Sentences with phrase «predecessor bodies»
"Predecessor bodies" refers to previous or earlier groups or organizations that existed before the current one. It means a group or organization that was in place or existed before the current one took over or was established. Full definition
Braaten, who was born in 1929, spent his childhood in Madagascar, where his parents were missionaries of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America, one of the ELCA's many predecessor bodies.
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In the period prior to the 1988 merger of three predecessor bodies into the new ELCA, homosexual and feminist activism had been growing and pushing with increasing success for recognition of their agendas and «repentance» for past discrimination.
«an historic repository dedicated to preserving the history of Fair Work Australia (FWA) and its predecessor bodies.»
Within a few months 81 seminaries applied for affiliation with the association, 27 more than had participated in the predecessor bodies at the time of merger.
Some of these Old Lutherans would stay in Germany and go on to form the predecessor bodies of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) and other confessional Lutheran synods.
John A. Ryan in 1919 wrote the policy statement of the predecessor body of the USCC, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, called the Bishops» Program of Social Reconstruction, and his subsequent zeal for FDR earned him the title «Monsignor New Deal.»
It may, somehow, be appropriate that, at a time when we are attempting to renew our organization and its values, a Guinean should be in the chair and a Ghanaian at the podium, for this may recall the early days of Africa's independence, when the strategic alliance of Ghana - Guinea - Mali was one of the seminal events that paved the way for the establishment of our predecessor body, the Organisation of African Unity, in this historic, ancient city of Addis Ababa, in 1963, some 54 years ago.
The first Essentials of an Accredited Educational Program for Medical Assistants (Essentials)(1969) of the Council on Medical Education of the AMA — a predecessor body of the Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation (CAHEA) and CAAHEP — required a student to demonstrate skill in only the following clinical areas1:
The Ad Hoc Committee recommendation was debated vigorously by both the CB and BOT, as well as by the AAMA Continuing Education Board (CEB) and the Curriculum Review Board (the predecessor body of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board) of the AAMA Endowment.
Ah Chee said the Lowitja Institute was «the torchbearer for Aboriginal health research», with its predecessor bodies the first health research organisations in Australia to include Aboriginal community controlled organisations as equal partners.