Puritan-inspired petitions for the removal of the prayer book and episcopacy ' root and branch ' resulted in local disquiet in many places and eventually the production of locally organized counter petitions.

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities.

:: Examples are databases of local work-groups and departments at regional offices, branch offices, manufacturing plants and other work sites.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

With an eye toward the Transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the British in 1997, authorities in China sought Pei's aid on a new tower for the local branch of the Bank of China.

Mao's opponents, among whom the most prominent was Li Wenlin, the founder of the CPC's branch and Red Army in Jiangxi, were against Mao's land policies and proposals to reform the local party branch and army leadership.

A list of departments of St. Pierre and Miquelon ( some local branch of national departments ):

LASFS ( the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society ) was founded at this time as a local branch of the SFL, while several competing local branches sprang up in New York City and immediately began feuding among themselves.

**** Canton: local branch reporting through a barony ( local chapter, which may be on the way to becoming a shire )

**** Riding: local branch reporting through a province

*** Shire: local branch reporting directly to a kingdom or principality ( local chapter typically occurring in rural areas ).

*** Stronghold: institutional branch based at a military installation ( may be a part of a larger local group or report directly to a principality or kingdom )

*** Port: institutional branch based at a military installation in situations where groups of members will be detached for long periods, as with ships at sea ( may be a part of a larger local group or report directly to a principality or kingdom )

This makes tourism an important branch of the local economy, although time spent in the city by individual tourists or the number of hotels which can serve them are still not considered satisfactory.

* A local assembly of an organized society, which is a membership meeting of a local chapter or branch of a membership organization.

The local branch of the society was called Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana ( the " Literary Society at the Vistula River ").

In Madras, there was never a formal branch in the same sense as Bombay and Calcutta, as the management of the depot there seems to have rested in the hands of two local academics.

Following the conclusion of the Expedition, Zhou was appointed special commissioner for the East River District, which placed him in temporary administrative control of several counties ; he apparently used this opportunity to establish a Communist party branch in Shantou and strengthen the CPC's control of local unions.

In large brokerage firms and investment banks, there are usually several Vice Presidents in each local branch office, the title being more of a marketing approach for customers, than denoting an actual managerial position within the company.

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a branch of the US Government during the Great Depression which gave aid to state and local governments and loans to banks and other businesses, helping to lay the foundations for the New Deal.

In 2009, the local Woolworths had the privilege of writing the last word in the history of that chain in the UK, when its manager, realising his was the last one to close, gathered the remains of the Pick-and-Mix sweet section and auctioned the bagful of sweets, which would normally have retailed for a couple of pounds, for £ 14, 500 ($ 20, 000 ).

Also, the local Woolworths has been closed down because of the credit crunch, leaving some Bedworth residents unemployed.

The local branch of Woolworths closed for good on 27 December 2008, after the collapse of that store chain.

There is a small local shopping centre, Canterbury Gardens, which is anchored by a Woolworths supermarket.

The plaza features include a Woolworths supermarket, the local post office, a BWS liquor store, and four other specialty stores.

Three supermarkets are located in the suburbs shopping centres, including Woolworths and Foodworks, both located in the Roxburgh Park Shopping Centre, and a local IGA located in the Homestead Shopping Centre.

It was built alongside a smaller strip mall that featured several smaller local businesses and national chains such as Loblaws, Woolworths and Consumers Distributors.

The Littlewoods store had expanded some years earlier, taking in a former Woolworths store on the upper level ; there had been fears that Woolworths would close at least some of their branches in nearby towns when the Merry Hill store opened, but trade from the Woolworths at Merry Hill was relatively disappointing and ironically the local Woolworths stores all outlasted the Merry Hill store by well over a decade, only closing when the retailer went into liquidation over the 2008 / 09 winter.

Many local residents have resisted some of the development, the most notable being the establishment of a Woolworths store in the town.

After Rothschilds ( a local department store ) closed in the early 1980s, the closing of the McCurdy's store in the same location in the mid 1990s, the closing of a Woolworths store one block away in the late 1990s, and again after a CVS store closed a decade later, the Commons ' demise was predicted.

When this in turn was also shut down by Zhang's provincial administration, he then began publishing his articles in the popular local newspaper Ta Kung Po.

State and local governments followed suit: bars catering to homosexuals were shut down, and their customers were arrested and exposed in newspapers.

It largely shut down and is being operated as an oil storage facility, provoking a local economic crisis.

The local government attempt to shut the night markets down in this year, but with the decline of the government's authority by the mid 9th century, this edict ( like many others ) is largely ignored as urban dwellers keep attending the night markets regardless.

Instead, the government shut down the border gateway protocol ( BGP ) sessions announcing local routes.

When the three travellers finally reach the beach-after bribing a local boat contractor, taking a long swim, trekking the dense jungle, stumbling across a marijuana plantation and avoiding its heavily armed guards, and eventually jumping down a waterfall-they are faced with a tight-knit and largely self-sufficient community which has almost completely shut itself off from civilization and which has developed a sophisticated hierarchy under the quasi-dictatorial rule of a young American woman called Sal and her South African lover, Bugs, who, along with Daffy, discovered the beach and founded the community there in 1989.

Guaraní persisted with enough vigor to be made official because the Jesuits elected it as the language to preach Roman Catholicism to the Indians ( Guaraní was the language of the autonomous Jesuit Reducciones ) and because Paraguay's dictators for a time shut the country's borders and thereby protected the local culture and language.

Plans to shut local libraries were " wrong and very short-sighted ", Bennett said, adding: " We're impoverishing young people.

By this time, he had angered many townspeople in Sulphur Springs, having begun his own university church to compete with local congregations and attempting to shut down Sunday recreational events.

The wrestling brand was shut down in 2003 when local interest in sports entertainment dwindled.

Many mines have since shut down and stressed the local economy.

However, when Interstate 40 bypassed the village in 1981, the local economy went into a decline, leading most of those businesses to shut down.

Around this same time, gold was discovered near Jamestown, and several mines profited until the California gold rush frenzy shut down local efforts.

In the December 2005 3-in-1 local elections, the KMT made large gains and held 14 seats, the DPP suffered defeat and held only six, the PFP retained only one, and the TSU was completely shut out.

However, when Interstate 40 bypassed the small village to the north in May, 1970 and received only one exit from the freeway, the local economy went into a decline due to the bypass and the concurrent closure of nearby Clinton-Sherman Air Force base at Burns Flat, leading most of those businesses to shut down.

The addition of a spur line to the nearby Cherry Grove area for the construction of a lumber mill in 1911 added significant activity to the local economy, although it had to be shut down in 1913 during a lumber market crash.

When a series of government raids destroy their hidden stills, Lucas ' father and the other local moonshines shut down production " for a spell " to let the government deal with Kogan in its own time, but Lucas is forced by circumstances and his own code of honor to make a final run.

In 2006, the Weyerhaueser pulp mill in Cosmopolis shut down, costing the local community 245 jobs.

Beginning in the late 1940s and through the 1950s, many of the mills and factories operating in Martinsburg shut down and went out of business, dealing a major blow to the local economy.

Despite creating 375 new jobs, the Wal-Mart has been a point of contention for many residents since it was announced, as fears arise that competition from a new Wal-Mart will force local business owners to shut down.

" There are local prejudices against associating with some portions of the community, though the people thus shut out are not remnants of old castes.

They attend a party hosted by Stifler ( Seann William Scott ), the oversexed college clown, but not only does their new status as college students not give them any success with local girls, the police shut down the party.

After the woolen mill finally shut down in 1950, local businessmen bought the property and began leasing it as office or manufacturing space.

The local TV show was canceled in 1974, and the promotion shut down.

The castle mint was shut down after the death of Edward VI in 1553, and the castle mills were given to a local charitable hospital in 1464.