* Current vice mayor of Davao City, Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is noted for transforming the city from the murder capital of the nation to what tourism organizations there now call " the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia ".

Furious at what they saw as poor management, many of those assembled organized into a body led by Etienne Marcel, the Provost of Merchants ( a title roughly equivalent to mayor of Paris today ).

November 28, 2006, SIFF and Seattle mayor Greg Nickels announced that SIFF will soon have a home and a year-round screening facility in what has been the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall of McCaw Hall, the same building at Seattle Center that houses the Seattle Opera.

Downtown Auburn, Alabama. Backlash against what was seen as an ineffectual city council led to the election of Jan Dempsey as mayor in 1980 and the removal of the previous city government system in favor of a council-manager system.

Minton, the first mayor of Denham Springs and founder of the Denham Springs News, thus received title to much of what is now the downtown section of Denham Springs.

In January 2003, a small white supremacist group from Illinois demonstrated in Lewiston in support of what they believed the mayor meant, prompting a simultaneous counter-demonstration at Bates College and the organization of the " Many and One Coalition ".

Jim Prince, publisher of the local The Neshoba Democrat newspaper said, " Philadelphia will always be connected to what happened here in 1964, but the fact that Philadelphia, Mississippi, with its notorious past, could elect a black man as mayor, it might be time to quit picking on Philadelphia, Mississippi.

In 1630, Michael Pauw, a burgemeester ( mayor ) of Amsterdam and a director of the Dutch West India Company, received a land grant as patroon on the condition that he would plant a colony of not fewer than fifty persons within four years on the west bank of what had been named the North River.

A joint commission of residents of both municipalities had recommended that the two communities should be consolidated to form what would be called the Township of Sussex-Wantage, which would operate under the Faulkner Act ( Council-Manager ) form of government with a mayor and a six-member township council, and that voters in both municipalities should approve a referendum to be held on November 3, 2009.

The Elfego Baca Golf Shoot is named after a former mayor of Socorro who survived a gun battle near what is now Reserve, New Mexico, involving over 4, 000 bullets that were fired over the course of 36 hours.

Bisbee was featured in the September 10, 2001 edition of Newsweek, discussing the slow, painful decline of the town since ( at that time ) even the mayor, Bob Weltin, was preparing to forsake what was left of the town and seek a better life elsewhere.

He had been mayor since 1985 and had presided over what first appeared as a successful revitalization of the community with extended public services, including the establishment of a large sports arena, under-cover grants to the local football association, and " well-being trips ", free holiday trips to the Mediterranean for senior citizens.

In advance of the 10th anniversary of the attacks, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg urged that the " Ground zero " moniker be retired, saying, "... the time has come to call those 16 acres what they are: The World Trade Center and the National September 11th Memorial and Museum.

The Delcambre town council and mayor Carrol Brousard, passed an ordinance in June 2007 making sagging illegal, expanding an existing state indecent exposure law to add underwear to the list of what cannot be exposed.

The mayor is permitted to propose legislation to the Board of Aldermen and introduces the city budget, but possesses no veto power over what the Aldermen chooses to pass.

By 1768, it had grown enough to become the second “ alcaldia mayor ” in what is now the state of Chiapas, after San Cristóbal ( de las Casas ).

In what is known as the Antwerp Ceremony, the mayor of the city that organized the Games transfers a special Pan American Games flag to the president of PASO, who then passes it on to the mayor of the city hosting the next Pan American Games.

One such voter was Jennifer Siebel, fiancée of San Francisco's liberal Democratic mayor Gavin Newsom ; in 2008, Siebel attempted to change her party affiliation from Republican to Non-Partisan, but " checked the American Independent box thinking that was what independent voters were supposed to do ," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Bloomberg praised Chafee's " experience and integrity ", saying that Chafee would put Rhode Islanders ' interests " ahead of party interests ", and that Chafee would " produce results — because that's exactly what he did as a mayor and as senator.

In 1878 the mayor of Boston hired a former police officer, the ironically named " Captain Savage ," to become what many recognize as the first official probation officer.

Construction works began in late 2001, and were complete in November 2003, some months after what was expected, since in February 2002, Porto mayor Rui Rio changed the estate distribution, criticizing the plan for including high-scale housing and shopping for the area.

Her father, Charles Abel Buffum ( later mayor 1921-1924 ), and her uncle, Edwin, opened the first of what would become the 16-store chain of Buffum's department stores.

When asked what he would take with him if marooned on a desert island, the mayor replied, " A bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin.

If Mrs. Wright doesn't accept the terms in the morning, I'll go either to Tokyo or to Holland, to do what I can.

`` But when it comes to war, the Colonel knows what it is and Jeff doesn't.

In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.

`` He told Ken to his face that he doesn't have what it takes to get a woman!!

How do you tell a college president that your son doesn't know what he wants to do??

Most Christians believe that the kosher food laws do not apply to them as they are no longer under the Law of Moses, and that, as Jesus taught in Mark 7: what you eat doesn't make you unclean but what comes out of a man's heart makes him unclean — although Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have their own set of dietary observances.

What stands out is how arbitrary environmental leaders are about what gets counted and what doesn't as ' environmental.

" Mercer emphasized that he was not blaming heavy metal music for Gill's actions and added " It doesn't matter actually what music he liked.

It respects the play, but it doesn't provide any new material for arcane debates on what it all means.

If we brought Tina's mommy, Ike might not notice the difference, but he doesn't get what he wants.

If the chain of events leading up to the person having something meets this criterion, they are entitled to it: that they possess it is just, and what anyone else does or doesn't have or need is irrelevant.

The cosmic flames are a literal punctuation to the Phoenix's purpose to " burn away what doesn't work ", as well as being described as " burning through lies " and deception.

The boundaries of what constitutes a market and what doesn't are relevant distinctions to make in economic analysis.

The Force is composed of the psionic energy from all living beings, past, present and future, and is sometimes referred to as an embodiment of rebirth and destructive transformation through " burning away what doesn't work ", and helped to restart the universe before the Big Bang.

" Further complicating the news, NewOrderOnline, a website with support from New Order management, reported that, according to " a source close to the band ," " the news about the split is false ... New Order still exists despite what said Peter Hook can leave the band, but this doesn't mean the end of New Order.

* A well-known rhetorical question is " Why doesn't onomatopoeia sound like what it is ?".

Cardinal Giovanni Montini, who later became Pope Paul VI remarked to a friend that " this holy old boy doesn't realise what a hornet's nest he's stirring up ".

The exact definition of racism is controversial both because there is little scholarly agreement about the meaning of the concept " race ", and because there is also little agreement about what does and doesn't constitute discrimination.

He at first attempts to retcon the events in that book, but his captor, Annie Wilkes, regards this as cheating and makes him create a sequel that doesn't actively deny what the reader already knows.

Kreeft says that being all-powerful doesn't mean being able to do what is logically contradictory, e. g., giving freedom with no potentiality for sin, c ) God's own suffering and death on the cross brought about his supreme triumph over the devil, d ) God uses suffering to bring about moral character, quoting apostle Paul in Romans 5, e ) Suffering can bring people closer to God, and f ) The ultimate " answer " to suffering is Jesus himself, who, more than any explanation, is our real need.

De Borchgrave maintained that " what was brilliant pioneering work on the part of UPI prior to World War II, with radio news, is now a static quantity and sofar as I'm concerned, certainly doesn't fit into my plans for the future.