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Example sentences for "council held"

  • It was at a council held at Miami, in 1790, between Mr. Gamelin and a number of tribes.

  • Minutes of a Council held at Kirtland, November 28th.

  • In the year 680 he assisted in a council held by pope Agatho at Rome, and the year following in the sixth general council held at Constantinople against the Monothelites.

  • This victory led to the conquest of Kent, and in 838 Archbishop Ceolnoth, in a council held at Kingston, made a treaty of perpetual alliance between his Church and Ecgberht and his son AEthelwulf, the under-king of Kent.

  • At a council held at Westminster in 1176, Roger of York tried to squeeze himself into a more honourable seat than the archbishop of Canterbury.

  • I do certify that the within statement of the different chiefs were taken before me at a council held at my house at the time stated and that the talk of the Indian was correctly taken down by a competent clerk at the time.

  • A Council held at Auxerre at the end of the sixth century forbade women to receive the Eucharist into their naked hands;[271] and in various Canons women were enjoined not to come near to the altar while mass was celebrating.

  • Avard concerning a council held at James Sloan's was false.

  • He then presented a copy of the proceedings of a council held in Quincy on the 9th instant, which was read; after which Brother Rogers explained some things relative to said meeting, and the proceedings thereof.

  • Minutes of a council held in Quincy on the 24th day of April, A.

  • Pratt describes a council held by her, Marks, and others to endeavor to appoint a trustee-in-trust for the whole church, the necessity of which she vigorously urged.

  • Smith's autobiography contains an account of a council held in New Portage, Ohio, in 1834, at which Rigdon accused Martin Harris of telling A.

  • At a Miners' Council held on May 7th it was decided to leave the entire case in the hands of the Board.

  • This decision was reported to a Council held on the 31st.

  • That clear and bold statement of their confidence in the Board was not effective in maintaining it, for at the Miners' Council held on November 16th it was resolved to take a ballot to test its continuance.

  • In 380, the new heresy, with which two other bishops besides Priscillian became infected, was condemned at a council held at Saragoza, and by another held five years later at Bordeaux.

  • The Bishop of Bamberg, a German, was chosen Pope in a council held in Rome and assumed the title of Clement II.

  • Henry proved obstinate, in a council held at Rome in 1080 the Pope renewed the excommunication of Henry, and again deposed him.

  • A council held at Brescia the same year elected Clement III.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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