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Telford and Wrekin Councils Policy has so many holes in it, they are the only things holding it together and you could easily drive a truck through them.
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The Colombian consul in New York, Francisco Noguera-Rocha, has condemned the "brutal attack" and has asked the New York Coalition of Latin American Councils to speak out against this type of aggression toward the Latino community.
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Indeed Morgan, the buccaneer, was soon in high favour at the dissolute court of Charles II., and when in January 1674 the Earl of Carlisle was chosen Governor of Jamaica, Morgan was selected as his deputy [347] -- an act which must have entirely neutralized in Spanish Councils the effect of his arrest a year and a half earlier.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922
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The Colombian consul in New York, Francisco Noguera-Rocha, has condemned the "brutal attack" and has asked the New York Coalition of Latin American Councils to speak out against this type of aggression toward the Latino community.
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If some want to dismiss Neighborhood Councils, that is just fine with me.
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The function of the age of the Councils was the formulation and definition of Christian dogma upon the admitted basis of the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The Basis of Early Christian Theism Lawrence Thomas Cole
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We hear of two (or including the Mahâsangîti three) meetings sometimes called Councils; scriptures, obviously containing various strata, were compiled, and eighteen sects or schools had time to arise and some of them to decay.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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In introducing the scheme of mild Home Rule termed the Councils Bill in 1907, Mr. Birrell prefaced it with the remark that "separation was unthinkable -- save in the event of some great world cataclysm."
The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Roger Casement 1890
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Why, they weren't even called Councils; they were called Boards.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893 Various 1876
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On the King's right hand, just below the Councils, which is over against all other Ambassadors, there sat the Pope's Nuncio, and the rest of the Ambassadors below him; but we not owning the Pope's priority, your father was placed by himself.
Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. Anne Harrison Fanshawe 1652
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