A Community Council of black residents was first elected in 1978 to administer municipal affairs.
In 1979 the residents of Home Island established the Cocos Islands Council to administer local affairs.
The Board of Directors shall administer the affairs of the Corporation fairly and impartially and without discrimination.
We will expend all our efforts to present such services among which the preparation for the transitional period whereby Iraq will have comprehensive sovereignty and will administer the affairs of the country in full freedom.
The European Union on Wednesday formally began a program that will bring 1,800 police officers and judges to Kosovo to help administer its affairs.
In the end, a compromise was reached, allowing the Patriarchate to remain but in a strictly spiritual role; it would no longer administer the affairs of local Christians.
To implement the reforms, adjudicate disputes, and administer local affairs, peasants' associations were organized in the countryside and precinct organizations (kebele) in the towns.
And, apart from many local authorities to administer social affairs, there are also communal authorities, representing the various language groups, which have a say in education and cultural matters.
Each of Samoa's several thousand aiga (extended families) designates at least one matai to lead and represent it; the matai, in turn, form village councils to administer local affairs.
Mr. Bakiyev's proclamations seemed to fall on deaf ears in Bishkek, where Ms. Otunbayeva announced that the interim government would administer the affairs of state for six months before the presidential election.
The mentally ill, the narcotics addict, and the disturbed juvenile are defined as medical problems precisely because this definition provides society with more convenient access to them and weakens the defenses they might otherwise make against its efforts to administer their affairs.
