The reading from Acts comes in the lull between Jesus' ascension and Pentecost. |
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Pro-hunters fear that if peers refuse to back the Commons this time the Government will use the Parliament Acts to steamroller a ban into law. |
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Since 1892 it has been registered under the Companies Acts as an unlimited company without share capital. |
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Acts of violence are legitimated through the evocation of historical events. |
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Acts of violence against one's own countrymen that are legitimated by religion are not new. |
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But the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 nevertheless represented a repudiation of Wilsonianism. |
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Acts of racism, homophobia, xenophobia or just plain discrimination happen all the time. |
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Acts of aggression, massacres and corruption legitimise foreign intervention. |
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Acts of terrorism do not advance the cause of working class people and the poor. |
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Yet, if one studies the four Gospels and the Book of Acts, he immediately realizes that this type of church is biblical. |
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The Acts were aimed at equalizing the political conditions of African Americans and White Americans. |
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This power may overlap with the power to remove people to hospital under the National Assistance Acts. |
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In the 16th century, Acts of Parliament regulated the watermen and wherrymen working on the tidal Thames between Gravesend and Windsor. |
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Acts done in the course of such operations are not justiciable and the courts of law cannot take cognizance of them. |
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Peter could be charged with a number of offences under the Theft Acts 1968 and 1978, as he has clearly deceived his bank manager. |
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For the Acts and Proceedings of the Convocations, readers are referred to The Chronicle of the Convocation of Canterbury. |
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The Forest's designation as a National Park will not affect the rights of common, the New Forest Acts or the role of the verderers. |
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Acts of communication, whether or not they take place within the context of microcinema, might fail. |
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Acts of perverted or distorted freedom, undertaken from self-overcoming willfulness, recognize no limit. |
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Some of these rights and liberties are the results of custom and convention, whereas others are contained in the written Acts of Parliament. |
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Unlike other parts of the Empire, Britain's 1914 and 1948 Nationality Acts affirmed that there was no colour bar to British citizenship. |
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These stamps were issued to show the pre-payment of mechanical copyright royalties due under various Copyright Acts and General Regulations. |
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Acts of barbarous inhumanity are a grim reminder that, in the scheme of things, we are not much above wild animals. |
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Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited. |
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Dissolute Persons are wont to prepare themselves for venereous Acts by Bathing. |
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In New Testament terms, it is as if the Epistles were preserved, without any of the four Gospels or Acts of the Apostles. |
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Acts 2 and 3 are a bit more contrived in their plot machinations but still hilarious. |
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The words are not to be construed as if they were provisions in Acts of Parliament. |
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Acts of violence, intermingled with humour, are core features of the novel. |
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Acts of vandalism do occur, but it is not something that happens very frequently. |
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Acts of this sort arouse every cultured person and no haziness or lack of clarity can excuse them. |
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The appearance of the play-within-a-play solidified for me the impression that Foolish Acts is one big fluffy in-joke. |
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For the church after Acts did not have the miracles and signs of the kingdom, but the truth concerning the church which is the body of Christ. |
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Most insurers moved towards limited liability by forming companies under the companies Acts of the mid-19th century. |
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Two Acts, in 1856 and 1877, did much to break the oligarchical nature of the government of the university. |
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Two railway Acts of the 1860s mention light railways and in 1870 the Tramways Act was passed. |
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This descent was marked by the gift of tongues, and St. Peter is recorded in Acts as seeing in this the new dispensation that had been prophesied by Joel. |
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Acts were passed prohibiting any but English vessels to trade with English colonies, and allowing only English ships to import goods into England. |
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At first the committee had to work covertly as under the Neutrality Acts an American could lose his citizenship if he fought in the armed forces of a belligerent power. |
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The English Bill of Rights, having no constitutional status, is ineffective to control Acts of Parliament which might infringe on the rights enumerated. |
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The government hoped to defend the mainland by fortifying the coast with Martello towers, embodying the Militia, and extending the Militia Acts to Scotland and Ireland. |
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If the reader desire to learn more thereanent, let him consult for himself the various authorities and the Acts of the Blessed Martyrs already cited. |
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The office traces its origins to the New Testament church, where the ministry of Stephen and others is described in the Acts of the Apostles as their diaconia. |
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Another thing that must be noted in these chapters in Acts was the fact that Paul was in no way going out to evangelise the heathen who had no contact with the good news. |
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He claimed Midway for the U.S., based on the Guano Acts of 1856, which authorized Americans to temporarily occupy uninhabited islands to obtain guano. |
