"authority" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Sceptre with the Cross, another sceptre in the Crown Jewels, represents temporal or lay authority.
- By Article 8, it belonged to the Council of State, a purely lay authority, to pronounce upon the orthodoxy of any religious associations; the revenues were to be subject to state regulation.
- The former were still happy to recognize lay authority and lay material rights provided that the essentials of communal liturgy and communal living which went with it were safeguarded.
- At the same time Protestant states criticised the calendar reform, mostly because it was proposed by papacy rather than the Holy Roman Emperor or any other lay authority.
- It was proper, indeed their duty, for the clergy to rebuke the regnum of lay authority and call on Christians to amend it.
- Innocent decreed in 1200 in the decretal "Vergentis" that heretics were to receive punishment from the lay authorities.
- In part this was expressed by their insistence on their right to govern and finance themselves without excessive interference by lay authority or reliance upon it.
- To canon lawyers, Christendom was a group of nations governed by princes or other lay authorities submissive to the presidency of the pope.
- The expectation of the lay and religious authorities was that the children would be Spaniards in culture, and marriage was a policy of assimilation and overlordship.
- It makes nonsense of the idea of an articulation of papal monarchial theory in which the church was superior to the lay authorities.
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