In 1992 and 1998 he was elected to the regional council of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d ' Azur.

The regional council, however, spells the name Nord-Pas de Calais.

However, the autonomous province of Åland has a directly elected regional council, and the Sami people have a semi-autonomous Sami Domicile Area in Lapland for issues on language and culture.

Five of the territorial authorities are unitary authorities, which also have the powers of a regional council.

Within a regional council arehia there are usually many city or district councils, although city and district councils can be in multiple regional council areas.

In New Zealand a unitary authority is a territorial authority ( district or city ) which also performs the functions of a regional council.

The Chatham Islands Council is not usually considered an unitary authority, although it acts as a regional council for the purposes of the Resource Management Act 1991.

On 1 April 1996, 32 local government areas, each with a council, replaced the previous two-tier structure, which had regional, islands and district councils.

Clay County is a member of the regional Southwestern Commission council of governments.

They also have considerable budgets managed by a regional council ( conseil régional ) made up of representatives voted into office in regional elections.

Eleven are governed by an elected regional council, while five are governed by territorial authorities ( the second tier of local government ) which also perform the functions of a regional council and thus are known as unitary authorities.

Four of the territorial councils ( one city and three districts ) also perform the functions of a regional council and are known as unitary authorities.

Four are governed by an elected regional council, while three are governed by territorial authorities ( the second tier of local government ) which also perform the functions of a regional council and thus are known as unitary authorities.

Nor have we remembered that in the melting pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi-isolated ethnic, regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material.

Cameroon's central location in the network means that efforts to close the gaps which exist in the network across Central Africa rely on the Cameroon's participation in maintaining the network, and the network has the potential to have a profound influence on Cameroon's regional trade.

It began as a means for merchants to exchange heavy coinage for receipts of deposit issued as promissory notes from shops of wholesalers, notes that were valid for temporary use in a small regional territory.

* In 2006, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Colin Powell with the Truman Peace Prize for his efforts to conduct the " war against terrorism ," through diplomatic as well as military means, and to avert regional and civil conflicts in many parts of the world.

This means that the spoken language in this part of Sweden is descended from a regional variant of Danish, while the written language used is standard Swedish, which evolved in Uppsala and Stockholm.

The regional toponym Mesopotamia comes from the ancient Greek root words μέσος ( meso ) " middle " and ποταμός ( potamia ) " river " and literally means "( Land ) between rivers ".

He defended vigorously the newly implemented universal health care and regional development programs as means of making society more just.

The emphasis on the French language and Quebec autonomy means that French-speakers across Canada now self-identify more specifically with provincial or regional identity-tags, such as acadienne, or franco-canadienne, franco-manitobaine, franco-ontarienne or fransaskoise.

The list of still-active religious movements given here is an attempt to summarize the most important regional and philosophical influences on local communities, but it is by no means a complete description of every religious community, nor does it explain the most important elements of individual religiousness.

The Government of Turkmenistan often appears to be trying to use the conflicting interests of these regional powers as a means to extract concessions from the others, especially on energy issues.

Though now out of fashion, the faith in indicative planning as a pathway to growth, embodied in the DEA and Mintech, was at the time by no means confined to the Labour Party – Wilson built on foundations that had been laid by his Conservative predecessors, in the shape, for example, of the National Economic Development Council ( known as " Neddy ") and its regional counterparts ( the " little Neddies ").

* The war led to a 22-year suspension of the Central American Common Market, a regional integration project that had been set up by the United States largely as a means of counteracting the effects of the Cuban Revolution.

Being the capital of the region of Flemish-Brabant means that there are many governmental institutions located in Leuven as well as the regional headquarters of transport corporations such as De Lijn.

Brian first had to find a means of getting through or around these defensive ' choke points ', and then he had to subdue the fiercely independent regional Kings of Ulster.

Countries with complex regional electorates may elect a head of state by means of an electoral college rather than a direct popular election.

Cooperative federations are a means through which cooperative societies can fulfill the sixth Rochdale Principle, cooperation among cooperatives, with the ICA noting that " Cooperatives serve their members most effectively and strengthen the cooperative movement by working together through local, national, regional and international structures.

However, the change of ITV from a federal structure to one centralized private company means that changes of regional companies in the future seems highly unlikely.

