For this reason, all official acts of the church are announced in Latin, as was the case Monday.
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According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the defendants allegedly traded access and official acts for tens of thousands of dollars in bribes.
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In one of his last official acts as President, Bill Clinton signed the so-called "Rome Statute" creating an International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Benedict's final official acts as pope will include audiences with the Romanian and Guatemalan presidents this week and the Italian president on Feb. 23.
Justice Story, in the last century, stated in his famous commentaries that there is not a syllable in the Constitution which confines impeachment to official acts.
One of Parsons' first official acts was to call Turner to make sure he stayed on the board, and the recent shakeup at the company had Turner's fingerprints all over it.
That means that the trusts, created so that elected officials could avoid conflicts of interest between their financial holdings and their official acts, will now be in plain sight for the public and the candidates to see.
Lord Bingham concluded that a former head of state enjoys immunity as well because one English statute confers on a head of state the same legal protections as those enjoyed by an ambassador, which a second statute spells out as including immunity for official acts during his tenure as an ambassador even after he has left his post.
"We are investigating the role of some of our men in violent acts, " police official Afhadul Mujtaba told the BBC.
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano made the announcement together with an official admission that there have been "grave acts of disloyalty" .
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One of his first acts as president was to change the country's official name to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
"There are some big acts to be written here, " said a senior administration official.
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