The Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank, is responding by trying to assert its presence.
Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, the internationally recognized but relatively impotent authority based in the capital, Mogadishu, has little influence over the pirates.
Bearded religious men claiming to represent the Hawza, the Shiite religious authority based in the southern city of Najaf, have applied their political energy to occupying hospitals and food-distribution centers.
He said government funding for education remained patchy, with no money provided for operational expenses since the formation of a unity government earlier this year between Hamas, the Islamic militant group that runs Gaza, and the western-backed Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank.
GAZA — Initial Palestinian reports late Sunday indicated that the leaders of the rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas might have found a way to break a long political deadlock by forming an interim unity government that would be led, at least at first, by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank.
As a result, the tribe was not notified about the proposed adoption.[Appellants] After receiving permission from Oklahoma authorities, based in part on the identification of the child as Hispanic rather than Native American, the Capobiancos took the child to South Carolina.
The fight began in 2004 when federal authorities based in San Francisco, who were investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, asked Major League Baseball and the players union for drug-testing information for 10 players connected to the laboratory.
"America is in its ivory tower palace," she said, referring to the American authorities based in a palace.
For example, the migration of Han Chinese to regions of the Hengduan Mountains massively increased since the Yuan Dynasty, in response to the need of governing such regions far from central authorities based in cities such as Dadu (modern Beijing) and Nanjing.
Road building to control the mountains and to facilitate the movement of peoples and goods enhanced communication in what had been an isolated and fragmented region, often weakly controlled by government authorities based in lowland areas.
