Sentence examples for administrative unit of from inspiring English sources

Généralité, the basic administrative unit of 17th- and 18th-century France.

"We have an open mind on the issue," said Sujit Gupta, resident director at Tata Services, the administrative unit of the Tata Group.

"My husband is my No. 1 public relations person," said Shuanise Washington, vice president for external affairs at the Philip Morris Management Corporation, an administrative unit of the tobacco and food giant, adding that he regularly accompanies her on her rounds of receptions and business dinners in Washington.

It is widely understood that Russia is paying, in full or in part, the salaries of police and other civil servants in South Ossetia -- and that Russia recently increased these payments as a disincentive for South Ossetian officials to defect to the Georgian-backed temporary administrative unit of Dmitry Sanakoyev.

"Late for Tea at the Deer Palace" begins with Abdul Hussein Chalabi, Tamara's great-grandfather, who dispensed counsel to the Shiite residents of Baghdad's Kadhimiya suburb, site of one of Shia's most important shrines, and sat on the advisory council of the Baghdad vilayet, an administrative unit of Ottoman rule.

kebele is the smallest administrative unit of Ethiopia.

In 1660 the community became the seat of the government of the southern captaincies (Portuguese administrative units) of Brazil.

It was definitively incorporated into France in 1375, and, during the last centuries of the old French monarchy, before the Revolution of 1789, it formed, with Angoumois, one of the gouvernements (major administrative units) of France.

The Electoral College is one of the political safeguards of federalism: those structural features of our constitutional system -- like the allocation of two senators to each state, whatever its size -- that of their own force and without court intervention assure that the states count as distinct political entities, not merely administrative units of one central government.

They correspond to the administrative units of NUTS 3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics).

Our analysis was limited to aggregating data to the smallest administrative units of analysis, which are municipalities in Colombia.