Visitation Sentence Examples

The visitation was a failure.

This was the last and most tremendous visitation of the Assyrian scourge.

The preparations for the coronation of King James were interrupted by a severe visitation of the plague, which killed off as many as 30,578 persons, and it was not till March 25, 1604, that the king, the queen and Prince Henry passed triumphantly from the Tower to Westminster.

Peckham's main instrument was a minute system of "visitation," which he used with a frequency hitherto unknown.

Finally, many private charitable corporations (about 500 in 1905) report to the state board of charity, and town and city almshouses (205 in 1904) are subject to visitation.

In the north the progress of Abbas Mirza was stopped at Bayazici by a like deadly visitation; and a suspension of hostilities was agreed upon for the winter season.

In the following year Persia had a visitation of cholera.

On the 2nd of April four commissioners were appointed to superintend the construction of the new castle ordered in the Isle of Sheppey, which when finished was called Queenborough, the purchases and payments, not the works, being under the beloved clerk, Wykeham, In this year came the second visitation of the Black Death, the Second Plague, as it was called, and carried off four bishops and several magnates, with many clerics, whose vacated preferments were poured on Wykeham.

He certainly held the living but two years, resigning it in January 1552 along with his other benefice, and it is noteworthy that at the episcopal visitation of 1551 he was not present.

The hundred rate is seldom made, though in some counties it may be made for purposes of main roads and bridges chargeable to the hundred as distinguished from the county at large; (ii.) the borrowing of money; (iii.) the passing of the accounts of, and the discharge of the county treasurer; (iv.) shire halls, county halls, assize courts, the judges' lodgings, lock-up houses, court houses, justices' rooms, police stations and county buildings, works and property; (v.) the licensing under any general act of houses and other places for music or for dancing, and the granting of licences under the Racecourses Licensing Act 1879; (vi.) the provision, enlargement, maintenance and management and visitation of, and other dealing with, asylums for pauper lunatics; (vii.) the establishment and maintenance of, and the contribution to, reformatory and industrial schools; (viii.) bridges and roads repairable with bridges, and any powers vested by the Highways and Locomotives Amendment Act 1878 in the county authority.

Where any part of the country appears to be threatened with or is affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic or infectious disease, the Local Government Board may make regula tions for the speedy interment of the dead, house-tohouse visitation, the provision of medical aid and accommodation, the promotion of cleansing, ventilation and disinfection, and the guarding against the spread of disease.

The last years of Bellarmine's life were mainly devoted to the composition of devotional works and to securing the papal approbation of the new order of the Visitation, founded by his friend St Francis de Sales, and the beatification of St Philip Neri.

He considers " bodily effects " incidentals to the real work of God, but his own mystic devotion and the experiences of his wife during the Awakening (which he gives in detail) make him think that the divine visitation usually overpowers the body, a view in support of which he quotes Scripture.

The Puritans, who aimed at setting up the Genevan model, objected; and the visitation articles of the bishops in Charles I.'s time make frequent inquisition i nto the neglect of the clergy to obey the law in this England.

The lee side of the island is subject to the visitation of "rollers," which break on the shore with very great violence.

The madrassehs or buildings around the mosque, originally intended as lodgings for students and professors, have long been let out to rich pilgrims. The minor places of visitation for pilgrims, such as the birthplaces of the prophet and his chief followers, are not notable.'

But whether or not such stringent methods were adopted, it was found necessary to organize a system of house-to-house visitation and constantly recurring inspection.

It was clear, therefore, that in its very nature, house-to-house visitation was both wasteful and insufficient, and it remained for Liverpool to correct the difficulty by the application, in 1873, of the " Differentiating waste water meter," which has since been extensively used for the same purpose in various countries.

It is, however, maintained by some that, except in the case of the sick, the only legitimate method of receiving absolution in the Church of England is in the public services of the congregation; and the Church of Ireland has recently made important alterations even in the passages that concern the sick, while the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States has omitted that part of the visitation service altogether.

The upper classes are said to have suffered less than the poor; but the kings daughter Joan and two archbishops of Canterbury were among the victims. The long continuance of the visitation, which as a rule took six or nine months to work out its virulence in any particular spot, seems to have cowed and demoralized society.

