The new administration for the Community's affairs was organized into a hierarchy of councils at the local, national, and regional levels.

The foreign policy under the Rousseff administration has sought to deepen Brazil's regional commercial dominance and diplomacy, expand Brazil's presence in Africa, and play a major role in the G20 on climate change and in other multilateral settings.

Three regional electricity distribution systems were privatized in 1998 via sale of 50 % of shares to foreign operators ; the Mejía administration repurchased all foreign-owned shares in two of these systems in late 2003.

Regional bus lines have been regulated by the provincial administration to protect old transit companies, leading to cartel situations like TLO in the Turku region, but strong regional regulating bodies, like the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority ( HSL / HRT ), whose routes are put out to tender exist as well and will become the norm after the transitionary period during the 2010s.

The Ministry of Interior controls a system of regional governors and prefects modeled on the French system of local administration.

In many cases, the regional administration was also subordinated to central ( national ) government.

Since his accession in 1970, Sultan Qaboos has balanced tribal, regional, and ethnic interests in composing the national administration.

A regional peace-monitoring force and a UN observer mission monitors the government and provincial leaders who have established an interim administration and are working toward complete surrender of weapons, the election of a provincial government and an eventual referendum on independence.

Saarland, however, was allowed a regional administration very soon, consecutively headed by:

In 1997, the structure of regional administration was replaced by the creation of twenty-six states.

Under the administration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, its name was changed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ( BMDO ) and its emphasis was shifted from national missile defense to theater missile defense ; and its scope from global to more regional coverage.

Burnashev and Chernykh said that '.. although these dismissals did not change the formal system of administration in the security and military structures, they reflected serious shifts in power relations among regional elites representing their clans.

Norway's regional administration is organised in 19 counties ( fylke ), with 18 of them subdivided into 431 municipalities ( kommune ) per January 1, 2006.

Typically unitary authorities cover towns or cities which are large enough to function independently of county or other regional administration.

These regional governments are responsible for the administration of schools, universities, health, social services, culture, urban and rural development and, in some cases, policing.

As in China and Laos, there is a certain degree of participation of Hmong in the local and regional administration.

A two-tier structure constituted under the Local Government Act 2002 gives the South Island seven regional councils for the administration of regional environmental and transport matters and 25 territorial authorities that administer roads, sewerage, building consents, and other local matters.

The name " Ballistic Missile Defense Organization " ( BMDO ) came back into use in 1993 when SDIO was renamed BMDO by the administration of President Bill Clinton and this was accompanied by a shift in emphasis from national missile defense to theater missile defense, i. e. from global to regional coverage.

Monza also hosts a Department of the University of Milan Bicocca, a Court of Justice and several offices of regional administration.

The other Provinces had their own regional Presidency systems, based on a Welsh model of administration, in theory if not in fact from the 1570s and 1580s up to the 1670s, and were considered separate entities.

It is the seat of administration of West Attica regional unit.

However, when Peru Possible's rival political party APRA made significant gains in regional elections, the Toledo administration halted its decentralization program by withholding power in the areas of revenue and expenditure.

In 1982 the Reagan administration used the Sherman Act to break up AT & T into one long-distance company and seven regional " Baby Bells ", arguing that competition should replace monopoly for the benefit of consumers and the economy as a whole.

While they had deprived the traditional administration of major functions by transferring local and regional government to newly established committees in which they largely dominated, they failed to eliminate " bourgeois " influence in the army or to expropriate industrialists and large landowners.

The taxpayers of East Greenwich appropriate sums of money, as do other Kent County communities, for the support of the Kent County Memorial Hospital, a regional facility.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

By far the largest regional market was the Middle East, to which Brazil sold approximately 50 % of its arms from 1977 through 1988.

Graphics and titles were developed by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and were gradually rolled out across the whole of BBC News, including a similar design for regional news starting with Newsroom South East and the three BBC Nations – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

CND has a national organisation based in London, national groups in Wales, Ireland and Scotland, regional groups in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, the East Midlands, Kent, London, Manchester, Merseyside, Mid Somerset, Norwich, South Cheshire and North Staffordshire, Southern England, South West England, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands and Yorkshire, and local branches.

The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of Slavic languages, currently spoken in Eastern Europe.

The Reformasi era following Suharto's resignation, has led to a strengthening of democratic processes, including a regional autonomy program, the secession of East Timor, and the first direct presidential election in 2004.

He long sought to establish an East Asian Economic Group as an alternative to APEC, excluding Australia, New Zealand and the Americas, and during his premiership Malaysia signed up to an ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ) and ASEAN + 3, a regional forum with China, Japan and South Korea.

Instead Waltz argues that it would probably be the best possible outcome, as it would restore stability to the Middle East by balancing Israel's regional monopoly on nuclear weapons.

As a regional commercial power in the 19th century, Oman held territories on the island of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa, the area along the coast of East Africa known as Zanj including Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, and until 1958 in Gwadar ( in present-day Pakistan ) on the coast of the Arabian Sea.

The regional dialect of Low German spoken in Prussia ( or East Prussia ), Low Prussian, preserved a number of Baltic Prussian words, such as kurp, from the Old Prussian kurpi, for shoe ( in contrast to the standard German Schuh ).

Resolution 242, which became the basis for the peace process negotiations begun in Madrid, calls for a just and lasting Middle East peace to include withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in 1967 ; termination of the state of belligerency ; and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of all regional states and of their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries.

* As Chair of the East Bay Public Safety Corridor, leading the East Bay regional effort to ban the sale of Saturday Night Specials, enact trigger lock ordinances, and impose special taxes on retailers who sell guns.

In many East Asian cultures, a simple bow from the waist ( rei in Japanese, panbae in Korean ) is used, with many regional variations seen.

The post-Cold War period has seen a diversification of relations, with Turkey seeking to strengthen its regional presence in the Balkans, the Middle East and the Caucasus, as well as its historical goal of EU membership.

Alternative proposals for English regional government have stalled, following a poorly received referendum on devolved government for the North East of England, which had hitherto been considered the region most in favour of the idea, with the exception of Cornwall, where there is widespread support for a Cornish Assembly, including all five Cornish MPs.

The election results truly reflected the ugly political reality: the division of the Pakistani electorate along regional lines and political polarization of the country between the two wings, East and West Pakistan.

* The creation of Israel in 1948, a Jewish state in the Middle East, by the British Mandate of Palestine fueled many regional conflicts.

The Mamluks, led by their new sultan Baibars, quickly became a regional power in the Middle East by capturing a number of crusader states and repulsing Mongol attacks.

The accents of Northern England are also distinctive including a range of variations: Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cumbria, Lancashire with regional variants in Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Merseyside and Wigan, Yorkshire is also distinctive, having variations between the North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

Another group of East Slavs moved from Pomerania to the northeast, where they encountered the Varangians of the Rus ' Khaganate and established an important regional centre of Novgorod.

Some researchers, while admitting the differences between the dialects spoken by East Slavic tribes in the 10th and 11th centuries, still consider them as " regional manifestations of a common language " ( see, for instance, the article by Vasyl Nimchuk ).

Local and regional newspapers include the The Cork News, Carrigdhoun, the Cork Independent, The Corkman, the Mallow Star, the Douglas Post, the East Cork Journal and the Southern Star.