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In some counties there were multiple Quarter Sessions, quite apart from the urban areas: for example, Yorkshire had its North Riding, West Riding, and East Riding ; whilst Northamptonshire's Soke of Peterborough was administered separately.
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North of this is the inner lowland of the Coastal Plain, or the Black Prairie, which includes some and seventeen counties.
In the 1980s, some boroughs and cities began to be merged with their surrounding counties to form districts with a mixed urban and rural population.
The term Greater Dublin Area, which might consist of some or all of the Dublin Region along with counties of Kildare, Meath and Wicklow, has no legal standing.
During the 1960s, when some Virginia counties closed their public schools to avoid racial integration, compensatory private schooling was available only for Caucasian children.
Overall inflation for 1990 had reached 36. 4 percent — not the hyperinflation experienced by some Latin American counties — but still the highest annual rate for Honduras in forty years.
Whilst some see him as a high-minded idealist, his stay in power culminated in a crisis in 1549 when many counties of the realm were up in protest.
The counties themselves had undergone some boundary changes in the preceding 50 years, mainly to remove enclaves and exclaves.
Onto the blank canvas, new counties were created to cover the entire country ; many of these were obviously based on the historic counties, but there were some major changes, especially in the north.
The commission recommended that many counties be moved to completely unitary systems ; that some cities become unitary authorities, but that the remainder of their parent counties remain two-tier ; and that in some counties the status quo should remain.
The counties of Ireland (; Ulster-Scots: coonties o Airlann ) are sub-national divisions that have been, and in some cases continue to be, used to geographically demarcate areas of local government.
In the Republic of Ireland, some counties have been
Parts of some towns and cities were exempt from the jurisdiction of the counties that surrounded them.
This number remained fixed for a little over 200 years until the division of some counties into smaller entities for judicial purposes ( 1836 ), initially, followed by complete division in the 20th and 21st centuries.
He controlled the boards of guardians and appointed the dispensary doctors, regulated the diet of paupers, inflicted fines and administered the law at petty sessions .” The counties were initially used for judicial purposes, but began to take on some governmental functions in the 17th century, notably with grand juries.
The counties remain in use for some purposes, including the three-letter coding of vehicle number plates, the Royal Mail postcode address file ( which records counties in all addresses although they are no longer required for postcoded mail ) and Lord Lieutenancies ( for which the former county boroughs are also used ).
The first 32 divisions listed below are the " traditional " counties, 20 of which still have administrative functions as local government divisions in the Republic of Ireland ( in some cases with slightly redrawn boundaries ).
The same could be said for Lillywhite ’ s team which, being selected from only four counties, meant that some of England ’ s best players did not take part.
Most U. S. states, counties, and municipalities have some part of their election cycle coincident with this date.
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`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
`` There must be some water under there ''.
The fear had not entirely gone from her face, but there were some other emotions now, crowding into her eyes and the lines of her mouth.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
Is there some magic in it that assures results??
nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.
Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
And now there was some question as to his continued residence there.
In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;
He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.
Last, not least, there are some poems which K. King sent me ( addressed to herself ) when I was preparing a fresh volume, asking me to include them.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
In this play there were some thirty or more named characters and I don't know how many more unnamed.
The troops must have more than the common quantity of liquor, and perhaps there will be some little drunkenness among them ''.
Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.
What they meant was that there was no evidence to show that the south and east coasts of Britain received Germanic settlers conspicuously earlier than some other parts of England.
Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
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Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.
As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.
And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.
Tilghman knew that some ranchers were hand-in-glove with the Doolin gang.
There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.
not less strikingly so for being mysterious, as though some deeply hidden constatation of thoughts were enciphered in a single image, a single moment.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.
The confused rambling of guerrilla warfare, such as most of Garibaldi's campaigns were, was brought to life by Trevelyan's pen in some of the best passages in the books.
In looking back over the volumes, it is possible to find errors of interpretation, some of which were not so evident at the time of writing.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
That he read some of the books assigned to him with a studied carefulness is evident from his notes, which are often so full that they provide an unquestionable basis for the identification of reviews that were printed without his signature.
For some reason, none of them were impressed with the territorial capital.
Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.
In order to prevent this, Washington hastened to dispatch several units to reinforce the fort, including a force under the Marquis De Lafayette containing some 160 of Morgan's riflemen, all who were fit for duty at this time, the rest having no shoes.
A picket guard of about 350, mostly Hessians, were attacked by the Americans under Lafayette, and driven back to their camp, some twenty to thirty of them falling before the riflemen's fire.
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.
We may say of some unfortunates that they were never young.
On his bookshelves were some of the latest American novels, including Bellow's Seize The Day, but he hadn't read them ( they were sent by American publishers ) and wasn't especially interested in what the American writers were up to.
Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.
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