While the presence of a long-term professional minister has sometimes created " significant de facto ministerial authority " and led to conflict between the minister and the elders, the eldership has remained the " ultimate locus of authority in the congregation ".

While a board of elders was elected for the enforcement of the Society's rules and regulations, business management passed to its trustees: Baker and Henrici, 1847 – 68 ; Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, 1869 – 90 ; Henrici and Wolfel, 1890 ; Henrici and John S. Duss, 1890 – 1892 ; Duss and Seiber, 1892 – 1893 ; Duss and Reithmuller, 1893 – 1897 ; Duss, 1897 – 1903 ; and finally to Suzanna ( Susie ) C. Duss in 1903.

While students and intellectuals urged greater reforms, some party elders increasingly feared that the instability opened up by any significant reforms would threaten to undermine the authority of the Communist Party, which Li had spent his career attempting to strengthen.

While the two other major Methodist denominations in America — the MEC and the Methodist Protestant Church — had agreed to ordain women either as local elders and deacons ( the MEC ) or full clergy ( the Methodist Protestant Church ), the MEC, South did not ordain women as pastors at the time of the 1939 merger that formed The Methodist Church.

While in the Garden, Judas appears, accompanied by a crowd that includes the Jewish priests and elders and people with weapons.

While living in Canada, Peat organized discussion circles between Western scientists and Native American elders, together with Leroy Little Bear who later obtained the 2003 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Education.

While this attack was a failure, the drive and ambition he'd shown impressed the Decepticon elders and they promoted him to Decepticon commander.

While there, Mary recalls his birth and the visit of the Wise Men and when Jesus went missing during Passover as a teenager, and was found conferring with the elders at the Temple who were amazed at his understanding of the scriptures.

While Kanva and the other elders of the hermitage are away on a pilgrimage, Dushyanta, king of Hastinapura, comes hunting in the forest and chances upon the hermitage.

While he was there he came across the Greek tradition and practice of spiritual guidance through charismatic elders.

While not directly connected to the strike, Berkman was tied in for the assassination attempt.

While on active duty, he received two lessons from Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA in an attempt to connect with High Modernism theory and practice.

While some scholars attempt to suggest, like Melanchthon, that it is a type of theological treatise, this view largely ignores chapters 14 and 15 of Romans.

While much of the attempt at gender equity in mainstream Christianity ( Judaism never recognized any gender for God ) is aimed at reinterpreting scripture and degenderizing language used to name and describe the divine ( Ruether, 1984 ; Plaskow, 1991 ), there are a growing number of people who identify as Christians or Jews who are trying to integrate goddess imagery into their religions ( Kien, 2000 ; Kidd 1996 ," Goddess Christians Yahoogroup ").

While his lieutenants and the House sergeant-at-arms left the chamber to collect absent members in an attempt to rally enough votes for Cannon, the Speaker's allies initiated a legislative block in the form of a point of order debate.

While the Emperor received detailed reports from Sugiyama and Nagano about the operations in Southeast Asia and the attack of Pearl Harbor, Prime Minister Konoe made one last desperate attempt to avoid war.

While macroeconomics is a broad field of study, there are two areas of research that are emblematic of the discipline: the attempt to understand the causes and consequences of short-run fluctuations in national income ( the business cycle ), and the attempt to understand the determinants of long-run economic growth ( increases in national income ).

While the President was recuperating in the hospital after the 1981 assassination attempt, Nancy Reagan wrote in her diary, " Nothing can happen to my Ronnie.

" While insisting on strict adherence to Jewish beliefs and practices, he held that Jews should attempt to engage and influence the modern world, and encouraged those secular studies compatible with Torah thought.

While doing so, other teams would attempt to fire at the target in order to overwhelm the Russians ' ability to effectively counter the attack.

While a third attempt was in the last stages of preparation, the operation commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Splendorelli, was ambushed between Bud Bud and Buula Barde.

While Marshall was still a young boy, his family moved several times in search of a good climate for Daniel to attempt different " outdoor cures " on Martha.

While IBM's attempt at producing a successor to ISA with the Micro Channel Architecture was a technically viable option, it failed in the market due to its proprietary nature and imposed licensing fees.

While he allowed Catholic clergy to enter his realm for the purpose of ministering to his Catholic subjects and to temporary residents, he savagely punished any attempt to convert pagan Lithuanians or to insult their native religion.

While out of office, Thompson organized a " scientific " expedition to search for tree-climbing fish in the South Seas ( actually just a crude attempt to keep his name in the public eye — the expedition never got farther than New Orleans ).

