Known in combination with the China Christian Council as the lianghui ( two organizations ), they form the only state-sanctioned ( registered ) Protestant church in mainland China.

* Free church, as opposed to a state-sanctioned or established church

Known in combination with the China Christian Council as the lianghui, they form the only state-sanctioned (" registered ") Protestant church in mainland China.

School prayer in its common usage refers to state-sanctioned and / or mandatory prayer by students in public schools.

But the situation remained difficult for the International, as it struggled to deal with the rise of state-sanctioned economic trade unionism in the West, heavy secret service intervention as Cold War anti-communism reached its height and the banning of all strikes and free trade unions in the Soviet Union bloc of countries.

In August 2006, Walmart announced that it would allow workers at all of its Chinese stores to become members of trade unions, and that the company would work with the state-sanctioned All-China Federation of Trade Unions ( ACFTU ) on representation for its 28, 000 staff.

The clause's application to state-sanctioned same-sex marriages, civil unions, and domestic partnerships is unresolved, as is its relationship to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ) and the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment.

While the 1905 law ’ s explicit intention was to deny any state-sanctioned religion, its effectual end was the crippling of the Catholic religion as an institutional force in public life by denying it, or any other religion, government funding.

At this point, the Vossische Zeitung was dissolved by the official, state-sanctioned political party, the all-powerful NSDAP, which circulated its own nationally distributed newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter.

In April and May 2006, Cardinal Zen opposed the episcopal consecration of two bishops in China who belonged to the state-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.

Homosexuality was far less acceptable in the Soviet Union than in the United Kingdom, and this may have been a problem, though he lived openly with a state-sanctioned lover.

The composition of these works coincided roughly with the virulent state-sanctioned anti-Semitism prevalent in Russia in those years, as part of the anti-Western campaign of Zhdanovshchina.

By " property ," Proudhon referred to the concept originated in Roman law of the sovereign right of property — the right of the proprietor to do with his property as he pleases, " to use and abuse ," so long as in the end he submits to state-sanctioned title, and he contrasted the supposed right of property with the rights ( which he considered valid ) of liberty, equality, and security.

Mostly, state-sanctioned melodramas, war films and play adaptations had previously played in Turkish theaters, but these new filmmakers began to fill the screens with more artistic, personal and relevant pictures of Turkish / Kurdish life.

The group was founded in Moscow in 1979 by Alexander " Sasha " Sitkovetsky, and achieved a considerable success at the first Soviet state-sanctioned rock festival held in Tbilisi, Georgia with Sitkovetsky's songs ' Fasten Seat Belts ', ' Ireland.

In February 2008, Nordisk Film bought half of Zentropa, which frequently coproduces with Nimbus Film, but such tax-funded, state-sanctioned monopolies are rarely frowned upon in Denmark.

* Aztec emperor Itzcoatl ( ruled 1427 / 8-1440 ) ordered the burning of all historical Aztec codices in an effort to develop a state-sanctioned Aztec history and mythology.

Bob Herbert also stated that many brothel prostitutes are controlled by outside pimps: " Despite the fiction that they are “ independent contractors ,” most so-called legal prostitutes have pimps — the state-sanctioned pimps who run the brothels and, in many cases, a second pimp who controls all other aspects of their lives ( and takes the bulk of their legal earnings ).

The group released the St Petersburg Declaration, which urges world governments to, among other things, reject Sharia law, fatwa courts, clerical rule, and state-sanctioned religion in all their forms ; and to oppose all penalties for blasphemy and apostasy, which they believe to be in violation of Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Many colonists or their ancestors had fled England specifically to escape the influence and power of such state-sanctioned religious institutions, and they feared this was the first step to reinstating the old ways in the colonies.

In cases where a group or religion is state-sanctioned, a key power, or in the majority ( Singapore ), a shunned former member may face severe social, political, and / or financial costs.

The state-sanctioned power to create currency is called the Right of Issuance.

In addition to traditional agricultural practice, wildlife conservation is challenged by the illicit harvesting of protected forests, as well as the state-sanctioned harvesting of precious woods within national parks.

In May 2004, Arlington Street Church was the site of the first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the United States.

Hans Memling's Christ Giving His Blessing ( 1478 ) is used as the visual representation of the state-sanctioned deity OMM 0910.

In May 2004, Arlington Street Church was the site of the first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the United States.

The system of overt, state-sanctioned racial discrimination and oppression that emerged out of the post-Reconstruction South became known as the " Jim Crow " system.

Unregistered religions that fall outside the state-sanctioned organizations are thus vulnerable to suppression.

He considered suicide to be among the most fundamental rights, but he opposed state-sanctioned euthanasia.

The Christian right has strong opinions on how American children should be educated, speaking out in support for activities like state-sanctioned prayer in public schools.

The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed a surge interest in politics by organized fundamentalists in the U. S. The sparks that ignited their interest were decisions by the United States Supreme Court in 1962 to prohibit state-sanctioned prayer in public schools in the case of Engel v. Vitale and in 1963 to prohibit mandatory Bible reading in public schools in the case of Abington School District v. Schempp.

* March 8 – March 16 – Tbilisi Rock Festival ( 1980 ): the first state-sanctioned rock music festival in the Soviet Union.

By the 18th Century the spreading influence of the Enlightenment led European nations to abandon officially state-sanctioned interrogation by torture.

She rode at some state-sanctioned pari-mutuel tracks, but without a license, most events were of the dusty county fair and half-mile variety of the western circuit.

The state-sanctioned faith known as the Immaculate Order paints the Solar and Lunar Exalted as dangerous anathema who will bring ruin to the world if allowed to exist, thus encompassing the propaganda against Celestial Exalts.

Among other purposes, this allowed the Aztec state to develop a state-sanctioned history and mythos that venerated Huitzilopochtli.

The use of the decree to extract commitments in mixed marriages led to state-sanctioned enforcements in the Irish courts, such as the Tilson v. Tilson judgement, where Judge Gavan Duffy, then President of the High Court, said:

King Mosiah appoints Alma to organize the church.

If the congregation does not have an installed pastor, the Presbytery appoints a minister member or elected member of the presbytery as moderator with the concurrence of the local church session.

The bishop of the church possesses the power to judge for his church ; however, since the bishop has many different duties in his diocese, most cases are handled by judges whom he appoints, led by a priest known as the judicial vicar or officialis.

Christ Church, on Sandymount Green, is a united Methodist and Presbyterian church, which appoints a minister from either denomination alternately and Mount Tabor nursing home shares the grounds of the church.

" When the town celebrates the feast day of its patron saint, the church appoints a layman as " mayordomo " or steward, an honor that in effect is gained by being able to organize and cover the high costs of most of the saint's local festivities.