Sentence examples for highest governing from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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

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

Boyd K. Packer, the acting president of the second-highest governing body of the Mormon Church, is a 76-year-old former educator with a slight drawl and a brilliant arrowhead collection on the wall of his South Temple Avenue office in the church headquarters here.

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.

What effect does the participation of private organizations have on governments with low or high governing capacities?