Local sheep farmers and cattle graziers supplied wool and leather to local tanners and shoemakers ( an industry that continued until the 1970s ), while metalworkers, locksmiths and nailers fired their furnaces with local coal and the alemakers supplied thirsty palates on market days.

" The UK Local Government Association encouraged the playing of tag in 2008, saying that children are overprotected (" wrapped in cotton wool ").

Local handicraft production mainly consists of weaving traditional Maya textiles, mostly cotton but also wool, depending on the local climate.

Local legend has it that the tower was built on a foundation of cotton wool ; in reality, bales of sheep's wool were used to absorb water that could not be bailed out from the foundations.

Local timber merchants are harvesting scarce species of rosewood trees from protected rainforests within Marojejy National Park and exporting the wood to China for the production of luxury furniture and musical instruments.

Local artisans sell handcrafted goods and many merchants sport sidewalk sales.

Local merchants at the time of incorporation included Joseph Jaqueth and his brother, Sampson Jaqueth, who was also village president.

Local merchants used the absence of United States troops to conduct extensive trade with Canada.

Local merchants and restaurants throughout Skippack have joined forces to create “ First Fridays in Skippack ” to encourage the public to re-discover the Village of Skippack and its hidden gems.

Local farmers and merchants watched the commotion in amusement and with interest as unsuccessful efforts were made to extricate the hippopotamus from the muddy waters of Cottonwood Creek.

Local farm goods and timber sales were all required to pass through merchants at either a small seaport or a market town prior to export.

Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia.

Local industry and commerce includes the Hill Brush company, large wholesale plant nurseries and the notable Yapp's wine merchants.

San Antonio's mercado was renovated in the 1970s, at which time it was the largest Mexican marketplace in the U. S. Local merchants began staging historic re-enactments of the chili queens ' heyday.

Local merchants are complemented by national retailers and restaurants, such as Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, The Cheesecake Factory, Johnny Rockets, Five Guys, Ann Taylor, Sunglass Hut, Banana Republic, Gap, Swatch, Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works, bebe, Fire & Ice, Starbucks, Brooks Brothers, Urban Outfitters, Uno Chicago Grill, and Swarovski.

Local merchants traded with both Polish and foreign merchants, mostly from Kingdom of Hungary, taking advantage of the vicinity of the border.

Local lords and merchants established many new kilns ( e. g., Kameyama kiln and Tobe kiln ) for economic profit, and old kilns such as Seto restarted as porcelain kilns.

Local merchants sell nuts for tourists to feed the monkeys.

Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia.

Local merchants, helped by environmental groups and anti-globalization groups opposed the construction, and poet Homero Aridjis joined the protest characterizing the opening as " supremely symbolic " and "... like planting the staff of globalization in the heart of ancient Mexico.

Local merchants complained to investigator ’ s that the raids were bad for their businesses.

Local and foreign ships docked at its seaport carrying merchants from seafaring nations who barter their products for local materials like abaca, copra, tobacco, rice and wine with the natives.

Local cheese merchants from Kirktoun also bought up the cheese and took them to Glasgow for sale in the markets.

Local religious leaders called on people of good will to boycott downtown merchants who practiced segregation.

Local merchants such as the Nitsiotas brothers and five other companies were active in Vienna.

Local merchants provided food and supplies all year long on credit ; when the cotton crop was harvested farmers turned it over to the merchant to pay back their loan.

Local ecumenical liturgies were encouraged, and excitement initially built around " pilot programs " in Denver, Los Angeles, and Memphis.

In 1930, the boundaries were extended by the Local Government ( Dublin ) Act.

Later in 1953, the boundaries were again extended by the Local Government Provisional Order Confirmation Act

Local and legislative elections were delayed until 1996-1997.

They were replaced by democratically-elected County Councils by the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898.

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

Local shrimpers charged that corporate methods were damaging the environment and destroying natural stock through destruction of the mangrove breeding swamps.

The abolition of regional development agencies and the creation of Local enterprise partnerships were announced as part of the June 2010 United Kingdom budget.

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.

These ridings were established as separate administrative counties under the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act, 1898.

By the terms of the Local Government Act 2001, the counties of North Tipperary and South Tipperary were created.

The Regions are administered by Regional Authorities which were established by the Local Government Act 1991 and came into existence in 1994.

Local deposits of metal-bearing ores were difficult to process because they were low grade.

Local variations of the custom were developed in different parts of England and Wales.

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.

Local elections were held in 1987.

Representatives were chosen in the following manner: Local caucuses in each of the 59 districts sent forward the names of three nominees, whose credentials were reviewed by a cabinet committee.

( Local laws and traditions determine whether the lowest performing students were socially promoted or made to repeat the year.

Local watchmen were hired by cities to provide some extra security.

Local churches were forced to appeal to Rome to obtain restitution from the imperial bishops who had taken advantage of the Investiture Controversy to obtain property for their own benefit, as the Emperor turned a blind eye.

Local events were also often commemorated in pub signs.

From 1846 onwards the establishments in the United Kingdom were gradually reduced, while the last vestige of the British quarantine law was removed by the Public Health Act 1896, which repealed the Quarantine Act 1825 ( with dependent clauses of other acts ), and transferred from the privy council to the Local Government Board the powers to deal with ships arriving infected with yellow fever or plague, the powers to deal with cholera ships having been already transferred by the Public Health Act 1875.

Local government elections were held in 1995, and parliamentary elections in 1996.