In August 1982 he supported a contributory superannuation scheme as a means of funding industrial development and in February 1983 he wrote a paper called “ Picking Winners for Investment ” which proposed the establishment of local consultative groups to guide regional development.

In computing, internationalization and localization ( other correct spellings are internationalisation and localisation ) are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market.

* Croton Point Park, site of a former county and regional landfill for well over seven decades, was closed and capped thanks to grassroots activists ( this means there is no smell in the park ), Riverkeeper, state, county and local officials

Belgian movies are generally made with small budget, and are mostly funded by the regional governments ( the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, and Wallimage, among others ) and private corporations by means of sponsorship and product placement.

In a crowded channel environment this means that the power of regional channels which share a frequency must be reduced at night or directionally beamed in order to avoid interference, which reduces the potential nighttime audience.

The Agreement provides for collective action " in a timely and decisive manner, through the Security Council, in accordance with the Charter, including Chapter VII, on a case-by-case basis and in cooperation with the relevant regional organizations as appropriate, should peaceful means be inadequate and national authorities are manifestly failing to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

This year, Americans will discover previously unheard of refinements in trailers that will be exhibited in about one hundred of our nation's national, regional and local boat shows.

On the one side we have the university professors and their students, trained in Teutonic methods of research, who have sought out, collected and studied the true products of the oral traditions of the ethnic, regional and occupational groups that make up this nation.

Other archaeologists think instead that the main purpose of the road system was a religious one, providing pathways for periodic pilgrimages and facilitating regional gatherings for seasonal ceremonies.

JBK has pushed the concept of " regional " heathenry as opposed to national " internet heathenry ", and has formed an active network of " Midwest Tribes " which if organized would be one of the largest organizations in America, regularly drawing attendance of over 200 to their yearly event ( Lighting Across the Plains ).

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

Jefferson is known to have done an unusual amount of traveling for the time in the American South, which is reflected in the difficulty of pigeonholing his music into one regional category.

In the early 1980s, Tod Whittemore started the first Saturday dance in the Peterborough Town House, which remains one of the more popular regional dances.

In addition to soy sauce ( widely used in all Chinese cuisines ), Teochew cuisine is one of the few regional Chinese that makes use of fish sauce due to Chaoshan's coastal land.

Traditional dishes are so important to regional culture that, for example, the local version of Caribbean goat stew has been chosen as the official national dish of Montserrat and is also one of the signature dishes of St. Kitts and Nevis.

The Council is made up of the chair of CND, the treasurer, three vice-chairs, 15 directly elected members, a representative of each of the specialist sections, one from Student CND, three from Youth CND and 27 from the regional groups.

Improvements in infrastructure and the regional economy notwithstanding, the three provinces remain one of the poorer regions of Canada.

There are two directors of regional services, one for the Western two regions, and one for the Eastern two regions.

The result was the America's Team Radio Network, a supplement to the franchise's regional one.

Unlike Swedish and Norwegian, Danish does not have more than one regional speech norm.

In the case of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the American versions were released first, followed by the Japanese versions and then the European versions, with each regional release offering new content not found in the previous one.

The Egyptian military is one of the strongest in the region, and gives Egypt regional military supremacy rivaled only by Israel, besides being one of the strongest in Africa.

All orthodox Christians were in churches with an episcopal government, that is, one Church under local bishops and regional Patriarchs.

The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of Slavic languages, currently spoken in Eastern Europe.

28 forest categories are used to enable the translation of forest types from national and regional classification systems to a harmonised global one:

Under the new structure, the local offices would contribute a percentage of their income to the international organization, which would take responsibility for setting the overall direction of the movement with each regional office having one vote.

A regional, ellipsoidal datum like ED50 can be fixed by prescribing the undulation of the geoid and the deflection of the vertical in one datum point, in this case the Helmert Tower in Potsdam.

In an era characterized by almost endless warfare, he led his armies as king from 1611 ( at age 17 ) until his death in battle in 1632 while leading a charge — as Sweden rose from the status of a mere regional power and run-of-the-mill kingdom to one of the great powers of Europe and a model of early modern era government.

Although Honduras eventually adopted the name Republic of Honduras, the unionist ideal never waned, and Honduras was one of the Central American countries that pushed hardest for the policy of regional unity.