Sentence examples for previous councils from inspiring English sources

Many Reformers noted that previous councils had erred or contradicted other councils.

While it was true, as the Bishop argued, that previous councils had generally condemned something, the expressed intention of Vatican II was to be a pastoral, rather than a doctrinal, Council.

While Buddhists from Sri Lanka and Myanmar acknowledge the Rangoon Council as the 6th, Thai Buddhists list previous councils in Sri Lanka and Thailand and reckon the Rangoon Council as the 10th.

The "Three Books," a primary source for verbatim expressions of the various theological schools, develops the concept that eventually played the key role in reaching a mediatory orthodox formulation at the general council of Constantinople in 553, thus integrating the partial conclusions from the previous councils at Ephesus in 431 and at Chalcedon in 451.

"But by the standards of previous councils it was a big success, in spite of the economic situation".

However, there was a sense of disappointment on social networking websites, with users expecting little change from previous councils.

The previous council comprised 16 academicians and 5 outside advisers.

Some of those purchases were apparently approved by previous council members outside of public hearings.

While Mr. Hubbard, the previous council chairman, worked on the 2000 campaign.

But then the previous council wasn't getting Bristol very far.

"Instead, he's spent two years making negative remarks about the previous council," she said.