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This endeavor is given more precise form by a detailed study of Johannes Klenlok's commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, from the middle of the fourteenth century. |
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Universalism in the books of Luke and Acts underscores the certainty that the mission of Jesus and his church are united in the plan of God for the salvation of all nations. |
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The Forest's designation as a National Park will not affect the rights of common, the New Forest Acts or the role of the verderers, who manage the commoning system. |
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As the evangelist most preoccupied with the formation of the church, Luke emphasizes the importance of the bestowal of the Holy Spirit in both his gospel and Acts. |
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And Reddit launched Random Acts of Pizza to pay for pies to be sent to first responders. |
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If we have not extinguished the paschal candle on Ascension, we may do so during the reading from Acts as the Holy Spirit roars through the assembly. |
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I have not checked the Western Australian Mining Act 1933 for this, but does it distinguish, as some Mining Acts do, between mining on private land and mining on Crown land? |
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There was a pause between Acts 1 and 2, and a rather high number of latecomers were admitted, resulting in much shuffling, and a general hum of conversation. |
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But although the Bill of Rights seemed a bulwark in defense of free speech, the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts revealed its continued vulnerability. |
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This text from Acts is probably a synopsis of a sermon given by Peter for the benefit of the Roman centurion, Cornelius, who was a person of faith. |
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Bills pass through Parliament in a number of stages before receiving royal assent, whereupon they become Acts of the Scottish Parliament. |
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New matters and fields can be devolved by Acts of the UK Parliament or by LCOs approved by Parliament. |
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The UK Parliament has power to legislate for the Islands, but Acts of Parliament do not extend to the Islands automatically. |
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Acts of the British Parliament do not usually apply to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, unless explicitly stated. |
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Independence Acts, passed when the remaining colonies were granted independence, contained nationality provisions. |
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In 1706, the Parliaments of England and Scotland passed the Acts of Union, uniting the two kingdoms in the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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It follows that Parliament can change the constitution simply by passing new statutes through Acts of Parliament. |
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Acts of Parliament are among the most important sources of the constitution. |
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Important treaties have been incorporated into domestic law by means of Acts of Parliament. |
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There has been some academic and legal debate as to whether the Acts of Union 1707 place limits on parliamentary supremacy. |
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There are many Acts of Parliament which themselves have constitutional significance. |
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By the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 legislation may, in certain circumstances, be passed without the approval of the House of Lords. |
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Later states passed the Citation Acts which prevented Loyalists collecting their debts. |
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Trade in colonial America was regulated by the British mercantile system through the Acts of Trade and Navigation. |
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The Pacific Railway Acts provided the development of the First Transcontinental Railroad. |
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In response, the government passed the Six Acts, measures designed to quell further political agitation. |
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Acts of Parliament passed in 1835 and 1836 increased the number of polling places in each constituency, and reduced polling to a single day. |
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From the time of Henry VII onwards, Parliament began passing Acts to stop enclosure, to limit its effects, or at least to fine those responsible. |
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Over the next 150 years, there were 11 more Acts of Parliament and eight commissions of enquiry on the subject. |
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Originally an independent country, Scotland joined with England to form the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 with the Acts of Union. |
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The Laws in Wales Acts 1542 created the Court of Great Sessions in Wales based on four legal circuits. |
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Even after the Acts of Union 1707, burghs continued to be the principal subdivision. |
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The Short Titles Act 1892, and its replacement the Short Titles Act 1896, gave short titles to many Acts which previously lacked them. |
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However, the power of the Lords to reject a bill passed by the House of Commons is severely restricted by the Parliament Acts. |
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By a custom that prevailed even before the Parliament Acts, the House of Lords is further restrained insofar as financial bills are concerned. |
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The Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 provide a second potential preamble if the House of Lords were to be excluded from the process. |
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They are issued under the specific authority of Acts of Parliament, and most commonly are used for the regulation of public institutions. |
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The threat of the Parliament Acts has been employed by several British governments to force the Lords to accept its legislation. |
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Since the Acts of Union 1707, Scotland has shared a legislature with the rest of the United Kingdom. |
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When the power to make Acts of the Assembly commenced, the assembly lost the ability to make Measures under part 3 of the 2006 Act. |
