Sentence examples for branch of local from inspiring English sources

The Senate acts as the legislative branch of local government.

It serves as the legislative branch of local government and elects the executive branch, the municipal council and the mayor.

Since 2005 it has taken on tax administration for a local authority in the north of England, and will soon start a pilot project handling passports and health insurance for a branch of local government in Bavaria.

The cost of maintaining the island (so that roof tiles and tree limbs don't kill people), and of operating the ferry, is fourteen million dollars a year, enough to give anyone in the executive or the legislative branch of local government pause, especially in an era of severely straitened public finances.

Scuttlebutt abounds that in the 1920s, Cody's body may have been exhumed and transferred to Cody, Wyo., where a branch of local residents, led by Cody's niece, had begun a movement to have his body buried there.

The site also links to candidates' home pages, branches of local, state and federal governments and archives of previous elections.

Today Macy's, which replaced Abraham & Straus, is the lone department store, but there are branches of local and regional chains like Jimmy Jazz and Modell's and more than 300 small businesses.

Mr Vargas counts more than 6,000 in the country, mostly, it is true, on the boards of school and utility districts and other branches of local government that are "the first rung on the political ladder".

What is still being debated is the mechanism for such compensation - whether it should be through branches of local government, and if so which ones, or by direct payments to householders.

In the planning stages there were regular meetings with various branches of local government, growers, community members, and others wherein a cooperative approach was taken.

It will thus become important to design sustainable transportation solutions and consider options such as animal-powered transportation, radio-ambulance systems for patients [ 36], or coordination with other branches of local service delivery.