The leadership of the " Top Twelve " World Class corps are given voting rights on the DCI Board of Directors.

Twelve councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twelve wards, while the remaining eleven are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

Twelve councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twelve wards, while the remaining eleven are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

Twelve state legislatures, Rhode Island being the only exception, sent delegates to convene at Philadelphia in May 1787.

Twelve delegates were appointed by the Massachusetts Legislature, of which George Cabot and Harrison G. Otis were chief ( see list below ).

AA's Twelve Traditions were introduced in 1946 to help AA stabilize and grow.

Twelve more were killed, many of them as they attempted to aid the fallen.

This committee was headed by Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and was given five days to carefully study the matter ; Cyril's Twelve Chapters were to be used as the orthodox standard.

The Vikings celebrated Yule, which later contributed to the Twelve Days of Christmas, or the " Daft Days " as they were sometimes called in Scotland.

Twelve thermonuclear warheads were exploded in all, one of which was deliberately disrupted when the PGM-17 Thor carrying it failed to launch scattering plutonium debris over the island.

Twelve people were actually on the island when the hurricane struck, part of a contracted USAF crew sent to the island to monitor groundwater contamination levels.

Twelve jazz tracks were created for Lemmon and another twelve were added.

Twelve boats, the majority of which were Italian, raced in the first-ever Grand Prix of the Sea.

Twelve commercials were created featuring the character.

Eusebius mentions that Quadratus and Ammia of Philadelphia were both prominent prophets following the age of the Twelve Apostles.

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.

The members of the new junta were Daniel Ortega ( FSLN ), Moisés Hassan ( FPN ), Sergio Ramírez ( the " Twelve "), Alfonso Robelo ( MDN ) and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the widow of La Prensas director Pedro Joaquín Chamorro.

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.

Twelve nuns and employees of the Temple refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997.

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 ).

He was indeed released in August 1916, but twelve mostly prominent IWW activists, the so-called Sydney Twelve were arrested in NSW in September 1916 for arson and other offences.

Twelve years of campaigning on the Galician frontier were concluded in 1143 by the Treaty of Zamora, in which Afonso was recognized as independent of any other Iberian sovereign, although he promised to be a faithful vassal of the Pope and to pay him a yearly tribute of four ounces of gold.

Twelve Community Development Projects ( CDPs ) were set up in areas with high levels of deprivation to encourage self-help and participation by local residents in order to improve their communication and access to local government, together with improving the provision of local services.

Twelve days after the budget, the National Union of Seamen called a national strike and the problems facing Sterling were multiplied.

On board were the Twelve:

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.

Twelve issues of the main French edition of journal Internationale Situationniste were published, each issue edited by a different individual or group, including: Guy Debord, Mohamed Dahoiu, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, Maurice Wyckaert, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Asger Jorn, Helmut Sturm, Attila Kotanyi, Jørgen Nash, Uwe Lausen, Raoul Vaneigem, Michèle Bernstein, Jeppesen Victor Martin, Jan Stijbosch, Alexander Trocchi, Théo Frey, Mustapha Khayati, Donald Nicholson-Smith, René Riesel, and René Viénet.

Twelve of the sixteen places were allocated to Europe, three to the Americas, and one to Africa or Asia ( including Turkey ).

The Orthodox icon of the feast depicts the Twelve Apostles seated in a semicircle ( sometimes the Theotokos ( Virgin Mary ) is shown sitting in the center of them ).

Twelve projects proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in a Washington interview.

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:

A tradition exists among some families to serve twelve different dishes at Wigilia symbolizing the Twelve Apostles, or perhaps, an odd number of dishes for good luck ( usually five, seven, or nine ).

In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.

* John never lists all of the Twelve Disciples and names at least one disciple ( Nathanael ) whose name is not found in the synoptics ; Nathanael appears to parallel the apostle Bartholomew found in the synoptics, as both are paired with Philip in the respective gospels.

The following day at the Wilkeses ' barbecue at " Twelve Oaks ," Scarlett informs Ashley she loves him and Ashley admits he cares for her.

His Mansab was raised to Twelve Thousand, in 1585, at the time of his betrothal to his cousin Manbhawati Bai, daughter of Bhagwant Das of Amber.

It is notable for its beautiful and unique sculptures, especially the " Twelve Virgins " at the Northern Gate, the depictions of Otto I the Great and his wife Editha as well as the statues of St Maurice and St Catherine.

* Solomon Northup, David Wilson, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, Auburn, N. Y .: Derby and Miller, 1853, at Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.

It was widely known that the Twelve Years ' Truce was set to expire in 1621, and throughout Europe it was recognized that at that time, Spain would attempt to reconquer the Dutch Republic.

* September 20 – Twelve blue cars full of gangsters open fire at the Hawthorne Inn, Al Capone's Chicago headquarters.

* 24 December: The Twelve days of Christmas started at sundown and lasted until Epiphany on 6 January.

Jesus Christ stands at the head of the church and leads the church through revelation given to a living prophet and Twelve Apostles.

* Twelve Years a Slave at Internet Archive ( scanned books original editions color illustrated )

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.

Twelve to fourteen films are presented at each festival, opening with a single film on a Wednesday night and concluding with a single movie the following Sunday.

Twelve subways, up to in length, were excavated at a depth of and used to connect reserve lines to front lines, permitting soldiers to advance to the front quickly, securely and unseen.

Finnian of Clonard is said to have trained the Twelve Apostles of Ireland at Clonard Abbey.

In television, the most notable mockumentaries in the 2000s have been: ABC Australia's The Games ( 1998 – 2000 ), Trailer Park Boys ( 2001-2008 ), the British shows Marion and Geoff ( 2000 ), Twenty Twelve ( 2011-2012 ) ( which follows the fictional Olympic Deliverance Commission in the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games, The Office ( 2001 ) and its many international offshoots, Come Fly with Me ( 2010 ), which follows the activity at a fictional airport and its variety of staff and passengers.

Twelve thousand people applied for tickets to his funeral at the Metropolitan Opera House at 39th Street and Broadway and the streets were jammed for blocks with a " surging mass " of his admirers.