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Apart from the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982, Canada's constitution also has unwritten elements based in common law and convention. |
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The Parliament Acts create a system of passing a bill without the consent of the Lords. |
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With the Acts of Union 1707, the armed forces of England and Scotland were merged into the armed forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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The amending Acts reduced their responsibilities by appointing registration district examiners to inspect the registers. |
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After the Acts of Union in 1707 the emerging Scottish form of Standard English replaced Scots for most formal writing in Scotland. |
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Presbyterian church government was ensured in Scotland by the Acts of Union in 1707 which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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Since the Acts of Union in January 1801, Ireland had been part of the United Kingdom. |
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The parliaments of Scotland and of England then each ratified the treaty via respective Acts of Union. |
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During the reign of Henry VIII the Laws in Wales Acts were passed without any democratic mandate, annexing Wales into the English legal system. |
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These Acts also gave political representation for Wales in the Westminster Parliament. |
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Acts that were popularised included John Strachan, Jimmy MacBeath, Jeannie Robertson and Flora MacNeil. |
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The Southerners resisted Homestead Acts because it supported the growth of a free farmer population that might oppose slavery. |
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Government's use of alien dates back to 1798, when it was used in the Alien and Sedition Acts. |
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Acts as a catalyser that accelerates commercialization of knowledge and innovations toward economic development in Iran. |
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Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. |
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Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things. |
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The Assembly is able to legislate on devolved matters through Acts of the Assembly, which require no prior consent from Westminster. |
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Since the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the powers of the House of Lords have been very much less than those of the House of Commons. |
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After that time, the House of Commons can force the Bill through without the Lords' consent, under the Parliament Acts. |
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During the Second World War, the term was temporarily extended to ten years by Acts of Parliament. |
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Acts passed in 1921 and 1925 granted the Church of Scotland complete independence in ecclesiastical matters. |
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On 1 May 1707, under the terms of the Acts of Union 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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The two Acts incorporated provisions for Scotland to send representative peers from the Peerage of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords. |
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In 1707, the two kingdoms were united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain under the terms of the Acts of Union. |
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However, it was often sidelined and was abolished after the Acts of Union 1707, with rule direct from London. |
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The Parliament of Ireland passed the Acts of Union 1800 by which it abolished itself and the Kingdom. |
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Both Acts, though since amended, still remain in force in the United Kingdom, but have been repealed in the Republic of Ireland. |
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With the Acts of Union in 1801, Ireland became a part of the United Kingdom. |
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The Gospel of Nicodemus, a text appended to the Acts of Pilate, provides additional details about Joseph. |
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In Boron's Joseph d'Arimathe, Joseph is imprisoned much as in the Acts, but it is the Grail that sustains him during his captivity. |
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Cromwell continued to gain the king's favour when he designed and pushed through the Laws in Wales Acts, uniting England and Wales. |
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Under the Heresy Acts, numerous Protestants were executed in the Marian persecutions. |
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The Acts were passed during the reign of King Henry VIII of England, who came from the Welsh Tudor dynasty. |
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Chrimes regard as misleading, as the Acts were concerned with harmonising laws, not political union. |
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The first of these Acts was passed by a Parliament that had no representatives from Wales. |
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By the end of 1554, the pope had approved the deal, and the Heresy Acts were revived. |
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Historians note that in her day, strict Protestants regarded the Acts of Settlement and Uniformity of 1559 as a compromise. |
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The Acts joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland to form a united Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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Although described as a Union of Crowns, prior to the Acts of Union of 1707, the crowns of the two separate kingdoms had rested on the same head. |
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He pushed through the Black Acts to assert royal authority over the Kirk, and denounced the writings of his former tutor Buchanan. |
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Pilcrow marks are used to indicate the beginnings of paragraphs except after the book of Acts. |
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The Conventicle and Five Mile Acts remained in effect for the remainder of Charles's reign. |
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The rights expressed in these Acts became associated with the idea of the rights of Englishmen, and described as Fundamental Laws of England. |
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By a custom that prevailed even before the Parliament Acts, only the House of Commons may originate bills concerning taxation or Supply. |
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Since the passage of these Acts, the House of Commons has become the dominant branch of Parliament, both in theory and in practice. |
