Local governments are particularly desperate. They have huge debts, which they amortize by rezoning and selling land.

Local governments are particularly desperate.

At the local elections held in June, the PRM did poorly.

The Ahmadinejad government s popularity has plummeted, as evidenced by recent local election results.

China s large state sector (which accounts for more than 30 of GDP) is usually careless about losses, owing to the soft budget constraints under which they operate.

Local governments are equally careless, often failing to service their debts.

Additionally, local elections are usually held on the first Thursday in May.

Others argue that China s government is simply losing its grip over local authorities.

Bloggers in Saudi Arabia have also been vociferous in condemning the local government, as we hear in this post.

It has been exploring new ways of delivering aid, sometimes using state and local governments where that appears more effective.

Local officials soon began to broaden their attack.

Several major cities and many local governments around the world do not permit circuses with wild animals. Last year, Bolivia became the first country to ban all animals, wild or domestic, from circuses.

In the last six months, there have been national elections in Lebanon and local elections in Saudi Arabia.

Several major cities and many local governments around the world do not permit circuses with wild animals.

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In response, authorities vow to investigate the anomalies.

Some Romanian refugees were already candidates for the local elections, praised for their hard work and honesty.

Local authorities came up with the creative approach of deploying snow plows around the area, which coincidentally blocked the view from the street.

The investigation should not be handled by local authorities.

MANAGUA Like thousands of Nicaraguans, I voted for Managua s mayor in local elections last November.

But the stolen local elections that took place last autumn have set the country back 50 years, to the time of the Somoza dictatorship.

2015 is a year in which Mexicans go to the polls in local and federal elections, and political pressure and interests have already begun to manifest themselves.

Residents are appealing for the support of the public to pressure authorities to allow the shipment of the rest of the wood into their community.

Authorities elsewhere are considering or adopting similar programs.

But exactly which government authorities are in charge here?

This type of occurrence where local channels of law and order enact repression against bloggers is fairly commonplace.

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Local authorities restricted media from reporting on the fire.

Moreover, it is vital to strengthen China s fiscal positionby mobilizing additional revenues and ensuring that local governments have adequate financing to meet their rising expenditure responsibilities.

The latter target primarily churches, bars and administrations.

But in the Gaza Strip local elections soon afterward, radical Islamists who use terrorism won seven of the ten municipal councils.

When China began this transition, its central and local governments focused on building physical infrastructure, such as roads and electricity grids, which delivered tangible gains. But it was the state s less visible investment in the country s institutional infrastructure that had the biggest impact on China s GDP growth.

But, as I was told during my visit, the central government s reluctance to move more quickly reflects its wariness of imposing immense fiscal pressures on local authorities.

Blair, still stung by his Labour Party s defeat in local elections in early May, also welcomed the good news from Iraq.

China's modest experiments with local elections have been supplemented by exercises in deliberative democracy.

Local authorities reported that no one was hurt as a result of the incident.

Ultimately, the aim should be to create a single institution responsible for supervising large banks that operate across the EU, with national regulators responsible only for domestic banks.

For example, as their tax revenues plummet, state and local governments are in the process of cutting back their expenditures.

Similarly, automobile manufacturers, mobility services companies, and local governments are working together to advance sustainable transportation by providing incentives for efficient non ownership of vehicles.

No one doubts that Chinese local governments play a much more active and intrusive role than their counterparts in the West, which implies an additional complicating factor.

In the end, the establishment of a Constituent Assembly merely weakens all other institutions.

A distinctive feature of the Chinese growth order is that local governments compete actively against each other for jobs, revenue, investment, and access to fiscal and human resources.

Long the backbone of the Palestinian national movement, Fatah has been the dominant faction in the PLO.