Mr Lavery had been in charge at Cornwall Council since 2008, before it became a unitary authority.
Israel today is governed by a proportional electoral system that treats the entire country as a unitary voting district.
Mr Turner joined the council - formerly known as Woodspring District Council, in 1989, before it became a unitary authority.
The euro's success so far has suggested that a currency can be stable without the backing of a unitary state.
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Officially, the Bosnian Serbs gave up their quest to join Serbia, and Bosniaks gave up their dream of a unitary state.
Conservative candidate Antony Little said the plan for a unitary council was "not affordable" and "has no measure of support by local people".
The issue of a unitary authority has also been raised - in 2007 the government rejected plans to scrap the county's six district councils.
Three years after Mr Khatami asked Mr Ramazanzadeh to persuade the Kurds that they could prosper inside a unitary Iran, how is the governor doing?
The inaccuracies came to light following an independent investigation commissioned by the council, which took over responsibility for the cemeteries after it became a unitary authority.
The Council of the Isles of Scilly is also a unitary authority which looks after roads, waste disposal, planning, education, licensing, St Mary's Airport and much more.
In the case of the Global Trends report, Identity Bias plays out in a particular way: the US is considered a unitary actor, with clear interests.
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In theory, members of a unitary board combine two tasks: developing the firm's strategy, in the broadest sense, and ensuring compliance with the law and best practice.
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By its nature, such a diffuse movement is much harder to monitor than a unitary organisation: witness the apparent lack of any advance intelligence about the Madrid plot.
The last local election was held in Wiltshire four years ago, when the county council and North Wiltshire, Kennet, Salisbury and West Wiltshire district councils came together to form a unitary authority - Wiltshire Council.
The council said the aim of the cemetery policy was to address the "very different" sets of fees it inherited in 2009 when it took over from the former district councils as a unitary authority.
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No other single party had fielded enough candidates to claim an overall majority, although Shropshire County Council had been through many years of no overall control before the Conservatives took power in the run up to it becoming a unitary authority.
But Devon County Council leader Brian Greenslade said the council was relieved by the government decision, as Exeter City Council's proposal for a unitary authority was "deeply flawed and could not have worked within the narrow confines of the city boundaries".
If the Agusta-Dassault trial does not produce clear-cut and comprehensible verdicts within a reasonable period of time, one result is sure to be more calls from Flemish politicians that justice, too, should come under regional control, so leaving still less need for a unitary Belgian state.
The woman who set out to change the system, he imagines, would have recognised the change from what we knew, a centralised unitary state to a devolved, increasingly federal way of governing, as a means of maintaining her belief in Britain.
In 1960 Cyprus was established as a bicommunal unitary republic, not as a federal one.
Nobody expects a single unitary mayor, nor police force, for Greater Paris.
They tried merely to clarify the governance of the Delta, which currently has more than 200 committees, counties, boards and departments squabbling over it, by establishing a new unitary authority.
Mr Chirac's attitude seemed to encapsulate a more general problem that, despite a few gestures towards devolution, French rulers still cling stubbornly to the idea of a single unitary state.
But in a country as unitary and homogenous as Britain, a bit of variety must be a good thing.
Lord Howarth of Newport, a leading proponent of unitary status for Norwich, said Mr Pickles, who is responsible for local government, had "set out to scare" his civil servants from offering their honest opinions.
The unitary authority replaced a county council and four district councils in 2009.
Counter to Tory policy nationally, Wiltshire councillors agreed to abolish four district councils and merge into one unitary authority - saving a fortune in bureaucracy but cutting a deal with the then Labour government that none of its central funding would be reduced.
But Labour's Lord McKenzie of Luton said there was a "genuine local appetite" for unitary status.
Observers say a declaration of complete desegregation -- unitary in the legal term -- is likely another year or two away for Little Rock schools.
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