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RECTOR, Eccl. law. One who rules or governs a name given to certain officers of the Roman church. Dict. Canonique, h.v.

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If you reflect on the opening of Jimmy Reid s rectorial address its evocation of 'the despair and hopelessness that pervades people who feel with justification that they have no real say in shaping or determining their own destinies' it s hard to avoid the conclusion that UK Government policy is not tackling alienation, but breeding it.
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The Rectorial Council was significant in the life of the university.
The place of modern scientific research in the university according to John Henry Newman
For some reason, probably decided by the same guys who insisted they needed a picture of Brown's Sugars, his rectorial campaign featured a lot of boat races - beerdrinking competitions in which Gordon's team invariably won, mainly because of him.
I was a Brown Sugar! 'He was shy and his chat-up lines were hopeless..but all the girls fancied him'
If you put your back to the Seine and have Notre Dame behind you, and drop in for a moment in St-Julien-le-Pauvre, where Gregory of Tours sang the night office in the shrine that stood there in the sixth century, you may launch yourself from this ancient rectorial church of the medieval university of Paris toward the south, up the hill to Ste-Genevieve, along the route to Orleans (the Roman Genabum), and thus on the way to Rome; indeed, the Roman road is still deep beneath your feet.
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His 1919 Rectorial Address to the University of St.
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The first three essays by Theodore Kisiel, Jacques Taminiaux and Catalin Partenie look at specific texts; respectively, the Rectorial Address, Sophocles' Antigone and the Sophist lectures of 1924-25.
Partenie, Catalin and Rockmore, Tom, editors. Heidegger and Plato: Toward Dialogue
Despite heavy spending, the first Viscount saved money, lending 17,000 [pounds sterling], mainly to turnpike trusts, besides loans to Edmund Burke, and buying sizable properties and the rectorial tithes of Dudley.
The industrial revolution, political economy and the British aristocracy: the second Viscount Dudley and Ward as an eighteenth-century canal promoter
Rectorial duties at the University of St Andrews will cause me to swerve the festival this year.
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In 35% of parishes in England and Wales owners of former rectorial land are liable for the cost of repairs to the parish church.
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The issue arises because the couple's land includes a field called Clanacre, which is accepted as rectorial property.
Church row couple face pounds 300,000 bill
22) Kuyper heavily criticized such thinking, particularly in his rectorial address De verflauwing der grenzen ("Pantheism's Destruction of Boundaries").
Prophet of a third way: the shape of Kuyper's socio-political vision
At the University of Edinburgh, the inaugural rectorial address by Robin Harper was remarkable for its humanitarian words: But it is not just technical fixes that will save us -- a cultural and life-style revolution is required.
The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia

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