When the worst of the plague was over, and panic had died down, it was found that the social conditions of England had been considerably affected by the visitation.

The board has also power of visitation and inspection over the Wisconsin Veterans' Home at Waupaca, founded in 1887 by the state department of the Grand Army of the Republic. In the state's treatment of the insane, chronic cases are separated and sent to the county asylums. The labour of convicts in the state prison is leased; until 1878 the state itself supervised manufacturing in the prison; then for twenty-five years the convicts were employed in making shoes for a Chicago firm; and since 1903 the state has received 65 cents a day for the labour of each convict, and at least 300 convicts are employed in the manufacture of socks and stockings, from which in1906-1908(two years) the income to the state was $156,890.

It was greatly stimulated in the 17th century by St Francis of Sales who gave this symbol to his Order (the Visitation) as its badge.

Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), a Visitation nun of Paray-le-Monial, assisted by her director, the Venerable Claude de la Colombiere, S.J.

Mary of Modena, the exiled queen of James II., at the instance of the Visitation, petitioned in 1697 for a proper Feast of the Sacred Heart.

Meanwhile the chief objection, that of "novelty," was gradually removed by the multiplication of local manifestations, the genuineness of which was proved to the satisfaction of the Roman Congregation of Rights, and in 1765 it was allowed for houses of the Visitation and certain countries.

With the growth of the episcopate, however, the deacons became the immediate ministers of the bishop. Their duties included the supervision of Church property, the management of Church finances, the visitation of the sick, the distribution of alms and the care of widows and orphans.

The deacons superintend the financial affairs of the church, co-operate with the minister in the various branches of his work, assist in the visitation of the sick, attend to the church property and generally supervise the activities of the church.

He began his new rule by a vigorous attempt to assert his rights, warned the citizens of London not to withhold tithes, and decided appeals from the judgments of his suffragans during a thorough visitation of his province.

In 1397 he had sought to vindicate his right of visitation over the university of Oxford, but the dispute remained unsettled until 1411 when a bull was issued by Pope John XXIII.

This scheme brought him into conflict with more than one privileged corporation, but in particular with his own chapter, who vigorously disputed his claim to exercise the right of visitation over their community.

Nevertheless, I have assumed that the visitation pedigree is accurate for the mid to late 16th century.

To prevent things from getting out of hand, the bishop would conduct a visitation, that means an inspection.

Matters soon came to a deadlock, and the vice-dean and his party appealed to the bishop to hold a visitation under the statutes.

The jury retuned a verdict of died by the visitation of God.

What is it about extraterrestrial visitation that implies the availability of physical proof?

Nowadays selected parishes have an episcopal visitation and the timing of the events is staggered.

The purpose for this angelic visitation was to point them to Jesus Christ.

The clerk was Gregory King, amanuensis to Sir William Dugdale, then on a herald's visitation at Egremont.

In 1586 there was a terrible visitation of the plague; and the parliamentarian forces were overthrown here in the Civil War.

In concert with Jeanne Francoise Fremyot (1572-1641), widow of the baron de Chantal, whose acquaintance he made while preaching through Lent at Dijon in 1604, he founded the order of the Visitation, in favour of "strong souls with weak bodies," as he said, deterred from entering the orders already existing, by their inability to undertake severe corporal austerities.

The only modern editions of the complete works which it is worth while to name are those of Blaise (1821), Vires (1856-1858), Migne (1861), and the critical edition published by the Visitation of Annecy, of which the 14th volume appeared in 1905.

Another innovation was the census; it was undertaken despite the protests of Joab, and was checked by the rebukes of the prophet Gad and the visitation of a pestilence (xxiv.).

Every year there are seismic disturbances, and though Santiago is the point of most frequent visitation, they occur in all parts of the island, in 1880 affecting the entire western end.

In 1892 the cholera raged within its walls, carried off 850o of its inhabitants, and caused considerable losses to its commerce and industry; but the visitation was not without its salutary fruits, for an improved drainage system, better hospital accommodation, and a purer water-supply have since combined to make it one of the healthiest commercial cities of Europe.

