Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the scriptores.

Morbid Angel had these pit bulls with them back then and they were just tearing the meat up.

The most famous of these, The Toreador, depicts a sacred ceremony in which individuals jump over the backs of large bulls.

Benedict XIV denounced these practices in these two bulls.

One bull began to win these bouts consistently, and Paris began to set it against rival herdsmen's own prize bulls ; it defeated them all.

Another 15-year ( 1994 – 2009 ) review of patients admitted to a Level I Trauma Center with dog bites determined that pit bulls were involved in most of these attacks: of the 228 patients treated, the breed of dog was recorded in 82 attacks, and of these, 29 ( 35 %) attacks were attributed to pit bulls.

Of these 269 patients, 137 ( 50. 9 %) were attacked by pit bulls.

When these bulls, or their mothers, died, they were mummified, and placed in a special cemetery known as the Bucheum.

The mothers of these bulls were considered aspects of Hathor, the mother of these deities.

In the latter part of the 19th century, several large stock farms were thriving ; by the 1900s most of these were consolidated under the ownership of John P. Crozer ( the namesake of Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland ) who bred racehorses and prize bulls.

In some regions the Assyro-Babylonian term came to refer in particular to spirits which served the gods, in particular to the shedu ( human-headed winged bulls ); the Assyrians sometimes referred to these as kirubu, a term grammatically related to karabu.

The tomb is named for the pair of bulls who watch human sex scenes, one between a man and a woman, and the other between two men ; these may be apotropaic, or embody aspects of the cycle of regeneration and the afterlife.

Sargon supposedly lost at least one of these winged bulls in the river.

While these Irish bulls have led many writers to portray Roche as a buffoon, other biographers have interpreted them not as blunders, but as calculated attempts to disarm opposition to ministerial policies through humour.

It is from these herds that calves with good characteristics and body conformation are selected and reared to become Jallikattu bulls.

The AWBI comfortably forget that once the game is stopped, these bulls would end up in slaughter houses in Kerala.

* Burma banteng ( B. j. birmanicus ): In Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, these males and females are usually buff, but in Cambodia, 20 % of the bulls are blackish, and on the Malayan Peninsula in Thailand, most of the bulls are black.

Usually, these bulls provided guidance to the herd for their movements.

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.

Violations of these rules may be ruled " fouls " by the referee, who may issue warnings, deduct points, or disqualify an offending boxer, causing an automatic loss, depending on the seriousness and intentionality of the foul.

And these men are ruled by trivial routine.

Until the early seventeenth century the Bandas were ruled by a group of leading citizens, the orang kaya ( literally ' rich men '), each of these was a head of district.

The only exception to these traditional alliances was the first Government of the 27th Dáil, comprising Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party, which ruled between 1993 and 1994.

It is known that Guthfrith was succeeded by Sigurd and Cnut, although whether these men ruled jointly or one after the other is uncertain.

In the early Middle Ages, the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church was ruled by five patriarchs: the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem ; these were collectively referred to as the Pentarchy.

One of these three sons was Veggdegg, a " powerful king " who ruled over eastern Saxony.

Even when several Merovingian kings simultaneously ruled their own realms, the kingdom — not unlike the late Roman Empire — was conceived of as a single entity ruled collectively by these several kings ( in their own realms ) among whom a turn of events could result in the reunification of the whole kingdom under a single ruler.

Each one of these diverse groups occupied much of Nicaragua territory, with independent chieftains who ruled according to each group's laws and customs.

With these hypotheses ruled out, the best-supported hypothesis for crest function seems to be as a sexual display.

One of these, Philip Lang, ruled him for years and was hated by those seeking favour with the emperor.

By the 12th century, Tongans, and the Tongan kings, the Tu ' i Tonga, were known across the Pacific, from Niuē, Samoa to Tikopia they ruled these nations for over 400 years, sparking some historians to refer to a " Tongan Empire ," although it was more so a network of interacting navigators, chiefs, and adventurers.

In Walz v. Tax Commission, the Court ruled that a legitimate action could not entangle government with religion ; in Lemon v. Kurtzman, these points were combined, declaring that an action was not establishment if

In early 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited pursuant to the right of these entities to free speech.

This is questionable, as these names follow conventions well established in other Slavic lands, and it ignores Vladimir of Bulgaria, who ruled between 889-893.

The most important of these castles was the Masyaf, from which the " The Old Man of Mountain ", Rashideddin Sinan ruled practically independent from the main leaders of the Assassins.

* The Danish first ruled part, then all of the present U. S. Virgin Islands since 1672, selling sovereignty over these Danish West Indies in 1917 to the United States which still administers them.

This was only possible because these were independent city states not ruled by a duke but a council of influential citizens.

In most of these cases, the courts ruled in favor of the petitioner.

However, these elections were considered fraudulent, especially on the part of the military dictatorship that virtually ruled El Salvador.

The Visigoths retained the Roman divisions of their kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula and it seems that dukes ruled over these areas.