However, the Hamas legislative victory led to a split between the two main Palestinian political parties, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank.

The Authority's main legislative accomplishment to date has been the adoption, in the year 2000, of regulations governing exploration for polymetallic nodules.

They also supplemented the legislative councils, formed of noblemen, with new People's Councils, composed by the main guilds and by the chiefs of the People's Companies.

# The Senate is the main governing and legislative body that meets in a large chamber in the capital city on Romulus.

The Romulan government consists of several parts: the Romulan Senate, the main governing and legislative body in a large chamber on Romulus.

While the Assembly was in suspension, due to issues involving the main parties and the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), its legislative powers were exercised by the UK government, which effectively had power to legislate by decree.

In 1999 a working group of leading LP activists proposed to reformat and retire the platform to serve as a guide for legislative projects ( its main purpose to that point ) and create a series of custom platforms on current issues for different purposes, including the needs of the growing number of Libertarians in office.

As the chief administrative organ of government, its main functions are to formulate administrative measures, issue decisions and orders, and monitor their implementation ; draft legislative bills for submission to the NPC or its Standing Committee ; and prepare the economic plan and the state budget for deliberation and approval by the NPC.

The main body of the legislative branch is Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, which enacts federal legislation, including the budget.

The Constitution of Bhutan provides for a government consisting of three main branches – executive, legislative, and judicial – plus the officially apolitical Dratshang Lhentshog ( Monastic Affairs Commission ) of the Drukpa Kagyu state religion.

The APRC maintained its strong majority in the National Assembly in legislative elections held in January 2002, particularly after the main opposition United Democratic Party ( UDP ) boycotted the legislative elections. Monument over the 1994 coup

The Board of Finance approves financial measures, including the town budget ; the Board of Education controls the town's public schools ; the Representative Town Meeting is the main legislative body of the town.

Each province is governed by two main elected branches of the government: executive and legislative.

Uno's main action as prime minister was to institute the country's first consumption tax, which immediately caused an uproar among many voters and led to the Japan Socialist Party's victory in the Tokyo metropolitan legislative election of 1989.

The Comitia Centuriata, the main legislative body, was divided into 193 voting centuriae ( centuries ).

On 3 August 2001, the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba ( the main legislative body of the Republic of Cuba ) issued a statement referring to Operation Northwoods and Operation Mongoose wherein it condemned such U. S. government plans.

Notwithstanding, the Nationalist Party survived and in its first major electoral test, the legislative elections of 1947, it managed to stay ahead of various splinters that had formed from people who did not want to be associated with the main party.

The Massachusetts General Court ( the main elected legislative and judicial body in Massachusetts ) was brought under nominal British government control, but all members except the Royal Governor and a few of his deputies continued to be elected in the various towns, as was their practice over the prior 40 years.

The most famous of these were the Rywin affair ( an alleged attempt to interfere with the legislative process, so named after the main suspect Lew Rywin ) -- this case was investigated by a special parliamentary committee, whose proceedings were televised and widely followed ), and the Starachowice affair ( government ministers informed friends with links to organized crime about an impending raid ).

Whether the Sénat was part of legislature, however, is open to doubt, because Sieyès ( the main instigator of the Consulate's Constitution and later president of this Senate ) described it as belonging to an altogether different power beyond the executive, legislative and judiciary: the conservative power.

The opposition, backed by international observers, declared the legislative elections highly flawed, and based on their perception of misconduct, the main opposition parties boycotted the presidential elections of October later that year.

The main function of the Court is to decide on the conformity of laws and other regulation with the Constitution, to decide on jurisdictional disputes between the legislative, executive and judicial branches, to decide on the impeachment of the president of the republic, to supervise and ban political parties and to supervise the constitutionality and legality of elections and national referendums.

The main leader of the radical tendency was T. Nagi Reddy, a member of the state legislative assembly.

The historian Walter Goffart argues that Bede based the structure of the Historia on three works, using them as the framework around which the three main sections of the work were structured.

The main issue, the flight of general Gotovina, however, remained unsolved and despite the agreement on an accession negotiation framework, the negotiations did not begin in March 2005.

