Local German citizens claimed that they didn't know what was going on, though at least a few admitted to knowing of the atrocities but insisted they had been powerless to stop it.

Local Conservative Associations began to educate citizens about the Party's platform and encouraged them to register to vote annually, as mandated by the Act.

Local citizens join in a celebration of the Day of the Dead put on by a theatre group with masks, candles, and sugar skulls.

Local discontent was exacerbated by poor harvests and famine caused by bad weather and a locust plage in 1035, and when Michael tried to exercise a measure of control over Aleppo, the local citizens drove off the imperial governor.

Local citizens of Juneau donated some of the required funds, and construction began on September 8, 1929.

As with all 254 Texas counties, Smith County provides services to its citizens as defined by the Texas Constitution the Local Government Code and the Texas State Transportation Code through independent elected officials, rather than through one central authority.

Local citizens met on March 23, 1917 to discuss Scouting in both Stamford, Connecticut and Darien, Connecticut.

Local citizens were unable to battle the blaze.

Local citizens have no recollection of this child being a resident of Mount Rainier, and a journalist eventually traced the youth to nearby Cottage City, Maryland.

Local citizens and politicians, notably Richard A. Clarke, the former " terror czar " advisor to former president George H. W. Bush, have attempted to derail the project since FERC's approval.

In 1885 the citizens petitioned the State Legislature in the normal fashion and the incorporated village of Frankfort was established by Local Act No. 352 of 1885 on April 1 and by Local Act No. 352 of 1885 on May 14.

Local concern for the protection of the Great Lakes inter-lake navigation locks named Soo Locks at the trans-border area of Sault Sainte Marie prompted area citizens to propose that the U. S. Army Air Forces take over the new airfield.

Local citizens reported that Randall received over of rain in a single day during the deluge, although official precipitation data for the town do not exist.

The citizens of West Portsmouth are served by the Washington-Nile Local School District ( Portsmouth West High School ).

Local pastors prompted church members and other citizens of Edgewood to display " Pray for Rain " signs, and to always keep an umbrella at hand.

Local citizens, recognizing what was happening, armed themselves and resisted the robbers and successfully thwarted the theft.

The Constitution has five sections which are the preamble, general principles, fundamental rights and duties of citizens, structure of the state ( which includes such state organs as the National People's Congress, the State Council, the Local People's Congress and Local People's Governments and the People's Courts and the People's Procuratorates ), the national flag and the emblems of the state.

Local citizens then constructed a large indoor pavilion for spring training and exhibition games and an additional wing was built on the New Century Hotel to accommodate the players.

Local citizens later published a circular against Prince, leading one of them, William R. Wood, to have to duel him.

* Video: " Local citizens against global, corporate power " Talk at Medialab-Prado ( Madrid, Spain ) on June 8, 2011.

Local leading citizens secretly escorted the Hoars out of their hotel, to a ship, in advance of feared mob violence.

Local citizens led a fight to protect Pelican Island by stopping the sale of the wetlands.

Employes of Montgomery Ward & Co. at The Dalles, in a National Labor Relations Board election Thursday voted to decertify Local 1565, Retail Clerks International Association, AFL-CIO, as their collective bargaining agent.

In 2009, the Centerburg Local School Board voted to cancel that year's graduation ceremony in response to a cheating scandal, even though only one person out of the entire 97-student graduating class was ever proven guilty of cheating.

Local councillors voted in November 2011 to rename the town back to its original name of " Abingdon-on-Thames ", though this would need approval from the Vale of White Horse council.

In 2009, several parties in New Zealand staged a filibuster of the Local Government ( Auckland Reorganisation ) Bill in opposition to the government setting up a new Auckland Council under urgency and without debate or review by select committee, by proposing thousands of wrecking amendments and voting in Māori as each amendment had to be voted on and votes in Māori translated into English.

There are more than 1, 800 analysts in the GAO analysts bargaining unit ; the local voted to name itself IFPTE Local 1921, in honor of the date of GAO's establishment.

Only Local 598 in Sudbury, Ontario, which had a contentious and sometimes violent history with the city's Steelworkers locals, voted against the merger — it remained autonomous until 1993, when it merged with the Canadian Auto Workers.

In 2008 the 6, 500 postdoctoral scholars (" postdocs ") at the ten campuses of the University of California, who combined account for 10 % of the postdocs in the nation, voted to affiliate with the UAW, creating the largest union for postdoctoral scholars in the country: UAW Local 5810.

In June 2012, it was voted ' Best Local Pub In Ireland '.

Local government politicians, including mayors, councillors and District Health Boards are voted in during the local elections, held every three years.

On May 29th, 2010, hundreds of California medical-marijuana industry workers voted to become UFCW Local 5 members.

Local civil rights workers and volunteers along with students from Stanford and Yale, organized and implemented the mock election, in which tens of thousands voted.

In 2000 Wilshire voted to prohibit teachers from introducing steps to prevent bullying on the grounds of homosexuality in a later Local Government Bill.

Stupak voted for the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, which expanded the definition of hate crimes to include crimes motivated by sexual orientation or gender identity.

He voted against the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, a bill that amends the Federal definition of a hate crime to include gender identity and sexual orientation.

On the backbenches Biffen voted against the Local Government Finance Act 1988 which introduced the Community Charge ( the poll tax ).

SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana was founded in 2008, when members of three SEIU locals ( Local 4, Local 20, Local 880 ) voted to join and create a single entity across the two states.

Readers participating in the Capital Times / Wisconsin State Journal Reader's Choice Award survey have voted the classic the # 1 Favorite Local Running Event every year since 1995.

The rank and file workers voted overwhelmingly in November, 1917 and more moderate leaders, such as Fitzpatrick and the leader of Local 87, used this strike threat to great advantage in negotiating with the federal government and the employers.

In 2003, workers at the Foster Farms poultry plants around Livingston voted to leave the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 1288.

Local specialties include densuke watermelons ( でんすけスイカ ) known throughout Japan, and imazuri mai rice, voted " Most Delicious Rice In Hokkaidō 7 Years In A Row ".

On June 21, 1918, at their regular meeting at Geneva Hall in New York City, the Scenic Artists voted to accept a charter as United Scenic Artists of America ( hence the USAA still seen today in the union ’ s “ bug ”) being Local 829, an autonomous local of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers of America ( later to become IBPAT, the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades ).

In March of 1990, a merger with IBPAT Local 350 in Chicago was effected and thereby jurisdiction was gained throughout the United States. Finally, on April 27 of 1999, after decades of suffering from a debilitating lack of common interest with the IBPAT, the membership of United Scenic Artists Local 829 voted by an overwhelming majority to re-affiliate with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees ( IATSE ) and to disaffiliate from the IBPAT.