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"Anthony Pierce was a man entrusted to preside over christenings, funerals, weddings and prayers," she added.

Good Humans' far-reaching work ranges from pushing for the establishment of an equal rights tribunal to preside over purported discriminatory practices, to a recycling programme that in turn employs local residents with disabilities.

As Cardinal Lawrence, Fiennes is pulled between his desire for positive change in the church, his duty to preside over the election of a new pope, and his doubts about the order to which he’s devoted his entire life.

Thus, a new class of jurist—the administrative law judge—was created to preside over regulatory cases in virtually every federal agency.

At the time of his death he had been due to travel to Burkina Faso to preside over the jury at the festival, which opens on Saturday.