Franchises were also granted to Miami, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Orlando.

Franchises were initially let by the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising ( OPRAF ).

) there were the " New ordinances ", which said "... We do ordain, that from henceforth in case of homicide, whereof the Coroner's office is to make view and Inquest, it shall be commanded to the Coroner of the Country or of the Franchises where the dead persons shall be found, that he, together with the Coroner of the Household do execute the office which thereunto pertaineth, and shall enter it in his Roll ..."

We your Humble Petitioners Living at a great Distance from ye Center of the Towne Some of us nine or ten Miles and Consequently at a very great disadvantage in joining with them all Publick Town affairs, being encouraged Partly by our Living in that Part of ye Town that was Laid out for what was called ye upper Parish and Partly by ye Kind Reception our Request met with which we made to ye Town for a dismission but more particularly by our Confidence in your Honors desire to Promote ye Happiness of every Part of ye State Humbly Pray that Honors would take our Case into your Serious Consideration and grant that we together with all those Live in sd Upper Part may be Erected and Incorporated into a body Politick and Corporate to have Continuance in ye Name of Northfield with all such Powers and Authorities Privileges Immunities and Franchises with other Parishes or Towns in this State in General hold Enjoy with your Petitions as in duty bound Shall forever pray .”

As a result the fictional Associated Football Franchises of America ( AFFA ) was created ( not to be confused with the real AFA ).

Franchises jointly operated with Keolis:

Franchises shifted frequently, often with new teams appearing the next season from the same cities.

Franchises with multiple perfect score winners include The Legend of Zelda with three titles, Metal Gear and Final Fantasy with two titles each.

Stores are divided into four types: Optical Lab, Superstores, Franchises ( owned entirely by the proprietor but under licence to use the Vision Express name and with some access to Grand Vision services ) and joint venture partnerships ( owned on a 50: 50 basis by a manager / proprietor and the Vision Express subsidiary, Abbeyfield V. E.

Franchises with long successful histories and large nationwide fan bases are occasionally referred to as America's Team.

At the installation of a new Lord Warden, the Speaker of the Confederation of the Cinque Ports instructs the Lord Warden: " to undertake the duties of the Ancient and Honourable Office and to uphold the Franchises, Liberties, Customs and Usages of the port.

The BRW Fast Club is a community of like-minded entrepreneurs that comprises members of the BRW Fast 100, BRW Fast Franchises and BRW Fast Starters lists from the past five years ; members of the BRW Top 500 Private Companies List ; and businesses who fit the criteria of the above and supply their company financials for verification.

" In 2009, GamesTM named it # 1 on their top ten " Video Game Franchises That Lost Their Way ," commenting that " The blue hedgehog's next-gen efforts have been nothing short of appalling, none more so than his 2006 appearance.

Franchises in the National League, the major professional baseball league at the time, wanted the best players available to them.

" According to America's Best Franchises, there are many benefits to choosing to become a home-based franchisee, " but having a home based business doesn't offer any guarantees as you will encounter many challenges you'll have to learn to overcome.

Since 2007, Subway has consistently ranked in Entrepreneur magazine's Top 500 Franchises list.

Franchises extended the company scope in Edinburgh and the south-west and south-east of England.

Franchises can be offered by the franchisor on a territorial basis without violating antitrust laws.

The Miami Sharks, a once-great American football team, are now in turmoil and struggling to make the AFFA ( Associated Football Franchises of America ) playoffs in the ( then-future ) year of 2001 ; the film was released in 1999.

Franchises offer training, advertising and information technology support, lower procurement costs and access to a network of established operators.

Franchises in western Canada are mostly run through Alberta-based subsidiary Pizza 73, and in non-traditional locations such as university campuses and movie theatres throughout Canada.

Franchises in the sports genre included HardBall !, Unnecessary Roughness and Jack Nicklaus Golf.

This League has been launched by BCCI have received support from all the other Cricket Boards, and International Players could be drafted into City-based Franchises.

In 2008, IGN also chose it as one of the Horror Franchises that Should Rise from the Grave.

