But in this Council, and later, in that of Florence, Ambrose, by his efforts and charity toward some poor Greek bishops, greatly helped to bring about a union of the two Churches, the decree for which, 6 July 1439, he was called on to draw up.

In the 5th century there was in effect no procedural difference between an executive decree and a law: they were both simply passed by the assembly.

In the subsequent centuries, the Persian version of the name had begun to come into general use before it was adopted by official decree in 1935.

By a public decree, this fine work was placed in one of the stanze of the Vatican hitherto reserved for the most precious works of antiquity.

Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than twenty-five years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by Ben Adret in 1305.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

The Book of Haggai was written in 520 BCE some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in 538 BCE allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea.

Later, the term was widely used in canon law for an important determination, especially a decree issued by the Pope, now referred to as an apostolic constitution.

The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by a Reichstag in Nuremberg headed by Emperor Charles IV that fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, an important aspect of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire.

By a decree of 27 December 1999, the constitution was suspended and all the institutions of government were dissolved.

In 1513, Ferdinand II of Aragon issued a decree establishing the encomienda land settlement system that was to be incorporated throughout the Spanish Americas.

The emperor Leo III issued a decree in 726 against images, and ordered the destruction of a statue of Christ over one of the doors of the Chalke, an act that was fiercely resisted by the citizens.

A decree of Pope Alexander III, 1170, gave the prerogative to the pope thenceforth, so far as the Western Church was concerned .”

The doctrinal acts are as follows: after reaffirming the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed ( third session ), the decree was passed ( fourth session ) confirming that the deuterocanonical books were on a par with the other books of the canon ( against Luther's placement of these books in the Apocrypha of his edition ) and coordinating church tradition with the Scriptures as a rule of faith.

It was created on December 20, 1917, after a decree issued by Vladimir Lenin, and was subsequently led by aristocrat-turned-communist Felix Dzerzhinsky.

The first official census in the Philippines was carried out by the Spanish government pursuant to a royal decree calling for the counting of persons living as of the midnight of December 31, 1877.

The widespread northern enthusiasm for the Crusade was partially inspired by a papal decree permitting the confiscation of lands owned by Cathars and their supporters.

The famous decree Haec Sancta Synodus, which gave primacy to the authority of the Council and thus became a source for ecclesial conciliarism, was promulgated in the fifth session, 6 April 1415:

This decree, however, is not considered valid by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, since it was never approved by Pope Gregory XII or his successors, and was passed by the Council in a session before his confirmation.

Production in 1991 dropped 92 % from the previous year, as a presidential decree suspended mining operations at the largest mine, in response to increasing fears of deforestation, although reforestation of mined areas was in progress.

The doctrine of the divine right of kings was introduced as late as the 17th century, proposing that kings rule by divine decree ; Japanese Emperors ruled by divine mandate until the inception of the Japanese constitution after World War II

This decree was clarified somewhat by Pope Pius XI on June 2, 1927, who allowed that the Comma Johanneum was open to dispute, and it was further explicated by Pope Pius XII's Divino Afflante Spiritu.

The cabinet of ministers passed a decree on August 23, 2011 to increase the current speeds of Internet connection setting the minimum speed to 1Mbit / s in addition to lowering the prices.

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Afghanistan ( FinTRACA ) was established as a Financial Intelligence Unit ( FIU ) under the Anti Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Law passed by decree late in 2004.

In 1935 the Nazi government had passed a decree that required all inventions of possible military significance to be reported to the Ministry of War, so in May 1937 Schrader sent a sample of tabun to the chemical warfare ( CW ) section of the Army Weapons Office in Berlin-Spandau.

The last decree ( Senatus consultum ) which the Roman Senate is known to have issued, passed under Boniface II, was directed against simony in papal elections.

One of John XXI's few acts during his brief reign was the reversal of a decree recently passed at the Second Council of Lyon ( 1274 ) that not only confined cardinals in solitude until they elected a successor Pope, but also progressively restricted their supplies of food and wine if their deliberations took too long.

He shouted out, " Perhaps, God forbid, a decree has been passed upon us to be punished, for through us has been revealed that which has not been revealed from the time Moshe stood on Mount Sinai!

The Senate passed a decree of Damnatio memoriae against him.

The Convention accepted it as the French national anthem in a decree passed on 14 July 1795, making it France's first anthem.

This changed in 1810 when Napoléon passed an imperial decree which moved the prefecture to La Rochelle.

On March 28, 1928, the Presidium of the General Executive Committee of the USSR passed the decree " On the attaching for Komzet of free territory near the Amur River in the Far East for settlement of the working Jews.

But in 95 BC, Rome passed a decree expelling from the city all residents who were not Roman citizens.

Yvelines was created from the western part of the defunct department of Seine-et-Oise on 1 January 1968 in accordance with a law passed on 10 January 1964 and a décret d ' application ( a decree specifying how a law should be enforced ) from 26 February 1965.

A decree was passed in 1830 suspending colony contracts and prohibiting further settlement of Americans.

At the same time, the " Reich Citizenship Law " was passed and was reinforced in November by a decree, stating that all Jews, even quarter-and half-Jews, were no longer citizens of their own country ( their official title became " subjects of the state ").

As rapporteur of the diplomatic committee, in which he supported the policy of Jacques Pierre Brissot, he proposed two of the most revolutionary measures passed by the Assembly: the decree of accusation against the King Louis XVI's brothers ( the Comte de Provence and the Comte d ' Artois ) on 1 January 1792, and the declaration of war against the Habsburg ruler Francis II ( 20 April 1792 ).

During the Indian Emergency from 1975 to 1977, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had laws passed that allowed her to rule by decree.

The Enabling Act, which gave Hitler the right to rule by decree, passed easily on March 23, 1933.

In July 1978 a decree was passed which made all non-Ba ' thist political activity illegal and membership of any other political party punishable by death for all those who were members or former members of the Armed Forces.

On 1 February Thieu declared a state of martial law and, on 15 June, the National Assembly passed his request for a general mobilization of the population and the induction of 200, 000 draftees into the armed forces by the end of the year ( a decree that had failed to pass only five months previously due to strong political opposition ).

In response, Pericles passed a decree dispatching an expedition to Samos.

* Ordinance of no quarter to the Irish decree passed by the English Parliament in 1644