Sentence examples for Local townships from inspiring English sources

And it is visiting local townships to hear community concerns.

He proposed experimenting with direct elections in local townships, courted foreign investment, mounted aggressive tree-planting and pollution cleanup campaigns and built low-income housing.

Many of the local townships had recently erected sculptures in a similar style, accompanied by slogans intended to inspire images of modernity and prosperity.

Instead the local townships argued that because the ponds were isolated, the Corps's invocation of the so-called migratory bird rule to assert jurisdiction under the 1972 Clean Water Act was improper.

The local townships disputed the federal government's jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, contending that Congress's authority to regulate interstate commerce does not extend to regulating isolated waters within one state in order to protect migratory birds.

In the outer ring, George E. Norcross III -- head of the bank's insurance division and one of the state's most powerful Democrats -- munched on jumbo shrimp while chatting with guests from local townships, school boards and sewerage authorities, most of which do their banking with Commerce.

One year, our local township park had to be rolled to flatten the goose feces in preparation for a fair.

A local township official promised the police would find out who was responsible, adding: "I can assure you the township government had nothing to do with the incident".

He volunteered in the local township and sponsored a private school that accepted black pupils in defiance of the apartheid ban.

For years, Xinjian was controlled by a smaller, local township government, which had far less money and did little to improve the school.

Then there was the case of Deng Yujiao, a twenty-one-year-old pedicure worker who stabbed and killed the director of the local township business-promotion office when he tried to force her to have sex with him.