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1. They were, therefore, called upon to send deputies to the general assembly of the states of the kingdom, where they might join with the clergy and the barons in granting, upon urgent occasions, some extraordinary aid to the king
2. " When, in the General Assembly, a total of around ninety nation-states with a combined population less than the State of California can outvote America and its few remaining allies, what stage of international perdition have we managed to reach?
3. At the 2014 General Assembly, the Kirk was warned that it might have to adjust to a permanent 20% vacancy level in parish ministry
4. The General Assembly of 2014 was told that the Church of Scotland needs to prepare itself for a more or less permanent ministerial vacancy level of 20%
5. The Report of the Theological Commission on Same-Sex Relationships and the Ministry that was submitted to the General Assembly of 2013 contained thoughtful and scholarly summaries of what have now become known as the traditional and revisionist approaches respectively
6. Almost literally at the eleventh hour, the Very Rev Albert Bogle, retiring Moderator of the General Assembly, presented a notice of motion (the one he had prepared earlier) putting forward a new deliverance that has become know as 2(d)
7. business as usual”, according to the Principal Clerk of the General Assembly
8. This possibility was widely debated not just at General Assembly and Presbytery level but also by Kirk Sessions
9. Congregations do not always like to be told by the eldership what they should do, the eldership does not like being told by Presbytery what to do and Presbytery does not always appreciate being told by the General Assembly what to do
10. Recent statements from the 2014 General Assembly seem to indicate that the Church of Scotland is cooling considerably in its vision for the future of Israel
11. Nearly one third of the time is spent in the General Assembly discussing and condemning the
12. UNESCO, to the immoral activities of UNICEF, to the voting in the General Assembly, to the constant
13. speaking to the General Assembly, President Bush stated,” We are committed to the Millennium
14. the voters of Glastonbury who elected him to the General Assembly),
15. General Ban Ki-moon to the General Assembly of the UN,
16. Amos has cal ed a general assembly in the Hal of
17. Julius? Stranger measures have been mooted at the General Assembly!’
18. dissenting vote in the General Assembly conferred on it from the outset an
19. The same General Assembly that line the exterior of the
20. GDC HQ is the same General Assembly locked away in the
21. General Assembly have given up and are now watching the
22. The General Assembly in Edinburgh had never been asked for permission to house it in the Church, and, if they had been, it was his view that permission would not have been granted
23. It is a word which has been much used recently about the newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in particular in connection with the speech he made to the United Nations General Assembly on September 24th
24. Nevertheless, the selected strategy would not be suitable for manufacturing prototypes in prototype production locations and in the general assembly department, which is due to a number of significant reasons:
25. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that 2009 be declared the International Year of Reconciliation
26. Hebrews 12:23: “You have come…to the general assembly and church of the
27. ’ Then in the following chapter, describing the privileges of Christians under this dispensation, he says, 'But you are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, pneu>masi dikai>wn teteleiwme>nwn,’ Does it not appear that in these verses the difference is described between the condition of just men in death before the coming of Christ, and their condition after it? Before that event they were not 'perfected,’ a word taken from the mysteries, and signifying 'admitted to the inner sanctuary;’ the 'way into the holies not having been made manifest;’ but now 'the spirits of just men’ are 'perfected;’ that is, they are ascended to the 'heavenly Jerusalem,’ and to 'Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant;’ whither, in consequence, the departing souls of Christians ascend when they die
28. A crucial question was asked of the general assembly as to whether there was definite
29. I WAS, UNTIL PALM BEACH, a pretty low-profile politician—a member of the part-time General Assembly in the country’s smallest state
30. It was a gift from our General Assembly to the insurance industry, like all caps
31. To let the wine list be a UN General Assembly where the whole world is represented
32. A General Assembly to represent the world: Every member state has one vote
33. The General Assembly has limited powers and is mostly a place for airing opinions
34. Not every day does a major world leader slip off his shoe in the United Nations General Assembly and bang it on the desk shouting out ‘No! No! No!’ but that’s just what Khrushchev did in 1960 when the Philippine delegate accused the Soviet Union of imperialism in eastern Europe
35. Arafat liked to present himself as a man of action, always wearing military uniform and even carrying a pistol when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in 1974
36. The UN has seen some famous set pieces, such as Soviet premier Khrushchev banging his shoe on his desk in the General Assembly and shouting ‘Nyet! Nyet! Nyet!’ (translation: ‘No! No! No!’) when the Philippines president referred to ‘Soviet imperialism’, Yasser Arafat addressing the UN on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, or US ambassador Adlai Stevenson presenting the Security Council in 1962 with photographic evidence of Soviet missiles on Cuba
37. In the ordinance for the government of the Northwestern Territory will be found this article: "The Governor shall have power to prorogue and dissolve the General Assembly, when, in his opinion, it shall be expedient
38. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: The memorial unanimously adopted, of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of Mississippi Territory, in General Assembly convened, respectfully states, That by the articles of agreement and cession between the United States and the State of Georgia, an act for the amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia, &c
39. The Chief Executive Magistrate is charged with the execution of the laws; is commander-in-chief of the militia; has the sole power of appointment to offices, civil and military, within the Territory, and the removal of these officers at pleasure; is vested with an unqualified veto on all bills passed by the other co-ordinate branches of the Legislature; and is, moreover, clothed with the odious and arbitrary authority to prorogue and dissolve the General Assembly whenever, in his opinion, it shall be expedient
40. The committee to whom was referred the Message of the President of the United States, transmitting two letters from Governor Harrison, of the Indiana Territory, reporting the particulars and the issue of the expedition under his command against the hostile Indians on the Wabash, and to whom was also referred the memorial of the General Assembly of the Indiana Territory, and the memorial of the officers and soldiers of the militia of Knox county, in the Indiana Territory, who served in the late campaign under the command of Governor Harrison, report:
41. Nor is there any nation, in the judgment of the General Assembly, to whose circumstances this remark is more applicable than to the United States
42. It in substance declares, that though the General Assembly view with indignation the violations of our commerce, the impressment of our seamen, and other wrongs committed by foreign nations, yet detached as the United States are from European concerns, they should deprecate a war waged for any other object except self-defence, in cases of actual invasion
43. " By the 13th section of the said act it is also provided "that the citizens of the said Territory entitled to vote for Representatives to the General Assembly thereof, shall, at the time of electing their Representatives to the said General Assembly, also elect one delegate from the said Territory to the Congress of the United States
44. And I do hereby make known and declare that elections of Representatives, to serve in the General Assembly of the future Territory of Missouri, shall be holden throughout the Territory, on the second Monday of November next, at the respective seats of justice of the present districts, which are hereby declared to be the seats of justice for the several future counties respectively except that the town of New Madrid shall be the seat of justice of the future county of New Madrid, which said future county will comprehend the present districts of New Madrid and Arkansas; to wit: at the town of St
45. That all free white male citizens of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, who have resided in said Territory twelve months next preceding an election, and who shall have paid a territorial or county tax, assessed at least six months previous thereto, shall be entitled to vote for Representatives to the General Assembly of said Territory