Historically, mainframes acquired their name in part because of their substantial size, and because of requirements for specialized heating, ventilation, and air conditioning ( HVAC ), and electrical power, essentially posing a " main framework " of dedicated infrastructure.

One month later Nokia announced the sale of Qt's commercial licensing and professional services to Digia, although Nokia was to remain the main development force behind the framework at that time.

The main purpose of SDL is to provide a common framework for accessing these functions.

* Symbian, which is moving towards Qt as the main development framework.

The Headquarters and main campus of UPEACE also hosts the International Secretariat of the Earth Charter Initiative, whose stated mission is " to promote the transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework that includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace.

Several artists worked on the crosses, as the " Expense Rolls " of the Crown show, with some of the work being divided between the main figures, sent from London, and the framework, made locally.

XPCOM is one of the main things making the Mozilla application environment an actual framework.

While the need to create a legal framework for existing bank securities activities became a dominant theme for the “ financial modernization ” legislation supported by Leach, Rubin, Volcker, and others, after the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 in 1999, commentators identified four main arguments for repeal: ( 1 ) increased economies of scale and scope, ( 2 ) reduced risk through diversification of activities, ( 3 ) greater convenience and lower cost for consumers, and ( 4 ) improved ability of U. S. financial firms to compete with foreign firms.

Less than a decade after the development of the first practical rotorcraft of any type with the autogyro, in the Soviet Union, Boris N. Yuriev and Alexei M. Cheremukhin, two aeronautical engineers working at the Tsentralniy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut ( TsAGI,, ), constructed and flew the TsAGI 1-EA single rotor helicopter, which used an open tubing framework, a four blade main rotor, and twin sets of 1. 8-meter ( 6-foot ) diameter anti-torque rotors ; one set of two at the nose and one set of two at the tail.

Its enormous main waiting room, inspired by the Roman Baths of Caracalla, approximated the scale of St. Peter's nave in Rome, expressed here in a steel framework clad in plaster that imitated the lower wall portions of travertine.

The specification also called for the project to allow for installation without any significant change to the framework of new guns: the 76 mm KT-26 or PS-3 main gun ( a short-barreled howitzer ) and the 45 mm 20K model 1932 / 38, a long-barreled, high-velocity gun useful against tanks, but less effective than the 76 mm gun against infantry.

In the main his ideas of a confrontational political framework have been superseded by K. B.

In the moment of inertia following the resignation of the government of Adolphe Thiers, 24 May 1873, François Pie, bishop of Poitiers, expressed the national yearning for spiritual renewal — " the hour of the Church has come "— that would be expressed through the " Government of Moral Order " of the Third Republic, which linked Catholic institutions with secular ones, in " a project of religious and national renewal, the main features of which were the restoration of monarchy and the defense of Rome within a cultural framework of official piety ", of which Sacré-Cœur is the chief lasting triumphalist monument.

PDF methods are unique in that they can be applied in the framework of a number of different turbulence models ; the main differences occur in the form of the PDF transport equation.

The grandes écoles ( literally in French " higher schools ") of France are higher education establishments outside the main framework of the French university system.

The main political objective, which the ministry laid out in the framework of National Socialist policies for the east established by Adolf Hitler, were the complete annihilation of the Jewish population and the settlement of ethnic Germans along with the expulsion or Germanization of parts of the native population-not only in the Reichskommissariat Ostland but also in the other German-occupied Soviet territories.

Currently undergoing restoration, the framework is complete and the main outer body panels are going on ; completion is planned in another two years.

It is used as the main programming language for the JHepWork data analysis framework.

Starting 2010 the symbolic framework of the Welpen will be based on a modified version of the Jungle Book with two main characters: the boy Mowgli and the girl Shanti.

VCL continues to be the main framework of Borland ( now Codegear ) for Windows and. NET platforms.

The information retrieval community has emphasized the use of test collections and benchmark tasks to measure topical relevance, starting with the Cranfield Experiments of the early 1960s and culminating in the TREC evaluations that continue to this day as the main evaluation framework for information retrieval research.

The framework of an adventure built within ACS is organized into the following main categories: