The City of London Corporation is a local authority run by its firms rather than its residents.
In 2008, the authority, run by the daughter of Qatar's emir, opened the Museum of Islamic Art in a building designed by I.M. Pei.
A snapshot of the dangers facing American forces in Iraq can be gleaned from a document on the latest threats to allied forces that is prepared by the occupation authority run by L. Paul Bremer III.
Tory councils are already using new approaches to information and transparency, said Osborne, who cited the examples of Windsor council and the Greater London authority, run by Boris Johnson – the first councils to publish detailed information about their spending programmes online.
Last month the Transkeiean territorial authority, run by supposedly pro-government chiefs, surprised everyone by politely requesting the independence that Dr Verwoerd promised last year they would have one day.South Africa's white electorate was quickly reassured that the Transkei is nowhere near ready for it.
Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, in a message to the Iraqi people that will be printed on hundreds of thousands of leaflets distributed by British forces in Iraq in the next few days, said: "Our aim is to move as soon as possible to an interim authority run by the Iraqis.
The Dalai Lama said in an interview last week that migration by ethnic Han Chinese to the Tibetan plateau was one of the main threats to the future of Tibet, and he contended that the government in Beijing should allow a regional autonomous authority run by Tibetans to limit future migration as well as make policy on education, language and use of natural resources.
They involve a little-watched trash authority, run by one of the governor's top aides, whose stewards became adept at turning trash into cash for well-connected insiders; a law firm that was on both sides of the deal; and a politically astute company skilled at using contributions and contacts to gain influence and government contracts.
The keen fear among Israeli and American intelligence officials is that both the prisoner exchange and the critique of Israel's Gaza conduct will increase the power of Hamas, thereby reducing the standing of the Palestinian Authority, run by President Mahmoud Abbas, and decreasing the chances for peace talks.
