The takeover could have broad implications for the principle of local rule in troubled cities and widen racial tensions that have long been an undercurrent of relations between Michigan's cities and Lansing, the state capital.
But it could well grow into a thriving, tolerably governed nation with a weak central government and very effective local rule, a positive and vivid contrast to many other Middle East states, especially Syria and Iran.
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However, many of the 15 local authorities could not rule out further cutbacks in the future.
The ultimate sanction against the court would be to amend the Basic Law, which the local government does not rule out.
As it became clear that local parties none of which was happy with the Dayton outcome were unwilling to co-operate, the high representative was eventually given more muscle, including the authority to fire local officials and to rule by decree.
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Lib Dem backbencher John Pugh presents a ten minute rule bill on local authority devolution and powers.
The family courts rule on cases where local authorities want to remove children from their natural families for reasons including risk of abuse or neglect.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles told the BBC that the extension rule changes would benefit local businesses as well as householders, as new carpets and furnishings would be needed for them.
Campaigners against a badger cull are calling on local politicians to sign a pledge to rule out culling on council land.
Surprisingly for many of his critics, he won local support and said that he would rule Peru in accordance with national interests and not to make himself more popular.
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That would be an especially useful service as the devolution of power in Russia gives local bosses more and more freedom to rule as well, or as badly, or as barmily, as they wish.
South Africa faces major problems, but having held four successful national elections as well as local polls since the end of white rule, a democratic culture appears to be taking hold, allowing people at least some say in the search for solutions.
He wants them to understand that as the son of Jewish immigrants and someone who went to the local comprehensive he was not born to rule, did not go to public school and wants to be prime minister because of his values and beliefs rather than because, as David Cameron once said of himself, "he'd be good at it".
Ford intends to have a global theme this time, but does not rule out tailoring some advertising to local markets where it is felt appropriate.
During his four-year rule, he has cowed the local press, made populist diatribes against neighbouring China, and fought the privatising and restructuring of local firms.
When Malaysia imposed capital controls last year, it informed foreign investors that they would be unable to redeem their local shares for a year a rule that was replaced this February by a graduated exit tax.
The local people were suffering under the Taliban-like rule of al Qaeda, and they were sick of it.
Local, careful - not to say detailed - rule, is the way all democracies seem to be moving.
There, too, Indonesia divided to rule, stressing the fissures among the local population.
National histories, he argues, are always local responses to broader trends, and to that rule the United States is no exception.
At least 700 people are thought to have been killed in local or ethnic fighting since the end of military rule in May.
In the long-run, Mexico will need to continue to improve its legal system and enhance the ability of local police forces to maintain order and uphold the rule of law.
The U.S. should work hard with our allies to train the Iraqis needed to implement the rule of law--from competent local police, whose task is to fight crime rather than suppress the population, to courts of law based on Western-style principles of justice.
Instead, households without a local connection would have to face a special panel to rule on their eligibility.
And the militia groups rule by the gun, and they exploit local mining resources, again, ruling by the gun.
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Grievances about corruption, bad government, worsening local feuds and foreign soldiers could all fuel anger at rule from Kabul.
The council was originally expected to rule on the plan in February, but local opinion pushed back a decision until later this year.
In future, any household wanting to move to Gravesham without a local connection would have to face a special panel to rule on their eligibility.
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