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Someone who moderates

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The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church

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A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission

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A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.

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An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

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At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

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Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.

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A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

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A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.

The moderator has not a deliberative, but only a casting vote.

Henderson was elected moderator for the third time.

A minister is elected to preside as moderator.

In 1862 he was moderator of the Free Church General Assembly; but he seldom took a prominent part in the business of the church courts.

These New England ministers in the Delaware valley, with Francis Makemie as moderator, organized in 1706 the first American presbytery, the presbytery of Philadelphia.

Having the moderator and clerks from the assembly of 1837, they retained the books and papers.

He was the scholarly leader of the orthodox wing of the Presbyterian church in America, and was moderator of the General Assembly of 1891.

The more important township officials are a moderator, a board of selectmen, a clerk, a treasurer and a superintendent of schools.

The general assembly annually at its first meeting chooses one of its ministerial members as moderator.

Yet even in a church court inequality, generally speaking, is visible to the extent that an elder is not usually eligible for the moderator's chair.

He was chosen moderator by acclamation, being, as Baillie says, " incomparablie the ablest man of us all for all things."

He was the first moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland, having previously been moderator of the Free General Assembly.

As regards domestic legislation, the President, in general, assumed the role of moderator.

In October he returned to Oxford, where he was appointed Greek lecturer and moderator of the classes.

He was moderator of the Free Church assembly in 1851.

In the Assembly of 1861 he filled the moderator's chair.

But four years later the Church accorded him the highest honour in her power by choosing him as moderator of her general assembly.

From 1748 until his death on the 28th of August 1805 he was minister at Inveresk in Midlothian, and during this long career rose to high eminence in his church not only as leader of the moderate or "broad" Church section, but as moderator of the General Assembly 1770 and dean of the Chapel Royal in 1789.

He it was, also, who managed the proceedings of the "Boston Tea Party," and later he was moderator of the convention of Massachusetts towns called to protest against the Boston Port Bill.

In 1610 he presided as moderator over the assembly in which presbytery was abolished, in 1615 he was made archbishop of St Andrews and primate of Scotland, and in 1618 procured the sanction of the privy council to the Five Articles of Perth with their ratification by parliament.

In 1872 he was elected moderator of the United Presbyterian Synod and represented his church in Paris at the first meeting of the Reformed Synod of France.

The church as the guide of the nation in duty and godliness, even extending its activity into state affairs as a mediator and a moderator, was not sufficient.

On the 18th of May 18 43 470 clergymen withdrew from the general assembly and constituted themselves the Free Church of Scotland, with Dr Chalmers as moderator.

The moderator of the town meeting is elected at the general election in November for a term of two years, and a board of health, consisting of three members, is appointed by the selectmen, one member each year.

A village district is a portion of a town, including a village, which is set apart and organized for protection from fire, for lighting or sprinkling the streets, for providing a water-supply, for the construction and maintenance of sewers, and for police protection; to serve these interests three commissioners, a moderator, a clerk, a treasurer and such other officers as the voters of the district may deem necessary are chosen, each for a term of one year.

In accordance with the general laws each city elects a mayor, a board of aldermen, and a common council in whom is vested the administration of its " fiscal, prudential and municipal affairs "; the mayor presides at the meetings of the board of aldermen, and has a veto on any measure of this body, and no measure can be passed over his veto except by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of all the aldermen; each ward elects three selectmen, a moderator and a clerk in whom is vested the charge of elections; the city marshal and assistant marshals are appointed by the mayor and aldermen, but the city clerk and city treasurer are elected by the aldermen and common council in joint session.

In 1896 he was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University, and in 1900 he was moderator of the synod of the English Presbyterian church.

He was moderator of the General Assembly in 1582, and took part in the organization of the Church and the Presbyterian method.

In his capacity as head of the church, " and president of the Christian agape," as St Ignatius of Antioch would have said, the pope was considered to be the supreme president and moderator of the oecumenical assemblies.

In 1878 he was chosen moderator of the Assembly.

He was moderator of the General Assembly in 1894, and its principal clerk from that year till his death on the 13th of January 1907.

The commissioners chose their president at each meeting, but this officer had only the powers of a moderator.

The protest which the moderator had read before leaving the assembly had been left on the table; and an act of separation and deed of demission were received from the ministers of the newly formed Free Church, who were now declared to have severed their connexion with the Church of Scotland.

He was moderator of the Church Assembly at Edinburgh in July 1567 and at Perth in the follow ing December, and again in Edinburgh 1576 and Stirling 1578.

But the other bishops were also against Gustavus, and, irritated by their conscientious opposition, the king abandoned the no longer tenable position of a moderator and came openly forward as an antagonist.

His name appears fourth in the Tripos list for 174 8 - 1 749; and in '755 he was moderator in that examination.

Having become senior moderator in mathematics and a fellow of Trinity, he took holy orders, and was appointed regius professor of divinity in Dublin University in 1866, a position which he retained until 1888, when he was chosen provost of Trinity College.

These defenders were to appoint for each district a superintendent (moderator), who was to maintain order and discipline among the clergy.

The qualified electors of each district having an ungraded school elect a moderator, a director and a treasurer - one at each annual school meeting - for a term of three years, who constitute the district school board, and this board is entrusted with ample power for directing the affairs of the school.

This is a governmental unit organized from an unincorporated township having at least 200 inhabitants,' and its principal officers are the moderator, clerk, three assessors, treasurer, collector, constable and school committee.

He recovered his position at the Restoration, was moderator at the Savoy Conference, 1661, and was promoted to the bishopric of Lincoln.

He was elected moderator of the General Assembly held at Dundee in May 1597.

In 1753 he was elected moderator of the General Assembly; in 1771 he was appointed a dean of the Chapel Royal and chaplain to George III.

During 1902 -3 he was moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

Claudia Something, whom Dean had met at a winter fundraiser, was the moderator.

Whoever has the highest karma at the end of the week gets made moderator, then their karma gets reset to zero.

Please do not pester a group moderator if they turn your request down -- they will have their reasons.

Taking a considerable share in the management of Church business, he was elected moderator of the General Assembly 20th May 1830.

Usergroups are initially created by the board administrator who also assigns a board moderator.

He was appointed moderator of Kirkcaldy Presbytery in May 1981 and also held the post of Moderator of the Provisional Synod of Fife.