It was proved in the course of the long argument in this case that the archbishop of Canterbury had undoubtedly exercised such independent power of visitation both before and after the Reformation; and it was on this precedent that in 1888 the judicial committee of the privy council mainly relied in deciding that the archbishop had the right to cite before him the bishop of Lincoln (Dr Edward King), who was accused of certain irregular ritual practices.

But this Mogul visitation was most calamitous; forty persons, indeed, are stated to have alone survived the general massacre of 1232, and as a similar catastrophe overtook the city at the hands of Timur in 1398, when the local dynasty of Kurt, which had succeeded the Ghorides in eastern Khorasan, was put an end to, it is astonishing to find that early in the 15th century Herat was again flourishing and populous, and the favoured seat of the art and literature of the East.

For instance, the last visitation of cholera could be traced clearly and definitely to a point of origin in northern India in the spring of 1892, and could be followed thence step by step in its mare, i westward (see Cholera).

This seems to explain the Richard Skipwith who begins the visitation pedigree.

The Dean informs the Bishop he is a year behind with his visitation schedule.

Around 36 hours after being admitted to the hospital, I was moved back to a regular room with a phone and visitation rights.

The Bishop 's Visitation Return for 1854 gives a picture of St Andrew 's in the middle of the last century.

Records include many visitation papers for the Archdeaconries of Norwich and Norfolk, including some presentments from the 16th century.

Judging from repeated remarks in the visitation records, it seems that his senses may first have been assailed by chickens.

The clerk was Gregory King, amanuensis to Sir William Dugdale, then on a herald 's visitation at Egremont.

No records Causes recorded in AN/A 58 Archbishop Lamplugh 's Visitation in 1690 Inhibition of Archdeaconry of Nottingham in force April - October 1690.

The bishop made a visitation of the priory in 1343.

I had in fact written the letter the day before Hogmanay and imagined this pleasant visitation of the spirits of the past.

There is little doubt that the bishop exercised a jurisdiction in the visitation of the house.

Visitation schedules with the birth parents can be set, as well as financial agreements.

Free books may also be provided to daycares and prison visitation areas for children of imprisoned parents as well.

Helping your child understand issues regarding custody, visitation, and division of primary assets will alleviate some insecurity.

In most divorce agreements, one parent will have primary custody and the other will have regular visitation rights.

Planning a stress-free visitation experience gives your child the opportunity to enjoy quality time with the non-custodial parent.

It's only natural to want to include your new boyfriend or girlfriend, but the visitation should be a time for your child to enjoy being with you.

It's fine to plan fun activities for your visitation, but resist the urge to spoil your child.

Don't use the visitation as an opportunity to dig up dirt on your former spouse.

Contrary to popular belief, child support payments have no relevance to court-ordered visitation schedules.

If a non-custodial parent fails to pay his/her child support, he/she is still legally entitled to standard visitation with the children.

This is a good time to bring up your concerns relating to custody, alimony, visitation, child support, and other key issues of your divorce.

New York divorce laws let spouses end their marriage and decide on important issues such as dividing property, providing alimony, child custody, support, and visitation.

Generally, the court will allow the non-custodial parent ample visitation with the child and even award joint custody.

Visitation is often only limited in circumstances where there is abuse.

For instance, an attorney should be consulted if there are child support and visitation issues because any mistakes you make could have untold consequences long in to the future.

What are the visitation rights of the non-custodial parent?

Depending on the circumstances, any one of these may have a serious effect on issues such as spousal support, property and asset distribution, child custody, visitation and child support.

If there are issues around custody or visitation, then you are better off paying for the services of an attorney.

Even so, dating throughout a divorce may have a direct or indirect effect on divorce settlement issues such as child custody and visitation, as well as spousal support.

Visitation will be granted so long as it is in the best interests of the child.

This step typically involves child-related matters such as custody, visitation, support and scheduling.

Even parents who are cooperative and tolerant of one another often find themselves facing unexpected roadblocks as they work out housing and visitation arrangements.

When the couple is unable to come to an agreement about division of their marital property, custody, child support or visitation, these matters will be heard by a judge.

The spouses may determine a visitation schedule or the court will establish one if they are unable to do so.

If you or your co-parent have to change visitation days based on legitimate personal or business obligations, it's not the end of the world.

