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  • - Deseja que os congressistas da “minoria” recebam seus salários, mas não apareçam no congresso para encher o saco.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: On the meaning of “Minorities with a majority complex” 2009

  • Independentemente dos resultados, o que sairá deste congresso obrigará a uma reavaliação das enciclopédias e livros sobre astronomia.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • Assim terminou o primeiro congresso da comunidade blogger ericeirense.

    Agora, a seguir... Artur 2005

  • As to the division of business between the congresso and the full congregation of cardinals, the same arrangement obtains as in the other congregations, which is to leave to the congresso the matters of minor importance while matters of greater interest are considered in the full congregation.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Matters of minor importance are determined by its congresso.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Giovacchino Murat ai moti del 31 e 48 (Florence, 1908); RINIERI, Il congresso di Vienna e la Santa Sede (Turin, 1904); IDEM, La sovranità del Papa e i sovrani di tutta l'Europa nel 1814 in Civilta catt., 18th series, V (1902); FARGES, Le pouvoir temporel au début du pontificat de Grégoire XVI d'après la correspondance de Stendhal in

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Every week each of the two secretariates holds a meeting (congresso) in the presence of the cardinal prefect, of its own secretary, and of the head of the other secretariate.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Among such matters are the nomination of bishops or of Apostolic administrators (except, in regard to the latter, in cases of urgency, in which the congresso acts alone), the creation of new dioceses, or the unification of existing ones, the erection of chapters, the drafting of general rules for the direction of seminaries, and other similar matters the enumeration of which would take us beyond the necessary limits of this article.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Finance (congresso economico), which met as an executive committee for the transaction of thc most important ordinary business with which the General Congregation was entrusted.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • The competency of the congresso in each congregation is determined.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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