Sittings Sentence Examples

The sittings of both houses are public, and an absolute majority of the members must be present to make a sitting valid.

That pope, although in Constantinople, refused to attend the sittings of the council.

The king's " lord high commissioner " attends the sittings; but does not intervene or take part in the court's decisions.

However, in 1691, he was permitted to return to England, and he declared himself a Protestant and began to attend the sittings of parliament.

After holding more than 200 sittings the so-called Commission was dissolved without getting beyond the realm of theory and pia desideria.

Spiritualism has been accused of a tendency to produce insanity, but spiritualistic sittings carried on by private persons do not appear to he harmful provided those who find in themselves "mediumistic" powers do not lose their self-control and exercise these powers when they do not desire to do so, or against their better judgment.

Public sittings are apt to be means of obtaining money by false pretences, and the great scandal of spiritualism is undoubtedly the encouragement it gives to the immoral trade of fraudulent mediumship.

He resigned all his appointments in 1874, and on the 7th of October 1876 died at Munich while attending the sittings of the historical commission.

Theatral structures found at Cnossus and Phaestus, within the precincts of the palaces, were perhaps used for shows or for sittings of a royal assize, rather than for popular assemblies.

It considers questions of policy, and some of its sittings are conferences for the consideration of reports on religious, philanthropic, educational and social work which is carried on.

In order to restore peace in the church, Constantine summoned an ecumenical council (the sixth) at Constantinople, which held its sittings from the 7th of November 680 to the 16th of September 681.

Apart from the proceedings at the sittings, much of the actual work of the conference was done by informal discussion, undertaken to discover some means of arriving at a common understanding.

The discussion lasted over eight sittings, but the conference, to which the British delegates had come with powers to assent to a penal clause, arrived at an understanding, and a convention was signed in March 1902.

The two great recurring " necessities of State," the budget and the authorization of the contingents of army recruits, regularly occupied a large part of the sittings; the budget was generally passed only in instalments in three or six monthly grants, and the Government was forced to adopt the practice of adjourning the obstructive House of Deputies and of providing for indispensable requirements in its absence by emergency decree.

Two unofficial members of the legislative council of the colony, which holds its sittings in Singapore, are nominated by the governor, with the sanction of the secretary of state for the colonies, to represent Penang.

During the French occupation the law courts sat there, and from 1817 to 1830 it was assigned for the sittings of the states-general.

Of the secular buildings the most important is the Landhaus, where the local diet holds its sittings, erected in the 16th century in the Renaissance style.

These defects have long been felt, but Congress is not disposed either to admit officials to attend its sittings or to modify the methods to which it has grown accustomed.

The sittings of the tribunal began in February and ended in August 1893.

Mr Nelson Dingley, an American member of the commission, died during the month of January, as did the chairman, Lord Herschell, in March, as the result of an accident, soon after the close of the sittings of the commission.

Its mode of operation is to work out the matters it deals with during the intervals between the sessions, in permanent commissions, among which the whole domain of international law is divided up. The commissions, under the direction of their rapporteurs or conveners, prepare reports and proposals, which are printed and distributed among the members some time before the plenary sittings at which they are to be discussed.

One hundred members, many of them foreign divines, composed this great assembly, who after 154 sittings gave their seal to the doctrines of the Netherlands Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism.

In vain the assembly protested and continued its sittings, going even so far as to forbid the payment of taxes while it was subjected to illegal treatment.

A few republican members held on by it, and transferred the sittings to Stuttgart.

From the 12th of June 1851 its sittings went on as if nothing had occurred since it was dispersed.

Each delegation has its separate sittings, both alike public. Their decisions are reciprocally communicated in writing, and, in case of non-agreement, their deliberations are renewed.

Here in 1850 the parliament of the short-lived Prussian Northern Union (known as the Erfurt parliament) held its sittings.

As bishop of Nebbio in Corsica, he took part in some of the earlier sittings of the Lateran council (1516-1517), but, in consequence of party complications, withdrew to his diocese, and ultimately to France, where he became a pensioner of Francis I., and was the first to occupy a chair of Hebrew and Arabic in the university of Paris.

In its vicinity the praetor's tribunal, removed from the comitium in the 2nd century B.C., held its sittings, which led to the place becoming the haunt of litigants, money-lenders and business people.

He even went so far as to side with his colleagues, when serious difficulties arose between the new government and the president of the Cortes, Senor Martos, who was backed by a very imposing commission composed of the most influential conservative members of the last parliament of the Savoyard king, which had suspended its sittings shortly after proclaiming the federal republic. A sharp struggle was carried on for weeks between the executive and this commission, at first presided over by Martos, and, when he resigned, by Salmeron.

