In local elections Liverpool remained a Liberal stronghold, with the party taking the plurality of seats on the elections to the new Liverpool Metropolitan Borough Council in 1973.

Crest of the former Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich Council, used by Charlton briefly in late 1940s and early 50sCharlton have used a number of crests and badges during their history, although the current design has not been changed since 1968.

Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

Moreover, the capital zone has a Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council ( YTV, Pääkaupunkiseudun yhteistyövaltuuskunta ).

The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.

London County Council proposed a vast new area for Greater London, with a proposed boundary somewhere between the Metropolitan Police District and the home counties.

" When the LGBT-friendly Metropolitan Community Church was almost accepted into the World Council of Churches, Falwell called them " brute beasts " and stated, " this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.

Maluleka later became the chairman of the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan City Council ( later City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality ), then was elected Speaker of the Tshwane Metro Council and in 2004 was chosen to be a member of the South African Parliament for the Soshanguve constituency.

According to the Toledo Metropolitan Council of Governments, the Toledo / Northwest Ohio region of 10 counties has over 1 million residents.

It was granted university status as " Manchester Metropolitan University " by the Privy Council on 15 September 1992 under the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992.

The mayor is a member of the Council of Mayors of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador ( COAMSS ), composed of fourteen local councils that make up the area known as Greater San Salvador.

They also have significant representation on Lancaster City Council, Norwich, Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Kirklees Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and Stroud District Council.

The council was created by the London Government Act 1963 and replaced two local authorities: Finsbury Metropolitan Borough Council and Islington Metropolitan Borough Council.

Located in northeastern Germany on the River Spree, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has 6 million residents from over 180 nations.

Other examples in Asia include Seoul Metropolitan Subway which has suburban lines operated by Korail in South Korea, KTM Komuter in Malaysia, The Philippine National Railways orange line in Metro Manila, Philippines and, KRL Jabotabek in Jakarta Metropolitan area, Indonesia.

As of the 2010 U. S. Census, Eugene has a population of 156, 185, and Lane County ( co-located with the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area ) ( MSA ) has a population of 351, 715.

The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

) The construction of freeways and underpasses by the municipal government, the implementation of reversible lanes during peak rush hour traffic flows, as well as the establishment of the Department of Metropolitan Transit Police ( PMT ) has helped traffic flow in the city ; however, the Guatemalan metropolitan area still faces a growing transportation problem.

Gosford is considered a major commercial centre of the Sydney Metropolitan Area, and has been designated as an important growth centre under the NSW Metropolitan Strategy.

The city is home to over 1. 8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) has more than 5 million inhabitants.

It is the principal city of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Jackson County and has a population of 160, 248.

In addition the university has collaborations with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds Metropolitan University, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, University of California, Staffordshire University and International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

In addition, the Cupid sculpture " rediscovered " in the French Embassy in New York in 1996 ( now on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ) has also been inconclusively attributed to Michelangelo.

Scotland Yard ( officially New Scotland Yard, though an official Scotland Yard never has existed ) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of the British capital, London.

Virginia has 11 Metropolitan Statistical Areas ; Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads, and Richmond-Petersburg are the three most populous.

* July 19 – William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, announces that Michael Trestrail ( the Queen's bodyguard ) has resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.

This is the case in the City and County of San Francisco, CA, and in the City and County of Philadelphia, PA. A similar arrangement is found in the " Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County " where the metropolis of Nashville has merged into the county of Davidson ( but, other than Nashville, a few municipalities-such as Belle Meade-still exist with some administrative functions ).

It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which has styled it MTA Long Island Rail Road.

As of 2007, the Metropolitan Opera alone has given more than 1, 100 performances of the opera, making it the second most frequently performed work by the company behind La bohème.

Today, Ernani is an infrequently performed work, although it appeared on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera as early as 1903 and has been given eighty-eight performances up to the March / April stagings in 2008.

The new Manchester Metropolitan University Business School ( MMUBS ) has been built on the All Saints Campus and will move from its current location at the Aytoun Campus in 2012.

A successful March 2004 regional transportation ballot measure included funding to rehabilitate the rail bridge for the commuter rail service, but in October 2008 the Metropolitan Transportation Commission transferred $ 91 million from this project to the BART Warm Springs Extension Project in Fremont

A late 9th-century drawing of St. Paul lecturing an agitated crowd of Jews and gentiles, part of a copy of a Pauline epistles produced at and still held by the monastery, was included in a medieval-drawing show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York the summer of 2009.

Although all of the western branches of the District and Piccadilly lines were included for the first time in 1933 with Harry Beck's first map, the portion of the Metropolitan line beyond Rickmansworth did not appear until 1938 and the eastern end of the District line did not appear on the map until the mid-1950s.

Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area ( PATREVE ) ( population 1, 600, 000 ).

It is included in the Winchester, Virginia-West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The city is sometimes included, with Venice ( Italian Venezia ) and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having a population of c. 1, 600, 000.

While the prefectures of Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, and Saitama are commonly included in statistical information, the Japan Statistics Bureau only includes the area within 50 kilometers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices in Shinjuku, thus arriving at a smaller population estimate.

The present-day City of Westminster as an administrative entity with its present boundaries dates from 1965, when the City of Westminster was created from the former area of three metropolitan boroughs: St Marylebone, Paddington, and the smaller Metropolitan Borough of Westminster, which included Soho, Mayfair, St. James's, The Strand, Westminster, Pimlico, Belgravia, and Hyde Park.

Until 1889, the county of Surrey included the present-day London borough of Southwark, yet the name has been used for various areas of civil administration, including the ancient Borough of Southwark, the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and the current London Borough of Southwark.

Clay County is included in the Terre Haute, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is one of the four counties included in the Clarksville, TN – KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho ( partial ) Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Washington County is included in the St. George, Utah, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

While primarily rural, the county is included in the Jacksonville Metropolitan Area.

It is included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Lawrence County is a county of the U. S. state of Alabama, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

Limestone County is a county of the U. S. state of Alabama, and is included in the Huntsville Metropolitan Area.

Stanislaus County is included in the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Winnebago County is included in the Oshkosh, Wisconsin-Neenah, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is included in the Janesville, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is included in the Appleton, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Wood County is included in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, West Virginia-Ohio ( part ) Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Wirt County is included in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, West Virginia-Ohio ( part ) Metropolitan Statistical Area.