“A minority stockholder cannot appeal to any canon of fair play whereby he should be entitled to sit back and let the majority take all the risks and then claim his share of the profits.”
“The votes of the majority would have determined the matter, had not some influential persons interfered, on the ground of its being forbidden by an ecclesiastical canon.”
“I do recognize that religious canons are fixed forever and by political authorities, that they have oppressive power in that they police boundaries.”
canonization
The final process or decree (following beatification) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
“How they conceived of this source, I shall argue, determined the particular way in which, in their view, canonicity resisted translation.”
“And of his conditions for canonicity, one was that the work had to be difficult in such a way that compelled effort from its reader.”
“First, on the score of canonicity, it demonstrates how the work of canon-making is a volatile venture explicitly committed to the business of national culture.”
“Once declared a holy person, the next step is beatification and finally canonisation.”
“However, it will be a patronage not conferred by canonisation and not conferred by vox populi.”
“With the canonisation of the Confessor in 1161, his regalia gained the status of holy relics, further increasing the veneration with which they were regarded.”
“A minority stockholder cannot appeal to any canon of fair play whereby he should be entitled to sit back and let the majority take all the risks and then claim his share of the profits.”
“The votes of the majority would have determined the matter, had not some influential persons interfered, on the ground of its being forbidden by an ecclesiastical canon.”
“I do recognize that religious canons are fixed forever and by political authorities, that they have oppressive power in that they police boundaries.”
“I had seen him in procession with his golden crook, preceded by the priests of his diocese, dressed up in all the tawdry of their canonicals.”
“Immediately opposite was a grotesque figure of Satan, no doubt in canonicals also, with cloven foot and horns, belching out fire and brimstone on the terrified audience.”
“With them their wives and children had been shown, all greatly impressed by the canonicals.”
“By 1216 there were approximately 700 houses and some 13,000 monks, nuns, canons, and canonesses.”
“In Scotland there were a dozen or so nunneries, mainly Cistercian, and in Ireland about ten of the 140 monasteries were nunneries, all of them for regular canonesses.”
“The Renaissance stalls, dating from 1566, comprise 32 seats in oak for the canonesses that attended the religious services in the women's choir.”