Sentences with phrase «become elected bodies»

The prospect of an expected coalition government also forces us to ask how the Lords would see such a proposal (independent of measures that would likely see the House of Lords become an elected body too).

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Duke became a powerful advocate for those suffering mental health issues, and became so admired in Hollywood for her body of work that she was elected President of the Screen Actors Guild.

In other words, God does not predestine or elect people to be in Christ; no, God elects Jesus, and by default, all who join with Jesus by faith also become elect as members of the «body of Christ.»

That is, all who become members of the body of Christ are also elected or chosen by God to serve God's purposes in this world.

When people elect to become body donors, they give the last gift of which they are capable, and they do so for the benefit of persons they will never see.

By joining with Christ, the Elect One, through faith, we automatically become members of His Body, the church, and thus become numbered among the elect (Vance: Other Side of Calvinism, Elect One, through faith, we automatically become members of His Body, the church, and thus become numbered among the elect (Vance: Other Side of Calvinism, elect (Vance: Other Side of Calvinism, 379).

Larry Seabrook of the Bronx used to brag (dubiously) about being the first African - American to be elected to three different legislative bodies, though when you consider that the three districts he represented were all similarly - sized subsets of the same group of impoverished neighborhoods, his accomplishment becomes slightly less impressive than, say, Obama's.

NEW YORK CITY — Bronx representative Carl Heastie was elected speaker of the Assembly Tuesday, becoming the first new person to hold the position in two decades and the first black speaker in the body's history.

But more than this, reformers are left wondering whether the House of Lords will ever become a democratically legitimate body either by way of incremental changes or, as many of us would prefer, a «big bang» event which replaces the upper house with an elected chamber.

The first London Assembly in 2000 comprised 48 % women, and in 2003 the Welsh Assembly became the first national elected body in the world to achieve gender parity among its members.

From the moment of fertilization, building a human body involves a series of choices where cells generated by cell division must elect which of the myriad types of cell they will become.

The first dog show in Australia was held in Hobart Town in 1862 and, when the two organisation in the north and south, each administering dogs in the relevant area of the state, agreed to unite, the Kennel Control Council of Tasmania came into being in 1954 as the state body and, with the implementation of a fully - elected governing Council in February, 1995, the organisation changed its name to become the Tasmanian Canine Association Inc..

The Sami parliament became both a publicly elected body and an authority that is controlled by the Swedish government.

(A) State Associations having membership agreements with the National Association as provided in Article XV, Section 2, of this Constitution may be elected to membership in the National Association in order to integrate more closely the work of local, state and national bodies, to further the purposes contemplated by said Article, and to afford an opportunity for individuals engaged in the real estate business in areas within the state but outside the jurisdiction of a local board to become members of the National Association, subject to its standards, and to be represented therein.