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Various Acts of Parliament were passed regulating transportation of goods, tolls and horse towpaths for various rivers. |
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Following the Acts of Union 1800, the royal arms were amended, dropping the French quartering. |
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Councils could promote Local Acts in Parliament to grant them special powers. |
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Measures and Acts of the National Assembly for Wales passed since the Government of Wales Act 2006 also apply in Wales but not in England. |
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Acts which made it high treason to deny Philip's royal authority were passed in England and Ireland. |
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After the Acts of Union 1707, England as a sovereign state ceased to exist, replaced by the new Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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This was instituted by the Judicature Acts, with the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 giving an almost limitless right of appeal to the Lords. |
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Appellate jurisdiction for Ireland returned to Westminster when the Acts of Union 1800 abolished the Parliament of Ireland. |
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The Law Lords did not have the power to exercise judicial review over Acts of Parliament. |
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The Regency Acts allow for regencies in the event of a monarch who is a minor or who is physically or mentally incapacitated. |
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Two principal Acts of Parliament have increased the general powers of parish councils, and removed onerous constraints. |
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In 1736 the Parliament passed the first of several Acts to turn the road into a turnpike. |
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Many of Priestley's political writings supported the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, which restricted the rights of Dissenters. |
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In 1787, 1789, and 1790, Dissenters again tried to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts. |
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In the Acts of Union 1707, the Kingdom of England was succeeded by the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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After the Test and Corporation Acts were repealed in 1828, all the Nonconformists elected to Parliament were Liberals. |
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Alongside Chaucer's Works, the most impressive literary monument of the period is John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. |
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Jack Upland was first printed in Foxe's Acts and Monuments, and then it appeared in Speght's edition of Chaucer's Works. |
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The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
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Another example of shared and pooled sovereignty is the Acts of Union 1707 which created the unitary state now known as the United Kingdom. |
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It is the legislature of the Kingdom of Denmark, passing Acts that apply in Denmark and, in limited cases, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. |
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Acts of the UK Parliament are normally only extended to the islands only with their specific consent. |
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Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly as with other subordinate legislatures are subject to judicial review. |
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The Acts of Union 1707 merged the kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain, under the sovereignty of the British Crown. |
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The Acts of Union 1800, instituted in reaction to the Irish Rebellion of 1798, created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
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The Acts of Union 1800 merged the Kingdom of Ireland and Kingdom of Great Britain into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
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Additionally, later ministries moved to change the Navigation Acts that had limited Irish merchants' terms of trade with Britain and its empire. |
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After the Acts of Union 1707, the terms British and Briton came to be applied to all inhabitants of the Kingdom of Great Britain and its empire. |
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Under the Acts of Union of 1707 many became parliamentary burghs, represented in the Parliament of Great Britain. |
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The failure of the Darien colonisation project has been cited as one of the motivations for the 1707 Acts of Union. |
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In 1651, the Parliament of England sought to regulate trade in America by passing the Navigation Acts, ensuring that trade only enriched Britain. |
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The enquiry will prepare a detailed scheme for transferring the Bank of England to public control and then revise the operation of the Bank Acts. |
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Unlike the Acts of Union 1707 with Scotland, the Acts of Union 1800 with Ireland did not provide for a separate Irish version of the royal arms. |
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In Acts dated 1592 and 1672, the Court was given the full power to fine and imprison offenders. |
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The Court exercises both civil and penal jurisdiction under the old Common Law of Scotland and many Acts of Parliament. |
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In 1707, the Acts of Union merged England and Scotland, and thereafter taxes on it rose dramatically. |
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Following the Acts of Union in 1707, the bank supervised the reminting of the old Scottish coinage into Sterling. |
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According to Hippolytus of Rome, Andrew preached in Thrace, and his presence in Byzantium is also mentioned in the apocryphal Acts of Andrew. |
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Following the Acts of Union, Carmarthen became judicial headquarters of the Court of Great Sessions for southwest Wales. |
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Therefore, the Assembly now has the legislative competence to pass Acts of the Assembly in all 20 devolved subjects. |
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Because these laws are derived from UK Acts of Parliament, some people consider this new system of laws to be another branch of English law. |
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Sometimes such Acts can also confer power to the National Assembly for Wales. |
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The Acts of Union passed during the reign of Henry VIII brought the lordship into the full system of English administration and law. |