This resignation was not an unfortunate event for the country, as the federal Cortes not only made Castelar chief of the executive, though his partisans were in a minority in the Parliament, but they gave him much liberty to act, as they decided to suspend the sittings of the house until 2nd January 1874.

Franco organized a coalition in defence of the Crown, but in January 1907 business in the cortes was brought to a standstill and many sittings ended in uproar.

The sittings of the diet that met in 1575 were very prolonged.

Nor is the test of " sittings " provided by the various denominations, nor even the number of their communicants, a trustworthy test of the relative number of their adherents.

Pressburg was the capital of Hungary from 1541 until 1784, while the Hungarian parliament held its sittings here till 1848.

Other noteworthy buildings are the cathedral, a Gothic edifice of the 13th century, restored in 1861-1880, in which many of the Hungarian kings were crowned; the town hall, also a 13th-century building, several times restored, and containing an interesting museum; the Franciscan church, dating from 1272; and the law-courts, erected in 1783, where the sittings of parliament were held from 1802 to 1848.

He worked, it is said, at her portrait during some portion of four successive years, causing music to be played during the sittings that the rapt expression might not fade from off her countenance.

Bratianu and Cogalniceanu were sent to Berlin to endeavour to prevail on the representatives of the Powers there assembled in June 1878 to veto the cession of Bessarabia to Russia; but the Rumanian delegates were not permitted to attend the sittings of the congress until the Powers had decided in favour of the Russian claim.

During the sittings of the congress troubles broke out which originated in an insignificant conflict between students and soldiers of the garrison.

After the sittings of the Imperial War Cabinet in 1918 he spoke of the resolutions then passed in favour of retaining the control of essential raw materials as an immense move forward in the whole conception of trade policy.

In this room the International Peace Conference had its sittings in the summer of 1899.

The founding of colonies, the beginning of a battle, the calling together an army, the sittings of the senate, decisions of peace or war, were occasions, not always but frequently, for taking auspices.

After the College of Advocates was incorporated and had established itself in Doctors' Commons, the archbishop's court of appeal, as well as his prerogative court, were usually held in the hall of the College of Advocates, but after the destruction of the buildings of the college, the court of appeal held its sittings, for the most part, in Westminster Hall.

When he went to Frankfort he was still under the influence of the extreme Prussian Conservatives, men like the Gerlachs, who regarded the maintenance of the principle of the form of bitter personal hostility; in 1863 the ministers refused any longer to attend the sittings, and Bismarck challenged Virchow, one of his strongest opponents, to a duel, which, however, did not take place.

The church is a neat and commodious edifice, built in 1813, and contains 800 sittings.

The church contains 482 sittings, of which 131 are free.

The church was repaired in 1874 at a cost of £ 530, and affords 400 sittings.

Once granted, the member is expected not to attend sittings of the House.

Together, these churches had sittings for around 6,000 people.

He provided for all her needs, and thus removed any necessity for her to give professional sittings.

The High Court Judge for the area has taken on additional sittings in the area to cover the gap.

The latter was given on condition that 340 free sittings should be provided.

Between 1997 and 2001, the House had a great many late sittings, and I could understand the need for that.

A number of people will also be elected to chair individual tribunal sittings.

Past papers These are papers from previous exam sittings.

This is already being addressed with extra court sittings in the magistrates ' courts.

For the MBA, student exam fees are not included (six exams on the MBA, grouped to reduce required examination sittings ).

My portraits sittings take place at your home or at the location of your choice.

Cadzow quoad sacra church, containing 800 sittings, was built in 1876-77 at a cost considerably exceeding the estimate, £ 4000.

To tackle this we would propose an increase in the number of Procurators Fiscal as well as weekend and evening sittings of courts.

Evidence was taken at sittings held over 4 days in July 1849.

All Saints ' chapel, New Headington, erected in 1870, has sittings for 160 persons; the vicar of Headington officiates.

Holland America - There are four sittings for dinner.

For the MBA, student exam fees are not included (six exams on the MBA, grouped to reduce required examination sittings).

The Philadelphia Shambhala Meditation Center also offers free meditation sittings that are open to the public.

Meet and greet sittings, karaoke sing-a-longs, dance parties, and evening story times are just some of the activities where children can meet their favorite Peanuts friends.

This preschool activity should be completed in a number of sittings over many days.

Her frequent posing made it necessary for her to wear a corset for her sittings.