While the government admitted it was, at that time, drugging people without their consent, U. S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel found Ritchie could not prove he was one of the victims of MKUltra or that LSD caused his robbery attempt and dismissed the case in 2007.

While successful, during his attempt the stone malfunctions and the group ends up losing time.

While official sources maintain that Lin planned and executed the alleged coup attempt, scholars such as Jin Qiu portray Lin as a passive character manipulated by members of his family and his supporters.

While this doesn ’ t quite make complete sense, Lewis wished to stress its implicit point: that even within the attempt to prove that the concept of omnipotence is immediately incoherent, one admits that it is immediately coherent, and that the only difference is that this attempt if forced to admit this despite that the attempt is constituted by a perfectly irrational route to its own unwilling end, with a perfectly irrational set of ' things ' included in that end.

While Debs had carefully guarded his speeches in an attempt to comply with the Espionage Act, the Court found he still had the intention and effect of obstructing the draft and military recruitment.

* While King Fuchai of Wu attends a meeting in Huangchi, in an attempt to gain hegemony over all the other duchies of Zhou Dynasty China, his capital city in the State of Wu is captured in a surprise assault by King Goujian of Yue.

While Kennett promised the independence of the office would be maintained, many saw his government's actions as an attempt to curb the Auditor-General's power to criticise government policy.

While detractors point out that he did nothing to integrate what had then become known as the most segregated city in the nation, others argue that he was acting on behalf of his constituency, who did not want an integrated Chicago.

While this helped integrate Arab and Persian cultures, it alienated many of their Arab supporters, particularly the Khorasanian Arabs who had supported them in their battles against the Umayyads.

While welcomed at first as liberators, the Austrians quickly disenchanted the inhabitants by imposing rigid administrative, fiscal, judicial and political reforms which were meant to centralize and integrate the territory ( antagonizing both ends of the social spectrum: withdrawing privileges from the nobility and enforcing taxes for peasants ).

While the city was built because there was a need for a neutrally-located federal capital, the main reason was to promote the development of Brazil's hinterland and better integrate the entire territory of Brazil.

While it was welcomed as a means of making the IIc more portable, it did not integrate well as a portable solution, not attaching in a secure or permanent manner and not able to fold-over face down.

While the lion ′ s share of the blame fell on Fredendall, Kenneth Anderson — as overall commander of British, French, and American forces — bore at least partial responsibility for the failure to concentrate Allied armored units and integrate forces, which Generals Harmon, Ward, and Alexander noted had disintegrated into a piecemeal collection of disjointed units and commands.

While the parents claimed they wished to integrate the quintuplets into the family, the sisters frequently travelled to perform at various functions, still dressed identically.

While line dances may be considered street, vernacular, or folk dances, they usually require professional instruction ( or choreography ) and integrate moves derived from studio dance styles.

While older platforms had the IGP integrated onto the motherboard, newer platforms ( Intel Core i series and AMD Fusion ) integrate the GPU right onto the CPU die.

While the fraternity was interested in maintaining its California chapters, there was opposition to any plan to integrate the entire fraternity.

While the lacrosse club was a predominately working-class team, based largely in the Irish Catholic industrial working class neighbourhood of Griffintown, the hockey club reflected a more bourgeois background, more in keeping with the image the Shamrock Amateur Athletic Association wished to convey to the wider community of Montreal, as Irish Catholics attempted to integrate into the mainstream of the city's body politic in the late 19th century.

While some of those discharged did integrate with the community, a significant number, estimated at around 75 %, did not.

While traditional test management tools such as HP Quality Center and IBM Rational Quality Manager come with their own bug tracking systems, other tools integrate with popular bug tracking systems.

While retaining separate legal identities the airlines planned to integrate their networks and services, which were largely complementary.

While retaining separate legal identities the airlines planned to integrate their networks and services, which were largely complementary.

While Lunacharsky, head of Narkompros but a patron of Proletkult and its interests, dragged his feet on the merger, the congress eventually — following long debate and a stern appeal to party discipline — formally approved the Central Committee's decision to directly integrate Proletkult into Narkompros.

While research and science must inform the process of environmental management, it is up to the practitioner to integrate those results within this wider context.

While the children might integrate customs from both cultures, the Seminole believed them to belong to the mother's group more than the father's.

While retaining separate legal identities the airlines were planning to integrate their networks and services, as they are largely complementary.

While initially the agreement seemed like a good deal, it wasn't long before Zukor and Lasky realized that they could make much higher revenues if they could integrate the production and distribution of their films.