The areas to be examined in these inquiries were selected by local officials, supposedly as representative of a larger population.

On tour, games take place against local provinces, clubs or representative sides as well as the full tests against the host's national team.

The list will present some of the most representative Greek dishes that can be found throughout the country and the most famous of the local ones:

Nevertheless, Ivan is often seen as a farsighted statesman who reformed Russia as he promulgated a new code of laws ( Sudebnik of 1550 ), established the first Russian feudal representative body ( Zemsky Sobor ), curbed the influence of clergy, and introduced the local self-management in rural regions.

In the town of Môtiers, he sought and found protection under Lord Keith, who was the local representative of the free-thinking Frederick the Great of Prussia.

The Tsar promulgated a new code of laws ( Sudebnik of 1550 ), established the first Russian feudal representative body ( Zemsky Sobor ) and introduced local self-management into the rural regions.

For each district there is an Ortsbeirat ( local council ) of between 9 and 15 members, as well as an Ortsvorsteher ( local representative ).

In addition to the following representative dishes from the people of Hoklo ( Hō-ló ) ethnicity ( see Taiwanese people ), there are also Aboriginal, Hakka, and local derivatives of Chinese cuisines such as beef noodle soup.

William Clarke formed the All-England Eleven in 1846, and this was the first representative England side, which toured the country taking on local sides.

Politics of the United States Virgin Islands takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the Governor is the head of the local government, and of a multi-party system.

He completed the 1752 Treaty of Logstown, in which the local Indians, through their " Half-King " Tanacharison and an Iroquois representative, agreed to terms that included permission to build a " strong house " at the mouth of the Monongahela River ( the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ).

But, since 1960, partnered with a local representative: Fevre-Basset.

The local city council also provides a seat reserved for a representative of Mazara's immigrant community.

Greens also hold representative positions in local government across New Zealand and Australia ( where a number of local government authorities are controlled by Green councilors ).

As well, grassroots systems also differ from representative systems that allow local communities or national memberships to elect representatives who then go on to make decisions.

Theorists believe that downwardly accountable or representative authorities with meaningful discretionary powers are the basic institutional elements of decentralisation that should lead to local efficiency, equity and development .” Ribot, 2003 ; 53

Since 1983, representative local government has been in force again.

The town was experimenting with an innovative model for local government which combined the traditional representative institutions with the participation of open assemblies of the people.

In 2010, the district removed the warrior logo from the high school's sign, replacing it with a black-and-red seal featuring the letter W. The warrior image has been used less frequently since 1999 ; since then, residents have suggested to the school board that the mascot be changed to something representative of Lititz, such as " Wilbur Buds ," a well-known product of the local Wilbur Chocolate Company.

As well as acting as a sales representative for Kinner airplanes in the Boston area, Earhart wrote local newspaper columns promoting flying and as her local celebrity grew, she laid out the plans for an organization devoted to female flyers.

The new administration for the Community's affairs was organized into a hierarchy of councils at the local, national, and regional levels.

There are great restoration projects underway around New Zealand and many organisations including community groups, landowners, conservation organisations, iwi, volunteers, schools, local businesses, nurseries and councils are involved in them.

She established a Nursing Trust for local villages, and served on various committees and councils responsible for footpaths and other country life issues.

The party retains influence in some local councils.

Responsible to the governor, town councils known as Cabildo administered local municipalities, the most important of which was Santiago, which was the seat of a Royal Appeals Court () from 1609 until the end of colonial rule.

A number of such NGOs, as well as trade unions, local councils and bar associations formed a World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002.

In the early Church, the first canons were decreed by bishops united in " Ecumenical " councils ( the Emperor summoning all of the known world's bishops to attend with at least the acknowledgement of the Bishop of Rome ) or " local " councils ( bishops of a region or territory ).

Churches of Christ purposefully have no central headquarters, councils, or other organizational structure above the local church level.

Below the national level, authority is exercised by and through governors and mayors appointed by the central government and by popularly elected local councils.

Canons consist of doctrinal statements and disciplinary measures – most Church councils and local synods dealt with immediate disciplinary concerns as well as major difficulties of doctrine.

Unfortunately, the use of the term " pan-Orthodox " is confusing to those not within Eastern Orthodoxy, and it leads to mistaken impressions that these are ersatz ecumenical councils rather than purely local councils to which nearby Orthodox hierarchs, regardless of jurisdiction, are invited.

