Jan Zamoyski ( later Grand Hetman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland ) who feared the influence of Protestants in the Polish legislative body.

The Australian senate had threatened to block the Government's budget by refusing to pass the associated appropriation bills.

The office originally granted the holder the ability to speak first at session on the topic presented by the presiding magistrate, but eventually gained the power to open and close the senate sessions, decide the agenda, decide where the session should take place, impose order and other rules of the session, meet in the name of the senate with embassies of foreign countries, and write in the name of the senate letters and dispatches.

As, however, in ordinary cases an ex-senator was not disqualified by his ignominia for holding any of the magistracies which opened the way to the senate, he might at the next census again become a senator.

All the public money was paid into the aerarium, which was entirely under the jurisdiction of the senate ; and all disbursements were made by order of this body, which employed the quaestors as its officers.

These works were either performed by them jointly, or they divided between them the money, which had been granted to them by the senate.

The fortunes of individuals, whether possessed by acquisition or by descent or in virtue of a participation in the goods of some community, were no part of the creditor's security, expressed or implied ... he public, whether represented by a monarch or by a senate, can pledge nothing but the public estate ; and it can have no public estate except in what it derives from a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large.

Today, the City University is governed by the Board of Trustees composed of 17 members, ten of whom are appointed by the Governor of New York " with the advice and consent of the senate ," and five by the Mayor of New York City " with the advice and consent of the senate.

Soon after this defeat on their home ground, the Carthaginian senate sued for peace, which was given to them by the Roman Republic on rather humiliating terms, ending the 17-year war.

After the amendment of the constitution in 1928, future members of the Senate were to be elected from a single constituency consisting of the combined membership of the outgoing senate and the Dáil, and the system was changed so that a third rather than a quarter of the Senate would be replaced at each election.

The debate was even more intense than in the senate.

Typically, the senate is referred to as the upper house and has a smaller membership than the lower house.

When the Roman senate heard that the Syrian kingdom kept more warships and elephants than allowed by the peace treaty of Apamea made in 188 BC, they sent a Roman embassy to travel along the cities of Syria and attempted to cripple Seleucid military power by sinking the Syrians ' warships and hamstringing their elephants.

In dire poverty he fled, in 1779, to Halle, where in spite of the opposition of the senate and the theologians, he obtained through the interest of the Prussian minister, Abraham von Zedlitz, permission to lecture on subjects other than theology.

While Aemilian descended upon Rome along the Flaminian Way, Trebonianus Gallus and his son and colleague Volusianus had him proclaimed " enemy of the State " by the Roman senate, then exited Rome to meet the usurper ; this strategy is a clue that Aemilian's army was smaller than theirs, as it is probable that they did not expect the reinforcements to come in time, but trusted their larger army to win the clash.

In the 2002 miniseries Julius Caesar, Cato is played by Christopher Walken ( also depicted as much older than he was, since he is seen as a major figure in the senate when Caesar is just a young man, although Caesar was five years older than Cato ).

No one of them is to possess a place where the festivals of Bacchus are celebrated: if there are any who claim that it is necessary for them to have such a place, they are to come to Rome to the praetor urbanus, and the senate is to decide on those matters, when their claims have been heard, provided that not less than 100 senators are present when the affair is discussed.

No man is to be a Bacchantian, neither a Roman citizen, nor one of the Latin name, nor any of our allies unless they come to the praetor urbanus, and he in accordance with the opinion of the senate expressed when not less than 100 senators are present at the discussion, shall have given leave.

No man is to be a priest ; no one, either man or woman, is to be an officer ( to manage the temporal affairs of the organization ); nor is anyone of them to have charge of a common treasury ; no one shall appoint either man or woman to be master or to act as master ; henceforth they shall not form conspiracies among themselves, stir up any disorder, make mutual promises or agreements, or interchange pledges ; no one shall observe the sacred rites either in public or private or outside the city, unless he comes to the praetor urbanus, and he, in accordance with the opinion of the senate, expressed when no less than 100 senators are present at the discussion, shall have given leave.

No one in a company of more than five persons altogether, men and women, shall observe the sacred rites, nor in that company shall there be present more than two men or three women, unless in accordance with the opinion of the praetor urbanus and the senate as written above.

See that you declare it in the assembly ( contio ) for not less than three market days ; that you may know the opinion of the senate this was their judgment: if there are any who have acted contrary to what was written above, they have decided that a proceeding for a capital offense should be instituted against them ; the senate has justly decreed that you should inscribe this on a brazen tablet, and that you should order it to be placed where it can be easiest read ; see to it that the revelries of Bacchus, if there be any, except in case there be concerned in the matter something sacred, as was written above, be disbanded within ten days after this letter shall be delivered to you.

Members of the senate wanted to add in amendments on treating their workers even better than stated in previous legislation, and to make the punishment for breaking the rules greater.

During his stay in Sangala, Bauer is found and subsequently subpoenaed by a state department official to appear before a senate hearing to answer questions concerning his activities with CTU, for which he has been trying to avoid for more than a year.

Article III, Section 7 of the Hawaii Constitution state that members of the Hawaii Senate must have been a resident of Hawaii for more than three years, have attained the age of majority and must, prior to filing nomination papers and thereafter continue to be, a qualified voter of the senate district from which the person seeks to be elected.

According to the constitution a county is not to be joined to a portion of another county for purposes of creating a district ; this provision has been overridden by the rulings of the Supreme Court of the United States in Baker v. Carr ( 369 US 182 1962 ) and Reynolds v. Sims ( 337 U. S. 356 1964 ) The Tennessee constitution has been amended to allow that if these rulings are ever changed or reversed, a referendum may be held to allow the senate districts to be drawn on a basis other than substantially equal population.

Yet senate governance had become so corrupt that a person who would replace it " might benefit the commonwealth more than he injured it.

Rather than fight the Radicals in Congress, Swann was convinced by Democrats to remain as Governor and turn down the senate seat.