Twelve US states use the Missouri Plan, and two use a variation of it, to choose judges in a nonpartisan manner.

Twelve US states use the Missouri Plan, and two use a variation of it, to choose judges in a nonpartisan manner.

Jesus himself, as the Son of God, a description also used by himself and others for him, was to rule this kingdom as lord of the Twelve Apostles, the judges of the twelve tribes.

The 1985 program of " Also Spracht Zarathustra " and selections from " The Planets " wowed fans and judges alike, vaulting the Cavaliers into a fifth place finish in Madison, Wisconsin ; the Cavies ' first finish in the top half of DCI's Top Twelve.

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

The name of the Creed may come from the probably 5th-century tradition that, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit after Pentecost, each of the Twelve Apostles dictated part of it.

President of the Church Harold B. Lee taught " The only one authorized to bring forth any new doctrine is the President of the Church, who, when he does, will declare it as revelation from God, and it will be so accepted by the Council of the Twelve and sustained by the body of the Church.

Twelve oil paintings date from his stay in Upper Norwood and are listed and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné prepared jointly by his fifth child Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro and Lionello Venturi and published in 1939.

It is usually considered that bishops derive their authority from an unbroken, personal Apostolic Succession from the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.

A book dating from the time of the Commonwealth, The Vindication of CHRISTMAS or, His Twelve Yeares ' Observations upon the Times ( London, 1652 ), involved " Old Christmas " advocating a merry, alcoholic Christmas and casting aspersions on the charitable motives of the ruling Puritans.

The Twelve managed to free themselves and Cyclops sacrificed his own body and lifeforce to keep Apocalypse from getting Nate.

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments comprising more than a thousand years of jurisprudence from the Twelve Tables ( c. 439 BC ) to the Corpus Juris Civilis ( AD 529 ) ordered by the emperor Justinian I.

The first legal text is the Law of the Twelve Tables, dating from mid-5th century BC.

The reference to Mount Gerizim derives from the biblical story of Moses ordering Joshua to take the Twelve Tribes of Israel, ( the number of which did not include the priestly tribe of Levi ) to the mountains by Nablus and place half of the tribes, six in number, on the top of Mount Gerizim, the Mount of the Blessing, and the other half in Mount Ebal, the Mount of the Curse.

The also helped attract popular and international support by organizing a group of prominent Nicaraguan professionals, business leaders, and clergymen ( known as " the Twelve "), who called for Somoza's removal and sought to organize a provisional government from Costa Rica.

* The Night Sentry: An unnamed tower guard who cries " Twelve o ' clock and all's well ", etc., but can't resist ad libbing sarcastic commentary — much to the annoyance of the King, who suffers from insomnia.

Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939.

The most prolific writers there were collectively referred to as the Five Great Masters of the Northern School ( 北派五大家 ) -- Huanzhu Louzhu ( 還珠樓主 ), who wrote The Swordspeople from Shu Mountains ( 蜀山剑侠传 )); Bai Yu, who wrote Twelve Coin Darts ( 十二钱镖 ); Wang Dulu, who wrote The Crane-Iron Pentalogy ( 鹤铁五部作 ); Zheng Zhengyin ( 郑证因 ), who wrote The King of Eagle Claws ( 鹰爪王 ); and Zhu Zhenmu ( 朱贞木 ), who wrote The Seven-Killing Stele ( 七杀碑 ).

* Early 13th century-Xia Gui paints Twelve Views from a Thatched Hut.

** Twelve paintings, collectively worth $ 100 to $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

" Hestia's omission from some lists of the Twelve Olympians is sometimes taken as illustration of her passive, non-confrontational nature – by giving her Olympian seat to Dionysus she prevents heavenly conflict – but no ancient source or myth describes such a surrender or removal.

The Matins service ( usually celebrated Thursday night ) is officially entitled, " The Office of the Holy and Redeeming Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ", and is commonly known as the " Matins of the Twelve Gospels ", because interspersed throughout the service are twelve Gospel readings which recount the entire Passion of Christ from the Last Supper to the sealing of the tomb.

All human civilization east of the Cloudspine mountain range, from the Twelve Duns to Gower, and south to the borders of Forest Heart, was eradicated.

A volume of photographs almost completely drawn from the files of the Farm Security Administration, with text by Wright, Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States was published in October 1941 to wide critical acclaim.

Twelve years later, in 1842, at the request of President José Antonio Páez, they were moved from Santa Marta to Caracas, where a monument was set up for his interment in the National Pantheon of Venezuela.

The new releases have a much more emotional style from De Meyer, which was presaged in his later recordings with C-Tec and particularly Cobalt 60 on its album Twelve.

In a move that broke from his father's domineering industrial and economic policies, Ching-kuo launched the " Fourteen Major Construction Projects ", the " Ten Major Construction Projects " and the " Twelve New Development Projects " which contributed to the " Taiwan Miracle.

