Figuring they had more to lose in California than they would gain in North Carolina, national Party leaders "persuaded" local apparatchiks to table the idea lest it give credence to GOP maneuvers in the Golden State.
In November Ofsted launched a league table ranking local authorities according to inspectors' ratings of schools.
During my visit to London last year, David arranged for us to play some local students -- table tennis.
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The opportunity to acquire healthy local competitors was taken off the table by China several years ago, and well-heeled local companies and entrepreneurs are ready to pounce on any troubled companies in an attractive industry such as construction equipment and preserve their independence.
The music of Ceann (pronounced "key-ann") takes them straight to a table at the local pub, with cold pints at the ready.
Today, we're handing out turkeys, stuffing, pumpkin pies and all the Thanksgiving fixings with our friends and family at Martha's Table, a local non-profit organization.
The mystery is perhaps not the 43% that was embezzled, but the millions in central-government funds that were left on the table by a local administrative machinery too apathetic even to steal with much conviction.
For several months, he appeared almost daily on television news programs, usually sitting across a table from visibly angry local officials or pathetically supplicating local residents, calmly but resolutely and effectively delivering a message of fiscal responsibility and vital national interest.
The oak - which had a huge hollow trunk said to big enough to seat six people at a table - had become a local attraction for walkers and visitors in recent years.
No Welsh local authority appears in that top 20 league table.
As the afternoon wears on and the mountains are stained gold and pink, deepening into purple twilight, we sip one flavoured brandy after another - blueberry, beech leaf, rowanberry - and listen as everyone round the table competes to tell anecdotes of local life.
After the meal, a bottle of the local tipple, hierbas, is brought to the table.
In order for the commission to conduct a fair study and make legitimate recommendations, state and local governments must be given an equal place at the table with business and industry interests on the commission.
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But a torrid run, including a 4-1 defeat by local rivals Norwich City, resulted in Ipswich sliding down the table.
The growing opposition to the LAPSSET project by local and international organizations may bring the government to the negotiating table to rethink its plans for LAPSSET.
But anyone claiming the standard sales tax deduction shown in the table may also be eligible to calculate and claim a local sales tax break.
The cuisine is decidedly farm-to-table and American with ingredients gathered from the onsite gardens and local growers.
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The survey, conducted by the local community health council, placed Northwick Park top of a "league table" of long-wait hospitals.
He was offered local financial support on a scale several times larger than was on the table in the UK, accepted it, and returned the UK grants.
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While the port wine industry remains strong, local grapes are now also being used to make fine red and white table wines that are attracting much foreign interest.
Come to the neighbourhood local, Societi Bistro, to dine in the courtyard garden, with Table Mountain views, or in the atmospheric, brick-walled and wine-rack covered interior on unfussy bistro dishes, such as ostrich burgers or tomato fettuccine, all washed down with local wine or beers that have been expertly sourced.
Grant Robinson, medical director for Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board, said the inconsistencies in coding made it difficult to turn the index into a league table.
Ms Gunner Logan was participating in a round-table discussion on the extent to which the voluntary sector provides children's services on behalf of local authorities and other public bodies on 12 June 2012.
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