Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

Local discussion of national politics tends to fall within the spectrum of moderately conservative to arch-conservative thought.

Local New York politics were tightly controlled by a parochial elite led by Governor George Clinton, and local political leaders did not want to share their power with the national politicians.

* Konnert, Mark " Local politics in the French Wars of Religion "

In the mid 20th century the square hosted the headquarters of both the main parties of British politics, and it is now home to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Local Government Association and the London base of the European Parliament and European Commission.

Local politics is controlled by Fife Council although there is interest being shown by some people in redeveloping more locally centred councils.

Though the Times had been a strong backer of Cryer, the paper in 1927 published an editorial referring to the city government as " Our Local Tammany ", a reference to Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall machine that controlled New York politics in the 19th Century.

Local politics left Wellington in conflict with Wrekin District ( now Telford & Wrekin ) Council for many years, with claims and counter claims of neglect.

Local politics and business interests become involved, including the president of the bank to which Croker is indebted, Roger Too White's former fraternity brother ( now Mayor of Atlanta ), and the entirety of ' respectable ' Atlanta society.

Local politics have been dominated by the Labour Party for much of the 20th century, however Ashfield attracted media attention in the late 1970s with a shock by election win for the Conservatives.

That the metropolitan county councils were controlled by the Labour Party led to accusations that their abolition was motivated by party politics: the general secretary of the National Association of Local Government Officers described it as a " completely cynical manoeuvre ".

For those who disagreed with El Centro de la Raza ’ s far-left politics and savored historical irony, it didn ’ t get better than this: an organization that staunchly supported workers ’ rights, the AFL-CIO ( OPEIU Local 8 ), accused El Centro of violating the labor rights of its own staff.

The resulting battles were fierce: in Local 601, which represented Westinghouse workers in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and whose members had a tradition of radical politics dating back to Eugene V. Debs ' candidacy for President in 1912, the two factions were led by brothers Mike and Tom Fitzgerald, who attacked each other personally as vigorously as the factions did on political issues.

Local people often seek to defend their real or perceived culture, and local politics is often dictated by a desire to preserve the traditions and habits of the Island.

* Local activist Dave Meslin created City Idol — an initiative and contest to encourage local citizens who were otherwise alienated from politics to seek office in this election.

The show's success as ABC Local Radio's highest rating weekday program is bolstered by a team of experts who are featured every week to discuss such topics as motoring, literature, movies, American politics and travel destinations.

Local politics had an interest in the market's audience.

Local hosts had been instructed to not limit themselves to sports, but also include politics, celebrities, relationships, and current events.

Local thickenings ( often called warts ) are common, such as those found on toads.

Local public BDSM communities often have strong ties with distant BDSM communities, with popular educators traveling widely ; large events attracting attendees from wide areas ( and occasionally internationally ); popular speakers, authors, or players gaining relative celebratory status ; and websites attracting over a million members.

Local supporters often call the club simply Ceo, which is Veronese for Chievo.

Local government often sponsors and promotes performances during tourist seasons, and revives lost traditions.

Local bus services inside cities and towns are often tightly regulated by the councils.

Local deities of different village regions in India were often identified with " mainstream " Hindu deities, a process that has been called " Sanskritization ".

Local preparations for use in otolaryngology often contain pharmacologic equivalents of adrenaline, while steroid and vitamin D creams are used extensively in dermatological practice.

Local officials brutalized blacks and prevented them from leaving relief camps, aid meant for African-American sharecroppers was often given to the landowners instead, and many times black males were conscripted by locals into forced labor, sometimes at gun point.

Local moose sightings are often reported on radio stations so that motorists can take care while driving in particular areas.

Conventional PCI ( PCI is an initialism formed from Peripheral Component Interconnect, part of the PCI Local Bus standard and often shortened to PCI ) is a computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer.

Local events were also often commemorated in pub signs.

Local partners are often united in bigger networks.

Local Afro-Portuguese often acted as middlemen, the Europeans advancing them goods and they trading them to the local people, most often for ivory.

Low Secure units are often referred to as " Local Secure " as patients are referred there frequently by local criminal courts for psychiatric assessment before sentencing.

; Local community displacement: Gift shops and cafés which cater for the needs of tourists are often more profitable than shops selling everyday goods for local people ( such as butchers or bakers ).

Local variations may be very common, as the act of forming hydrate, which extracts pure water from saline formation waters, can often lead to local, and potentially-significant increases in formation water salinity.

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 bodies of Knights Templar are known as Preceptories ; local bodies of Knights of St Paul are known as Chapters ; local bodies of Knights of Malta are known as Priories ; all operate under a Grand or Great Priory, often with an intermediate level of Provincial Priories.

Local kings often invited temple dancers ( devadasi ) to dance in their courts, the occurrence of which created a new category of dancers -- rajanarthakis — and modified the technique and themes of the recitals.

Cat's Cradle in Carrboro a nationally recognized live music club, Local 506 and other Chapel Hill bars ( such as the Cave ) often host local, national, and international acts in all genres.

Local groups often assumed that the findings of these commissions entitled them to act against offending landlords themselves.

Local governments often need to project future tax revenues.

Local residents often call it " the abbey ", although the present cathedral represents only the church of the old Benedictine abbey.

Local magistracies were often opposed, but ineffective in stopping the destruction.