privy council

    Now the privy council picked through the rubble of that plan.

The Brothers' War

Now the privy council picked through the rubble of that plan.

The Brothers' War

Recorder an officer of high rank in the Jewish state, exercising the functions, not simply of an annalist, but of chancellor or president of the privy council.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

His famous speech of February 7, 1828, had quickened the germs of many legal improvements carried out in a later age, and the four years of his chancellorship actually produced great constructive amendments of the law, such as the institution of the central criminal court and the judicial committee of the privy council.

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)

Accordingly, toward the close of the year, he attempted to remind that government of its duty, in an unofficial way, through Gouverneur Morris, who, having been succeeded by Mr. Monroe as minister to the French republic, was now in England, and on quite intimate terms with Lord Grenville and other ministers, and members of the privy council.

Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.

An emancipated slave, as his name indicated, and subsequently the body-servant of Lerma, he had been created by that minister secretary of the privy council.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1600-1609)

The prospect seemed on the whole rather dismal to loyal Netherlanders like the old leaguing, intriguing, Hispamolized president of the privy council.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86)

Meanwhile the privy council, to which body the Duchess had referred the recent despatches from Madrid, made a report upon the whole subject to the state council, during the month of November, sustaining the royal views, and insisting upon the necessity of carrying them into effect.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)

The Elector further desires me to conclude no act of government without having previously called together the privy council.

The Youth of the Great Elector

Although the privy council - a centuries-old group of the monarch's privy ie, private advisers - technically take all the government's executive decisions, Sunday's meeting was actually called under the terms of the United Nations Act of 1946 under which the privy council authorises actions mandated by the UN.

The Guardian World News