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Acts who have performed there include Super Furry Animals, Feeder, Love, Ray Davies, Freddie Starr and Sweet. |
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Following a referendum held in 2011, the assembly gained powers to make primary legislation known as Acts of the Assembly. |
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Acts of aggression can become so intense that targeted dolphins sometimes go into exile after losing a fight. |
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The period between the Laws in Wales Acts and the industrialisation of Glamorgan saw two distinct periods architecturally. |
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In addition, most scholars agree that the author of Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles. |
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Paul who was probably not an eyewitness to Jesus' ministry, wrote the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles. |
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The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were both written by the same author, and are thus referred to as the Lucan texts. |
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All of these letters easily fit into the chronology of Paul's journeys depicted in Acts of the Apostles. |
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The Harrowing of Hell, derived from the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, was a popular part of the York and Wakefield cycles. |
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From 28 September to 9 October 2005 Trapani was the location of Acts 8 and 9 of the Louis Vuitton Cup. |
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Acts of remembrance were also held in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. |
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In 1651, England passed the Navigation Acts, which damaged Dutch trade interests. |
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The principal source of information for this earliest period is the Acts of the Apostles. |
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However, there are scholars who dispute the Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles. |
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Only in 1833 and 1844 were the first general protective laws against child labour, the Factory Acts, passed in Britain. |
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The specific event which is commemorated at Pentecost is the coming of the Holy Spirit, which is described in the Acts of the Apostles. |
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Acts which played at the event included Rita Ora, The 1975, Katy Perry, Jake Bugg and Pharrell Williams. |
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The 1707 Acts of Union made Bermudian and other English militiamen British. |
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In 1707 the Acts of Union united the Kingdom of England with the Kingdom of Scotland. |
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He also stated any tampering with the Acts of Union 1707 would be political madness. |
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The Navigation Acts expelled foreign merchants from England's domestic trade. |
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In England, the Navigation Acts were among the British effort to regulate trade. |
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The factories were officially intended to protect Indians from exploitation through a series of legislation called the Indian Intercourse Acts. |
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He heard cases on recognizances, the execution of Acts of Parliament and any case in which an officer of the Court of Chancery was involved. |
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On October 9, the Navigation Acts were passed to ensure that trade enriched only Britain, barring trade with other nations. |
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The vast majority of Acts passed by the Parliament of Canada do not include the year of enactment as part of the short title. |
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Amending Acts also began to take the opportunity to create short titles for earlier Acts as well as for themselves. |
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This statute was repealed and replaced by the Short Titles Act 1896, which conferred short titles on about 2,000 Acts. |
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Apart from Acts of parliament, Orders in Council are the main method by which the government implements decisions that need legal force. |
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This was done under the various Northern Ireland Acts 1974 to 2000, and not by virtue of the Royal Prerogative. |
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Federal courts are solely creatures of the federal Constitution and the federal Judiciary Acts. |
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The Act did not apply to Scotland because by the Acts of Union 1707 Scotland retained its own legal system. |
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Judicial power includes that granted by Acts of Congress for rules of law and punishment. |
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Madison case, the Supreme Court asserted its authority of judicial review over Acts of Congress. |
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Griswold found parts of the Legal Tender Acts unconstitutional, though it was reversed under a late Supreme Court majority. |
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Further Acts of Parliament in the 19th century regarding treason did not specify this special procedure and the Grand Jury was used no longer. |
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Bonham's lawyers replied by arguing that the Acts and charter were intended to prevent malpractice, not practising without a licence. |
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He undertook a closer reading of the college's charter and associated Acts and divided the relevant passage into two clauses. |
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By 1772, Otis and others had reversed course by adopting Blackstone's position that judges cannot challenge Acts of Parliament. |
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The solution adopted by the Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875 was to fuse the administration of the two. |
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The keystone of the structure created by the Judicature Acts was a strong court of appeal. |
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By 1824, a court system based in essence on the English model had been established through Acts of the British Parliament. |
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Since 1969, however, a series of Acts of Parliament altered this, and New Zealand contract law is now 'largely. |
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Acts passed by the Parliament of Canada and by provincial legislatures are the primary sources of law in Canada. |
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The Acts are announced in a provincial gazette, published annually and consolidated from time to time. |
