Political regime was measured by a score that reflected the extent of democratic and autocratic authority patterns institutionalized in the country during its political lifespan [ 32].
As for socio-political factors, the average increase of 5.6 points in the Polity2 measure indicates that the sample's institutional authority patterns were characterized by higher levels of 'democracy' at the end of the observation period compared with the baseline.
But they should go a step further, he said, and consider adopting "a conservation area overlay ordinance," which the study defines as "a useful tool that allows towns, through home rule authority, to influence patterns of development in a way that minimizes impacts to wildlife and habitats".
Thus there are many aspects to the question of Christian doctrine, and in what follows they will be treated in the sequence just outlined: the permanent basis, the perennial functions, the levels of authority, the stable pattern, and the institutional vicissitudes.
Speaking to the US Congress by phone on 15 May, Mr Chen accused local authorities of "a pattern" of harassment against his family in his hometown in Shandong province.
Justice Lippmann wrote that officials of the authority had "displayed a pattern of untrammeled arrogance and deception and a disdain for the public they were obligated to serve".
Mr. Grassley said Mr. Obama's appointments were a clear abuse of executive authority, "part of a pattern of disregard for the constitutional system of checks and balances".
One possibility was that the authorities were following a pattern of slight backtracking in politically charged verdicts that can blunt criticism at home and abroad.
The House majority leader, Mike Moyle, sitting near the back, made the point, for example, that federal authorities were establishing a pattern of enforcing some laws and not others.
