There was also a purge of the local political leadership, blamed for losing public confidence.
With luck, the local political establishment will be able to solve this problem before anger turns to violence again.
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How can an arrangement approved by legal counsel, and acceptable within the local political culture, be the stuff of a federal crime?
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Yet beyond the local political battles, city reformers are seriously hampered in what they can do by two things: reluctant state capitals and rigid accounting standards.
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With the backing of the local political authorities, Mr McGuirk and his team resolved to evangelise, providing basic fire-safety advice, checking 350, 000 homes and fitting 700, 000 smoke alarms.
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In Afghanistan, the other country where an American-led coalition has been waging war in democracy's name, the corruption and deviousness of the local political elite, and the flaws of last year's election, have been an embarrassment.
Despite a few commonalities Thibert sees between his Springfield and the fictional namesake, including a distinctive bridge and a few of the local political figures, the city failed to win a national contest to determine which Springfield is the Springfield.
If a mere fraction of the public money spent on big irrigation projects were spent on small-scale works in the semi-arido, he argues, subsistence farmers could survive the drought with their animals and livelihoods intact and with no need to beg for aid from the local political bosses.
But the slow development of local political autonomy, with the statehood question deferred for a generation or more, didn't suit the politicos' needs.
And he has spoken out in every possible venue, from the Senate to local political meetings.
The son of a local businessman with political connections, Rana became a neighborhood force by working as an organizer for the two political parties that have competed for power for decades in Bangladesh, according to local politicians, as well as someone who grew up near Rana and still lives in the area.
On the one hand, their local political leaders demand extraordinary communal rights, rights accorded neither to the national majority nor to other minority populations.
Because the municipal elections are based heavily on local and clan loyalties, the national political parties are also, generally speaking, not directly involved though they do give their support to local contestants.
It seeks to place indigenous-language media in Africa in a particular historical context with a view to highlighting their role in enhancing the participation of Africans in the political process in their local environs.
In the meantime, Washingtonians looking for local political excitement will have to find it in the race for mayor an event the city has enjoyed only since 1973, when Congress decided to let it have one.
Lord Heseltine's new report once again emphasises the importance of aligning political will with local action in the cause of economic regeneration.
One group seeking to promote social justice is Beeatoona, a non-governmental organization based in Beirut, working for peace building and better understanding between the many religious and political affiliations in local communities in the Aley region (Lebanon), major witness of civil clashes since the Lebanese war.
In many regions, they have developed alliances with, or are the creation of, local political elites.
This violence also makes itself felt politically and there is profound antagonism between the local chapters of three political parties: the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), the mostly Pashtun Awami National Party (ANP) and the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM).
The walls of the local office of a Kurdish nationalist political party are decorated with the photos of six PKK fighters from Yuksekova who have been killed fighting Turkish security forces within the last year.
The decision provoked widespread criticism from campaigners and some local politicians from the four main political parties.
It is our hope that this information will provide citizens with a better understanding of the fiscal health of their communities, and where there is a problem, help local elected officials build the political will to make necessary changes.
In Baluchistan, the country's poorest province, a local political party called a strike to protest against the census because it feared a shrinking federal grant might shrink further if the count found the province had fewer people than previously thought.
The Department for Education said the meeting between Mr Driver and Mr Gove was postponed, not cancelled, due to the so-called "purdah" rules surrounding political activity ahead of the local elections on 2 May.
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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the main rebel group fighting for political autonomy and local resource control in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, has called off its unilateral ceasefire, just weeks after announcing the move.
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Despite the efforts of politicians who have crisscrossed the state, voter education groups and intensive election coverage in the media, many local voters say they feel alienated from the political process.
This phenomenon will be repeated around the world in local and national political debates and elections.
One day the combination of genes and local political circumstances will come together to produce another stellar career.
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The murder of journalists, at the same time, is possible because of the impunity of business and local political elites.
Up until that moment, the Audin situation was a local political problem, but Bill had made it personal, he'd made it tribal.
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