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Equally, courts have power under the provincial Judicature Acts to apply equity. |
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It is arguable whether the concept of parliamentary supremacy arose from the Acts of Union 1707 or was a doctrine that evolved thereafter. |
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Some jurists have suggested that the Acts of Union 1707 place limits on parliamentary sovereignty and its application to Scotland. |
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Boundary commissions were set up by subsequent Acts of Parliament to maintain this principle as population movements continued. |
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The Act was tidied up with many further Acts to alter electoral boundaries. |
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Since 1945, there have been over sixty Acts of Parliament which were initially introduced under the Ten Minute Rule. |
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The Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949 reduced the power of the Lords from an absolute veto to a suspensive veto. |
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In the 1840s, Britain adopted a less protectionist policy, with the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Navigation Acts. |
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Unsurprisingly, a series of Factory Acts were passed to attempt to ameliorate these conditions. |
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In 1863, the British Parliament passed the first of several Alkali Acts, the first modern air pollution legislation. |
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The Enclosure Acts of rural England contributed to the plight of rural farmworkers. |
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The Acts for these new trusts and the renewal Acts for the earlier trusts incorporated a growing list of powers and responsibilities. |
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From the 1750s, Acts required trusts to erect milestones indicating the distance between the main towns on the road. |
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As the first attempt to improve the lot of factory children, it is often seen as paving the way for future Factory Acts. |
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Their original name came from their belief in economic equality based upon a specific passage in the Book of Acts. |
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Despite not being founded until after the first in these series of Acts, the University of Dundee shares all the features contained therein. |
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In practice nonconformists were often exempted from some of these laws through the regular passage of Acts of Indemnity. |
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From 1850 to 1880 the Norwegian shipping industry enjoyed a large boom, stimulated by the abolishing of the British Navigation Acts. |
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Acts as stomach and contact poison against caterpillars, leafhoppers, thrips, and squash bugs. |
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Acts of charity are not confined to places of worship, and they also cover the whole gamut of humanitarian deeds rewardable by Almighty Allah. |
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Jim's messages were from the Book of Acts, which chronicles the birth and spreading of the early church. |
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Acts included Suggs from Madness, Billy Bragg, Orbital, Unkle, Heaven 17, Guillemots, The Kooks and John Foxx. |
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In 1864, the Contagious Diseases Acts allowed for prostitutes infected with venereal diseases to be kept locked in hospitals for up to a year. |
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The ROP envisages such an act as a criminal offence and both the pawner and pawnee are punishable under various Acts of the law of the land. |
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Certain instrumentalities of the United States organized under Acts of Congress. |
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To ensure constitutional autochthony, the framers of the constitution repealed the prior Acts of the British Parliament via Article 395 of the constitution. |
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However, under the terms of the Scotland Acts, Westminster agreed to devolve some of its responsibilities over Scottish domestic policy to the Scottish Parliament. |
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Ever since the Parliament of Scotland adjourned in 1707 as a result of the Acts of Union, individuals and organisations had advocated the return of a Scottish Parliament. |
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The Inclosure Acts brought fences to separate formerly open land into many smaller fields, deer forests were being cut down, and arable land was increasing. |
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Most criminal laws have been codified in the Criminal Code, as well as the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, Youth Criminal Justice Act, and several other peripheral Acts. |
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Melodrama did not break the Patent Acts, as it was accompanied by music. |
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The words are from a Gnostic text, the apocryphal Acts of St John, using a translation from the Greek which Holst prepared with assistance from Clifford Bax and Jane Joseph. |
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In the past, peerages were sometimes forfeit or attainted under Acts of Parliament, most often as the result of treason on the part of the holder. |
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Full provision is made by these Acts for the efficient inspection of tea gardens and for the lodgment of complaints by coolies in districts where they are in operation. |
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Under the Acts of Union 1707, Scottish Lords would be entitled to elect 16 representative peers to sit on their Lordships' behalf in the House of Lords. |
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Acts of vandalism were committed by a raucous gang of drunkards. |
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A series of Reform Acts and Representation of the People Acts followed. |
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These acts were promoted by William Sturges Bourne, MP and Chairman of a Committee to reform the Poor Laws, and are therefore also known as the Sturges Bourne Acts. |
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In the Middle Ages sheep farming was common with a system of agistment licensing the grazing of livestock as the Inclosure Acts divided up the land. |
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All official documents, including Acts of Parliament, were to be dated with both their names, and Parliament was to be called under the joint authority of the couple. |
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The personal union between England and Scotland became a political union with the enactments of the Acts of Union 1707, which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain. |
