Most of Pakistan's big political parties are part of the national or provincial governments, so blame for the inept official response will be widely shared.
"What's clear to me is that they have been given the opportunity to enter into a new level of professionalism which you would not be getting at state or provincial level, " he said.
Public services such as health, education, roads and planning are regarded as the proper job of local or provincial democracy, from units of some 4m people in Germany to half a million in Scandinavia.
The coastal road to Sablayan was notoriously bad, requiring a long, grinding bus journey from the nearest ports -- Abra de Ilog to the north, or the provincial capital, San Jose, to the south.
Like all South African teams they will try and be physical but I think the Lions squad is more than physical enough to handle anything the provincial or Test teams throw at them.
The main charge against Bergoglio, then a priest in his 30s, is that as the provincial, or superior, of the Society of Jesus in the country, he let the military know that he was suspending his protection of two troublesome left-leaning priests, Orlando Yorio and Franz Jalics, allowing them to be apprehended and detained and tortured for five months.
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In China, it is common for companies to be owned by central, provincial, city or county governments.
Their forebears were small-time professionals, provincial lawyers, factors or land agents, a surgeon, a chaplain, even an archbishop.
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Small units of military and civilian officers, known as provincial reconstruction teams, or PRTs, are to be expanded across Afghanistan, and in particular to provinces along the border with Pakistan.
Out of 31 provincial governments, only six or seven have pension funds in the black, he says.
But now public health services, for which provincial governments take the credit or blame, are under great strain.
Its provincial hotels, like Hilton's or those of lesser groups, such as Jarvis, were never too hard-hit by world events, though foot-and-mouth disease hurt them in 2001.
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Exports from the field are slated to start in 2006 but the Tangguh project is not due to start generating revenues for the provincial government in West Papua for another decade or so.
Yet in provincial capitals, it appears to have taken only one or two mayoralties.
Conscious that local warlords might try to co-opt the new recruits, Kandahar's provincial police chief is planning to create joint stations covering two or three districts.
The leaders agreed to derive policies to enable the people of urban, provincial and rural communities in every APEC economy to have individual or community-based access to information and services offered via the Internet by 2010.
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The number of weeklies and monthlies published partly or fully in Kurdish has risen from two to five, and the provincial government, which used to frown on out-of-school Kurdish classes, paid for 2, 500 Kurds to learn to write in their native language last summer.
It is possible that provincial elections could follow in the north, possibly in late 2010 or 2011.
Now, the pundits at Queen's Park, the provincial legislature, are divided as to whether he will go ahead, or wait till next spring.
We also continued to emphasize the development of the Iraqi security forces and we employed non-kinetic means to exploit the opportunities provided by the conduct or our kinetic combat operations, aided in this effort by the arrival of additional provincial reconstruction teams.
But many of these are descendants of Christians who were killed or deported as the Ottoman empire collapsed, and went on to be big traders in provincial African towns.
Some might opt to avoid very expensive cities, such as Beijing or Shanghai, for up-and-coming smaller urban centers such as Chengdu, the provincial capital of agriculturally fecund Sichuan province.
The Buenos Aires provincial force has an especially bad name: its officers appear to have been actively involved or bribed to look the other way in many kidnaps, including the Blumberg case.
Britain's ambassador to Kabul, Mark Sedwill, told journalists that while turnout in the August 20 presidential and provincial vote was low across the country, this was not a reflection of the success or failure of Panther's Claw.
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