Local officials and nobles often exploited both peasants and Wu Hu herdsmen for personal gain and in order to bribe officials for higher posts.

Local non-mamluk warriors were often more loyal to their tribal sheikhs, their families, or nobles than to the sultan or caliph.

Local Slavic nobility often intermarried with the Hungarian nobles to the south.

Local Slavic leaders were also recognized as nobles during the centuries.

Local nobles could be granted a royal licence to take a certain amount of game.

Local legend claims Islam was brought to the islands during Muhammad ’ s lifetime, brought by two Comorian nobles, Fey Bedja Mwamba and Mtswa Mwandze, who visited Mecca.

Local Albanian nobles maintained good relations with the Papacy.

Local Afghan tribes strongly resisted this modernization.

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

Local people resisted the action with great determination ; they escaped into forests, organised self-defence, helped people who were expelled, and bribed kidnapped children out of German hands.

Local Wiradjuri groups under leaders such as Windradyne resisted the settlers until the Frontier Wars of the early 1820s ended the open conflict.

Local residents, headed by the group Concerned Citizens of Plainview-Old Bethpage, have resisted the project from the start.

Local folklore suggests that beacons were lit on high ground around the village to warn of such raids and that attacks were fiercely resisted.

Local troops, with ties to their home garrisons, are likely to have resisted being redeployed to Italy at a time of such instability in Britain ; Marcus ' elevation may have been a result of this or some other, unrecorded crisis.

The parish initially resisted adopting the Local Government Act 1858 and forming a local board to govern the town on grounds of cost.

If input tax is greater than output tax the company can claim back money from the Local Tax Authority.

The Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

Section 11 of the 1966 Local Government Act enabled local authorities to claim grants to recruit additional staff to meet special needs of Commonwealth immigrants.

Local legends claim he achieved heavier-than-air flight before the Wright Brothers, though there is no historical evidence.

Local myths claim the head remains in Beddington park or was inherited by his son and buried with him.

Local pundits claim that the first railway in the world ( чугунный колесопровод ) was inaugurated for industrial uses of the Alexandrovsky foundry in 1788.

Those superintelligences claim a domain as theirs, consisting of up to several galaxies ( the entity known as " IT " has the Local Group as personal domain ).

Local legends claim that the idol of Ganesha continuously grows in size.

Local farmers claim that citrus crop yields have been lowered by contaminated dust blowing in.

Local sources claim that it was the first town in the country to have electric street lighting.

Local legend holds that Vyšehrad was the location of the first settlement which later became Prague, though thus far this claim remains unsubstantiated.

Local folk memory would claim that the large stones erected along the avenue from the main entrance were originally from the ancient chapel that O ' Laverty refers to in his History of Down and Connor.

Local iwi objected however, and filed a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal.

Local law enforcement officials claim no recollection of the incident, and there is no record of an arrest warrant against Patton or an actual arrest.

Local villagers, fishers, workers and environmentalists claim that shipping companies should assume their responsibilities, respecting labour and environmental law.

Local legend and Parkhurst's gravestone claim that Parkhurst was the first female in the United States to vote.

The club remains an Open Championship Local Final Qualifying course, and hosted qualifying again in 2011 when The Open returned to Royal St. George's ; Prince's professional golfer Francis McGuirk finished tied second to claim one of the three available spaces.

Local folklore says that royalty may have visited Welton Place but no evidence has been uncovered to substantiate this claim.

Local environmental activists claim that the mining operations, which use large quantities of a dilute cyanide solution, have contaminated the water sources, leading to the disappearance of fish and frogs, illnesses among cattle, air pollution, and loss of medicinal plants.

Local stories claim that Arthur watched the approach of the Saxons from the summit of the hill and that his forces then swept down the hill and massacred them.

Local folklore alludes to the belief that the Indians owned the island and used it as a military fort, while others claim the British held control of it until losing it during the War of 1812.

Local people claim that this is a Hindko word meaning " Sir Bahlol ", a prominent political and religious leader of the area.

Local fishermen are also nearly unanimously against the project, citing the fact that for many of them, up to 60 % of their annual income comes from catch caught on Horseshoe Shoals, which they claim would disappear and would have to be replaced by steaming to fishing grounds farther out to sea if the project is completed.

Local Hero shot the internal Houston scenes in Fort William.

* American politician William Daniel proposes the Local Option for prohibition.

* William Fisher – President of the Local Government Board ( to 1918 )

* Meiklejohn, William, " Tulliallan: Four lads o ’ pairts: Sir James Dewar ( 1842-1923 )" from the Kincardine Local History Group

But it is not until 1201 that the name Bloomsbury is first noted, when William de Blemond, a Norman landowner, acquired the land .< ref >< cite > Camden Council Local History.

Local attractions include Down House ( the home of Charles Darwin ), Chislehurst Caves, Holwood House ( the home of William Pitt the Younger ), Crofton Roman Villa, and the site of The Crystal Palace.

Local architects of note include John A. Hasecoster, William S. Kaufman and Stephen O. Yates.

Local merchant and rancher William Munds was the first mayor.

The International Union of Operating Engineers ( IUOE ) Local 150 Head up by William " Bill " E. Dugan is based in Countryside at 6200 Joliet Road.

Local lore asserts Boonsboro was founded by George Boone and William Boone, cousins of Daniel Boone, also Joseph Basford, and was originally named " Margaretsville " after his wife.

* William Henry Harrison High School is located in Harrison, the school is part of the Southwest Local School District, which encompasses Harrison Township, Crosby Township, and Whitewater Township in Hamilton County as well as a small section of Morgan Township in southwest Butler County.

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

Local architect Benno Janssen and his partner William Cocken rose to the challenge and created an art-deco masterpiece.

Local African-American leaders believed the pace was too slow, and William Lawson, a youth minister, asked Wheatley High School students to boycott school.

Local real estate developer Robert T. Nahas headed this group ( which included other prominent East Bay business leaders such as former US Senator William Knowland and Edgar F. Kaiser ), which later became the governing board of the Coliseum upon completion.

Only after the passing of the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898 which granted extensive power to previously non-existent county councils, allowing nationalists for the first time through local elections to democratically run local affairs previously under the control of landlord dominated " Grand Juries ", and William O ' Brien founding the United Irish League that year, did the Irish Parliamentary Party reunite under John Redmond in January 1900, returning to its former strength in the following September general election.

Local farmer, surveyor and auctioneer, William Thomas Buckland, wishing to provide an alternative place of worship for non-conformists, built the Wraysbury Baptist Chapel to his own design.

* 1998: From Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21: Working Towards Sustainable Development, edited by William Laffery, Katarina Eckerberg, William M. Laffery, foreword by John Gummer, Earthscan Publications, ISBN 1-85383-547-1

Local tunes were collected from the mid-18th century by figures including Henry Atkinson and William Vickers and in the first revival by John Bell, Bruce.

The Green Paper of 1986, Paying for Local Government, produced by the Department of the Environment from consultations between Lord Rothschild, William Waldegrave and Kenneth Baker, proposed the Community Charge.

Local historian William Speidel reported that Henry Villard, tycoon of the Northern Pacific Railway ( NP ), had the federal rights and had the line through Wallula built.

He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1884 to 1885, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1886 and as President of the Local Government Board from 1892 to 1894 and under Lord Rosebery as Secretary of State for India from 1894 to 1895.

Local folklore asserted that this was punishment for the crimes committed by William when he created his New Forest ; a 17th century writer provides exquisite detail: