Example sentences of "of the council of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They were sufficiently impressed by his abilities to request in 1829 that he be relieved of his military duties and appointed president of the council of government on the Gold Coast .
2 As head of the Council of Government the Minister of State exercises executive power under the monarch , while legislative authority resides with the National Council elected every five years by universal adult suffrage , most recently in January 1988 [ see p. 36161 ] .
3 As head of the Council of Government the Minister of State exercises executive power under the Prince , while legislative authority resides with the 18-member National Council , elected every five years by universal suffrage .
4 It was believed that the inclusion in the plan of provisions for the use of foreign loans and for a more liberal market policy was the source of the Council of Guardians ' complaint [ see also p. 37333 ] .
5 The secretary-general of the Council of Guardians , Ayatollah Rezvani , told Iranian television on May 7 that of candidates who had been disqualified in the pre-election screening , some 80 per cent had been rejected by the executive committees and some 20 per cent by the Council of Guardians itself .
6 Even the decrees of the Council of Clermont in 1095 , to which he sent Boso as his envoy , and from which through illness Boso did not immediately return , remained unknown to him and went unheeded in practice for several years .
7 Theudebert I authorized the meeting of the Council of Clermont in 535 : the council started with prayers for the king , and it addressed a petition to him .
8 In 1549 , two years after the close of the first session of the Council of Trent — the Council whose stupendous achievements encompassed the comprehensive definition of Catholic doctrine and the unchallengeable assertion of papal power , and which has been described as the creator of the modern Catholic church — John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews since 1547 , held the first of his own reforming councils .
9 In his sermon on passion Sunday in 1687 he spoke of blasphemies , perfidy and superstition in such a way as to be understood to be referring , Evelyn relates , ‘ to the Romish priests and the new religion of the Council of Trent ’ .
10 If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century .
11 Although not a single document had yet been approved , he hoped all would be over by Christmas 1963 , the 400th anniversary of the Council of Trent .
12 This need for verbal intelligibility was recognized not only by the Reformers in the Lutheran hymns and Calvinist psalm-settings but by the semi-Reformers ( Cranmer 's view that the musical setting of his translation of the liturgy in 1544 should ‘ not be full of notes , but , as near as may be , for every syllable a note , so that it may be sung distinctly and devoutly ’ ) and the Counter-Reformers ( the direction of the Council of Trent in 1562 that the words of the Mass ‘ should be uttered clearly and perfectly , and sink quietly into the ears and hearts of the hearers ’ , not with music ‘ contrived for the empty delight of the ears ’ ) .
13 The polls show the party up and Mulroney down , ’ said Maude Barlow , chairwoman of the Council of Canadians , a longtime opponent of Mr Mulroney 's trade policies .
14 O'BRIEN claims credit for being the only member of Dublin 's coalition government team at Sunningdale in 1973 to warn about the destructive effect of the Council of Ireland — in which members of the Stormont executive and Dublin government were to meet .
15 O'Brien claims credit for being the only member of Dublin 's coalition government team at Sunningdale in 1973 to warn about the destructive effect of the Council of Ireland
16 Any decision on whether to change the criteria so that smaller mergers would be automatically referred to the Commission will be taken by a qualified majority of the Council of Ministers .
17 The deputy chairman of the council of ministers , Boris Shcherbina , forbade evacuation of the countryside around Chernobyl until a government commission had arrived from Moscow .
18 When it landed , the Americans had no steps tall enough to reach it , a gratifying start except for the fact that the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and his party had to climb down an emergency ladder hand over hand .
19 In the second half of 1992 Britain will take the Chair of the Council of Ministers .
20 The Empire resembled the North German Federation , except that the Imperial Chancellor was made accountable to the Reichstag : the rest of the Council of Ministers ( Bundestag ) , which was the Cabinet , was not .
21 In fact what is proposed by Mr Ceravolo in his report to the Parliament is the setting of a timetable for the elimination of lead from petrol and it is likely that this will be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers in June and it is to be hoped that the Council will then call on the Commission to proceed to a new directive on the matter to replace the existing one which determines the 0.15 minimum level .
22 West Germany wants to push the case before its presidency of the Council of Ministers expires in June .
23 Other European legislation , however , e.g. regulations of the Council of Ministers , guided by the Commission , is directly effective without further action by Parliament .
24 The UK Government intends to use its presidency of the Council of Ministers to make progress on the issues raised .
25 The dispute led to a French boycott of meetings of the Council of Ministers , effectively preventing the EEC from launching any new developments .
26 France simply refused thereafter to attend any further meetings of the Council of Ministers , provoking what came to be known as the ‘ empty chair ’ crisis .
27 The French boycott of the Council of Ministers lasted for seven months .
28 Military-Industrial Commission ( VPK ) ( head L. V. Smirnov ) : A working commission of the Council of Ministers , but in the first instance of the Defence Council .
29 In their tasks they are answerable to the VPK , the Central Committee and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers for Defence Production .
30 Apart from the General Secretary , all authorities known to the author count amongst its permanent members the Minister of Defence ( Marshal Sergey Sokolov ) and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( Nikolay Ryzhkov ) .
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