The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Twelve: Return to the Palace ( detail ), 1764 — 1770, by Xu Yang

The Southern Agrarians ( also known as the Twelve Southerners, the Vanderbilt Agrarians, the Nashville Agrarians, the Tennessee Agrarians, or the Fugitive Agrarians ) were a group of twelve American writers, poets, essayists, and novelists, all with roots in the South, who joined together to write a pro-Southern agrarian manifesto, a collection of essays published in 1930 entitled I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition.

Twelve years later, in 1974, the school moved to its current location on the Everett Estate and became Southern Vermont College, a nonsectarian liberal arts college offering a career-directed curriculum.

*( 2002 ) Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women.

* Linda L. Booth — Secretary, Council of Twelve, Southern USA Mission Field ; Church Planting Ministries, Contemporary Christian Ministries ( 1998 )

# I Take My Stand, by Twelve Southern Agrarians

The small settlement was known as “ The Twelve ” and as “ Murray ’ s District ” to military and civic officials but to the local residents in 1796 and earlier as St. Catharines.

Twelve married pairs were delivered in August 2006 to the operator North County Transit District ( NCTD ).

Twelve newly installed pumps provide river water to the irrigation canals serving of the Grants Pass Irrigation District ( GPID ).

The southern part consists of the geographic townships of Cowper and Conger that includes the islands and shoreline of Georgian Bay southwest of Parry Sound, from Twelve Mile Bay ( at the Muskoka District boundary ) to Parry Island and up the South Channel almost to the Town of Parry Sound.

Twelve electoral area directors and four municipal directors govern the affairs of the Cariboo Regional District.

* Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica which focuses on the guerrilla war against the Cylons by the former citizens of the Twelve Colonies on New Caprica.

Twelve huge C-130 Hercules transports, complete with U. S. crews and maintenance teams, took off for New Delhi to fly Indian troops and equipment to the battle zone.

Twelve cities were part of the bidding process, which was scheduled to award two Super Bowls ( XXIII and XXIV ) The bidding cities included: Anaheim, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, and Tempe.

* May 12 – Twelve young men in New York City publicly burn their draft cards to protest the war ; the first such act of war resistance.

Judas Iscariot (, Yehuda, ) was, according to the New Testament, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ.

Twelve cities are in the North Island: Auckland, New Plymouth, Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, Hamilton, Hastings, Palmerston North, Rotorua, Wanganui, Whangarei and Wellington, the capital, located at the southern extremity of the island.

*" Brother ", a song by Dark New Day from Twelve Year Silence

* The chapter " Stormy Weather " in the book Stardust Melodies: The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs by Will Friedwald ( New York: Pantheon Books, 2002 ).

** A Twelve Mile ( radius ) Circle () around the city of New Castle, Delaware.

Delaware County is roughly diamond-or kite-shaped, with the four sides formed by the Chester County boundary to the northwest, the boundary with the state of Delaware ( a portion of the " Twelve Mile Circle ") to the southwest, the Delaware River ( forming the border with the state of New Jersey to the southeast, and the city of Philadelphia and Montgomery County to the east and northeast.

The Hall of Twelve Columns in the southeastern corner of the New Hermitage, adorned with columns of grey Serdobol granite, which is also designed in the Greek revival style and was originally intended for the display of coins, is now used for temporary exhibitions.

A critic for the Bergen Record discovered Ricci at age eight in a school play ( The Twelve Days of Christmas ) at Edgemont School in Montclair, New Jersey.

* Robert R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1941 < New edition: Princeton Classic Editions, 2005.

Trei asar: The Twelve Prophets: a New Translation with a Commentary Anthologized from Talmudic, Midrashic, and Rabbinic Sources.

" The Twelve Prophets in the New Testament ".

and took the lead in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams at New York's Lincoln Center.

While in Istanbul, he discovered a manuscript in the Jerusalem Monastery of the Most Holy Sepulcher, which contained a synopsis of the Old and New Testaments arranged by St. Chrysostom, the Epistle of Barnabas, the First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, the Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles ( Didache ), the spurious letter of Mary of Cassoboli, and twelve pseudo-Ignatian Epistles.

The New Testament does not inform us whether these three brethren also served in the council of the Twelve as vacancies occurred therein, or whether they were apostles strictly in the sense of being special witnesses for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Another classic courtroom drama is U. S. playwright Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men ( 1954 ), which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law.

These books include Twelve Girandoles in 1755, The Book of the Carver in 1758 and monthly between 1755 and 1758, One hundred and fifty New Designs.

After an unpleasant sea voyage from New York City, Snow met with some of the members of the Twelve Apostles who had opened the British Mission in 1839, including Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Parley P. Pratt.

Wilson is located at the junction of New York State Route 18 ( Harbor Street / Sunset Street / Ontario Street ) and New York State Route 425 ( Lake Street ) and is east of the mouth of Twelve Mile Creek.

Twelve years later the Spanish returned and were able to reoccupy New Mexico with little opposition.