Seriously and respectfully consider her needs, and do your best to be fair in dividing child rearing schedules, visitation and parenting responsibilities.

Spears is seeking custody of both, granting visitation to Federline.

The trouble began when Britney's visitation time with the boys had ended and they were to be returned to the care of their father, Kevin Federline.

After the incident, Britney had all visitation rights with her two young children suspended and Kevin Federline was granted full custody of the boys until the next court date set for January 14.

Her major meltdown - In January of 2007, Britney refused to turn over her kids when her visitation with them was over.

In Caruso's corner, his reps say that he was "concerned with the welfare of his children," so he filed court papers with the goal of changing his visitation schedule.

Caruso and camp claim that Marquez's lawsuit is just a sad attempt to distract attention away from the case at hand regarding his visitation schedule with his children.

Currently, Kate has primary custody of the kids and Jon has visitation rights and is required to pony up $20,000 a month in child support.

Noncustodial visitation in regards to grandparents is an issue that has come to the forefront in recent years.

Courts will now grant visitation rights to grandparents in some circumstances.

The standard the court uses when making determinations about custody and visitation is to look at what would be in the child's best interests.

If there is a well-established relationship between the grandparent and grandchildren, this will be taken into consideration when a judge is asked to make a ruling on the issue of noncustodial visitation in regards to grandparents.

In the U.S., all 50 states have enacted legislation with respect to visitation rights for grandparents.

The law varies from state to state on who can petition the court for visitation rights and the specific circumstances under which visitation will be granted.

Some people have put forward various arguments against allowing grandparents court-ordered visitation with their grandchildren.

Opposers contend that when a court of law is permitted to order noncustodial visitation with regard to grandparents, the state is interfering with the parents' rights to make decisions concerning the raising of their children.

Restrictive visitation laws are in place in approximately 20 states.

As the name implies, permissive visitation laws allow grandparents to ask for visitation with their grandchildren without the restrictions listed above.

Other family members or foster parents/grandparents may also ask the court to award them visitation rights.

Under the provisions of The Visitation Rights Enforcement Act, grandparents who have been granted visitation rights in one state are guaranteed that they can exercise that right in any state.

Before this law was passed on 1998, grandparents could be granted visitation rights in one state but would have to re-petition the court if the grandchild moved to another state.

The children's mother did not argue that her daughters should be able to see their grandparents, but felt that the amount of visitation requested was excessive.

The case was first heard in Superior Court, which granted more visitation than the mother thought was appropriate.

So if you're seeking visitation, be advised that it's best to try to work out a solution with the children's parents first before pursuing court action.

Which pass to choose depends on each guest's visitation needs - some passes include additional benefits, while some are cheaper but have more restrictions.

Child custody laws also pertain to the visitation rights of the non-custodial parent.

Liberal, unrestricted visitation for the non-custodial parent is often based on the relationship with children and the degree of involvement in the children's everyday activities.

Stepparents may face a similar situation, since stepparents, unless they legally adopt a stepchild, have no legal rights with regard to custody or visitation.

The noncustodial parent has financial responsibility for the child and visitation rights.

The Nurse Home Visitation Program operates in Colorado, New York, and Tennessee.

The birth parent may have visitation rights after adoption takes place.

Each hospital has its own visitation policy that should be investigated before the child's hospitalization.

Parents should inquire about sibling visitation guidelines.

It is open for visitation from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., October 1 through March 31, and from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., April 1 to September 30.

In fact, Halle fought for regular visitation with India as part of her divorce settlement.

These classes can provide pregnant women with specific information about their birthing facility, such as medication usage and visitation policies.

Each type of visitation ended with the man offering her a ride home, but the woman vanished into thin air whenever they neared the gates of the cemetery.

If you do decide to visit a cemetery in search of spirits, make sure that you are respectful of the site, follow the ground's rules for visitation and avoid creating any damage.

When Viki woke, she was uncertain whether it was a powerful dream or a true heavenly visitation.

More erratic behavior resulted in her losing visitation rights, and she was admitted to a psych ward.

A papal bull having also been obtained, on the 28th of August 1425, the archbishop, in the course of a visitation of Lincoln diocese, executed his letters patent founding the college, dedicating it to the Virgin, St Thomas Becket and St Edward the Confessor, and handed over the buildings to its members, the vicar of Higham Ferrers being made the first master or warden.