Franchises such as McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Subway, K-Mart, Best and Less, Donut King, Coffee Club, Blockbuster, Harvey Norman, Bunnings, BCF and EB Games have established stores in Mount Isa, as well as many smaller locally owned businesses, many in the K-Mart shopping complex and Simpson Central Arcade in the Central Business District.

New York ratified the U. S. Constitution and proposed the following amendment in 1788: " o Person ought to be taken imprisoned or diseased of his freehold, or be exiled or deprived of his Privileges, Franchises, Life, Liberty or Property but by due process of Law.

Franchises specify the passenger rail services which are to be run and the quality and other conditions ( for example, the cleanliness of trains, station facilities and opening hours, the punctuality and reliability of trains ) which the operators have to meet.

*" Major League Baseball Franchises " by Andrew C. Clem, 2005.

Franchises such as Seinfeld, Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Transformers, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show have core groups of fanatical followers but still attract mass audiences, so some ( e. g. actor Bruce Campbell, see below ), argue they cannot be considered true cult franchises.

Franchises which had previously been in the NBL tended to dominate, especially the Minneapolis Lakers.

He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.

The sound discoveries of this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him.

Milton and Rosella Lovett of Cranston were awarded $55,000 damages from the state in Superior Court yesterday for industrial property which they owned at 83 Atwells Ave., Providence, and which was condemned for use in construction of Interstate Route 95.

Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.

The honored professionals were awarded for all the work done in a certain category for the qualifying period ; for example, Jannings received the award for two movies in which he starred during that period.

In 2004, Pope John Paul II's efforts to unite Europe were honoured with an ‘ Extraordinary Charlemagne Medal ’, which was awarded for the first time ever.

With everyone running in different directions, some local businessmen worked out a deal and were awarded an AFL franchise on June 7, 1965, contingent upon acquiring exclusive stadium rights from city officials.

The Atlanta expansion franchise became the 15th NFL franchise, and they were awarded the first pick in the 1966 NFL Draft as well as the final pick in each of the first five rounds.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

Bohr, Mottelson and Rainwater were jointly awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics " for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection ".

In November 2009, the suits were settled, with $ 13 million damages awarded.

The SSRC awarded Whorf the grant and in 1930 he traveled to Mexico City where Professor Robert H Barlow put him in contact with several speakers of Nahuatl to serve as his informants, among whom were Mariano Rojas of Tepoztlán and Luz Jimenez of Milpa Alta.

At the 1896 event, silver was awarded to winners and bronze to runners-up, while at 1900 other prizes were given, not medals.

In 1901, Baltimore and McGraw were awarded an expansion franchise in the growing American League, but again the team was sacrificed in favor of a New York City franchise, as the team was transferred to New York in 1903.

The same team behind the BBC's digital text service also launched the early incarnations of the BBC's Interactive Wimbledon and Interactive Open Golf services in 2000, which were awarded an Interactive BAFTA that year.

Additional awards were presented to the British fleet: Nelson was awarded £ 2, 000 (£ as of ) a year for life by the Parliament of Great Britain and £ 1, 000 per annum by the Parliament of Ireland, although the latter was inadvertently discontinued after the Act of Union dissolved the Irish Parliament.

Apple referred to the prizes being awarded for the races -- as these were important races, the rewards were substantial.

Baralongs crew were later awarded £ 185 prize bounty for sinking U-27.

The dead of Marathon were awarded by the Athenians the special honor of being the only ones who were buried where they died instead of the main Athenian cemetery at Keramikos.

The Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 saw a small British force repel an overwhelming attack by Zulu forces ; eleven Victoria Cross es were awarded for the defence.

Bacardí Gold, Bacardí 8, and Bacardí Reserva Limitada were also awarded International High Quality Trophy awards at the 2010 Monde Selection ’ s World Quality Selections.

In 1972, the Blue Angels were awarded the Navy's Meritorious Unit Commendation for the two-year period from 1 March 1970 – 31 December 1971.

A number of Bronze Star Medals with the " V " device were awarded to veterans of the Battle of Mogadishu.