On July 19th, the authority handed a private company, the Emirates Global Capital Corporation, a 50-year concession to develop the island.
The Department for Education (DfE) defended its policy of having struggling schools taken out of local authority hands and placed under sponsors.
The Financial Times reports that HSBC had asked the French courts to prevent the country's tax authority handing files to HMRC.
It has been suggested that Ferguson's police force could disbanded and their authority handed to St Louis County, which led the response to protests after Brown's death.
It's about empowering – and enriching – private companies, not individuals or communities, who are better served if local services, such as libraries, stay in local authority hands.
Sara Jane Trebar from Farm Terrace allotments in Watford, Hertfordshire, has been among those fighting since 2009 to stop her local authority handing over the site to builders of 68 houses and a car park for Watford football club.
If atheists are able to organize politically, we'll find areas of broad agreement on which we can cooperate to advance causes that most of us value, even without a hierarchical authority handing out marching orders.
Since the days of Jesus and his 12 male apostles, the Church has been led by exclusively male bishops, their authority handed down the generations by the laying on of hands.
The authorities hand control over to teachers, most of whom are highly educated and motivated, so they can learn from each other and follow the best practices.
MAKING money from shares has never been easy not even, as American investors have found, when the authorities hand it to you.
