When over 100 parliamentarians from the twelve member nations of the Council of Europe came together in Strasbourg in the summer of 1949 for the first ever meeting of the Council's Consultative Assembly, drafting a " charter of human rights " and creating a Court to enforce it was high on their agenda.

The Federal Reserve System's structure is composed of the presidentially appointed Board of Governors ( or Federal Reserve Board ), the Federal Open Market Committee ( FOMC ), twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the nation, numerous privately owned U. S. member banks and various advisory councils.

The four main components of the Federal Reserve System are ( 1 ) the Board of Governors, ( 2 ) the Federal Open Market Committee, ( 3 ) the twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks, and ( 4 ) the member banks throughout the country.

A member of the Ivy League has been the U. S. News number-one-ranked university in each of the past twelve years: Princeton University five times, Harvard University twice, and the two schools tied for first five times.

Chios was one of the original twelve member states of the Ionian League.

A member of the House of Capet, Louis was twelve years old when his father died on 8 November 1226.

According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.

Hu participated in his first rebellion when he was twelve, left his family to join the Chinese Communist Party when he was only fourteen, and became a full member of the Party in 1933.

The twelve member teams play a 140 game schedule with 70 games at home and 70 games on the road ( 20 against geographically closest division opponent, 18 against each of the other 4 division teams, 8 against each of the 6 non-division opponents ).

Its twelve member institutions ( which are primarily flagship research universities in their respective states, well-regarded academically, and with relatively large student enrollment ) are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Nebraska in the west to Pennsylvania in the east, and from Indiana in the south to Minnesota in the north.

Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members located in Illinois, Indiana and New York.

In 1991, the SEC expanded from ten to twelve member universities with the addition of:

There are a total of twenty-two institutions that compete in the Northeast Conference twelve full-time member schools and ten affiliate member schools.

The Council is composed of members from 5 different classes, namely ( 1 ) officers ; ( 2 ) twelve members appointed by the Council ; ( 3 ) six members appointed by the Senate ; ( 4 ) one member of the non-teaching staff ; ( 5 ) the President of the Students ’ Union.

The chapel was dedicated in 1891 by Reed Smoot, a member of the quorum of the twelve apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Federal Reserve System's structure is composed of the presidentially appointed Board of Governors ( or Federal Reserve Board ), the Federal Open Market Committee ( FOMC ), twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the nation, numerous privately owned U. S. member banks and various advisory councils.

In 1965, the Alumni Association was founded as a non-profit organization and was governed by a twelve member Board of Directors to serve the best interests of the Institute and its programs.

OPEC has twelve member countries: six in the Middle East, four in Africa, and two in South America.

After a period of analysis by the IOC, the cities were visited by the IOC Evaluation Commission, consisting of twelve members and chaired by Moroccan IOC member Nawal El Moutawakel.

Regarding the structural relationship between the twelve Federal Reserve banks and the various commercial ( member ) banks, political science professor Michael D. Reagan has written that:

A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures.

By the age of twelve Starkey was already performing in pubs and was later a member of a garage band called the Next.

Candidates for the presidency must be approved by the Council of Guardians, a twelve member body consisting of six clerics ( selected by Iran's Supreme Leader ) and six lawyers ( proposed by the head of Iran's judicial system and voted in by the Parliament ).

He was one of the twelve official candidates in the 2007 French presidential election.

Nominations are then sent to the Committee of the National Medal of Science which is a board composed of fourteen presidential appointees comprising twelve scientists, and two ex officio members-the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) and the president of the National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ).

The Reagan Library is the largest of the twelve federally operated presidential libraries.

In television, Lipton has produced some two dozen specials including: twelve Bob Hope Birthday Specials ; The Road to China, an NBC entertainment special produced in China ; and the first televised presidential inaugural gala ( for Jimmy Carter ).

During the 1992 presidential campaign America had undergone twelve years of conservative policies implemented by Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush.

Besides representing the State of Tennessee in the last twelve presidential inaugurations, the band has appeared at the many bowl games the Tennessee football team has traveled to throughout the nation.

The widespread purge that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job.

The Chairman of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee has stated that the twelve previous international conventions on terrorism had never referred to state terrorism, which was not an international legal concept, and that when states abuse their powers they should be judged against international conventions dealing with war crimes, international human rights and international humanitarian law, rather than against international anti-terrorism statutes.

However, on June 8, 1918, with the armed support of the Czechoslovak Legions, the city was taken by the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, or Komuch, who organized a " democratic counter-revolution ", which at its height encompassed twelve million people.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which includes the twelve Lords of Appeal in Ordinary as well as other senior judges in the Privy Council, has little domestic jurisdiction.

As a wartime measure, the Committee – composed at first of nine, and later of twelve members – was given broad supervisory powers over military, judicial, and legislative efforts.

After Robespierre's election to the Committee on July 27, 1793, the Committee increased its membership to twelve.

The twelve Federal Reserve Banks are jointly responsible for implementing the monetary policy set by the Federal Open Market Committee.

When the thirty member Provisional Committee was finalized, the addition of several new IRB members brought their total within the Committee to twelve.

Unions select twelve of the thirty-two members of the Labour National Executive Committee and elect fifty per cent of the delegates to Labour Party Conference.

A further twelve members of the Central Committee were imprisoned, while the remaining members took refuge in various foreign embassies.

The Armed Services and Foreign Affairs and Oversight and Government Reform committees each have seven subcommittees, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is allowed six subcommittees, without also requiring an oversight subcommittee, and the Appropriations Committee has twelve subcommittees plus a select oversight panel on intelligence.

On August 6, 1957, on the 12th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Bigelow and twelve other members of the newly formed Committee for Non-Violent Action were arrested when they attempted to enter the Camp Mercury nuclear test site in Nevada, as part of a nonviolent vigil against the testing.

Sir Arthur Hobhouse's 1947 Report of the National Parks Committee took a different view, and he included the South Downs in his list of twelve areas recommended for designation as a national park, defined by John Dower as an " extensive area of beautiful and relatively wild country in which, for the nation's benefit ... the characteristic landscape beauty is strictly preserved ".

However, it is revealed that all twelve members of the Wisemen's Committee are not only not alive, but have been dead for ' about a 100 years '.

The Rosebud Foreshore Committee was set up to administer the area and take bookings, which are now made twelve months in advance.

The ' CSR Committee ' is composed of twelve elected students, three of whom are in their first year of study, who are largely free to involve themselves with whatever aspects of the union they see fit.

The Revolutionary Committee named twelve of their members generals of the revolution.