A council of elders (karō) held the responsibility for policy and the superintendence of other officials, among whom were the heads of military units, superintendents of the castle town, rural administration, finance, security, public works, religious affairs, education, a secretariat, and many other specific posts.
Lupercalia, ancient Roman festival that was conducted annually on February 15 under the superintendence of a corporation of priests called Luperci.
In the early church, it was one of several titles, including metropolitan, exarch, and patriarch, used to designate a chief bishop who had certain rights of superintendence over an entire district or area.
It was a corollary to the doctrine of paramountcy, by which Great Britain, as the ruling power of the Indian subcontinent, claimed the superintendence of the subordinate Indian states and so also the regulation of their succession.
Yet when he expanded his idea on December 27 , 1845 in a newspaper column in the New York Morning News, the wider audience seized upon his reference to divine superintendence.
A faction of Congress sympathized with the movement and attempted to paralyze Washington by reorganizing the board of war, a body vested with the general superintendence of operations, of which Gates became the president; his chief of staff, James Wilkinson, the secretary; and Mifflin and Timothy Pickering, members.
He also accepted special commissions from time to time: e.g., the supervision of the supply of grain and water, the maintenance of public buildings (including temples), the regulation of the Tiber, the superintendence of the police and fire-fighting services, and the upkeep of Italy's roads.
Her enemies will go on disliking her and former friends, knowing of the eavesdropping that went on under her superintendence, will fear betrayal.
When Sima Chengzhen pointed out that the sacred peaks of the imperial cult were in reality under the superintendence of the perfected of Shangqing, officially sponsored shrines were erected to them there; and their propitiation was incorporated into the traditional rites.
Roosevelt appointed Collier Indian Commissioner, Collier had asked her to Join the Indian Bureau, and had been appointed to the superintendence of the Carson Indian Agency.
Several mechanisms introduced through court direction, like superintendence by Central Vigilance Commission, a committee to choose the C.B.I. director and a two-year fixed term.