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By the terms of the Acts of Union 1800, the Kingdom of Ireland merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain, thus creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
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As early as 1802 and 1819, Factory Acts were passed to limit the working hours of workhouse children in factories and cotton mills to 12 hours per day. |
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The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. |
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Nelson served on the station under Admiral Sir Richard Hughes, and often came into conflict with his superior officer over their differing interpretation of the Acts. |
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Acts such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Queen, Rod Stewart and The Rolling Stones are among the highest selling recording artists in the world. |
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On 1 January 1801, the provisions of the Acts of Union came into force. |
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But that it was by no means absent is shown by the numerous instances in Acts of the punishment of evildoers and the recompensing of the righteous. |
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The Acts were unpopular with both the Americans and the colonies. |
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Moreover, the Navigation Acts further increased economic dependence on England by limiting Scotland's shipping, and the Royal Scots Navy was tiny. |
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In November 1686 James had wished to gain William's support for the repeal of the Test Acts, as this would have delivered a blow to the English opposition. |
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In May 1686, James decided to obtain from the English courts of the common law a ruling that affirmed his power to dispense with Acts of Parliament. |
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In 1584 James VI of Scotland had the Parliament of Scotland pass the Black Acts, appointing two bishops and bringing the Church of Scotland under royal control. |
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The post was first created after the Acts of Union 1707 created the Kingdom of Great Britain from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. |
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Although the price of tea had dropped because of the Act, it also validated the Townshend Acts, setting the precedent for the king to impose additional taxes in the future. |
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Early Acts had given magistrates powers to punish anyone damaging turnpike property, such as defacing milestones, breaking turnpike gates or avoiding tolls. |
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The Parliament of Scotland was abolished when it merged with the Parliament of England to create the new Parliament of Great Britain, in 1707 under the Acts of Union. |
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Both Acts of Sederunt and Acts of Adjournal have the capacity to amend primary legislation where it deals with civil or criminal procedure respectively. |
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As early as 1802 and 1819 Factory Acts were passed to regulate the working hours of workhouse children in factories and cotton mills to 12 hours per day. |
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The Factory Acts were a series of UK labour law Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate the conditions of industrial employment. |
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All Acts of Parliament were overseen by the Justices of the Peace. |
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The original Act was updated by the 1968 and 1993 Clean Air Acts. |
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These Acts led to considerable areas of the UK being declared as Smoke Control Areas where the use of solid fuel is either prohibited or only allowed in authorised appliances. |
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The legend that Joseph was given the responsibility of keeping the Holy Grail was the product of Robert de Boron, who essentially expanded upon stories from Acts of Pilate. |
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A referendum under these provisions was held in March 2011 and resulted in a vote in favour of granting the assembly the competence to pass the Acts of the Assembly. |
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The Acts came into effect on 1 May 1707, uniting the separate Parliaments and crowns of England and Scotland and forming a single Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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As a result of these Acts, each of these universities is governed by a tripartite system of General Council, University Court, and Academic Senate. |
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This disposition changed dramatically when the Acts of Union 1707 came into force, with a single unified Crown of Great Britain and a single unified parliament. |
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It was described as a friendly society to avoid prosecution under the Combination Acts and in the early 19th century there were 21 such societies in central Lancashire. |
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Hence, the Acts are referred to as the Union of the Parliaments. |
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It is trite law that His Majesty's subjects are free if they can make their own arrangements so that their cases may fall outside the scope of the taxing Acts. |
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Like Acts, Assembly Measures face the same style of scrutiny. |
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In this way, the Assembly, without having to go to Parliament, could then legislate using the 'Assembly Measures' system instead of making Acts straight off. |
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Acts of the Scottish Parliament, unlike Westminster, can be challenged in court on the basis that they relate to reserved matters and are, therefore, ultra vires. |
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Though amended, key provisions of both Acts are still in force. |
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All official holidays in Finland are established by Acts of Parliament. |
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Further Turnpike Acts came into force in 1799 and 1810, and these Acts allowed trustees to collect a toll for the use of certain roads within a district. |
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Europe after 1815 was on guard against a return of Jacobinism, and even liberal Britain saw the passage of the Six Acts in 1819, which proscribed radical activities. |
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Strictly speaking, each gospel and the book of Acts is arguably anonymous. |
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The court may set its own procedures and practices by Acts of Sederunt. |
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The output of legislation was high for a devolved Parliament, though some of the Acts were adaptations of recently passed acts by the United Kingdom parliament. |
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