Independency or congregationalist polity among Protestants may involve the rejection of any governmental structure or binding authority above local congregations ; conformity to the decisions of these councils is therefore considered purely voluntary and the councils are to be considered binding only insofar as those doctrines are derived from the Scriptures.

In these latter cases, the form of government is not radically different from the presbyterian form, except that their councils of bishops have hierarchical jurisdiction over the local ruling bodies to a greater extent than in most Presbyterian and other Reformed churches.

The permanent criteria of church structure for the Orthodox Church today, outside the New Testament writings, are found in the canons ( regulation and decrees ) of the first seven ecumenical councils ; the canons of several local or provincial councils, whose authority was recognized by the whole church ; the Apostolic Canons, dating from the 4th century ); and the " canons of the Fathers " or selected extracts from prominent church leaders having canonical importance.

With the creation of the creed, a precedent was established for subsequent local and regional councils of Bishops ( Synods ) to create statements of belief and canons of doctrinal orthodoxy — the intent being to define unity of beliefs for the whole of Christendom.

This form of graffiti can be difficult to locate, as it is mostly removed by the local authority ( as councils which

Greater London originally had a two-tier system of local government, with the Greater London Council ( GLC ) sharing power with the City of London Corporation ( governing the small City of London ) and the 32 London borough councils.

Instead, they were ' community councils ' for smaller, rural settlements, which did not have a local government district to themselves.

The rate-capping rebellion was a campaign within English local councils in 1985 which aimed to force the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher to withdraw powers to restrict the spending of councils.

The campaign's tactic was that councils whose budgets were restricted would refuse to set any budget at all for the financial year 1985-86, requiring the Government to intervene directly in providing local services, or to concede.

Law became a conscious process, something more than simply doing justice and looking to local customs and a common morality for applicable norms.

As the material at the command of the potters grew and the volume of their production increased, the local variations within a common style became more evident.

For the Hellenes, high on the cliff a temple was built, which became a worship site devoted to Aphrodite, in her particular local presence as Aphrodite Amathusia along with a bearded male Aphrodite called Aphroditos.

The local Abadan police had taken notice, and became suspicious of Hossein Takbali-zadeh and his accomplices, and had started following the arsonists as they were entering Cinema Rex.

It became an object of local folklore and legend.

The municipality Abdera was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

In 1974 the area became part of the borough of Torfaen, in the new local government county of Gwent.

His early work in scrutinizing the use of local, exchange and trunk telephone line usage in a small community, to understand the theoretical requirements of an efficient network led to the creation of the Erlang formula, which became a foundational element of present day telecommunication network studies.

Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

They, therefore, often contained pre-existing municipal boroughs, which thereafter became part of the second tier of local government, below the administrative counties and county boroughs.

He joined the Independent Labour Party in 1908, and became active in London local politics.

Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts held in Ottawa were added, and the fête became known as Festival Canada ; after 1980 the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.

Between 1985 an 1987 the relationship of the PG with the local Comorians became worse.

In medieval Europe, churches became incorporated, as did local governments, such as the Pope and the City of London Corporation.

From a local disease, cholera became one of the most widespread and deadly diseases of the 19th century, killing an estimated tens of millions of people.

Furthermore, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church similarly became independent of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church in 1994, when four bishops were consecrated by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria to form the basis of a local Holy Synod of the Eritrean Church.

The municipality Delphi was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 8 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

The island became infamous for its activity of smuggling illegal Chinese immigrants for local labor.

He worked as a solicitor for much of that decade and became a reporter on children's panels and was involved with the Lanarkshire local authority.

In American law, particularly after Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), the difference between de facto segregation ( segregation that existed because of the voluntary associations and neighborhoods ) and de jure segregation ( segregation that existed because of local laws that mandated the segregation ), became important distinctions for court-mandated remedial purposes.

By this date there were finally enough films several minutes long available to fill a programme running for at least half an hour, and which could be changed weekly when the local audience became bored with it.

He became acquainted with many local people, including Brenda Salkeld, the clergyman's daughter who worked as a gym-teacher at St Felix Girls ' School, Southwold.

While at the school he became friendly with the curate of the local parish church and became involved with activities there.