• In an interview with a local historical society in 1994, Mrs Tillman said her parents had been slaves.

    BBC: Mrs Tillman held the title for less than a week

  • As Hameed points out, Asad probably would have been frustrated at this point in his project without the help of a local science society.

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  • It was also easy to notice the contradictions of a conservative local society that coexists, in an uneasy truce, with an unparalleled consumerist drive.

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  • His latest project, proposed by a local arts society, is a brand new museum near Varnamo, a small town in southern Sweden with 15 churches and no cinema.

    ECONOMIST: Modern art curators

  • Even on Burns Night, getting Americans to eat the most Scottish of meals is no easy task, explains Paisley-born Jim Short, 76, who attends a Burns Supper in LaGrange, Georgia, organised by The Order of the Tartan, a local Scottish heritage society.

    BBC: The offal truth about American haggis

  • Save Lamu , a coalition of local civil society organizations, is taking the government to court over the port project.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Local car sales are set to decline this financial year for the first time in more than a decade, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, a local industry group, said last month.

    WSJ: Maruti Sees 5%-7% Sales Growth Next Fiscal Year

  • As a result, Malian civil society and local governments have created an action plan and activities that will lead towards a more transparent policy-making and more equal opportunities for local artists.

    UNESCO: International Fund for Cultural Diversity

  • Leeds Building Society has recruited a local retired A-level English teacher to give tuition designed to improve the standard of internal reports.

    BBC: Leeds Building Society staff get grammar lessons

  • She developed a passion for acting, as a member of the local amateur dramatic society - skills which would stand her in good stead for her future television career.

    BBC: The golden girl of TV

  • With her family in financial straits, Ms. Diller found work as a society columnist for a local newspaper, then as an ad-copy writer and as a writer at radio station KROW in Oakland.

    WSJ: Humorist Phyllis Diller Dies at 95

  • The government's royal charter, published on 18 March, has "no support within the press" and has been condemned by media freedom organisations, said a statement released by the Newspaper Society, on behalf of a number of national and local newspapers.

    BBC: Leveson report: Newspapers reject press regulation plans

  • Indeed it has benefited in recent years from a widespread perception among ordinary Chinese that the central party leadership is a benign force, and its valiant efforts to make China a just society are being subverted by local officials.

    ECONOMIST: China's other face

  • Her efforts at a local church and with the Colorado Muslim Society resulted in the creation of a Spanish-bilingual CERT team with more than 60 members and a bi-lingual Arabic CERT team that can communicate in Farsi, Urdu, and Somali.

    WHITEHOUSE: Carolyn bluhm | The White House

  • "The people who carried out this shooting have no support from the local community and no place in a civilised society, " he said.

    BBC: Schoolgirl's rapist shot in home

  • Local staff are not easily replenished in a society at 28 percent literacy.

    FORBES: Endangered Wartime Interpreters: The U.S. Should Protect Those Who Protect Us

  • He was also a frequent attendee at IEEE Magnetics Society conferences and local Santa Clara Valley IEEE Magnetics Society chapter meetings.

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  • Schumacher Society, a Massachusetts nonprofit that promotes local currencies.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And we cannot claim to be a decent society when in the workplace, in local government and in the armed forces, there exists unethical and arguably illegal discrimination against lesbians and gay men.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | Charles Kennedy's speech in full

  • Some 280 teachers, researchers, young people, ministry officials and representatives of international organisations and NGOs, participating in the Conference, stressed the importance of taking into account a variety of approaches, connecting the global to the local, inviting action, inspiring people, involving society, and looking at education as a tool to produce concrete solutions for biodiversity-related problems.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • As David Cameron said, we're in this together government, police, local communities all with a strong vested interest in our society.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | David Davis speech in full

  • The strong involvement of Mauritian civil society played a key role in designing a local strategy and action plans to support the development of the country's cultural industries.

    UNESCO: Technical Assistance in Cultural Governance

  • In one much-publicised incident in 2002, according to the American government, a local member of the Kuwaiti-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) helped an Indonesian fugitive, Riduan Isamuddin (alias Hambali), the mastermind behind the nightclub bombings in Bali.

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  • Mr Zumer is the son of a poet and the nephew of Khaled al-Sheiba al-Nuami, who was detained earlier this year along with more than 60 other civil society activists, some with ties to Islah - a local group that advocates greater adherence to Islamic precepts.

    BBC: Eight online activists 'arrested in UAE'

  • The local paper claims the youth clubs' rescue is a vindication of the Big Society.

    BBC: Can the Big Society save youth clubs?

  • Bob Jack from the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives said what was needed was a national and local partnership, not an "appointed quango".

    BBC: Local Government Committee 1

  • Stuart Nixon, acting chair of the MS Society, said he was delighted "that such a well-known local organisation has come forward to continue running the service".

    BBC: Helen Ley centre

  • The Newspaper Society, representing local papers, said the proposals would place "a crippling burden on the UK's 1, 100 local newspapers, inhibiting freedom of speech and the freedom to publish".

    BBC: Press regulation: Internet concerns expressed

  • The ritual links local biodiversity to a complex, symbolic cosmology that connects the different but inseparable domains of society, culture and nature.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

  • Indeed, one of the innovative aspects of the projects is the bringing together of youth and educational institutions on the one hand and civil society actors on the other, around a concrete project in order to develop local communities and effective civic engagement.

    UNESCO: THEMES

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