The north-west coast, particularly the portions north of Cambridge Gulf and the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, are favoured with an annual visitation of the monsoon from December to March, penetrating as far as Soo m.

Both he and Gardiner had in fact sought fresh licences to exercise their ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the young king; and, if he was supreme enough to confer jurisdiction, he was supreme enough to issue the injunctions and order the visitation to which Bonner objected.

Probably through the influence of Ridley, who had been master of Pembroke Hall, Grindal was selected as one of the Protestant disputants during the visitation of 1549.

In return for her kindness, being entrusted with foreknowledge by the visitation of God, they prophesied that God had decreed an end of rule for Herod and his line and that the sovereignty devolved upon her and Pheroras and their children.

Consequently, in his first visitation, he declared thirty-six churches vacant; and of these forcible possesssion was taken by his orders.

In the West, in the 6th and 7th centuries, besides the original functions of their office, archdeacons had certain well-defined rights of visitation and supervision, being responsible for the good order of the lower clergy, the upkeep of ecclesiastical buildings and the safe-guarding of the church furniture - functions which involved a considerable disciplinary power.

Farel was called to Neuchatel in July 1538, but his position there was made untenable, though he remained at his post during a visitation of the plague.

In1597-1598a terrible visitation of plague attacked the town, in which, according to an old inscription on the church, 2260 persons perished in Penrith, by which perhaps is meant the rural deanery.

Duke John of Saxony had placed him on the commission for church visitation in Thuringia, and in 1529 appointed him pastor and superintendent at Eisenach, where for eighteen years he administered church affairs with tact, and fostered the spread of education.

The town itself is a pleasant residence, and contains a 16th century cathedral church, an 18th century bishop's palace, a 14th-16th century castle (formerly the residence of the counts of the Genevois), and the reconstructed convent of the Visitation, wherein now reposes the body of St Francois de Sales (born at the castle of Sales, close by, in 1567; died at Lyons in 1622), who held the see from 1602 to 1622.

He preached before the Commons in 1642, but his sermon gave offence, and when in 1647 he took a prominent part in resisting the parliamentary visitation of Oxford University he was deprived of his canonry and living.

Meanwhile there had been a frightful earthquake in 1822, and a visitation of cholera in the following year.

In those days the frequent visitation of plagues made men fear the gathering together of multitudes.

In 1636, owing to a serious visitation of the plague, 200 families were thrown out of work, and in 1687 so much had its importance declined that it was deprived of its charter.

The next years were devoted to the duties and studies connected with his office, which involved the visitation of the Swedish, Saxon, Bohemian and Austrian mines.

The right to hold a visitation of a suffragan's diocese or to issue censures against him was, by Sess.

A right very rarely exercised by the archbishop of Canterbury, but one of great importance, is that of the visitation and deprivation of inferior bishops.

The archbishop holds a visitation of his diocese personally every three years, and he is the only diocesan who has kept up the triennial visitation of the dean and chapter of his cathedral.'

In January 1841 Shuttleworth, bishop of Chichester, appointed him archdeacon, whereupon he began a personal visitation of each parish within his district, completing the task in 1843.

In the medieval Church there were seven "corporal" and seven "spiritual works of mercy" (opera misericordiae); these were (a) the giving of food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty, the clothing of the naked, the visitation of the sick and of prisoners, the receiving of strangers, and the burial of the dead; (b) the conversion of sinners, teaching of the ignorant, giving of counsel to the doubtful, forgiveness of injuries, patience under wrong, prayer for the living and for the dead.

The Council accordingly listened to the accusations of Ferrar's chapter, and in 1552 he was summoned to London and imprisoned on a charge of praemunire incurred by omitting the king's authority in a commission which he issued for the visitation of his diocese.

In 1787 a second university act was passed which restored to Columbia College the substance of its original charter and made the University of the State of New York an exclusively executive body with authority to incorporate new colleges and academies and to exercise over them the right of visitation.

In May 1671 she entered the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial, in the diocese of Autun, and took the final vows in November 1672.

