At the village level, much of the country's civil and criminal matters can be dealt with directly by the matai chief village councils.

The " matai " ( chiefs ) are elected by consensus within the fono of the extended family and village ( s ) concerned.

The matai and the fono ( which is itself made of matai ) decide on distribution of family exchanges and tenancy of communal lands.

Alongside Samoa's national and modern political structure is traditional authority vested in family chiefs ( matai ).

An American ethnobotanist, Paul Cox, who had lived in the village with his family, raised funds internationally to save the school and create a conservation covenant with matai to protect their native forest.

Most of Samoa's land is locally village owned under customary land governed by family matai, the chiefly heads of extended families.

However, when a dissident Samoan matai ( chief ) exceeded the limits of his considerable tolerance, Solf stepped in assertively, pronouncing that “... there was only one government in Samoa ,” and it was him.

* Taito, also known as matai, paramount chiefs according to Fa ' a Samoa

As the movement grew, leadership came under the country's chiefly elite, the customary matai leaders entrenched in Samoan tradition and fa ' a Samoa.

At the local level throughout Samoa, traditional authority is vested in a chiefs ' council ( fono o matai ) in each village.

The fono o matai carry out ' village law ' and socio-political governance based on their traditional authority and fa ' a Samoa.

Va ' ai Kolone, a matai and businessman from Vaisala, at the west end of the island, became the Prime Minister of Samoa twice in the 1980s.

With most of the land in Samoa under customary ownership with local governance by matai, tourism experiences take place on village land and within local culture.

Born in Apia, the capital of Samoa, he gained the name of Taito, the matai ( paramount chief ) title of the village of Manase on Savai ' i, Samoa, in 1975.

From the country's independence in 1962, only matai could vote and stand as candidates in elections to parliament.

However, the right to stand for elections remains with matai title holders.

Therefore, in the 49-seat parliament, all 47 Samoan Members of Parliament are also matai, performing dual roles as chiefs and modern politicians, with the exception of the two seats reserved for non-Samoans.

Historically, rimu and other native trees such as kauri, matai and totara were the main sources of wood for New Zealand, including furniture and house construction.

The remaining podocarp forest contains 500-600 year old matai, totara and kahikatea trees as well as fruit and flowering species such as kowhai, ribbonwood, mahoe, cabbage trees, kanuka and fuchsia.

Young man dressed as a manaia, the son of a Samoan chief ( fa ' amatai | matai ), circa 1890 – 1910.

The groundswell of support among Samoans for the Mau came from the leadership of Samoan matai, the heads of families in Samoa's traditional socio-political structure.

The apology covered the influenza epidemic of 1918, the shooting of unarmed Mau protesters by New Zealand police in 1929 and the banishing of matai ( chiefs ) from their homes.

Each district is made up of villages with strong traditional ties of kinship, history, land and matai chief titles.

Only Samoans with chief matai titles are eligible to become Members of Parliament.

The authority of the ' matai ' is balanced against central government, the Malo.

Most of the matai are males, however, the women in each village also have a voice in domestic affairs through the women's committees.

With most of the land in the country under customary ownership in village settlements, schooling and education is a joint responsibility between the government and villages, governed at the local level by matai.

What Sam Rayburn's life proves to us all is the magnificent lesson in political science that one can devotedly and with absolute dedication represent the seemingly provincial interests of one's own community, one's own district, one's own State, and by that help himself represent even better the sweep and scope of the problems of this the greatest nation of all time.

Each bead and each wire has the same value and used in this way it can represent numbers up to 100.

Some opcodes require one or more operands as part of the instruction, and most assemblers can take labels and symbols as operands to represent addresses and constants, instead of hard coding them into the program.

A single sentence in Ainu can be made up of many added or agglutinated sounds or morphemes that represent nouns or ideas.

Accessing its elements involves a single subscript which can either represent a row or column index.

There is nothing we can add to a concept in order to make it represent the object as existing ; what happens if we add anything to it is that it represents something else.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Blissymbols or Blissymbolics was conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.

Bokken can be made to represent any style of weapon required such as nagamaki, no-dachi, yari, naginata, kama, etc.

Related to number representation is the size and precision of numbers that a CPU can represent.

For example, if a binary CPU uses 32 bits to represent a memory address, and each memory address represents one octet ( 8 bits ), the maximum quantity of memory that CPU can address is 2 < sup > 32 </ sup > octets, or 4 GiB.

They represent two abstract and complementary aspects that every phenomenon in the universe can be divided into.

A single molecular formula can represent a number of molecular isomers.

The imported products or services can themselves represent, or be associated with, certain values ( such as consumerism ).

However, this tends to be complicated by the fact that this requires finding the roots of a high degree polynomial, and there can be multiple roots that represent local maxima.

When numbers are used to represent months, a significant amount of confusion can arise from the ambiguity of a date order ; especially when the numbers representing the day, month or year are low, it can be impossible to tell which order is being used.

This can be clarified by using four digits to represent years, and naming the month ; for example, " Feb " instead of " 02 ".

Under French law, an association can represent the collective interests of consumers ; however, each claimant must be individually named in the lawsuit.

Dutch law allows associations ( verenigingen ) and foundations ( stichtingen ) to bring a so-called collective action on behalf of other persons, provided they can represent the interests of such persons according to their by-laws ( statuten ) ( section 3: 305a Dutch Civil Code ).

Note that pure application of this method may provide only a partial ordering on the strings, since different strings can represent the same number ( as with " 2 " and " 2. 0 ", or when scientific notation is used, " 2e3 " and " 2000 ").

A pair of d10 can be used together to represent percentile dice, or d100.

* An abacus was created sometime between 1000 BC and 500 BC, it later become a form of calculation frequency, nowadays it can be used as a very advanced, yet basic digital calculator that uses beads on rows to represent numbers.