The law also devolved to the regional authorities many functions hitherto belonging to the central government, in particular economic and social development, regional planning, education, and cultural matters.
Mr Tingley said the French authorities, who had hitherto been treating Megan as a missing person, had had "a slightly different perspective" but added a senior Sussex detective was now working with French counterparts in Paris.
There has been constant criticism throughout his tenure that Cook does not appear to be the one with complete authority, although hitherto his record had been first-rate.
I was astonished to learn that customs authorities and market-surveillance bodies have hitherto known next to nothing of each other's activities.
He faces an uphill struggle to impose his authority on a faction-ridden chavista movement that was hitherto held together by the unquestioned authority of Chávez himself.Mr Maduro's narrow victory, which many even on his own side will see as a defeat, makes that task all the more difficult.
"I [give] my Trustees full authority to change policy or causes hitherto aided, from time to time, when this, in their opinion, has become necessary or desirable.
He refused to hold his foundation's future hostage to the past, declaring, "I give my trustees full authority to change policy or causes hitherto aided, from time to time, when this, in their opinion, has become necessary or desirable".
Meanwhile, Alexander was suppressing rebellious Scots lords and consolidating his rule over parts of Scotland that had hitherto only nominally acknowledged royal authority.
On Nov. 11, 1942, in reaction to the Allied landings, German and Italian forces overran southern France, the metropolitan territory hitherto under Pétain's immediate authority.
It may also explain why Syria's 3m-odd Kurds, despite suffering more than other minorities during 40 years of rule by the Assad clan, are only now, and hesitantly, joining the fight to overthrow it.As battles have raged elsewhere, a string of Kurdish-majority towns in Syria's hitherto relatively peaceful north-east have quietly seen local authority seized from the central government in Damascus.