Though in 1250 he provoked the English bishops by claiming the right of visitation in their dioceses, he took the lead at the council of Merton (1258) in vindicating the privileges of his order.

Chalmers was the mainspring of the whole system, not merely superintending the visitation, but personally visiting all the families, and holding evening meetings, when he addressed those whom he had visited.

The pope, who knew the situation, committed a visitation of the Society to Cardinal Saldanha, an intimate friend of Pombal, who issued a severe decree against the Jesuits and ordered the confiscation of all their merchandise.

Her education was strict, and her own wish was to be a nun in a convent of the order of the Visitation founded by her mother.

She lived at St Germain or at Chaillot, a religious house of the Visitation.

Within is a beautiful group of the Visitation by Luca della Robbia.

The sign of the cross was to be made not only in the eucharistic consecration prayer, but also in Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Matrimony and the Visitation of the Sick.

The Visitation is the personal inspection of institutions, churches, religious establishments and their personnel, to correct abuses The Visit- p and enforce the observation of rules.

Out of it grew the visitation of Indian zenanas.

On the "Heights" are many fine residences with beautiful gardens; the Monastery and Academy (for girls) of Visitation, founded in 1799 by Leonard Neale, second archbishop of Baltimore; and the college and the astronomical observatory (1842) of Georgetown University.

During Basil's reign a terrible visitation of the "Black Death" decimated the population.

Plague, formerly one of the great scourges of the country, seems to have been stamped out, the last visitation having been in 1844, but cholera epidemics occasionally occur.i Cholera rarely extends south of Cairo.

Even among the Israelites, the visitation of certain cult-centres prevailed from remote antiquity; but, when the restriction of Yahwehworship to Jerusalem had doomed the old shrines, the Jewish pilgrimages were directed solely to the sanctuary on Mt Moria.

But the visitation of these sites was rendered impossible to the Christians by the destruction of Jerusalem and the erection of the town of Aelia Capitolina.

The visitation of the holy places was conducted in processions headed by the Franciscans of the Convent of Zion.

In the same year he had an unpleasant dispute with Cranmer about the visitation of his diocese.

The religious changes he objected to both on principle and on the ground of their being moved during the king's minority, and he resisted Cranmer's project of a general visitation.

His remonstrances, however, were met by his own committal to the Fleet, and the visitation of his diocese was held during his imprisonment.

The ecclesiastics who were parted at his command from the laysisters (whom they kept ostensibly as servants), the thirteen bishops whom he deposed for simony and licentiousness at a single visitation, the idle monks who thronged the avenues to the court and found themselves the public object of his scorn - all conspired against the powerful author of their wrongs.

Before long famine had fallen on the land, and under this visitation the repeal movement, already paralysed, wholly collapsed.

Idleness, drunkenness, vicious intercourse, sickness, starvation, squalor, cruelty, chains, awful oppression and everywhere culpable neglect - in these words may be summed up the state of the gaols at the time of Howard's visitation.

Notice of a like visitation in 1593 is recorded, but of late it has become evident that not a year passes without crossbills being observed in some part or other of England, while in certain localities in Scotland they seem to breed annually.

President Buchanan soon afterward made him secretary of state, and in this position he at last had the satisfaction of obtaining from the British government an acknowledgment of the correctness of the American attitude with regard to the right of search (or " visitation," as Great Britain euphemistically termed it).

In 1382 the archbishop's visitation led to disputes with the bishops of Exeter and Salisbury, and Courtenay was only partially able to enforce the payment of a special tax to meet his expenses on this occasion.

He resisted the visitation of August 1547, and was committed to the Fleet; but he withdrew his opposition, and was released in time to take an active part against the government in the parliament of November 1547.

Mere Angelique Arnaud, who at this time put herself under his direction and wished to join the Order of the Visitation, attracted by its humility and sweetness, may be named as the most interesting of his innumerable penitents of this period.

It provided for the visitation of the clergy by the bishop, and for the power of the clergy to exclude their lay folk from the Holy Communion, subject to appeal to the bishop. Both minor and major excommunication had been in use, and for a long time public penance was required.

A royal visitation, beginning in 1547, discovered, however, such a degree of ignorance and illiteracy among the parish clergy that it became clear that preaching could only be gradually given its due place in the services of the Church.