Sentence examples for higher governing from inspiring English sources

Freemasonry in America is organized by state — there is no higher governing body — and Pennsylvania is the largest Masonic jurisdiction in the world, with a spectacular temple in Philadelphia, completed in 1873, as its headquarters.

Similarly, when you have a credible federal authority, it is not uncommon for sound local initiatives to become models for adoption by the higher governing body.

In 1982, Denny was elected president of his church's highest governing body, the Methodist Conference.

The Quorum of the Twelve is the second-highest governing body of the church.

General Casas was also a vice president of the Council of State, Cuba's highest governing body.

Two months later, the State Council, China's highest governing body, held a special meeting to consider Mr. Zheng's crimes.

The church's highest governing body is the General Assembly, which is elected by the presbyteries for meetings every two years.

For 20 years he served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the church's second-highest governing body.

In 2014, however, the General Assembly, the church's highest governing body, voted to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages where legal under state law.

Mr. Escalona Reguera, 78, apparently will remain a member of the Communist Party Central Committee; he will be assigned unspecified "other duties" on the Council of State, Cuba's highest governing body, according to the statement.

On Friday, North Korea's National Defense Commission, the country's highest governing agency, called the South's proposal a "trick" not worth considering and threatened its own "grave measure" if the "South's puppet clique further aggravates the situation".