Israel controls natural resources, borders, coast and airspace, the currency, the collection of customs duties, and, in most areas, security and internal freedom of movement.
One of the likely reasons for this is corruption in the collection of customs, the government's largest source of the domestic revenue.
Each area had its own collection of customs, and, despite efforts in the 16th and 17th centuries to organize and codify each of those local customary laws, there had been little success at national unification.
He acquired the resources that he needed to run his government by confiscating the estates of his enemies, by eliminating graft in the collection of customs, and by bringing the chief financial officers of the realm under his personal supervision.
In his second term as prime minister, Sharif ordered an investigation into allegations the Bhuttos took millions of dollars in kickbacks involving a contract to improve the collection of customs duties.
Activities such as traffic control, fire-protection services, policing, smoke abatement, the construction or repair of highways, the provision of currency, town and country planning, and the collection of customs and excise duties are usually carried out by governments, whose executive organs are assumed to represent the collective will of the community and to be acting for the common good.
Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, a travelling collection of custom-made books inspired by the historic district, was one response to this catastrophe.
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Two years ago, Mr. Saint Laurent sold his ready-to-wear line, continuing only with a haute couture collection of custom-made clothes, which cost thousands of dollars apiece and take many months to produce, a tradition many see as anachronistic.
This paper describes the use of a custom off the shelf FPGA board with a collection of custom interface boards to produce a powerful custom trigger system.
During a live screening of the film, RZA constructs his own score from a collection of custom audio files.
