Example sentences of "the [noun] of local " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the activities of local antislavery associations and public meetings engendered petitions and the recurrent presentation of large numbers of them to parliament was a striking feature of antislavery history . |
| 2 | In some instances , such as the payment of various National Insurance benefits , the national services are unrelated to the activities of local government . |
| 3 | We can , therefore , distinguish the employment policies of the head office of a large firm from the activities of local personnel managers , the stand taken by unions from the racism of union branches , or the declaration of senior police officers from the practices of the individual junior officer . |
| 4 | The approach of the NAO was to examine the effectiveness of the system in pursuing the objectives of central government and the consequent impact of the system on the activities of local authorities . |
| 5 | Relate ( formerly Marriage Guidance ) , is a voluntary organization with a national council , coordinating the activities of local councils , which aims to promote successful marriage and parenthood and thereby helps to maintain family welfare by improving marital relationships . |
| 6 | Political scientists and economists differ in the views they hold about the extent to which central government ought to control the activities of local government . |
| 7 | They inspected standards in schools and decided whether the schools were fit to receive grants , and they reported in detail on the activities of local Poor Law Guardians . |
| 8 | Tozer 's writings are invariably simple in style and straightforward in substance , but he had a direct appreciation of landscape , which carries its own charm , and , like his friend Edward Lear [ q.v. ] , a sharp eye for human foibles and vanities revealed by the activities of local officials in the Turkish provinces . |
| 9 | In their absence , the information circulating about the green form scheme can be haphazard depending upon the enthusiasm of voluntary and statutory advice agencies and the activities of local law societies . |
| 10 | The research examines the impact of the recent boom in the provision of sheltered housing for sale in broadening the housing opportunities and choice available to the elderly ; assesses the consequences of such developments for the activities of local authorities , housing associations and private housebuilders ; and evaluates the impact of such initiatives on existing local housing markets . |
| 11 | The defence of local democracy |
| 12 | The response of local authorities to these pressures will determine whether adequate provision is still available and whether central government controls will have the effects their supporters hope for . |
| 13 | The response of local people is vital in the fund raising effort and any shops who would be prepared to have a collection box should contact Deidre Shaw on . |
| 14 | According to Button ( 1989:297 ) , it was the Detroit riot of July 1967 which ‘ marked a turning point in federal policy towards local law enforcement because this upheaval clearly demonstrated the inability of local and state forces to contain disorders ’ . |
| 15 | The majority of local Roslavl' workers would undoubtedly be railway rather than factory personnel . |
| 16 | Paisley 's rebuttal of Murphy 's claims to speak for the majority of local people was characteristically florid : |
| 17 | It had also successfully lobbied for a prestigious residential development under the Community Development Block Grant programme , although the sale prices far exceeded the borrowing capacity of the majority of local residents ( median income was less than $7,000 in 1980 , whilst unemployment stood at three times the city average ) . |
| 18 | In June 1989 a survey carried out in Lecanvey parish found that the majority of local people were opposed to mining on Croagh Patrick , according to the Croagh Patrick Environmental Group . |
| 19 | There are specialist commercial organisations who will , in exchange for an annual subscription , provide a service listing all planning applications and decisions made by the majority of local planning authorities . |
| 20 | In contrast to the views of the majority of local law societies , the Conference of Presidents and Secretaries concluded that existing conflict rules were ineffective , and they reluctantly supported the introduction of a prohibition . |
| 21 | It was never true that the majority of local parties were under the control of the Left but the more active and vocal Constituencies were becoming so by 1939 . |
| 22 | The call for a new , rigorous study of the costs has been made by the influential Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy ( CIPFA ) , which represents the directors of finance and senior finance staff of the majority of local authorities . |
| 23 | ‘ The majority of local authorities wo n't even publicise that they have a duty to provide because they were frightened it would result in a huge increase in demand they would be unable to cope with ’ , she said . |
| 24 | The Public Health Act of 1875 which may be regarded as a landmark in the advancement of local administration , gave to these Boards a code of powers in relation to public health and other matters , and established urban and rural sanitary authorities . |
| 25 | Both the assertion of central authority and the fragmentation of local social structures and economics are integral to the overall desire to use power to restructure social arrangements in such a way that certain interests are favoured over others , to reward supporters , and to maintain these arrangements by using social institutions to entrench an alternative set of ideas , those of the ‘ enterprise culture ’ . |
| 26 | Then the effort to locate industry in new areas and to build new towns showed up the weakness of local government as an executive agency and the first talk of reform began in Whitehall . |
| 27 | Delegates also expressed concern that western companies would try to take advantage of lax legislation in East European countries and the weakness of local enforcement agencies to use or sell environmentally damaging technologies which are banned in Western Europe and North America . |
| 28 | Secondly , the organisational model which until very recently has characterised the residential sector has been a centralised one , in which most administrative decisions are taken by the management staff in the headquarters of local authority social work departments . |
| 29 | In addition , the various special purpose authorities and joint boards that took over many services in the metropolitan area added another dimension to the complexity of local government arrangements . |
| 30 | The variety of local provision highlighted above also serves to provide an interesting comment on how local authorities respond to national initiatives . |